Harry Relkin, Principal
Harry Relkin is a licensed New Mexico attorney and native New Mexican with more than 50 years of experience in both private and government practice. He is the architect of multiple public/private partnerships that include renewable energy, university student housing, affordable housing, large-scale, mixed-use developments, market rate residential development, economic development projects including industrial and technology parks, and land use planning projects.
Additionally, he was one of the originators of the Tax Increment for Development Act and has assisted both the private and public sector in metropolitan redevelopment efforts, including New Mexico’s “new” tax increment tool.
Relkin is the former Sr. Vice President of Mesa del Sol, the master developer of a 12,900-acre mixed-use development in Albuquerque, NM. In both his public and private practice, he has put together extensive and complex successful real estate deals. Relkin also served as General Counsel and Assistant State Land Commissioner for the New Mexico State Land Office. He also served as counsel for Valles Caldera National Preserve. In addition to working with private land, he has an extensive real estate background including various forms of public lands such as state trust, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, National Parks, tribal trust lands, as well as city and county lands.