Our People

Alli Thurmond Quinlan is an architect, landscape architect, and small infill developer. She founded and runs Flintlock Ltd Co (a multi-disciplinary design practice) and Flintlock Development (an urban infill real estate development company) in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She also served on the Fayetteville Planning Commission and the Construction Board of Appeals, as well as being known to occasionally teach urban design with a focus on advanced grading and stormwater in the Landscape Architecture Department of the Fay Jones School of Design at the University of Arkansas.

Alli grew up on a large working cattle ranch in western Oklahoma and believes strongly in being hands-on in your farm. She believes that small developers have the potential to be advocates for their neighborhoods, leading the redevelopment of communities in a way that protect and include long time residents while welcoming new, diverse neighbors. As part of this approach, she recently completed a tactical urbanism project to make walking to the community center easier for neighborhood kids, located nearby to Flintlock Development’s South St Cottages.

Working as in a range of roles (architect, land planner, owner, developer, and city administrator) over a wide variety of development projects has taught Alli to cut through the voodoo of pro formas and zoning / building code to create beautiful, lovable, walkable projects that make sense for communities and make money for investors. Her work solo and with the University of Arkansas Community Design Center has been honored with national and international awards from the Congress for New Urbanism, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects, Architizer, and the American Planning Association.

Sherry has over twenty years of direct experience working in the field of Community and Economic Development. A native of Indiana, her work in the non-profit arena has created many impactful programs for under-resourced individuals and communities.

Beyond her work in the non-profit field, she serves as a Board Member for Greater Fort Wayne Community Foundation, YWCA of Northeast Indiana, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and an advisory Board member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indiana.

Prior to coming to IncDev, Sherry served as the City of Fort Wayne, IN Housing Programs Administrator. From 2009 until 2021, she served as the Vice President of Operations and Community Economic Development for Brightpoint, a Community Action Agency in Northeast Indiana.

Sherry received a Master of Public Affairs degree (MPA) and a Master of Social Science concentrating in Community and Economic Development (MS CED). Her interests include exercising, international travel, swimming, crafting, and reading. Sherry has lived and worked in New Zealand and West Africa. She has visited Turkey, South Africa, Fiji, and several other islands and countries. She currently resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Jim Kumon is an urban designer, neighborhood advocate and business manager with an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Michigan. With over ten years experience in the design and transportation industries in Los Angeles, Denver and Minneapolis, Jim has a deep understanding of the resurgence of small scale urban neighborhoods which have fueled the economic success of those cities. In his current role leading the Incremental Development Alliance, he oversees the development of training seminars for individuals, coaching and consulting to cities and networking events across the country. He is a frequent speaker to municipalities, trade organizations, business and advocacy groups on real estate, economic development, transit and public infrastructure.

As a past Kingfield neighborhood board member and current chair of the Kingfield Redevelopment Committee, Jim has been closely involved with development projects at the neighborhood level in Minneapolis.  As an urbanist advocate, Jim was a technical advisor during the recent city policy changes legalizing Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) and reducing residential parking requirements on properties near high frequency transit lines.  Along with ongoing renovations to his 100 year old house, he is in the planning stages of building an ADU on his property.

R. John Anderson, CNU is a co-founder and principal for Anderson|Kim Architecture + Urban Design. He has a very diverse experience beginning with a practical foundation in the construction trades, advancing through design and development practice in public and private roles. With over thirty years of experience in the field, John is well-versed in the practical realities of delivering complex large-scaled projects from design through entitlement and construction.

Prior to the formation of Anderson|Kim, John directed planning and design for New Urban Builders, a firm that has demonstrated how sustainable neighborhoods could be successfully delivered by a California production builder/developer. His ability to triage conventional building schemes to demonstrate the financial benefits of urbanism has made him an ally to private developers and municipalities alike.

John is a frequent speaker and lecturer on construction, development implementation and real estate, with engagements at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, Andrews University, Local Government Commission, Sierra Business Council, Urban Land Institute, American Planning Association, and National Association of Home Builders.

Monte Anderson is the President of Options Real Estate a multi-service real estate company specializing in creating sustainable neighborhoods in southern Dallas and northern Ellis counties in Texas. Monte began his real estate career in 1984 and since that time has concentrated solely on improving the living and working environments in these communities where he was born and raised. Monte is an outspoken and frequently recognized advocate for policies and practice to serve urban neighborhoods. He currently focuses his development practice in three areas in North Texas: the southern neighborhoods of the city of Dallas, the first ring suburb of Duncanville and exurban town of Midlothian.

In the Trinity River Corridor of Dallas, he is responsible for the renovation of the historic Belmont Hotel, a 68-room boutique hotel, café and spa, which was the recipient of Preservation Dallas and Preservation Texas awards. Surrounding the Belmont, Monte helped develop a more complete neighborhood with a range of projects including housing, a photography studio, animal hospital, fitness center, dog park, and restaurants. He has recently transitioned his South Dallas focus to revitalizing a number of historic mixed-use neighborhood nodes and repositioning mid-century era shopping centers to become more human scaled and diversified in use.

In Duncanville, Texas, Monte has been a formal partner with the City to advance economic and real estate development in over a decade of activity. He has partnered with or assisted many entrepreneurs to increase the number of owner occupied buildings on Main Street. With over two dozen projects in the largely one story downtown area, his work reintroduced mixed-use buildings in this first ring suburb for the first time in several decades. These projects have also resulted in over 30 new housing units on or directly facing the core three blocks of Main Street. He co-founded the DuncanSWITCH monthly market in order to create a pipeline of startup businesses to grow the economic health of the core business district. Monte was also instrumental in conversion of an abandoned Kmart to a tortilla manufacturing facility and Mexican restaurant.

In Midlothian, Texas, Monte is incrementally building a 131-acre mixed-use, traditional neighborhood development over a 20+ year period. This is an effort to extend the neighborhood fabric of the existing small town to connect schools, parks, and small retail buildings with multigenerational housing.

From the earliest days of the IncDev Alliance, Gracen Johnson has been IncDev’s R&D department, building up curriculum, content, and creative assets. She has filled a variety of roles in the organization since 2015 including course design, setting up digital infrastructure, grant-writing and reporting, project management, and event facilitation. Her biggest contribution has been bringing the IncDev spirit to life through visual storytelling and knowledge translation. Gracen distills our faculty’s wisdom into approachable and actionable learning materials that are certified Cute.

Gracen has helped launch and grow IncDev while living in Canada and looks forward to the day when she can visit US clients and colleagues again.

Susana Dancy is a developer and real estate investor based in Chapel Hill, N.C. While her bread-and-butter is renovating and repositioning neighborhood retail centers, her favorite work is with smaller-scale projects that breathe life into neighborhoods. Her projects have included mixed-use residential buildings, senior housing, small apartment buildings, historic rehab, and even the occasional project involving a public-private partnership. She has broad experience building, renovating, repositioning, and managing properties, both residential and commercial.

Susana has a graduate degree in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a concentration in real estate and urban design. She also serves as chair of the Community Design Commission in Chapel Hill.

Will Burgin, President of Jackson Burgin and managing member of Artifex DBD, is a financial strategist and project manager for small scale development, both in his hometown of Columbus, Georgia and for Artifex projects nationally.

While an undergraduate, in Vanderbilt University’s mechanical engineering program, Will had the opportunity to see firsthand how time-tested principles of urban design and planning helped Nashville realize its ambitions to become a more livable, better connected place for families and businesses. Upon returning to Columbus, he applied both his professional degree and what he’d observed in Nashville to neighborhood retail development and transportation projects on home turf. His successes in Columbus helped him develop an appreciation for – and expertise in – the seamless integration of design, engineering and planning with finance and construction oversight.

By combining Will’s skill sets with those of his three partners, Artifex offers clients the opportunity to simultaneously address all the components of planning and implementing transformative projects.

David Kim is a co-founder and principal of Anderson|Kim Architecture+Urban Design. He is a registered architect in California and New York and believes that good buildings and places result from understanding the constraints and opportunities beyond the boundaries of the individual project. He oversees the delivery and implementation of architectural design and documentation as well as the daily management and operations of the office.

With over twenty years of professional experience, David understands the complexities of design and planning at all scales. From the individual lot to the block and neighborhood, his ability to comprehend the macro-issues of finance and policies along with the minutiae of building codes and construction details help to focus available resources for long term, pragmatic and sensible place-making. He has led project teams resulting in the construction of several courtyard housing and mixed-use transit-oriented developments as well as the design of residential and mixed-use prototypes for traditional neighborhood developments.

David has served as a member of the Chico Architectural Review Board and the Chico General Plan Advisory Committee. He is widely traveled with a deep interest in the issues of growth and livability confronting much of the emerging world.

Architect Bruce B. Tolar, P.A. is an architectural and planning firm headquartered on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The firm’s history is focused in architecture. More recently it has specialized in residential design in traditional neighborhood developments such as Rosemary Beach and Water.Color of Florida, Lost Rabbit of Mississippi, and other planned communities throughout the region. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the firm participated heavily in the Mississippi and Louisiana Charrettes led by Andrés Duany. This led to more extensive involvement in charrette based master planning for other municipalities along the Gulf Coast and Louisiana.

The firm positioned itself as a leader in the Gulf Coast recovery efforts by bringing the Katrina Cottage concept to a reality with the development of Cottage Square in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Envisioned as a short and long term solution to the “FEMA trailers” of the Gulf Coast, the cottages have become a topic of national conversation. For their efforts with this movement and the development of Cottage Square, the firm was recognized with a 2007 Charter Award by the Congress for the New Urbanism.

Architect Bruce B. Tolar, P.A. offers the design expertise combined with the ability to code these concepts. The firm understands theory, but more importantly it is experienced in implementation and real world practicality.

Eric Kronberg is a zoning whisperer.  He specializes in examining and demystifying zoning ordinances to find ways to make great projects possible and help others navigate the zoning swamp.  He uses his skills for the force of good as a principal at Kronberg Wall, leading the firm’s pre-development efforts by combining skills in planning, development, architecture, and zoning.  Eric leverages this potent cocktail to chart the course of best possibilities for each site’s redevelopment.  His work with Kronberg Wall, the Incremental Development Alliance, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Georgia Conservancy, and the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition has solidified his stance as an advocate for walkable and bikeable communities.

Eric has also been deeply committed to community redevelopment for the past several decades.  He has served as a community leader in roles of Vice-President, President, Zoning Chair, and now Zoning Guru Emeritus for the Edgewood Neighborhood in Atlanta, GA.

Marques King is an architect, urban designer and proud native Detroiter. He is currently the Economic Development & Design Manager for EJDevCo, a non-profit developer focused on the Eastside of Detroit. He is also the founder of Fabric[K] Design, a design firm focused on small scale developments and nurturing sustainable neighborhoods.

Matthew Petty is a city planner and real estate developer who has also been elected three times to the Fayetteville City Council. Matthew has a deep understanding of American zoning and development codes and infrastructure planning processes. He has facilitated numerous public hearings and stakeholder engagement efforts, and his first mixed-use project as an owner-developer is under construction.

Matthew was a grantwriter and development associate for four years at the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, a professional urban design and architecture program which has earned more than 100 national and international awards for its urban designs, stormwater solutions, and scenario plans. Matthew’s time at UACDC has provided him a keen sense of how to overcome obstacles to project funding and site development.

Serving his ninth year on the Fayetteville City Council, Matthew is Chair of the Transportation Committee as well as the city’s tourism agency, where he orients infrastructure and marketing budgets towards Fayetteville’s broader strategies.

Matthew’s experience has taught him how to identify and overcome barriers to missing middle development and placemaking. He believes cities can build local wealth and restore neighborhoods by leveling the playing field for appropriate infill projects.

Matthew holds undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Political Science from the University of Arkansas.

Ryan Terry is a real estate developer, urban designer, speaker, and consultant practicing in central Texas. His practice aims for the recovery of flourishing communities through the renewal of neighborhoods and public places. As the founder and managing partner of R + T Studio, a development and consulting firm specializing in urban infill and revitalization, he oversees projects throughout the region.

Ryan recently completed the first phase of 500 Bryan North, consisting of two four-plex apartment buildings for a total of 8 residential and 2 commercial units in 11,500 square feet. This was phase one of an incremental build out of a city block in downtown Bryan that will eventually consist of 42 residential units and 12,000 square feet of commercial space.

Ryan lives in Bryan, TX where he serves on the city Historical Landmark Commission and the Downtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Board. He is active is the Downtown Bryan Association, the Bryan Rotary Club, and the Bryan/College Station Chamber of Commerce. Ryan holds a Master of Public Service & Administration degree with a concentration in Urban Policy, Development, and Design from the George Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M as well as a Bachelor’s in Philosophy and Classical Culture from the University of Georgia. His areas of expertise include urban design, land use and transportation policy, and economic and community development.

Ryan is a former Marine Corps infantry officer and management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. During his time in the Marine Corps, Ryan served as a platoon commander and staff officer, leading 50 Marines and Sailors during combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Aaron Lubeck is a designer + builder practicing in Durham, North Carolina. A former resident of seven college towns, he specializes in complex neighborhood infill projects, zoning codes, unique financing stacks, and incremental development.

Aaron is the author of Green Restorations: Sustainable Building in Historic Homes (New Society), and a former lecturer at Duke University’s Nicholas School for the Environment. "Aaron is an excellent speaker.  He forces attendees to think as he explores new frontiers for urbanism and community design." - Bob Chapman, New Urbanist developer.

As President Emeritus of Trinity Design | Build, he presided over multiple ambitious sustainable retrofits, including the first privately-developed LEED Platinum building in North Carolina.

When not sketching site plans on his iPad, he can be seen lobbying for bicycle boulevards, tossing frisbees to his poorly-behaved golden retriever and singing songs from North Carolina in his cover band.

Jenifer Acosta specializes in historic preservation and reurbanization. As a real estate developer, consultant, and faculty for the Incremental Development Alliance, Jenifer Acosta works to reimagine historic buildings, create spaces and experiences that bring people back to downtown areas and encourage them to really live there. Jenifer earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Southern Illinois University and a master’s degree in international administration and sustainable development from University of Miami. She also holds a New York University graduate certificate in real estate development. She has founded the Young Preservationists - Great Lakes Bay; Co-founded Infuse Great Lakes Bay, a local community development nonprofit organization; and serves on a variety of local boards dedicated to creating positive change in their community.

Raised in Michigan by entrepreneurial parents, Jenifer has already brought new life to once-vacant landmark buildings in downtown Bay City (population 35,000).

Her projects encompass a wide range of property types and uses in the Great Lakes Bay area of Michigan. The Legacy is a 55,000 square foot building with a restaurant/retail space, 2 commercial suites, and 26 residential units in a former historic bank building from the 1890s. The Times Lofts consist of 31 residential lofts in a 38,000 square foot building. Jenifer currently working on a 12 unit residential building on the edge of the downtown Bay City on an environmentally remediated infill site.

Jenifer offers her expertise to nonprofit organizations including the Bay City Downtown Development Authority, Midland Area Community Foundation, Urban Land Institute, and is the founder of Young Preservationists-Great Lakes Bay. Jenifer also co-founded a community development organization, Infuse Great Lakes Bay, to encourage citizen-led investment as well as get the resources and tools to local projects for their success.

She and her husband, Anthony, live near Midland, MI with their two children.

Joseph Minicozzi, AICP is the principal of Urban3, LLC, a consulting company of downtown Asheville real estate developer Public Interest Projects. Prior to creating Urban3, he served as the Executive Director for the Asheville Downtown Association.

Before moving to Asheville, he was the primary administrator of the Form Based Code for downtown West Palm Beach, Florida. Joe's cross-training in city planning in the public and private sectors, as well as private sector real estate finance, has allowed him to develop award-winning analytic tools that have garnered national attention in Planetizen, The Wall Street Journal, Planning, New Urban News, Realtor, Atlantic Cities and the Center for Clean Air Policy's Growing Wealthier report. Joe is a sought-after lecturer on city planning issues. His work has been featured at the Congress for New Urbanism, the American Planning Association, the International Association of Assessing Officers, and New Partners for SmartGrowth conferences as a paradigm shift for thinking about development patterns.

Joe is a founding member of the Asheville Design Center, a non-profit community design center dedicated to creating livable communities across all of Western North Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Miami and Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University.

Joel Dixon is Co-Principal of Urban Oasis Development. Urban Oasis is a real estate company focused on residential and commercial development in town south/west side Atlanta. He oversees Community Development & Business Development along with Investor Relations.

Joel has been instrumental in helping to raise the public profile of Urban Oasis and Sims REG (in-house construction partner) as well as mobilize financial and political resources for expansion. Having been raised in west side Atlanta public housing (former John Hope/University Homes), he understands the city and is well-connected with Atlanta's business and grassroots community leaders.

Prior to launching Urban Oasis, Mr. Dixon had over 15 years of sales and business development experience in high technology and real estate. His past roles include being Senior Solutions consultant for Hannon Hill, a company with deep ties to the burgeoning Tech Venture community in Atlanta. He has a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and Certificate of Mandarin Chinese from Beijing Language and Culture University.

Joel is a 2017 Graduate of the Urban Land Institute’s prestigious Center for Leadership and has been an active ULI member serving as a 2018 CFL Day Chair and member of ULI Atlanta’s Creative Development Council.

Johnny is an amateur architecture buff with a passionate interest in where and how people live and occupy the landscape, from small rural towns to skyscrapers and everything in between. Johnny travels often, conducts interviews with people of interest, and gathers photos and video of places worth talking about. The good, the bad, and the ugly - it's all fascinating to Johnny.

Sharon Woods is the founder of LandUseUSA | Urban Strategies, a professional consulting firm based in central Michigan. She has nearly three decades of professional experience providing real estate advisory services in the fields of market research and analysis, downtown and community development, urbanism and placemaking, and land use economics. She specializes in Target Market Analysis (TMA) methods focused on studying the lifestyle preferences of households seeking enjoyable places to live and work.

Sharon is especially known for her skills in measuring the magnitude of market potential for missing housing formats in urban places. This approach can also span other land use categories, including urban retail and downtown merchant space, hotels, entertainment and recreational venues, placemaking amenities, and mixed-uses with office space.

When not crunching data at her standing desk, Sharon can be found cruising inland lakes with her vintage pontoon boat; and kayaking peaceful rivers to snap wildlife photos.

Neil is an urban planner + designer with a focus on aligning municipal regulations with the kinds of development outcomes a place wants to see. This is accomplished using a real estate development pro-forma-based approach that quantifies the effects of various policy decisions both physically and financially. He also helps to educate small developers to translate zoning code language into beautiful site layout plans.

Alongside his wife, Neil is also a small-scale developer using owner-occupied strategies to provide additional housing options and a positive rental experience for his tenants.

Elizabeth is an architect and city planner, with master’s degrees from Georgia Tech in both fields. She leads urban design and thought leadership efforts at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects, with her varied background allowing her to wear many hats throughout the design and planning processes. With a talent for graphic communication and big-picture thinking, Elizabeth enjoys developing links between design, research, policy and education. Additionally, Elizabeth serves on Atlanta’s Tree Conservation Commission and her neighborhood planning board.

Tiffany Elder is a Durham-based licensed general contractor, Realtor, and real estate investor/developer. She is Owner of Paradigm Construction (design-build construction firm), and Paradigm Properties (real estate brokerage firm).

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Tiffany launched her professional career as a software engineer. She moved to North Carolina to acquire a Master of Business Administration, with a focus in Sustainable Enterprise, from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and fell in love with the Triangle. Today, Tiffany enjoys renovating historic structures, and building new residential and commercial spaces in the Raleigh-Durham area. She currently facilitates multiple Durham-based and online real estate ownership and investing seminars, with the goal of empowering both novice and experienced residents to participate in, and benefit from growth in their local real estate markets.

Tiffany’s community activities include serving as Co-Chair of Durham’s 95MM Affordable Housing Bond Implementation Committee; Also as Past Chair of the Steering Committee for Durham’s inaugural 2MM Participatory Budgeting Process. Tiffany also chairs The Collective, a Durham-based consortium of minority real estate professionals, including developers, contractors, lenders, attorneys, housing providers, and others, who support the full life cycle of real estate, and who are committed to ensuring minority participation in local real estate activities.

Richard Price is an architect and planner with extensive experience in the design and development of sustainable, small-scale communities. He works with property owners, government agencies and institutions to conceptualize, evaluate and implement innovative design strategies at the building, neighborhood and regional scale.

With a graduate degree in urban policy and real estate development, Mr. Price has also designed and carried out several successful development projects in the Southeastern US, focusing on innovative and cost-effective design. His development experience includes project management at all levels of the design and development process, including project conception, entitlements, finance, construction, marketing and sales.

In addition to practice, Mr. Price has taught courses in planning and design in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He has made presentations and lectures on sustainable planning and design at numerous conferences nationally.

Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. Price was Director of Community Design for William McDonough + Partners, a Charlottesville-based design firm focused on ecologically intelligent design. Mr. Price also practiced green building for Croxton Collaborative Architects in New York, where his projects included new science building for Presbyterian College and a demonstration green office building for the US Navy.

His previous experience includes work as an architect in New York, Boston and Paris, undertaking projects in historic preservation, corporate interiors and affordable housing.

Glenn has over twenty years of experience working in planning, development and design. His interest in the built environment led him on a career investigating the land use regulations, financial and economic conditions that shape our neighborhoods. As a Principal with Urban Advisors he assisted communities around the country with market based strategies to revitalize downtowns and build walkable communities. Glenn has experience implementing change by managing building development, coordinating local leaders and launching and supporting local businesses.

In 2012 Glenn instigated the Rochester Improvement Society: a thinly veiled drinking club that brought together champions of the city. The relationships this built helped connect earnest people and break down silos between organizations. Around the same time he formed Rochester Local Capital to invest in local businesses. And in 2014 he launched Hart’s Local Grocers, downtown’s first full service grocery store in 20 years. In 2015 he supported friends and developers staging Retailent Rochester, a shark-tank storefront business competition with the prize of free rent for a year.

Meet Bruzenskey Bois, a dynamic force in the Real Estate Investment landscape, calling Tampa, FL, home. A first-generation Haitian American with roots in Miami, FL, Bruzenskey's journey is marked by resilience and achievement. Armed with a degree from the University ofSouth Florida, he seamlessly transitioned into property management, specializing in overseeing commercial & multifamily real estate portfolios exceeding $23 million.

He founded Bois Enterprises, LLC where he currently has projects in Florida, Georgia and Oklahoma.

Bruzenskey's commitment to social justice materialized in the form of the Congressional. Black Caucus for New Urbanism. By championing walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods and accessible public spaces, the mission is to instigate positive change and foster community bonds in urban areas. As a founding member of the Black Resilience Network, Bruzenskey actively contributes to a membership community uniting Black organizations and leaders, supported by allies outside the Black community. This collective effort is dedicated to fortifying disaster and climate resilience while advancing racial justice. Notably, the Black Resilience Network's impact reached the highest levels of government when, in February 2023, they were invited to the White House to engage with various departments, including FEMA.

He is also a board member of the P.L.A.C.E. Initiative. PLACE represents the importance of community and stands for the intersection of climate change and equity. Proactive Leadership Advocating for Climate and Equity, PLACE hopes to establish partnerships and grow leadership around policy change and advocacy to achieve people-centric solutions to the climate-driven challenges of our future.