With over fifteen years of progressive experience, Shilvosky’s affordable housing and community and economic development experience can be expressed in one word, “Equity”, with the deep desire to create more avenues to economic opportunity for those less fortunate. His development expertise was cultivated and honed from his earlier work experience, ranging from state agencies such as the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, down to the trenches of local government where Shilvosky administered various economic development programs for small cities. He has advised Mayors, Councils, and now a Receiver, on emerging and existing economic development related issues, helping them to identify opportunities and threats within the community, to address operational constraints that create challenges and impediments for development, devising plans to stoke investor confidence in the city and boost credit ratings; and define goals and objectives to serve as benchmarks of progress for efforts to reposition their city as a thriving community with various redevelopment projects. Shilvosky has also worked as a consultant to various commercial real estate entities, providing services such as site selection and facilitating land transactions, financial and feasibility analysis, proforma preparation and underwriting.
Shilvosky holds various professional licenses and certifications. At the very onset of his career, as a Certified Architectural Drafting Journeyman with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry, is a Certified Construction Document Technician (CDT) with the Construction Specifications Institute and holds a Project Management Certificate from Penn State University. Later becoming a Certified Economic Development Financial Professional (EDFP), Housing Development Finance Professional (HDFP), and Rental Housing Development Professional (RHDFP) with Grow America, formerly National Development Council. He has also earned a professional certificate in Municipal Finance, through the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Completed a Certificate from Oklahoma University’s Economic Development Institute (EDI). Received a Community Progress Leadership Institute Certificate, as a Harvard University Fellow through the Center for Community Progress. And most recently participated in Project REAP and as an Open Access Fellow with Novogradac.
With development finance experience in both the public and private sector, Shilvosky brings a plethora of experience and resources that allow for creative problem solving and the ability to capitalize a broad range of projects. Shilvosky earned his master’s in real estate development (MRED) from the University of Maryland, along with a Bachelor of Science in Business with a concentration in Management and Marketing, and an Associates of Science in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University. He is a professional member of the International Economic Development Council, Urban Land Institute, and Council of Development Finance Agencies. Further, his commitment to public service has led him to serve actively on the Boards of Habitat for Humanity and his local community action agency, Community Progress Council.
