Market research methods; triple bottom line assessment; economic impact analysis; fiscal analysis; pro forma analysis; data visualization; macro-economic modeling and forecasting; strike price analysis.
Always be curious and clear-eyed on the source of your information. Data exploration and survey methods are as important as the analysis itself.
Alexander Quinn is Executive Director of Research for Northwest Region at JLL. He has over 20 years of planning and economic analysis experience and specializes in real estate development, economic forecasting, and urban regeneration. He advises investors and tenants on prevailing commercial real estate investment and location decisions in the Northwest Region, considering larger macro economic drivers, labor trends, and policy shifts that inform our built environment. His practice has focused primarily on addressing urban questions using robust analytic methods to inform the economic, equity, and environmental consequences of development and policy. Quinn has applied triple bottom line assessment, sustainable return on investment modeling, and life-cycle analysis to projects across North and South America. He combines his considerable quantitative skills with an extensive background in sustainability, urban regeneration, economic development, transit-oriented development (TOD), and public finance.
Quinn has served as expert testimony to the U.S. Congress to first explain the economic contribution of water infrastructure to the national economy and in a second testimony to explain the potential national loss in GDP should our national water system fail. Quinn has worked on multiple feasibility studies for clients in the Bay Area, including the Downtown Berkeley Feasibility Analysis for the Downtown Berkeley Area Plan. He also evaluated the fiscal and economic impact of a proposed rezoning proposition in Downtown Berkeley. He led the analysis of the economic impact of SB375 to the State of California and the Central Market Economic Strategy which won a national economic development award. Quinn is a regular lecturer at University of California, Berkeley where he also received his master's degree in City and Regional Planning. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and serves on the Board of the San Francisco Downtown Partnership.
RDEV 210 – Real Estate Economics + Market Analysis
National Economic Development Award, Central Market Economic Strategy, 2015