Melina Duggal

Biography: Melina Duggal, AICP Senior Director, Market Analytics CoStar Group Washington, D.C. Melina has over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry. She provides clients with feasibility studies, competitive market analysis, economic development strategies, financial analysis, corridor studies, redevelopment strategies, and consumer research studies related to real estate and urban development issues throughout the United States. She consults on a wide-range of land uses including for-sale and for-rent residential housing, mixed-use, retail, office, hospitality, and industrial. This has included specialized land uses such as transit oriented development (TOD), Active Adult Communities (AAC), infill projects, traditional neighborhood design (TND), and others. She worked for RCLCO, a real estate advisory firm from 1998 to 2016. She worked in three of their offices including Bethesda, Maryland; Orlando, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia. She focused on market studies for practically all land uses, corridor studies, regional growth development trends, redevelopment projects, large-scale master-planned communities (MPC), regional demographic and economic growth trends, mixed-use projects, and financial analysis. Prior to joining RCLCO, Melina worked as a community planner for a consulting firm based in Detroit, Michigan. Melina received her Master of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and the American Planning Association (APA). She has spoken for organizations such as the Urban Land Institute, Commercial Real Estate for Women (CREW), and the APA. Melina has also written multiple articles published in Urban Land and recently wrote a case study to be included in the new ULI Resort Development Handbook. She participated in a ULI Advisory Services Panel for the Reuse of the Homestead Air Force Base. April 2017