About Valerie S. Kretchmer Associates, Inc

I have worked with Valerie Kretchmer for many, many years and never make a site decision without her expertise. She and her team understand market dynamics and how to measure need and demand. They are thoughtful, detail-oriented, and big-picture smart.

While leading the planning department at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, I worked with VSKA over a 3-year period on nearly 20 market analysis assignments. These varied tremendously in terms of geography, from Chicago neighborhoods to inner-ring suburbs to ex-urban communities, and in terms of the subjects addressed, from residential to industrial to commercial. I was continually impressed by the ability of Valerie and her team to work on a variety of assignments, the quality and timeliness of their work, their responsiveness to our requests, and the value that she and her team provided. I would recommend VSKA to any local government or community organization seeking to better understand the development market in their area.

I’ve used VSKA for every for-profit and tax credit project that I’ve done in Illinois and Indiana over the past 5 years. Her work isn’t full of the typical ‘fluff’ that others charge for, but instead drills down to exactly what I need to know to design senior projects that work. I highly recommend VSKA for any type of senior project, whether independent living, assisted living or memory care.

Without a doubt, the success we have experienced in developing our affordable assisted living platform is in no small measure attributable to VSKA. Their market analysis on a state-wide level guided us to certain markets, while their insights into particular sites helped define our success. We are working to develop our tenth Silver Birch Living community in the State of Indiana. Valerie and her team are directly linked to that progress.

We use VSKA to perform the market study for all of our tax credit development projects. They are always professional and thorough and they know exactly what the Illinois Housing Development Authority and the Federal Home Loan Bank are looking for. It’s a slam dunk with VSKA!

We love working with VSKA. They’re incredibly thorough in their research and good at communicating with us as the client. We know we can put trust in their work, and as developers, nothing is more important.