Affordable Housing Development
Our role: Developer
LIHTC, 4% and 9% tax credits, tax-exempt bonds, mixed-income
Affordable Housing Development and Consulting | Kansas City, Missouri
254
Homes
Nationwide
Markets Served
Section 8
Where this expertise starts
Company Overview
Developer and Consultant
The Nash Group, LLC is an affordable housing developer and consulting firm headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with an office in West Palm Beach, Florida. We work in markets across the country. We develop workforce, attainable, and mixed-income housing, and we advise cities, developers, and project teams as a prime consultant or subcontractor.
Core Competencies
What We Do and How We Work
Urban Planning, Design & Infrastructure
Our role: Prime or Sub
Specialty: housing studies and housing needs assessments
Market Analysis
Our role: Prime or Sub
Deal Structuring & Public-Private Partnerships
Our role: Prime or Sub
Community & Stakeholder Engagement
Our role: Prime or Sub
Including bilingual outreach
Expert & Advisory Services
Our role: Prime or Sub
Infrastructure consulting
Our role: Subcontractor
Feasibility, economic analysis, funding strategy, policy
Differentiators
Why Teams Choose The Nash Group
We build what we plan
An active affordable housing developer with 254 homes.
Both sides of the table
Leadership includes a former Kansas City At-Large Councilman (1999 to 2007), a former Chair of Planning, Zoning and Economic Development (2003 to 2007), and a former Vice Chairman, Missouri Housing Development Commission (2009 to 2017).
Lived experience
Our founder grew up in Section 8 housing in Kansas City.
Health and housing
Development work that connects housing with health care, including Alumnus Gardens, developed with our development partners.
Representative Projects
Current Work
The Mabion
Beacon Hill, Kansas City, MO · Developer · Broke ground October 2024; ribbon cut October 7, 2026
57 homes; 4% LIHTC and tax-exempt bonds
Promise Place
Kansas City, MO · Developer · Under construction
85 units
Alumnus Gardens
North St. Louis, MO · Co-Developer · Delivered 2024; damaged by a tornado, now under restoration
60 units: 54 affordable (30% to 60% AMI) and 6 market-rate; with our development partners
Alumnus Gardens West
North St. Louis, MO · Co-Developer · Under construction
52 units: 46 low-income and 6 market-rate; with our development partner
18th and Vine Streetcar Feasibility Study
Kansas City, MO · Consultant team member (team led by Parson & Associates) · 2025 to 2026
Quindaro Townsite
Kansas City, KS · Subconsultant · 2025 to 2026
Planning component, in partnership with Taliaferro and Browne
See our developments on the Our Work page.
Key Personnel
Leadership
Dr. Troy Nash, CEO and Co-Founder
- Eight degrees and a ninth in progress, including an Ed.D., J.D. and M.P.H.
- Former Kansas City At-Large Councilman and former MHDC Vice Chairman
- U.S. Air Force veteran
- Assistant Teaching Professor at a major university, teaching real estate fundamentals, principles and development
Arielle Nash, President and Co-Founder
- Leads development operations
The team
- Graduate degrees in urban planning, architecture and nonprofit management, four of them USC-trained planners
- Analysis performed in house in R, Stata, Python, ArcGIS Pro and QGIS
Prior Experience of Key Personnel
While at a previous firm, Newmark Zimmer, Dr. Troy Nash worked in partnership with other firms on:
- Comprehensive plans for Lexington, Mexico and Clinton, Missouri
- The Downtown / North Leavenworth Redevelopment Master Plan, Leavenworth, Kansas
- The Airport South District Development Plan, Moline, Illinois
- Economic development plans and services for Marshall and Richmond, Missouri
- A housing study for Williston, North Dakota
Company Data
At a Glance
Legal Name The Nash Group, LLC
Headquarters Kansas City, Missouri, with an office in West Palm Beach, Florida
Markets Nationwide
Contracting Roles Developer, prime consultant, subcontractor
Tell us what you are trying to build.
We develop, we advise, and we tell you the truth about which one you need.