Thomas Letizia

Career

Developers and businesses look to Tom to help guide them through major real estate transactions and land development matters. He handles zoning and environmental regulatory issues, as well as details related to tax credits and other redevelopment financing vehicles.

Tom represents local, regional, and national developers, general businesses, energy companies, and pharmaceutical companies in all aspects of real estate transactions and land development involving major shopping centers, office complexes, industrial facilities, residential developments, hotels, schools, and renewable energy projects, such as solar energy systems.

As part of his practice, Tom regularly appears before municipal, county, and state regulatory boards and agencies throughout New Jersey for zoning, subdivision, site plan, conditional uses, variances, and environmental approvals; negotiation of real estate acquisitions, sales, and leases; and performance of due diligence reviews.

Tom is experienced in handling legal issues arising from state environmental regulation of land development, such as ISRA compliance, freshwater wetlands, stream encroachment, wastewater management planning, and underground storage tanks. He has lectured to business and lender trade groups and written several articles on these topics.

Tom also handles complex legal issues arising from redevelopment projects, including redeveloper agreements, brownfield remediation, affordable housing, tax credits, payments in lieu of taxes, bond financing, and other financing incentives.

In addition, Tom assists developers on community association law matters, including the formation of condominiums and other common interest projects for both residential and nonresidential owners and in obtaining regulatory approvals from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs under the Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act.

Professional Memberships

Appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey for membership and service on the District VII (Mercer County, NJ) Ethics Committee

Member, Board of Directors of the Land Use Law Section, New Jersey State Bar Association

Member, Environmental Law Section, New Jersey State Bar Association

Member, Mercer County Bar Association

Member, Princeton Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Associate member, Shore Builders Association of Central New Jersey

Serves on the Legislative Affairs and Land Use Planning Committees of the New Jersey Builders Association, which monitor state policies, legislation, and regulations affecting the real estate development industry

Member, New Jersey Chapter of NAIOP, serving on its Land Use and Regulatory Affairs committees

Former chairman, New Jersey Supreme Court’s District VII Fee Arbitration Committee