LAND USE, PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Jared Eigerman is a land use specialist, with graduate degrees in law and city planning, and over 20 years of practical experience. Before joining Reuben, Junius & Rose LLP, Mr. Eigerman served as a Deputy City Attorney (Land Use Team) for the City & County of San Francisco. Admitted in both California and Massachusetts, most of his projects are in Boston, where he is based.
Mr. Eigerman represents residential, commercial, and institutional real estate developers to secure all necessary government approvals at the federal, state and local levels. His expertise includes conducting zoning and permitting due diligence, devising and implementing permitting strategies, community outreach, presenting to legislative and administrative bodies, and writing zoning and permitting opinions for financing.
His project experience in California includes: CEQA litigation; eminent domain and inverse condemnation actions; small- and large-scale urban infill development, ranging from rehabilitation of historic structures to development of the 1,900-unit Trinity Plaza project in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood; mixed-use proposals on tidelands subject to the public trust; and the LEED-ND Station Park Green project in the City of San Mateo.
Recent projects in Massachusetts include:
- Adaptation to life sciences use of a 454,000-sf, historic telecommunications building at an approximately 11-acre, urban site, with structured and surface parking for 1,779 cars.
- Resubdivision of seven maritime industrial lots into three lots and construction of four mid-rise buildings, including 120 multifamily rental units, 36,000 sf of office uses, a 22,000 sf boathouse, and local retail space, served by a 75-slip recreational marina, parking for 135 vehicles, and approximately 1.5 acres of public open space.
- Redevelopment of three parcels within a compact, urban industrial area with three buildings with a total of 263 multifamily dwelling units and 138 garage parking spaces.
- Construction of a 411-room, waterfront hotel within a marine industrial park, subject to a 99-year lease from the Boston Economic Development & Industrial Corporation.
- Retrofitting a heavily used, seven-level, 698-vehicle public parking garage by adding 125 multifamily residential condominium units within 256,000 sf, and reconfiguring public parking and ground-level retail / restaurant / services space.
- Clearance of former university properties to build a 32-story tower with 426 dwelling units, 7,500 sf of restaurant space, and 14,000 sf of cultural space leased long-term to an adjacent, non-profit theater.
PUBLIC INTEREST
- In addition to appointments as a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco and a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals in Newburyport, Mass., Mr. Eigerman was elected to four terms on the City Council of the City of Newburyport, Mass., his birthplace. For over a decade, Mr. Eigerman has served as a board member for Street Lab, a nonprofit based in New York City that creates and shares extraordinary programs for public space – pop-up reading rooms, open-air drawing studios, and more – to improve the urban environment, strengthen neighborhoods, and bring people together (www.streetlab.org/). Street Lab also sends kits around the world so that others can do the same. Mr. Eigerman is a corporator and regular donor to Anna Jaques Hospital, now part of Beth Israel Lahey Health (www.ajh.org/). He is committed to ensuring that this small, regional hospital continues to serve all community members in the Lower Merrimack Valley.
EDUCATION
- J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D. (1998)
- M.C.P., University of California, Berkeley (1998)
- A.B., Harvard College (1992)
SELECTED ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS
- Trends in Sustainability Regulation, Hotel Sustainable Development: Principles and Best Practices, American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, eds. A. J. Singh, Ph.D., and Herve Houdre (2011).
- Trends in Property Regulation to Mitigate Climate Change, Invesco Real Estate Conference 2009, Green Zone: The Sense and Significance of Sustainability, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009)
- California Counties: Second-Rate Localities or Ready-Made Regional Governments, 26 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 3 (1999)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Member, State Bar of California (1998)
- Member, Massachusetts State Bar (2008)
- American Planning Association, Planning & Law Division (1995)
- Urban Land Institute (2001)
