RETENTION AND RELOCATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner and Senior Economist / ADMINISTRATION
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Consulting Economist to Arizona State University
Elliott D. Pollack is CEO of Elliott D. Pollack and Company, an economic and real estate consulting firm in Scottsdale, Arizona established in 1987. The firm serves a broad range of clients in both the public and private sector ranging from law firms, utilities, banks, retailers, major service firms and real estate related companies to states, counties, Native American communities, cities and universities for both business and policy issues. The firm maintains the most comprehensive economic database in Arizona.
Mr. Pollack is widely sought after as a speaker for economic, policy, fiscal and economic impact, and real estate issues. He is also sought after by local, regional and national news media as an expert source of economic and real estate matters.
Mr. Pollack has been an expert witness in litigations where detailed information was needed on the economy and/ or its real estate markets. He has testified extensively on interest rates.
Through affiliate companies, Mr. Pollack has syndicated, master planned and brought to development numerous properties in Arizona. He is recognized for his expertise in both national and local real estate trends.
Pollack is a consulting economist to Arizona State University and co-editor of the Arizona and Greater Phoenix Blue Chip economic forecasts published by ASU's Economic Outlook Center.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Operating Officer and Economist With Elliott D. Pollack and Company
- VP and Economist
Jill Stevenson is Chief Operating Officer and Economist with Elliott D. Pollack and Company, an economic and real estate consulting firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Elliott D. Pollack and Company serves a broad client base of both public and private sector entities that range from law firms and real estate developers to school districts and utility companies. The firm maintains the most comprehensive economic database in Arizona, allowing it to accurately conduct economic forecasting, develop economic impact studies and prepare demographic analyses and forecasts. Ms. Stevenson specializes in preparing economic and fiscal impact models and forecasting assignments. Her expertise includes assessing the effective impact of economic development on the financial well being of local, county and state governments. She has proven analytical, planning and organizational skills coupled with the ability to communicate effectively in both the domestic and international market place.
Ms. Stevenson has served on behalf of Elliott D. Pollack & Company as the co-project manager for Maricopa County's Budget Office since 1998. She is responsible for the creation of the econometric model utilized in revenue forecasting for each major revenue source. In addition, in her capacity as an analyst at Elliott D. Pollack & Company, she produced the Economic and Fiscal Impact Model utilized by the firm and created an interactive website, www.fiscalimpacts.com. The models are customized applications and calculate the economic and fiscal impact of business locates in selected areas. In addition, Ms. Stevenson is past president of the Arizona Economic Roundtable.
From 1994 through 1996, Ms. Stevenson served as support specialist and economic analyst for First Interstate Bank's six-state Southwest Region, including Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. At the bank she planned and systematized linked databases for various international and domestic indicators, which served as a basis for organizing a printing and distribution plan for a monthly publication.
Ms. Stevenson has a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and an International Business Certificate from Arizona State University.
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Rick Merritt is President and one of the founders of Elliott D. Pollack & Company, a real estate and economic consulting firm that provides consultation on all aspects of the Arizona economy with specialization in the real estate market. Mr. Merritt is responsible for management of real estate and economic consulting assignments for the Company. He also serves as Project Manager for a number of real estate development projects and investments affiliated with Partnerships formed by Elliott D. Pollack. Mr. Merritt has more than thirty-five years experience in the fields of real estate development and consulting, city planning, and project management in the Phoenix area.
In the consulting field, Mr. Merritt specializes in economic and fiscal impact analysis, real estate market and financial feasibility, and land use analysis. Some of his significant accomplishments are management of economic and fiscal impact studies of Bank One Ballpark in Downtown Phoenix
and the Arizona Tourism and Sports Authority, the entity charged with constructing a multi-purpose stadium for the Fiesta Bowl and Arizona Cardinals in Glendale. He has supervised the completion of numerous market and feasibility studies of the retail office, industrial and residential real estate sectors. Mr. Merritt authored the Arizona Affordable Housing Profile, a study funded by HUD and the Arizona Department of Housing, which examined the housing inventory in each community and county in the State.
Mr. Merritt has managed a wide variety of real estate projects over the last thirty years. His responsibilities have involved initial acquisition and due diligence analysis, planning and engineering of the properties, infrastructure development, entitlements and land development. Projects have ranged from master planned communities of 600 to 1,000 acres in size to small 5 to 10 acre retail and apartment sites. Current responsibilities include due diligence analysis and management of partially completed residential subdivisions acquired during the recent downturn in the single-family market.
Prior to his present employment, Mr. Merritt served as Land Development Manager for The Northern Equities Company with responsibility for planning, engineering and construction of the Company's projects. From 1981 through 1985, Mr. Merritt served as Planning Director and Manager of the Community Development Department for the Town of Gilbert, Arizona.
Mr. Merritt has a Masters of Business Administration from Arizona State University and a Bachelors of Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati. He is a Member of the American Planning Association and is an active member in Valley Partnership and Lambda Alpha, an international land economics fraternity. He has been a lecturer at a number of economic and planning functions and a guest speaker at the Arizona Governor's Conference on Rural Development and Economic Planning.