Matt Fairris, MCP | Vice President
Matt Fairris is a Vice President in BAE’s Portland office where he provides research and analytical support for BAE’s consulting assignments throughout California and the Pacific Northwest. He specializes in real estate market analysis, financial feasibility analysis, and economic development policy analysis.
His recent experience includes market analysis and financial feasibility analysis of prototypical development in support of local policy and strategy development in Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Vancouver, WA; Boise, ID; Truckee, CA; and San Francisco, CA. He also conducted in-depth mixed-use development modeling and developer solicitation for public sector site dispositions, including the State of California Excess Sites program, Alameda County’s Broadway Sites in Downtown Oakland, and several Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority-owned TOD sites, among others. Matt also contributed to neighborhood-level market analysis and financial feasibility analysis of various residential, commercial, and industrial prototypes in support of community benefit policy analysis. These include studies in the Eastern Neighborhoods of San Francisco, and the Route-1 South Plan Area in Alexandria, Virginia.
Matt is currently serving on the Portland, OR Central Eastside Corridor Tax Increment Financing (TIF) advisory committee seeking to guide public investments that meet economic development and affordable housing goals. Matt also teaches a real estate finance course in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at San Jose State University and is an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
