Bradley Rogers

Biography: Brad Rogers Advanced Placemaking Baltimore, Maryland Brad Rogers has fifteen years of experience managing complex urban real estate transactions and harnessing the power of markets to achieve public policy goals. An attorney with a Masters Degree in Environmental Management, Mr. Rogers has broad experience across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. In these different roles, he has participated in a wide range of real estate transactions involving private and institutional purchasers, elaborate multi-party public/private partnerships, multiple funding sources, challenging site conditions, active community participation, and complex regulatory environments. Mr. Rogers also has a well developed background in the study or architecture and planning. As both a board and staff member to nonprofit organizations, he has worked to change state laws and local ordinances to generate smart growth, urban economic development, and sustainable design. In the private sector, he has worked on everything from large HOPE VI affordable housing developments to small residential infill projects. Mr. Rogers founded and managed a family of social enterprise firms focusing on green building and urban redevelopment in Baltimore. These included the largest and most successful green construction firm in the region as well as a development firm and a real estate brokerage focused on sustainability. This allowed him to participate in the design and construction of many of the must innovative green projects in Maryland, including the first LEED-NC Gold building in Baltimore; the first near-zero net energy building in Maryland; and the first sustainable, universally accessible, and affordable residential development in the country. Mr. Rogers recently worked to transform 23,000 square feet of abandoned historic buildings on Maryland's Eastern Shore into the Eastern Shore Conservation Center, a sustainable mixed use campus providing offices and apartments for regional nonprofits. He also put together a variety of complex real estate transactions to create new parks, trails, and pedestrian networks. He is now working as a consultant in private practice. Mr. Rogers holds degrees from Haverford College, Duke Law School, and Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment. He is a regular lecturer, panelist, and author. June 2014