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Kretchmer Associates

Kretchmer Associates

  • About Us
    • Our Process
    • Our Team
  • Services
    • Affordable Housing
    • Market-Rate Residential
    • Senior Housing
    • Commercial & Retail
    • Industrial
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Real Estate & Urban Planning Services

We’re a WBE-certified business that delivers a comprehensive service and data-driven advice.

With extensive experience in affordable, senior, and market-rate housing – as well as across the commercial, retail, and industrial sectors – we help public, private, and non-profit clients obtain approvals, secure financing, and enhance marketability.

Working to your deadlines, we can help you with:

  • Real estate project feasibility analysis
  • Business district and commercial corridor strategies
  • Real estate development and redevelopment strategies
  • Community planning and zoning
  • Economic development strategies
  • Transit-oriented development planning
  • Consumer research and surveys

Our Services

We work both as project lead and subcontractor, adding value to projects of all types. Learn more about our services:

Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing

Our studies help secure Low-Income Housing Tax Credits & other financing and obtain municipal approvals.

Senior Housing

Senior Housing

We’re experts in independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing projects.

Market-Rate Residential

Market-Rate Residential

We help you enhance marketability, secure funding and obtain municipal approvals.

Commercial & Retail

Commercial & Retail

We help you understand market needs so you can attract and retain developers and the right tenants.

Industrial

Industrial

We’ve advised on projects spanning warehousing, R&D, and heavy industry for municipalities.

We’ve Worked In

202
Municipalities and Chicago community areas in the Chicago region (out of 361)

67
Municipalities in Illinois outside of the Chicago metro area

26
Municipalities in Indiana

25
Municipalities in Wisconsin, Iowa,
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Minnesota

Tina Pourroy

We use Kretchmer Associates 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 Kretchmer Associates!

Tina Pourroy
Housing Authority of Joliet

Bob Dean

While leading the planning department at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, I worked with Kretchmer Associates 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 Kretchmer Associates to any local government or community organization seeking to better understand the development market in their area.

Bob Dean
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

Beth Demes

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

Beth Demes
The Alden Foundation

Michael Poulakidas

When our team undertook the redevelopment of [Aurora’s] Old Copley Hospital into the Bloomhaven Innovative Living Community, there was only one firm that we trusted to prepare our Senior Housing Market Assessment, and that was Kretchmer Associates. Valerie assisted with the assessment and consulted in the design of the adaptive reuse and in finding the management company that best fit our needs. We cannot thank her enough in assisting us throughout all stages of the process.

Michael J. Poulakidas
Fox Valley Developers LLC

Darrin Jolas

Without a doubt, the success we have experienced in developing our affordable assisted living platform is in no small measure attributable to Kretchmer Associates. 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.

Darrin Jolas
Vermilion Development

Erik Cooper

We love working with Kretchmer Associates. 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.

Erik Cooper
Community Reinvestment Foundation

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Affordable Assisted Living Coalition
American Planning Association
Illinois Housing Council
Lai Land Economics Society
National Council Of Housing Market Analysts
Urban Land Institute

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Kretchmer Associates
807 Davis Street #2004
Evanston, Illinois 60201-7103
(847) 864-8895
vsk@kretchmerassociates.com

About Us

Founded in 1985, Kretchmer Associates is a certified WBE with expertise in all aspects of residential, retail, commercial, and industrial real estate analysis in the Chicago metro area and throughout the rest of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota.
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