Principal Bill Reid coordinates and conducts public finance, economic, and feasibility analyses for JOHNSON REID clients. During the past eleven years, Mr. Reid has successfully managed over 200 such projects for private and public clients and has an in-depth understanding of urban and rural development concerns, land-use and policy issues, market feasibility and public finance issues.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:- Regional Economic Development & Public Policy Issues
- Public Finance & Urban Renewal
- Economic & Fiscal Impact Analysis
- Feasibility Analysis of Residential and Commercial Development
- Statistical/Econometric Analysis
- Presently serving as Consulting Economist to the Idaho Counties of Ada and Elmore (Boise metro) regarding economic and fiscal impacts of over 4,000 acres of Master-Planned Community development in application review.
- An economic and tax benefit analysis of over 1 million square feet of bio-tech, office, residential and retail development in Seattle's South Lake Union district.
- Solar, high-tech, and bio-pharmaceutical economic development strategies and land need for the Cities of Hillsboro, Forest Grove, Cornelius, Banks, and North Plains, Oregon.
- Urban renewal district feasibility studies for the Cities of Newport, Reedsport and Warrenton, Oregon.
- An economic and tax benefit analysis of a 1.2 million square foot mixed-use redevelopment of a shopping mall devastated by Hurricane Katrina in East New Orleans, Louisiana in support of a tax increment financing application.
- An evaluation of the need for light industrial, flex/business park, and high-tech/biotech research campus-zoned land in the south Puget Sound.
- A fiscal and economic impact study of the 7,000-acre destination resort Suncadia and a 1,600-acre master-planned community in Kittitas County, Washington. Conducted 30-year projections of tax revenues, public service costs, infrastructure costs, and population growth for nearby communities and the greater county region.
- 30-Year annexation public finance models for the two primary urban expansion areas of Multnomah County, Oregon in the City of Gresham: 1,600 acres combined in Pleasant Valley and Springwater.
- A market feasibility study for the 600-acre Mill Creek Industrial Park in Salem, Oregon.
- A twenty-year residential, commercial and industrial land market and need analysis for the South Meridian planning area of Meridian, Idaho, the state's fastest-growing jurisdiction.
- A market depth and feasibility study for industrial land at the 1,500-acre Juniper Ridge project in Bend, Oregon.
“How Much are Urban Amenities Worth? An Hedonic Modeling Analysis of the Impact of Mixed Uses on Achievable Home Prices and Condominium Feasibility” with Jerald W. Johnson for the Portland Metropolitan Services District Transit Oriented Development Program, June 2007.
"Do States Play Welfare Games?" with David N. Figlio, University of Florida, and Van W. Kolpin, University of Oregon. Journal of Urban Economics, v 46, n 3, November 1999.
EDUCATION:
M.S. University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon 1997
Emphasis in Public Economics and Econometrics
B.A. Baylor University - Waco, Texas 1994
Emphasis in Economics and Mathematics