Tom Moriarity
Principal

Professional Experience

Tom Moriarity has a background in urban mixed-use development, commercial area management, downtown revitalization strategies, retail programming and historic preservation. A Principal in TEG Washington, D.C. office, he has over thirty years experience in real estate consulting, with seventeen years as a Principal and Vice President with Economics Research Associates (ERA), later AECOM. He manages design and development planning studies for urban mixed-use projects, collateral development planning for universities, hospitals and other institutions, urban entertainment districts projects, commercial and historic districts, and commercial development analysis for new towns and commercial centers, transportation centers and resorts. He has completed projects throughout the U.S. and in France, Korea, Japan, Uruguay, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Panama, Mexico, El Salvador, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Mr. Moriarity holds two degrees in architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, and was a founder of the National Main Street Center in the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He also was one of the three original Main Street Project Managers during the initial demonstration in Madison, Indiana. He received a national Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2006.

His work focuses on the economics and planning of mixed-use areas, with a special emphasis on redevelopment of commercial districts, transit-related development areas, collateral development for institutional property owners and destination locations. He directed the economics components of Miami 21, a re-zoning program for the entire city (initial approval passed in September, 2009), as well as the Miami Downtown Development Authority retail/development Master Plan for its four downtown subdistricts. Both of these studies incorporate designated entertainment and media districts, including a 24 hour-liquor license area north of the CBD.

The Downtown Austin retail strategy also incorporated both the 6th Street music and entertainment district, as well as the Warehouse District, both sub-areas of the downtown area. He completed retail programming projects for a destination entertainment/retail area in Kansas City known as the 18th and Vine district (incorporating a live performance theater, the National Museum of Jazz and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum); a Retail Master Plan for Downtown Portland Oregon; a redevelopment plan for Telluride Mountain Village commercial center; expansion of Lotte World in Seoul, Korea; development of a dining and retail/entertainment complex for a multi-hotel resort destination on the Red Sea in Egypt; feasibility analysis of corporate visitor centers for Miller Brewing, Mattel, Beringer Wineries and Ben & Jerry Ice Cream; and transit-oriented development opportunities in Austin and the Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC) corridor extending 83 miles from Jupiter to Dadeland/Miami.

Tom has advised the Florida Department of Transportation and Earth Tech Engineers on the Miami Intermodal Center, a $1.4 billion transit/mixed use project adjacent to Miami International Airport. The project will include hotels, retail and office development, as well as serving as the hub of up to seven transit lines. He has had extensive experience with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, having completed over 50 assignments for the PANYNJ over the past twenty years. He has worked with the Port on all three New York area airports, the Port Authority Bus Terminal redevelopment at 42nd Street, PATH stations in New Jersey and directed retail redevelopment consulting for World Trade Center in 1993 (which resulted in doubling sales productivity to $980 psf). He also served as principal advisor to the Port Authority from 2001 through 2006 on the retail components of the WTC current redevelopment program. In 2009, he advised Brookfield Property World Financial Center in New York on redevelopment programming for the food and beverage spaces in the complex.

Tom directed a city-wide retail strategy for Washington DC and has consulted with the District of Columbia Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Planning for Poplar Point. Prior to joining TEG, he directed ERA IDIQ with the Park Service for Shenandoah National Park from 2004 through 2009.

Tom is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars, and is an adjunct lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Graduate Program in Real Estate and has spoken at a number of Universities and Colleges across the country.

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