Megan Riess and Christopher Wootten Join the Largest Legal Practice Focused on Affordable Housing and Community Development in the Southern US
NEW ORLEANS – April 12, 2019 – Coats Rose, P.C, a leading transactional and litigation law firm, has expanded its Affordable Housing and Community Development practice in New Orleans with the addition of Megan Riess, director, and F.
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RLEANS – December 28, 2018 – Coats Rose attorneys Kelly Longwell, Benjamin A. Guider III, and Molly Stanga served as development counsel to the Mississippi Housing Authority VI on the redevelopment of Woodcreek Homes Community, an affordable development nestled in a wooded area with 60 units: 36 newly constructed homes and 24 rehabilitated homes that will be available to residents for homeownership.
HOUSTON – November 5, 2018 – Coats Rose, P.C. announces the addition of two attorneys to the firm’s Dallas office. Paige Mebane joins Coats Rose’s affordable housing and community development practice and Mary Cassandra “Cassie” Evans joins the real estate practice.
HOUSTON – September 19, 2018 – Coats Rose attorney Shannon Hunter was presented a certificate of excellence by Gene Reed, CEO of the Housing Authority of the City of Abilene, in recognition of the provision of excellent legal services.
HOUSTON – June 21, 2018 – Coats Rose, P.C. announces the addition of two attorneys to the firm’s Dallas and New Orleans offices. Joshua A. Bethke joins the Public Finance practice in the Dallas office, and Bryanna C.
Coats Rose Director Kelly Longwell provided insight on the financing of a 100-bed health center and addiction treatment clinic and additional commercial tenants in a historic 41,000 square-foot former car dealership in New Orleans. Her commentary was included in the article, “Behavioral Health Care Center to Make New Home in Historic New Orleans Auto Dealership,” published in The Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits on June 7, 2018.
NEW ORLEANS – July 25, 2017 – Kelly Longwell has been elected to serve on the 2017-2018 Governing Committee of the ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. Committee members are elected by the membership, with advice from liaisons from other ABA entities with interests complementary to the Forum’s mission.
