Zen Development Consultants LLC

Zen Development Consultants LLC is thrilled to see construction begin on Access Apartments in the Eastern Sierra community of Mammoth Lakes. Senior Development Consultant?Kevin Shirata worked in tandem with Mammoth Lakes Housing staff to oversee design development (including some significant value engineering), secure permitting, select the GC, and generally shepherd the project to construction closing.?ZDC will also be providing project and construction management services until completion?in the fall of 2025. ? This is an innovative workforce housing project?without tax credit financing, targeted to households earning less than?80% and 120% of area median income. #workforcehousing #affordablehousing

Zen Development is proud to have teed up a 70-unit large family project for Mercy Housing California and CHIP. We secured the off-market site, obtained CDBG Disaster Recovery funds, project-based voucher commitments, and worked on the successful 9% LIHTC application, sending Mercy and CHIP towards the construction closing.? ? The site is directly in the burn scar of the Camp Fire in Paradise – rebuilding affordable housing destroyed in the fire.?Phase 1 is now under construction and Phase 2 is coming soon! For more information, please reach us at: www.zendevelopment.org #affordablehousing #mercyhousing #communityhousingimprovementprogram #firereconstruction

Zen Development Consultants is pleased to announce two principals who have joined our affordable housing consulting practice: Liz Tracey and Jeremy Hoffman. Both bring a wealth of experience as affordable housing practitioners that will be instrumental as we expand our practice to serve housing developers in California, now in New York, and other select locations across the country. ? Liz, based in Colorado, has decades of experience on the financing side of the business, both lending and tax credit investing, as well as serving in senior roles with affordable developers in California and Colorado. ? Jeremy is back in California after working for several years in New York City, where he oversaw preservation and new construction programs at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. He also was director of development for two Bay Area developers, BRIDGE and Eden Housing, before joining ZDC. We have capacity and are ready to help with your developments! For inquiries, please contact us at [email protected]. #affordable housing #development consultant

Score! Jeremy is going to be a senior consultant but also a principal overseeing ZDC's consulting work and our own developments.