rethinking | communities

About us

Ricker | Cunningham is a leading real estate advisory firm, based in Denver, yet servicing clients primarily throughout the Central and Southwestern United States. Anne Ricker, together with her partner Bill Cunningham, established their practice in February 1993 under the name Leland Consulting Group. They shared this moniker with a Portland, Oregon firm until 2010 when they rebranded as Ricker | Cunningham.

“We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.”

- Winston Churchill

As Real Estate Economists and Community Strategists, Anne and Bill assist clients with understanding opportunities for, and barriers to, investment and reinvestment while defining tools and tactics to achieve success. Anne and Bill are widely recognized for their unique approach to interpreting support for real estate products in a range of different markets, translating their findings into investment opportunities for various developer and lender audiences as well as, adapting policy and regulating environments to support the same. They are frequently engaged in bridging the dialogue between public, private and community audiences and advancing redevelopment initiatives.

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Featured Projects

Marshalltown Downtown Master Plan

Principals of Ricker | Cunningham (RC), together with the Planning and Urban Design Division of SEH, a St. Paul-based engineering and design firm with offices in nine cities, were selected by the City of Marshalltown, Iowa to assist with developing a plan for the renaissance of their Downtown Core and Historic Main Street District, following its decimation on July 19, 2018 when it was hit by an EF-3 tornado.

Renewal Wheat Ridge Redevelopment Authority

Principals of Ricker | Cunningham (RC) have been working with the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado’s Urban Renewal Authority since 2009, preparing documentation necessary for creation of more than eight (8) separate planning areas; establishing the board’s strategic business plan, policies, and protocols; reviewing development funding requests; and currently, designing a program for monitoring incremental tax revenues and ensuring greater predictability.

4th Street Crossing Development Project

Principals of Ricker | Cunningham (RC) were engaged by the Town of Silverthorne and Silverthorne Urban Renewal Authority to function as their Financial and Development Advisor as they implement the community’s first catalyst project in a new urban district being positioned to operate as its “downtown commercial core.”

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“Principals of Ricker | Cunningham masterfully wed community vision with market reality by giving their clients the tools to make that vision a reality. Their recommendations have already resulted in policy changes, urban design standards, and a transformation of the City’s organizational structure to enable the City of Fort Worth to redirect its resources to focus on central city redevelopment.”

- Christine Maguire, Project Manager, Commercial Corridors Revitalization Strategy, Fort Worth, TX; Currently – Redevelopment Manager, City of Austin, TX

"Ricker | Cunningham combines expertise in public policy with thorough knowledge of the market forces that drive real estate development. Their advice is invariably practical, yet inspired by fresh insights into familiar issues. The results of their work have met or exceeded all of our expectations."

- Fernando Costa, Assistant City Manager, City of Fort Worth

“Principals of Ricker | Cunningham helped Downtown Lincoln – not only communicate with developers, but position us as a market to be looked at – in fact, linked us up with developers who are now doing projects in Lincoln.”

- Polly McMullen, Executive Director, Downtown Lincoln Association, Lincoln, NE

Parking Lot

park ï ing lot

noun

A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles. In most countries where cars are the dominant mode of transportation, parking lots are a feature of every city and suburban area.
The “space” where professionals in ours and related fields “park” ideas until such time they can explore them in greater detail.

Personnel from Ricker | Cunningham will periodically post ideas, facts, quotes, and stories which inform our work as we “rethink community spaces.” Check back here for our latest obsession.

3 million

More than 3 million Americans work from home, explaining why cell reception and internet provider options can be the deciding factors when assessing a home purchase. Source: Zillow.

38%

Overall, rent or own, 38 percent of millennials live in the suburbs, compared to 37 percent in the city. Source: Ernst & Young.

41%

41% of Millennial homeowners live in the suburbs, compared to 31 percent in the city. Source: Ernst & Young.