Tracy Huggins

Biography: Tracy Huggins is executive director of the Denver Urban Renewal Authority (DURA), a full-service redevelopment agency engaged in neighborhood and downtown revitalization, economic development, home ownership and housing rehabilitation throughout the City and County of Denver. Under her leadership, DURA plays a role in many of the city’s most important redevelopment efforts, and also helps revitalize neighborhoods through a variety of housing rehabilitation programs for low- and moderate-income homeowners. At DURA, Huggins directs the agency’s involvement in redevelopment efforts with combined DURA financing of approximately $640 million. Among those projects are redevelopment of the former Stapleton International Airport and the former Lowry Air Force base facility. In addition to redevelopment projects, Huggins also manages DURA’s housing rehabilitation programs, which the authority administers for the city’s Office of Economic Development. DURA is also partnering with the City and County of Denver to implement the Neighborhood Stabilization Program to purchase, rehabilitate and resell foreclosed homes in distressed Denver neighborhoods. Since joining DURA in October 1992, Huggins has overseen the agency’s financial involvement in a number of significant redevelopment efforts, including the Denver Pavilions entertainment/retail center and adjacent Adam’s Mark Hotel, the historic Denver Dry Building and the REI Denver flagship store. Huggins participates in the city’s Executive Development Council providing policy direction on various development projects in Denver.