Eric Kehoe

Eric is a Senior Planner at Progressive Companies and serves as a redevelopment strategist working at the intersection of finance, policy, and urban design. He helps cities and partners shape complex, place-scale projects in their earliest stages, when direction, feasibility, and community drivers are still being set.

For nearly fifteen years, his work has focused on legacy and Great Lakes communities, framing projects before they are fully defined. He braids ambitious urban design with the realities of policy, finance, and land control, clarifying risk, aligning partners, and establishing practical pathways to implementation.

At Progressive Companies, Eric has supported neighborhood reinvestment, brownfield redevelopment, suburban retrofitting, and housing strategy. Over the course of his career he has shaped more than $200 million in adaptive reuse and ground-up development, often on underutilized land in disinvested areas.

He is particularly interested in governance and ownership models—such as public development authorities and community land trusts—that allow strong design to endure and long-term community wealth to grow.

His writing has appeared in the Detroit Free Press, and he was honored with the Peter H. Brink Leadership Fund award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.