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Jared J. Eigerman

Of Counsel / Boston

Overview

Jared J. Eigerman is a land use specialist at Nutter, with graduate degrees in law and city planning, and over 30 years of practical experience. Admitted in both California and Massachusetts, most of his projects are in Greater Boston, where he is based.

Jay’s first position after graduate school was as a Deputy City Attorney for the City & County of San Francisco, but in recent decades he has been in private practice. He represents residential, commercial, and institutional real estate developers, of all sizes, in both California and Massachusetts, to secure federal, state, and local governmental approvals for new construction and conversion projects. Jay is a member of the American Planning Association, Planning & Law Division, and the Urban Land Institute.

His expertise includes conducting land use (including zoning) due diligence, devising and implementing permitting strategies, community outreach, presenting to legislative and administrative bodies at public hearings, and writing zoning and permitting opinions for financing. He no longer handles litigation, but he began his career in California handling eminent domain and inverse condemnation actions, CEQA litigation, and other writs of administrative mandamus.

Representative projects in Greater Boston have included:

  • Phased development in South Boston of new, 180,000 and 320,000 square-foot, life sciences buildings, with ground-floor commercial uses, under long-term ground leases from a government agency, on regulated tidelands
  • Conversion to life sciences use of a 454,000-sf, historic telecommunications building in Watertown, with 1,800 parking spaces, on an 11-acre site
  • New construction on 19 waterfront acres in Chelsea of a 114,000 square-foot industrial building, with three acres of publicly accessible open space
  • Conversion to multifamily, office, and restaurant uses, as well as vertical and horizontal additions to, historic warehouse buildings in Fort Point Channel
  • New construction in South Boston of a 411-room, dual-branded hotel on regulated tidelands, under a long-term year lease from a government agency
  • Redevelopment of former university property in the Fenway, under MGL c. 121A, of a new, 32-story tower, with 426 dwelling units, a 7,500 square-foot restaurant, and 14,000 sf of cultural space for an adjacent, non-profit theater
  • Redevelopment of former industrial land on the East Boston waterfront with a new, 16-story tower, including 260 dwelling units, 5,000 square feet of ground-level commercial space, and 155 off-street parking spaces

Public Interest

  • In addition to his appointments as a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco and, currently, as a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals in Newburyport, Mass., Jay was elected to four terms on the Newburyport City Council, serving as its President during his last term.
  • Jay also serves on the board of Street Lab, Inc., a nonprofit based in New York City that creates and shares extraordinary programs for public space – pop-up reading rooms, open-air drawing studios, and more – to improve the urban environment, strengthen neighborhoods, and bring people together. Street Lab also sends kits around the world so that others can do the same.

Selected Articles and Presentations

  • Zoning and Development for Commercial Development, National Business Institute (2025).
  • Trends in Sustainability Regulation, Hotel Sustainable Development: Principles and Best Practices, American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, eds. A. J. Singh, Ph.D., and Herve Houdre (2011).
  • Trends in Property Regulation to Mitigate Climate Change, Invesco Real Estate Conference 2009, Green Zone: The Sense and Significance of Sustainability, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009)
  • California Counties: Second-Rate Localities or Ready-Made Regional Governments, 26 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 3 (1999)

Selected Speaking Engagement

  • “Reassessing Risk and Opportunity: How Economic Shifts Are Redefining Investment and Leasing in This Sector,” Bisnow Boston Life Sciences Summit, June 11, 2025

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Education & Admissions

Education

University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco, J.D.
University of California, Berkeley, M.C.P.
Harvard College, A.B.

Admissions

  • California
  • Massachusetts

Industries

Industry Expertise

In addition to his appointments as a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco and, currently, as a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals in Newburyport, Mass., Jay was elected to four terms on the Newburyport City Council, serving as its President during his last term.

In the Community

Jay serves on the board of Street Lab, Inc., a nonprofit based in New York City that creates and shares extraordinary programs for public space – pop-up reading rooms, open-air drawing studios, and more – to improve the urban environment, strengthen neighborhoods, and bring people together. Street Lab also sends kits around the world so that others can do the same.

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