Richard Morehouse is an attorney in KJK’s Real Estate practice group with a background that includes over two decades of experience working in commercial real estate. Rich brings a unique perspective that combines years of data fueled real estate market research and analysis, valuation expertise, multi-state property tax and incentives experience and skilled legal knowledge that allows him to achieve favorable results for clients. Rich is valued for his distinctive blend of legal and quantitative analysis skills that give him an understanding not only of what is legally permissible, but also physically and financially feasible while maximizing productivity for real estate development opportunities. Rich leverages his ability to analyze opportunities from numerous angles – development, economic, legal, and other legal perspectives – and deliver excellent results for clients.
Prior to his law practice Richard worked in the public sector as an analyst with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and in real estate as an analyst, consultant and licensed commercial real estate appraiser with regional and national valuation and advisory firms. He has operated as a property tax and development incentives professional with a national publicly traded real estate development and management company with a penchant for public-private partnership projects.
Richard is experienced with a wide array of real estate asset types and has worked with a variety of professionals including architects, engineers, construction contractors, state and local government economic development agencies, appraisers and historic preservation professionals on construction, design, development, valuation, finance and zoning.
Understanding the opportunities in brownfields, Richard has had success in working with many state and local development and brownfield remediation incentive programs in Ohio. He also has decades of experience with historic preservation, rehabilitation and other incentive programs in communities across the United States.
Richard is also experienced as counsel on community development, small business, contract, copyright and trademark, non-profit and other matters.
A real estate developer himself, Rich is passionate about helping developers understand and unlock the opportunities that so many historic buildings hold for communities throughout Ohio.
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