Project Manager, Mr. Montgomery has contributed to and/or managed dozens of projects at HSP, including numerous sports, entertainment, hotel, mixed-use and convention/expo projects. Recently, he contributed to the feasibility and impact analysis for a proposed indoor/outdoor youth sports complexes in Orange County, Osceola County and Collier Counties in Florida, as well as a major youth sports complex near New Orleans. Other sports projects include indoor facilities in South Bend-Mishawaka IN, Saginaw and Holland Charter Township, MI and La Vista, Nebraska. These involved a deep understanding of the competitive supply and potential demand for tournaments and local usage for swimming, diving, basketball, volleyball, track, soccer, dance, cheer, wrestling, pickleball, tennis and others.
He has worked on dozens of other market and financial analyses, including an incremental tax revenue analysis for multiple hotels, bourbon distillery visitor centers and a theme park study for the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet. He has also worked on transformative projects in Hampton and Portsmouth, Virginia; a mixed-use downtown district at the Scioto Peninsula in Columbus, Ohio; a new arena in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and a convention hotel in Sioux City, Iowa.
His analysis was also critical in HSP’s work assessing Milwaukee’s downtown as a destination for nightlife and leisure. He has also worked extensively on a mixed-use masterplan for a major development near Phoenix as well as a market and financial study for mixed-use entertainment districts in New Mexico, Arizona and Florida.
Michael received his B.S. in Management-Finance from the Purdue University Krannert School of Management. While there, Michael was involved in the Doster Leadership Conference as well as the Sigma Chi Fraternity.