Redevelopment Management Associates (RMA)

10/07/2026

RMA is very proud of its team members who work with the West Palm Beach CRA and have transformed an incredible vision into a thriving reality. That's to Stet News for this article.
Just over a year ago, the owners of six businesses gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Styx Promenade in the Historic Northwest District, just blocks north of downtown West Palm Beach.
The cluster of nine buildings, designed in the sh***un architectural style, is the home of a town-square collection of urban entrepreneurs, including
 a second-generation florist and event space,
 a beauty salon,
 a home care provider,
 a cupcake and soul food café,
 and a social justice-driven children’s bookstore and learning center.
The Styx Promenade renovations were backed by a $2.6 million investment from the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency. It’s part of an effort to revitalize the historic Black neighborhood with local entrepreneur partners.
Styx is near two other multimillion-dollar CRA investments: Heart & Soul Park sits kitty-corner to the north of the storefronts, and the storied, restored Sunset Lounge is a block away on Eighth Street. Continue reading...

A snapshot of the commerce that has become rooted in Styx Promenade on Seventh Street in West Palm Beach.

10/06/2026

Every great city starts with a vision. RMA turns that vision into reality.Take the Pompano Beach Fishing Village, now one of the most successful redevelopment projects in Florida. For years, the City searched for a plan that would truly work. RMA's Kim Briesemeister and Chris Brown stepped in, developed the plan, negotiated the win/win deal, and nurtured the redevelopment into a stunning economic success story.That's why cities all across Florida count on RMA as a trusted partner. They get the job done and help cities thrive economically.

10/01/2026

Reinventing a City doesn't just happen. It takes a vision, planning, and years of implemenation. RMA's Kim Briesemeister and Chris Brown wrote the book on how to create successful cities, filled with insights and case studies from their years of work with West Palm Beach, Pompano Beach, Delray Beach and many other communities in Florida and beyond. Get a copy at Amazon, and learn more at rma.us.com.

09/30/2026

RMA is very proud to see Pompano Beach in the spotlight. Our team has been a vital part of the City’s transformation, and the story behind its redevelopment is one of the leading case studies in our book, Reinventing Your City (on Amazon).
For decades, Pompano Beach was the sleepy South Florida alternative to its glitzier neighbors — a fishing town where waterfront living could still be had without Miami or Palm Beach prices.
Now, the secret is out.
The Broward County city is in the throes of a multibillion-dollar transformation, with a $2 billion downtown overhaul and a wave of ultra-luxury developments from Waldorf Astoria, Ritz-Carlton, W and Armani/Casa reshaping its once-low-key skyline.
At the center is a 75-acre redevelopment led by RocaPoint Partners in partnership with the city. Plans envision roughly 4 million square feet of residences, shops, offices, hotels, civic facilities and public spaces, anchored by a new City Hall.

The Broward County city is in the throes of a multibillion-dollar transformation, with a $2 billion downtown overhaul and a wave of ultra-luxury developments from Waldorf Astoria, Ritz-Carlton, W a…

09/28/2026

Developing public plazas is such an important aspect of redevelopment. At RMA, we always incorporate these gather places in our plans and love highlighting classic examples around the world. Here is one of the latest in NYC.

A stretch of asphalt that used to funnel cars through Lower Manhattan is now a public plaza with seating, free Wi-Fi and space for community events. Hudson Square Plaza officially opened this week, transforming an underused slip lane into a new gathering spot for the neighborhood's residents, office workers and visitors.

The 6,500-square-foot plaza was funded in part by a $744,000 state grant, and its completion was announced by New York Secretary of State Walter T. Mosley, according to amNewYork. The plaza extends Spring Street Park and sits near the new C/E Spring Street subway entrance and elevator, giving transit riders a direct link to the redesigned public space.



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A slip lane in Hudson Square just became a plaza with free Wi-Fi and a giant asphalt mural.

09/23/2026

This is a great example of how a CRA can work: the public investment is tied to real results, and the community gets more places to gather, dine and park downtown.

The Winter Haven City Commission has approved incentives for developer Six/Ten LLC to build Bowen Yard West, a $2.6 million expansion of the popular Bowen Yard food hall.

The Winter Haven Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is backing the project with two smart tools:

🔹 Tax Increment Financing (TIF) rebate. Six/Ten will get back up to 50% of the new property tax revenue the project generates over 10 years, about $480,500 in total or roughly $48,000 a year. The rebate is paid only from new tax growth, not existing city funds. To qualify, the site's taxable value has to at least double, and it's expected to climb from $1.19 million to an appraised $8.23 million.

🔹 Public parking reimbursement. Up to $151,200 will go toward building 17 public parking spaces, which the city will own.

09/21/2026

As cities strive to add more housing, the type of housing, walkablity, and safety are key elements for any plan. Here is an interesting article that analyzes a recent survey.

The NAR survey, conducted in early May among 2,000 adults in the nation’s 50 largest metro areas, found that 57% of respondents now say sidewalks and places to walk are “very important” when deciding where to live—up 7 percentage points from 2023.

But safety still dominates how Americans evaluate a neighborhood. When respondents were asked to rank community qualities, low crime was the runaway top choice, with 70% ranking it first or second. Walkability ranked second, with 32% putting it first or second.

Interestingly, those priorities may be more connected than they first appear. If low crime reflects whether residents feel safe in their neighborhood, traffic safety helps determine whether they can actually use it on foot—and the survey found that 39% of respondents cite traffic safety as a barrier to walking. .

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they would pay more for walkable neighborhoods, but new NAR survey data shows weaker support for some housing that could help create them.

09/18/2026

For , RMA is looking back at some of our favorite projects. Today, Communications Manager Ansley Farrell, is shining a light on the team behind West Palm Beach's most transformative redevelopment work with the help of RMA staff members.

• The Sunset Lounge stands as one of the CRA's most meaningful restorations. Once a premier stage for African American entertainers like Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong during the Jim Crow era, the historic Northwest District venue sat dormant for decades before the CRA acquired it and began an incredible historic and community-driven restoration. Today it's a fully reimagined 20,000-square-foot cultural hub with a restaurant, bar, and rooftop lounge, once again hosting live music and bringing the neighborhood back to its cultural roots.

• In Northwood Village, The Spruce recently celebrated its grand opening as a true public-private partnership among the private sector, the City of West Palm Beach, the CRA, and Palm Beach County. The eight-story, 270-unit mixed-use development adds much-needed workforce housing along with street-level retail, giving teachers, healthcare workers, hospitality employees, and first responders a place to call home close to where they work.

• And just south along North Railroad Avenue, the NORA District has transformed a stretch of underused warehouses into a walkable mix of hospitality, retail, and office space, with the 201-room Nora Hotel as its next milestone. It's the kind of adaptive-reuse project that shows what's possible when historic character and new investment work together.

None of this happens without the people behind it. Credit to all the city departments, developers, CRA staff members, and RMA staff members who helped bring these projects to fruition, including Project Managers Genia Baker and Kelsey King; Communications Manager, Ansley Farrell; Communications Sr. Coordinator, Stephanie Swimmer; Communications Coordinator, Stella DeBeech; Construction Manager, Kerry Ostron; and Real Estate Manager, Brad Nella.

09/18/2026

RMA continues its celebration of by showcasing an interesting case study from our work with Deltona. Lynn Dehlinger, RMA’s Economic Development Director and Broker Associate, shares how our team’s multidisciplinary approach created a tremendous success story.

The most striking thing about the Deltona case study is the scale. From a sleepy, bedroom community serving the Orlando area and exporting 85% of its work force, to a thriving employment hub which has become a major logistics center.

The taxable assessed value of the property containing the Amazon fulfillment center increased from approximately $4 million before development to $55.8 million in 2021, its first full year of operation; $61.4 million in 2022; approximately $67.5 million in 2023; $71.4 million in 2024; and approximately $75.3 million in 2025. The property’s taxable value has therefore grown to nearly 19 times its pre-development value, demonstrating the substantial and continuing tax-base impact generated by the project.

How it began:
RMA identified the potential of a 240-acre site that had remained undeveloped for more than 30 years and developed a strategy combining market analysis, land-use planning, infrastructure readiness, form-based zoning, public-private partnerships, multimodal transportation, workforce housing considerations, and targeted industry recruitment. Importantly, RMA’s real estate team worked directly with property owners, developers, and logistics interests to bridge the gap between the City’s economic-development objectives and private-sector investment requirements.
The strategy moved from planning to implementation with the development of a 1 million-square-foot Amazon distribution center, bringing more than 1,500 permanent jobs and approximately $100 million in taxable investment. Subsequent development included a 1.7 million-square-foot industrial facility, further establishing the area as a major employment and logistics center.
The Deltona experience illustrates RMA’s ability to take a complex development opportunity from market analysis and site positioning through property-owner engagement, developer recruitment, public-private coordination, and ultimately real estate ex*****on.
The city has succeeded in changing the perception and function of the I-4 corridor from primarily a residential community’s transportation access point into an employment and investment corridor, guided by the economic development strategic plan developed by RMA, and the RMA real estate team resources employed to attract the development.

09/17/2026

Celebrating Florida Redevelopment Week! RMA is looking back at some of our favorite projects. We are so proud to staff key project leaders within the West Palm Beach CRA, who put their "hearts and souls" into this unique redevelopment.

West Palm Beach's Historic Northwest, once the city's jazz-age heartbeat, is alive again: the restored Sunset Lounge, the Styx Promenade, the Heart & Soul Jazz Park, new housing, and new business.

It took vision to see it, leadership from the community and City of West Palm Beach to stay the course, a great team to deliver it, and a plan centered on the community's own identity to guide it.

To the West Palm Beach CRA, its leaders, and the Historic Northwest community, thank you for showing what redevelopment done right looks like.

From vision to value.