January 12, 2026 Last week, I reflected on the 25 years of KB Advisory Group’s history and the work we have done alongside public and private clients in a rapidly growing region. This piece looks ahead. Cities and regions are entering a period that is more constrained,...
January 9, 2026This year marks 25 years since the founding of what is now KB Advisory Group.The firm’s roots reach back to post-Olympic Atlanta. Before founding the firm, Ken Bleakly served as president of COPA, Inc., a nonprofit development entity formed by Central Atlanta Progress...
Transformation and Connection: Athens hosts the 2025 Georgia Planning Association (GPA) ConferenceLast week Jonathan Gelber (VP), Tate Wilson (Director), and Gabby Oliverio (Sr. Consultant) joined planners from across Georgia in Athens for the annual fall Georgia Planning Association (GPA) Conference. This three-day event brought planning professionals...
KB Advisory Group has a new team member! KB Advisory Group welcomes Arthur Miranda to the firm as a full-time Consultant!Arthur began as an Analyst Intern at KB Advisory Group and is a recent graduate from Georgia Tech’s Master’s in City and Regional Planning program. During...
In his recent Pondering Place post, KB Senior Consultant Trevor Butler writes about the patterns behind great places in the Atlanta area. These are the places that work like ecosystems. Housing, retail, civic space, and transportation all depend on each other. Where people linger, meet friends...
Anthony Martinez, Vincent Parisi, and Jaycee Shin have joined KB Advisory Group as 2025 Summer Intern Analysts! Anthony Martinez Anthony just finished his first graduate semester at Georgia Tech where he is pursuing a dual Master's in Public Policy and City & Regional Planning - specializing in...
I’ve been turning over a question lately that keeps surfacing in different forms, in different places: What are cities for? Not just how they function, or how they grow, but what purpose they serve, and for whom. Trevor Butler, a member of our team here at...
Last week, several of our team members joined hundreds of housing, planning, and real estate professionals in Downtown Atlanta for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Housing Opportunity Conference. Senior Consultant, Trevor Butler, shared some of his key takeaways. Overall, the word that came to my mind...
This year's Urban Land Institute (ULI) Housing Opportunity Conference will be hosted February 25-26 here in Atlanta! As outlined by ULI, this conference convenes a mix of housing industry professionals including private and nonprofit real estate developers, public officials, urban and regional planners, housing advocates, architects,...
Amidst a housing crisis, Atlanta looks to convert underutilized office spaces to residential units. As offices across the country remain underutilized since the COVID-19 pandemic, cities look for innovative ways to transform these spaces. Downtown Atlanta is a primary example of this trend. In a study...