Ben Donsky is a Project Manager and has been with BRV Corp. since February 2003. He holds a Master of City and Regional Planning from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies with Honors from Brown University.
While at BRV, Mr. Donsky has worked on numerous public space and urban park projects, as well as business improvement district and capital improvement planning projects, in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Providence, Newark, and Richmond, Virginia, among other cities.
He has consulted prominent real estate developers on the public spaces in mixed-use projects, advised economic development corporations on commercial corridors, and worked with conservancies and friends groups to enhance their parks’ operations. He also manages a neighborhood improvement corporation in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, planning, installing, and maintaining a complete streetscape, and providing supplemental services like sanitation, security, and park management.
Prior to joining BRV Corp., Mr. Donsky authored a plan for a statewide overhaul of Rhode Island´s Park and Ride system that was implemented by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. He also served as a special project assistant to the founder and executive director of the Voorhees Transportation Center, consulting developers and municipalities on downtown redevelopment.
While at the Edward J. Bloustein School, Mr. Donsky developed planning guidelines for the redevelopment of surface parking into structured parking for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Additionally, Mr. Donsky managed the planning of a comprehensive downtown redevelopment for the Borough of Madison, New Jersey.
Mr. Donsky consulted Brown University regarding the privatization of its transportation services, of which he had been director in his final two years of study there. His experience at Brown afforded him a great understanding of the “broken windows” theory of community policing as well as the creation of compatible land use and transportation systems. He also assisted in the planning of a business improvement district in downtown Providence while working for the Downcity Partnership.
Mr. Donsky is a member of the Urban Land Institute and active in the Young Leaders Group.
