Totem cares deeply about neighborhoods, and we are always on the lookout for opportunities to bring community-conscious solutions to gaps in marketplaces – through our own developments and by offering advisory services on projects that support affordable housing, job creation, or expanded economic and educational opportunities.

Our holistic approach involves coordination with neighborhood stakeholders, architects, land owners, lenders, brokers, community representatives, and government to develop mixed-use projects that respond to the needs of the neighborhoods we work in and ultimately enhance the urban landscape. We enjoy complexity and are veterans of nuanced public processes like New York City’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) and the City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR). Our approach utilizes our team’s deep experience in public policy and private sector solutions to bring about outcomes that expand opportunity in the communities where we work.