Annie Tirschwell began her career in real estate as a key member of the Chelsea Market Building development team and manager of a 2.5 million SF adaptive re-use portfolio including the Falchi and Factory Building complex in Long Island City.  She went on to develop numerous industrial buildings for the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center (GMDC) and to co-found Civic Builders which remains one of the nation’s most prolific charter school facility developers.  At Civic, she led the creation of a portfolio valued at over $500,000,000.

Jill Crawford started her real estate career in historic preservation, managing the Upper Manhattan Historic Preservation Fund, a joint venture of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and the NY Landmarks Conservancy.  Through the Fund’s twenty-five restoration projects, Jill worked with a range of community institutions including Harlem’s historic Convent Avenue Baptist Church, Abyssinian Baptist Church and the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque.  At Civic Builders, she focused on public/private partnerships that leveraged public capital funding with New Market Tax Credits and private philanthropy to create thousands of school seats in underserved neighborhoods.

Annie and Jill formed Type A to continue working on high-impact, creative, multi-use real estate projects that support NYC’s neighborhoods and communities.  Type A has worked with a range of organizations including DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI), Harlem Village Academies, Citymeals-on-Wheels, and Industry City  among others.  Their current work includes Bronx Point, a co-development with L+M Development Partners, that will transform a long vacant parcel along the Harlem River into a vibrant, mixed-use building with more than 500 affordable apartments, the Universal Hip Hop Museum, a host of commercial and community facility uses and a waterfront esplanade.