Mr. Kevin Greiner is an attorney and urban planner who operates a number of private business interests. Mr. Greiner is a founding partner and Chief Executive Officer of Renewable Resource Technologies, a firm founded to invest in and develop renewable and environmentally responsible businesses and technologies. Through its business development and investment activities, RRT owns and operates a recycling operation which produces organic fertilizers and soil amendments, and is in the process of acquiring two more businesses which produce composite construction products from recycled materials. Mr. Greiner is also the Owner and Principal of Kevin Greiner & Associates, providing strategic planning, economic development and policy analysis consulting services to a variety of public and private clients. Lastly, Mr. Greiner is the co-founder and consultant to the Education Innovation Consortium, a working “think-tank” and consulting group formed to provide innovative and independent problem solving services to assist a system-wide reform of the City of Buffalo’s education system.
Over the last 7 years, Mr. Greiner has been a leader in brownfield redevelopment in western New York. Prior to undertaking his private business interests, Mr. Greiner served as Executive Vice President for Development for the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation, the City of Buffalo’s Development Authority. In addition to managing the BERC’s high priority development projects, Mr. Greiner personally managed the South Buffalo Redevelopment Project — a $125 Million, 1,400 acre brownfield redevelopment of two former integrated steel works along Lake Erie and the Buffalo River.
Mr. Greiner previously served as the Director of Planning for the City of Buffalo (April 1994 to January 1998). During his distinguished tenure he personally managed numerous award-winning development projects, including Main-LaSalle Place — a $20 Million 76 acre brownfield project which has created a new mixed-use urban neighborhood on the site of a former rail corridor; the City of Buffalo HomeOwnership Zone — a comprehensive $38 Million neighborhood redevelopment project which includes almost 700 units of new and rehabilitated housing, retail development, and conversion of former industrial sites into housing and commercial uses; the City of Buffalo Downtown Waterfront Plan — a $125 Million urban entertainment waterfront redevelopment; and the Buffalo Intermodal Transportation Center, converting the former Memorial Auditorium into an AMTRAK rail, bus and light rail station.
While Director Mr. Greiner oversaw the completion of numerous development master plans, receiving five awards for planning excellence from the American Planning Association and American Society of Landscape Architects. Mr. Greiner also managed the completion of eight major neighborhood redevelopment master plans, three Olmsted Park restoration master plans, various transportation land use and economic development studies, and completed Buffalo’s first City-Wide Zoning Code Design Review Ordinance. Mr. Greiner also oversaw the installation of the City’s first ever Geographic Information System (GIS), a 97,000 parcel system integrating assessment data, tax records, street conditions, and planimetric information. While serving as Director he also secured over $19 million in grants, including the HomeOwnership Zone, the City’s Federal Enterprise Community, HUD special purpose grants for the Central Terminal redevelopment project, restoration of the historic Shea’s Theater and Allendale theater, as a major grant from the R.A. Bloch Cancer Survivors foundation, and New York State planning project grants.
Mr. Greiner has fourteen years of experience in the fields of planning, real estate analysis and economic development, having worked previously as a business systems analyst in the Corporate Investments Division of Metropolitan Life Inc. (New York headquarters), and as a transportation planner for the North Jersey Transportation Coordinating Council, the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for northern New Jersey.
Mr. Greiner received his Master of Planning and Law (Juris Doctor) degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He resides in Buffalo, New York with his wife and two sons.