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About Our Blog
Goodwin Procter’s Sustainable Development blog features news and resources to help professionals navigate the rapidly evolving green building and sustainable development sectors in today’s real estate market, including information on:
- Build America Bonds (BABs)
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
- climate change
- infrastructure
- LEED compliance
- project financing
- public-private partnerships
- regulatory demands
- renewable energy
- Stimulus funds
- sustainable financing
- transit-oriented development
- transportation initiatives
Please send your comments, ideas and suggestions for future topics to the editors at sustainabledevelopment@goodwinprocter.com.
About the Editors
Lewis G. Feldman
Partner/Los Angeles Office Chair
Lew Feldman is a member of Goodwin Procter’s Real Estate, REITs & Real Estate Capital Markets Group. He serves as the Chair of Goodwin Procter’s Los Angeles offices and heads the firm’s Public/Private Development Practice. Mr. Feldman is considered to be among the nation’s leading real estate and public finance attorneys, specializing in structuring, entitling and executing large-scale financings for real estate industry participants and the public sector.
He is an active participant in many of the industry’s most eminent associations and groups, including California’s Coalition for Adequate School Housing, the International Council of Shopping Centers, Urban Land Institute’s Public-Private Partnership Council, University of Southern California’s Lusk Center for Real Estate, and the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He is a founding member of the University of California, Los Angeles’ Ziman Center for Real Estate and serves on the boards of the Milken Institute California Center Advisory Council and the Los Angeles County Housing Development Corporation.
Lew works in the firm’s Los Angeles office and can be reached by email or at (213) 426-2688.
Douglas A. Praw
Partner
Doug Praw is a member of Goodwin Procter’s Real Estate, REITs & Real Estate Capital Markets Group. He has extensive experience in a wide range of real estate and public finance matters. His expertise in public finance projects includes public infrastructure, sustainable project financing, utilities, multifamily housing projects, single-family master-planned communities and industrial projects. He has provided counsel to various sectors of the real estate industry, including developers, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, underwriters and municipalities and special districts and other governmental agencies in the States of California, Nevada and New Mexico.
He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, U.S. Green Building Council – Los Angeles, National Association of Bond Lawyers and the International Council of Shopping Centers.
Doug works in the firm’s Los Angeles office and can be reached by email or at (213) 426-2664.
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