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Fort Point Associates, Inc. (FPA) is a multi-disciplinary urban planning and environmental consulting firm that provides project planning, project management, and development approvals/environmental permitting services to both private and public sector clients. Our project experience since our founding in 1985 includes a wide variety of major institutional expansions, private real estate developments, and complex public infrastructure improvements. We enjoy an enviable reputation among our clients for our professionalism and adeptness in dealing with the many federal, state, and local agencies that have authority for the approval and permitting of development projects. We have special expertise in urban development projects, especially in addressing financial feasibility and the myriad of public policy, urban design, and environmental issues that so strongly influence these projects.

Our diverse team of experienced professionals from fields such as planning, historic preservation, landscape architecture, transportation, architecture, real estate development, and law delivers powerful and time- and cost-saving insight for your project. Each project gets the personal attention of senior professionals, which is so vital to ensuring effective liaison with public agencies and achieving consensus with interest groups..

In 2018, FPA joined Tetra Tech, a global provider of consulting and engineering services in water, environment, sustainable infrastructure, and renewable energy. Tetra Tech began as a coastal engineering firm and is now recognized as an industry leader in climate resilience planning and sustainable infrastructure design. Tetra Tech’s work runs the gamut from helping local communities plan for a sustainable, blue economy, and implementing living shorelines, to the planning, permitting, design, and construction administration of major structural solutions, such as surge barrier protection systems. This experience includes multiple assignments for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as well as innovative hazard mitigation solutions for major U.S. cities including New Orleans, New York City, Miami, Seattle, and Washington, DC. Tetra Tech has also supported more than 1,500 wind projects in the United States. With 28,000 employees located in 550+ offices worldwide, Tetra Tech’s technical expertise greatly complements our own and bolsters our ability to offer comprehensive solutions to clients’ needs.