JoAnn Butler provides legal counsel in real estate, land use, and commercial law. Ms. Butler works with both developers and local governments to guide commercial and mixed-use developments through planning, annexation, zoning, development agreement, owner association and environmental procedures through final buildout. Transactional real estate work includes acquisitions, 1031 exchanges, leasing, loan negotiation, and documentation necessary to bring all aspects of development and commercial transactions to a close. Ms. Butler has represented both non-profit and for-profit developers in numerous affordable housing and historic preservation tax credit transactions.