Chief executive Adrian Pell, a former emergency-planning consultant with unusually complete property files.
Board members, project directors, outside counsel, security contractors, and a quiet acquisitions desk.
Consolidate parcels, accelerate construction, and keep liabilities attached to the city rather than project partners.
A public-private development body assembled to unify stalled waterfront and Glass Mile projects under a single land strategy.
Chief executive Adrian Pell, a former emergency-planning consultant with unusually complete property files.
Board members, project directors, outside counsel, security contractors, and a quiet acquisitions desk.
AlliesMajor lenders, the port authority, selected council offices.
OppositionTenant coalitions, transparency advocates, unresolved deeds, and the market whenever it asks for a paper trail.
Credit, eminent-domain counsel, demolition permits, consultants, and access to draft infrastructure plans.
Survey drones, encrypted phones, site cameras, branded hard hats, and very ordinary locksmith tools.
The authority's Glass Mile tower, with a model room one floor above the public board offices.
VehiclesBlack fleet sedans, survey SUVs, and a contractor shuttle that uses a route absent from public maps.
UniformTailored dark coats in public; spotless high-visibility vests at construction photo calls.
SymbolTwo joined parcels divided by a clean vertical line.
Development officers, private security, survey teams, site trailers, barriers, and modular construction terrain.