Keith L. McCoy

“As a student of Social Ecology, I studied how our cities and environments shape us. As an Urban Planner, I learned how to shape environments into places people enjoy. As a developer, I am dedicated to building places that stand the test of time.”

Keith L. McCoy is Vice President and a principal of Urban Community Partners. With more than 20 years in the real estate development industry, Keith is experienced in the fields of land acquisition, community planning, government negotiations, public charrettes and consensus building, product development, financial analysis, asset management and property disposition. Keith has achieved entitlements for large scale (2,000+ acres) master planned communities; commercial, industrial, mixed use, smart growth, mixed income, redevelopment, brownfield, infill and military base reuse projects throughout the western United States.

In 2001, Keith Co-founded Urban Community Partners to focus on Smart Growth Traditional Neighborhood Developments. Keith has successfully directed the entitlements for East Garrison, a 244 acre, 1,400 home, mixed use, public/private partnership on the former Fort Ord Army Base in Monterey County, CA, and Mills Ranch, a 100 acre 400 home mixed income Traditional Neighborhood Development located in King City, CA. As a development consultant working with Tanimura and Antle, Keith is currently managing the entitlements for a 250 acre 1,000 unit mixed use New Urbanist community in Yuma, AZ.

Keith is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine, with a degree in Social Ecology and Urban Planning. Keith has been a speaker at numerous national conferences including the Congress for New Urbanism, Urban Land Institute, American Planning Association, Pacific Coast Builders Conference and the Seaside-Pienza Institute. Keith is also an active member of the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment in the UK, Urban Land Institute, Congress for New Urbanism and the Seaside Pienza Institute.