Todd LaRue

Todd joined RCLCO in 2004 and leads the Austin, Texas office. He manages engagements for developers, land owners, investors, and public sector entities seeking strategic development, investment, and/or planning advice regarding their real estate. His work includes consulting for numerous types of large-scale master-planned communities, high rise mixed-use developments, resorts, and commercial developments throughout Texas, the Southeast, and Mexico. For these engagements, he conducts highest and best use analyses, market opportunity analyses, consumer research, economic development assessments, financial analyses, fiscal impact analyses, metropolitan growth trends analyses, and various other analytical tasks to help guide clients’ planning decisions and development strategies. Prior to RCLCO, Todd spent over seven years in construction management with Skanska in Atlanta, Georgia and W. H. Bass, Inc. in Norcross, Georgia. Much of his work was concentrated on managing ground-up construction projects in retail, banking, education, and telecommunication, as well as interior build-outs of high-rise office buildings.

Todd brings strong analytical skills in quantitative and qualitative analysis with his Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia, and his Master’s in Business Administration (focusing on real estate and finance) from Emory University.

He is an active member of the Urban Land institute (member of the ULI Austin Advisory Board) and has been a guest speaker at numerous real estate industry events and graduate business schools, including the Urban Land Institute, Congress for the New Urbanism, the University of Texas at Austin, and Emory University.