Propvizer sits at the front edge of putting public assets to work, in both thought leadership and execution. We helped start this movement through Putting Assets to Work, and Atlanta has become its early proof point. Today the model is scaling across the country, and we work on both sides of it: publishing the papers and case studies that define the field, and doing the hands-on work of repositioning public assets on the ground.
Where we work.
Cities and counties across the country are putting their assets to work. Select a marker or a name to locate it on the map.
In the news.
Our team is helping build a national model for putting public land to work. Below are the projects our team has led, the writing we've published, the coverage of the work, and the podcasts where our team has shared the approach.
By our team
Case studies
Fire Station 15, Midtown Atlanta
In Midtown Atlanta, the city's Fire Station 15 is being rebuilt into the base of a new 21-story building, with 231 apartments above it and roughly a third of them set aside as affordable. The land stays in public ownership and gains housing, delivered by the Atlanta Urban Development Corporation.
The Atlanta Urban Development Corporation is the public entity the city created to build housing on land it already owns, acting as the developer instead of waiting for one. Its creation grew directly out of Atlanta's place in the inaugural Putting Assets to Work cohort, a coordinated effort led by Josh Humphries inside City Hall, with Ben McAdams and the PAW team as early partners.
Through Putting Assets to Work, Evanston's original civic center at 2100 Ridge Avenue, a former school built in 1909 that sat empty after the city moved its offices to 909 Davis Street, was identified as an underutilized public asset. Propvizer is now leading the public engagement on its future use, gathering residents' ideas from apartments to affordable senior living, and will bring a recommendation to the City Council this fall.
Ben McAdams and his co-authors show how redeveloping underused U.S. Postal Service land could deliver up to 237,000 homes and new revenue to offset the agency's losses.
Ben McAdams lays out the Municipal Property Advisor model, the approach Propvizer now uses to help governments identify and activate the property they already own.