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Paul Morris
919.743.2500
 Paul Morris is a Vice President of Cherokee, where he directs the company's corporate sustainability initiatives and oversees all planning, design and development activities across Cherokee’s portfolio of projects, beginning at deal conception and continuing through due diligence, investment underwriting and asset management. He serves as Cherokee’s expert on land use and transportation planning, transit-oriented and low-impact development practices, and urban regenerative design.
Prior to joining Cherokee, Mr. Morris spent 27 years as a registered landscape architect and environmental/land use public policy mediator, including 7 years as vice president of Parsons Brinckerhoff, where he oversaw the firm's global urban design and community development practice and founded PB PlaceMaking - an internationally recognized sustainable development group, and 11 years as vice president and managing partner of McKeever/Morris Inc. where he was responsible for strategic planning, business operations and project administration for public and private sector entities located throughout North America and Japan. McKeever/Morris, Inc. was acquired by Parsons Brinckerhoff in 1999.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Morris has provided management and facilitation support to over 400 complex joint development and public/private initiatives located throughout North America, Great Britain, Asia and the Middle East. He specializes in crafting economically and environmentally balanced planning and policy solutions to complex projects ranging from large-scale new communities to urban infill redevelopments.
Mr. Morris is the recipient of over 25 awards, honors and citations for his work. He has taught at the university level and lectured widely, having addressed audiences at over 90 conferences and symposia - including before the United States Congressional Black Caucus, National Design Form of Israel and Royal Institute of British Architects. He has written, contributed to, or been featured in over 150 publications on topics ranging from urban design, transit+land use connections, sustainability, smart growth and civic design. He is an active member of several national organizations, including the Urban Land Institute, Congress for The New Urbanism, National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Society of Landscape Architects, where in 2003 he served as president. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon in Landscape Architecture and Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Planning and Development. He and his wife Laverna have two children and reside in Raleigh.
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