Michael
Buckley
President, Halcyon Ltd Development Advisors
Director, UTA Center for Metropolitan Density & Cert Program in Turnaround Strat
Halcyon has consulting expertise in Strategic Planning, Mixed-Use, Asset Repositioning, Turnaround Strategies and destination Retail Concepts. As President of Halcyon, Buckley has advised on under-utilized sites such as Washington’s Navy Yard for GSA, IMC Mixed-Use Center in Qingdao China, and revitalization of NYC’s Coney Island for NYC’s EDC.
Halcyon created disposition strategies for major corporations, Mead, AT&T, PPG, and Pitney Bowes, and for international institutions KLM, Hexalon and Phillips Pension Funds, and completed a Strategic Organizational Study with a focus on China. Buckley is a former Partner for Real Estate Consulting with Ernst & Young, where he he led portfolio disposition reviews for Zurich Re on Sterling Forest, and for private investors on Travelers, and Kentucky Central Life.
Halcyon serves as Development Advisors for NYC’s East Side Access/ Grand Central project, for a new Bio-Science City in San Juan Puerto Rico, and San Francisco’s Transbay Center, the receiver site for the new LA-SF Fast Train. For urban district revitalization, Buckley formed a team responsible for the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corp’s Fulton St. Corridor Study. Urban Revitalization engagements included Visioning Plans for New Haven Connecticut, Garland Texas, Louisville Kentucky, Chattanooga Tennessee, and San Juan El Triangulo Dorado Harbor Plan. Mixed-Use assignments have featured revitalization of Crystal City, Arlington VA, and the repositioning of Cameron Village, Raleigh NC. Historic Mixed-Use efforts have included Hartford’s Union Station, and reuse of a Spanish colonial hospital in Santurce.
Former Urban Land Institute Trustee, Urban Mixed-Use Council Chair, and ULI Program Committee Chair, Buckley is now a Research Committee member of the Real Estate Roundtable, the CRE Finance Council, and Pension Real Estate Assoc Affinity Group leader.
Currently Board Member of Interlink Group, and former Assoc of Foreign Investors in Real Estate Executive Committee, Buckley was Director, Columbia’s MSRED Graduate Program from 1999-2009, where he also headed Columbia’s Center for High Density Development and directed the CHDD Global Development Incentives Study. Now Clinical Professor at University of Texas at Arlington, he is responsible for the new Center for Metropolitan Density and the Certificate Program in Asset Repositioning and Turnaround Strategies. Buckley also serves on the Dallas AIA Executive Committee, and on the Texas Sustainability Council Advisory Board.
Buckley is a frequent speaker on Asset Repositioning and Urban Development trends at industry conferences such as ICSC Executive Retreat, North Texas Leadership Council, NAREIM, ULI, AFIRE, United Nations FIABCI Conference, MIPIM International in France, Private Equity GRI in NYC, and BOMA NYC and New Zealand. Buckley holds BA and BSc Rice University, and Masters Advanced Studies from MIT. Former President, Connecticut Society of Architects, and author of numerous urban revitalization articles, Buckley holds designation as Fellow American Institute of Architects, and Fellow Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
