Stephen S. Aichele

Some of Steve's representations have included:

• The Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority in a $800 million dollar expansion encompassing an entire city block.
• A developer in assuming private ownership of land in order to facilitate the redevelopment of three city blocks in downtown Philadelphia. The work included providing the legal foundation to aggregate publicly- and privately-owned land that had been controlled by an authority to transfer these parcels to private ownership and to adjust the underlying funding arrangements involving city and state government. Overlapping issues involved eminent domain, streets, public transportation historic protections and air rights, all regulated by government entities.
• A major regional health care provider in the $150 million expansion of one hospital and the "greenfield" development of an entirely new hospital and ambulatory care facility.
• The owner of an 1,800-acre tract in rezoning, land use approvals, and disposition of land. This eight-year process involved creative use of "Unified Development District" zoning to create 700 acres of public open space, as well as mixed use areas consistent with the latest land use practices.
• The owner of a 125-acre "brownfields" project in rezoning, land use approvals, financing, and development of an abandoned steel plant property. The Unified Development District includes residential, office, commercial and retail, and hotel uses on a redevelopment site in the middle of a borough vacated by the failed steel plant.
• One of the nation's largest defense contractors in negotiations with the Commonwealth, County, and local governments and agencies to expand facilities, establish rights with respect to road and Turnpike access, and obtain rezoning to enable disposition of certain parcels.