Helmer Company is a project management consulting firm focused primarily on facilitating real estate development and redevelopment projects. The firm was founded in January 2019 by owner Chad Helmer, who has nearly 20 years of experience working with public and private sector clients on a wide range of economic development, urban revitalization, real estate development, and brownfield redevelopment projects.
In the early 2000s, Chad was the Director of Land Recycling with the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation where he wrote grants in support of and facilitated multiple commercial and industrial redevelopment projects throughout Lehigh and Northampton Counties.
From 2004 to 2018, Chad served as a project manager at Taggart Associates, an economic development planning and project management consulting firm in Bethlehem, PA. In that role, Chad had the opportunity to work on several high-profile redevelopment projects including the Simon Silk Mill in Easton, the Iron Works in Catasauqua, Green Knight Industrial Park in Wind Gap, and Lafayette College’s development of the Williams Arts Campus in Easton, PA.
Throughout his career, Chad has helped clients leverage over $48 million in local, state, federal and private funding from programs such as:
- Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP)
- Pennsylvania Business In Our Sites program (BOS)
- Pennsylvania Industrial Sites Reuse program (ISRP)
- Pennsylvania Partners for Regional Economic Progress program (PREP)
- Pennsylvania Designed & Developed in PA program (D2PA)
- Pennsylvania Greenways, Trails & Recreation program (GTR)
- Economic Development Administration grant program (EDA)
- Preserve America program
- Historic Tax Credit program (HTC)
- Enterprise Zone Tax Credit program
- Federal Brownfield Tax Incentive program
- Federal Make It In America program (MIIA)
- EPA Brownfields Assessment grant program
- EPA Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund program
Chad is also a Pennsylvania licensed real estate salesperson with Rudy Amelio Real Estate, 1348 W. Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18102. Office phone: 610-437-5501. On the web at www.rudyamelio.com. Chad is a member of the Greater Lehigh Valley Realtors Association, Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, and National Association of Realtors.