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Susan Bloch specializes in redevelopment and real estate matters. She represents public agencies and nonprofit developers in transactions involving the acquisition, development, financing, leasing and sale of residential, commercial, and industrial properties, the development and implementation of affordable housing policies and programs, the adoption, amendment and implementation of redevelopment plans, and the formation and operation of nonprofit organizations. She has negotiated and drafted real estate acquisition, development, disposition, financing, and leasing documents for redevelopment agencies, municipalities and other public entities including Placer County Redevelopment Agency, Sacramento Regional Transit District, East Bay Regional Parks District, the City of Rancho Cordova, the City of Millbrae Redevelopment Agency, the City of Dublin, the City of Milpitas, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of South San Francisco, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Leandro and the Petaluma Community Development Commission. She has experience with projects developed with conventional financing as well as with tax-exempt bonds and low-income housing tax credits.Prior to joining Meyers Nave, Susan represented institutional lenders, private developers and nonprofit organizations in connection with leasing, development and financing transactions. She also served as borrower's counsel, bond counsel, and disclosure counsel in several transactions involving the issuance of tax-exempt bonds to finance healthcare facilities and senior and multi-family housing developments.Before beginning her practice as an attorney, Susan served as Program Manager with the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency and as a consultant to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and the National Economic Development and Law Center. She has been a speaker at conferences and seminars sponsored by the California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), the California Redevelopment Association and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, and she has published articles and manuals on tax-increment financing and financing tools for affordable housing and community development.Susan received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1979 and a Master's degree in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1995. | 