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Job Title: President
Company:Jeffrey Parker & Associates
His experience in financing transportation projects includes some of the most innovative transactions in highways, transit and intermodal facilities in the US. Mr. Parker led the team that closed the $1.8 billion I-595 Express Lanes project for the State of Florida in March 2009 – a 10.5 mile roadway improvement with reversible managed lanes. This was the first DBFOM project in the US to use availability payments.
Mr. Parker is the principal advisor to the State of Florida and Miami-Dade County for the Port of Miami Tunnel, a $1 billion DBFOM transaction, also using availability payments. The Project is comprised of twin, 45-foot diameter bored tunnels in soft rock to improve truck access to the Port. Mr. Parker is advising the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on financing and procurement options for a $5 billion program to replace three existing bridges linking New Jersey and New York City.
Mr. Parker’s public finance experience includes devising and implementing the finance package for the $1.3-billion Miami Intermodal Center, the largest intermodal complex in the U.S. involving roadway and interchange improvements, a MetroRail Extension, a 6,000-car consolidated rental car facility, a new Central Railway Station, and an automated peoplemover connection to Miami International Airport.
Mr. Parker has developed the financial plans for numerous public transport projects, including Charlotte’s South Corridor Light Rail, Pittsburgh’s North Shore Connector and Stage II Light Rail. He assisted the Commonwealth of Virginia obtain funding for the Dulles Airport MetroRail Extension in Washington, DC and is advising BART on its re-launched Oakland Airport Connector Project. The BART project was originally a DBFOM and is being re-procured as a publicly-financed DBOM. Mr. Parker’s firm also advises the 80-mile Caltrain system on finance and procurement options for a conversion from diesel locomotive to electric DMU equipment to complement California’s High Speed Rail Program.
He is an honors graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
JPA is based in Massachusetts with offices in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Miami.
