Edward F. “Chip” Walsh
E.F. “Chip” Walsh is the founder and principal of Mercier Street, a CRE development consulting firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. With over 20 years’ experience providing dedicated, external resource capabilities to clients across a variety of settings, Chip’s focus is commercial real estate development projects including historic and new market tax credit financing, conventional and HUD senior debt financing, public entitlements, zoning, project management, partner and vendor management, and community outreach.
In addition to his consulting activities, Chip is a founding partner and the managing member of Sustainable Development Partners of Kansas City, an adaptive reuse CRE development company. The company’s most recent acquisition, Westport Commons, is a $30 million conversion of the city’s first junior high school to a 160,000 SQ co-working site. The project was profiled nationally by the New York Times and earned several awards including the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City’s Cornerstone Award for its contribution to furthering the region’s economic strength and vitality.
Chip holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Redlands (CA) and earned his JD from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. A “recovering” attorney, he maintained an active law practice until 2008, during which time his peers selected him on three occasions to The Kansas City Business Journal’s Best of the Bar.