Susan Bloch

Overview

Susan Bloch specializes in redevelopment and real estate matters, and is the Chair of the firm’s Redevelopment, Real Estate and Affordable Housing Practice Group. Susan represents public agencies and private and non-profit 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; and the adoption, amendment and implementation of redevelopment plans.

Susan has negotiated and drafted real estate acquisition, development, disposition, financing and leasing documents for redevelopment agencies, municipalities and other public entities, including the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Leandro, Placer County Redevelopment Agency, Sacramento Regional Transit District, East Bay Regional Parks District, the City of Union City, the City of Rancho Cordova, the City of Dublin, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Milpitas, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of South San Francisco, the City of Millbrae Redevelopment Agency, and the Petaluma Community Development Commission. She has experience with projects developed with conventional financing as well as tax-exempt bonds and low-income housing tax credits.
 
Prior to joining Meyers Nave, Susan represented institutional lenders, private developers and non-profit 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 League of California Cities, the California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), the California Redevelopment Association, Housing California, the Northern California Association for Non-Profit Housing, and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. She has published articles and manuals on tax-increment financing and financing tools for affordable housing and community development.