TACTICAL REVITALIZATION PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN ALBANY NY

Team Profile, Qualifications, and Experience
Nelson\Nygaard
Thomas Brown, Senior Associate
Project Manager, Nelson\Nygaard
Education
M.S., Urban Planning, Hunter College,
New York, NY
B.A., History, Ohio State University
Tom will be the Project Manager for Nelson\Nygaard. Located in the
New York office, Tom is one of the firm’s lead parking specialists
with over 10 years experience. Tom was the lead planner for Nelson\
Nygaard’s Parking and Transportation Demand Management study
for Howard University, which brought the University’s transportation
investments, policies, and actions into better alignment with the
ambitious campus redevelopment vision set out in its recent Campus
Master Plan update. A core task for this study was a peer review of
leading campus parking and transportation programs and strategies.
Tom has completed comprehensive parking management studies for
cities and communities of all sizes, including New York City (Lower
Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn, Queens), Philadelphia, Washington,
DC, Ann Arbor, Vineland (NJ), and Seaside, FL. Tom is currently leading
downtown parking studies in Marquette, MI and Huntington, New York
Relevant Project Experience
• EPA Building Block Assistance Workshops: Parking Capacity Audits,
Various - 2012 - Ongoing. Leading a series of EPA-funded workshops
for seven communities across the country designed to provide a quick
assessment of critical demand/ supply conditions in their downtowns or
targeted, Smart Growth opportunity areas. This included the development
of survey tools, guideline documents, and analysis spreadsheets designed
to become “off the shelf” resources for any community in completing similar
assessments without need off outside consulting.
• Ongoing Downtown Parking Studies, Huntington, NY and Marquette,
MI - 2012 - Ongoing. Leading downtown parking studies in both cities to
determine the sufficiency of on- and off-street capacities to meet current
and anticipated parking demand. Both studies focus on first measuring
existing resources, then reviewing options to extract their full benefits
before investing in any new supply construction. Options being reviewed
in both areas will include: sharing of private facilities during offsetting-peak
opportunities, reducing parking demand through multi-mobility investments,
raising awareness and incentivizing use of under-utilized resources .
• DBID Parking Study, Washington, DC - 2011. Led an analysis of current
curb-parking resources, utilization patterns, and strategic-management
options for the Downtown DC BID. Tasks included survey and surveyinstrument
design (including the development of guideline and instruction
materials to support DBID’s continued monitoring of on-street conditions),
an assessment of technologies to support improved curb-management, and
projections of market-price impacts on utilization levels and revenue within
the Downtown and Golden Triangle BID districts.
• Joint Parking Study, Montgomery County, MD–2009-11. Led a
comprehensive review of the County’s Parking Lot District program for
the County DOT and M-NCPPC. This included a review of leading parking
benefit district programs, change recommendations for existing and
emerging urban centers within the County, and a proposed restructuring of
parking requirements in these areas to minimize on-site parking facilities not
managed as public parking.