ERA announces the promotion of William “Bill” Lee to the position of Managing Principal of the San Francisco office. Mr. Lee is one of the directors of ERA and has been with the firm since 1976. Born in Shanghai and lived in Taipei, Mr. Lee speaks Mandarin. His first strategic initiative was to add bilingual staff and broaden ERA’s services to clients in Asia and the Pacific Rim. ERA now has six Chinese speaking staff with five located in San Francisco. ERA’s expanded services to Pacific Rim clients include:

Regionaleconomic development

Market and financial analysis for new town planning

Land development impact of major

transportation investments

Downtown revitalization strategies

Retail development programming

Technology and business park development

Land development economics

Resort and tourism development strategies

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