Roberta A. Jordans
Consultant

Ms. Jordans is manager of economic development assistance in the firm’s Public Finance and Economic Development Practice Group.  Certified by the National Development Council as an Economic Development Finance Professional, Ms. Jordans offers more than 25 years of experience in public and private economic development including grant writing and incentive identification, commercial banking, finance, economic development strategic planning and commercial real estate.  She advises on economic development projects and helps to expedite those projects to completion.  Ms. Jordans supports the firm’s attorneys prior to the closing of a transaction by acting as an intermediary between clients and governmental agencies.  She has a proven track record with the identification, writing and preparation of local, state and federal loan/grant applications and other funding incentive documentation.  Prior to joining Harris Beach, she served as deputy director/IDA officer at the Ontario County Office of Economic Development and Industrial Development Agency.  Her responsibilities included the development of more than $100 million of Industrial Revenue Bond, sale-leaseback, and commercial public sector loan transactions and the negotiation of specific terms of business financing proposals with principals, equity holders, and lending institutions.  She also prepared numerous grant applications and administered a $23 million HUD CDBG loan portfolio on behalf of more than 120 corporate borrowers.  Previous to her position in Ontario County, Ms. Jordans was executive director of the Rochester Finger Lakes Regional Development Corporation where she was responsible for business development and marketing, collateral material development, creation of a proprietary MLS database of industrial and commercial properties in a nine-county region and the administration of the New York State Revolving Fund.  Ms. Jordans began her career in commercial banking.  She served as a commercial lending officer and assistant vice president at Marine Midland Bank (now HSBC) and as a commercial credit department manager and commercial lending officer at Fleet Bank (now Bank of America).