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Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is an innovative way to finance building upgrades including renewable energy resources. Property owners interested in converting to a green building can receive 100% financing, repaid as a property tax assessment for up to 20 years. By eliminating upfront costs, providing low-cost, long-term financing, and making it easy for building owners to transfer repayment obligations to a new owner upon sale, the PACE program overcomes challenges that have hindered adoption of energy efficiency and green construction.

Robert Mattler – Pace Equity Market Leader For Michigan

Robert Mattler is a commercial real estate industry veteran with over thirty years’ experience in both real estate brokerage and real estate law. More recently, Bob has been an active thought leader and advocate for green building and sustainability throughout southeast Michigan.
Bob is the Michigan Market Leader for PACE Equity.

Bob’s broad entrepreneurial legal and real estate experiences include: establishing and managing a successful law firm, creating and running a commercial property tax consulting business and Director of Green Brokerage for a boutique real estate firm in metropolitan Detroit. Over the last eight years, Bob co-founded the commercial real estate committee of the Detroit Chapter of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) where he has been a guiding force in programming, fundraising, strategic development, community outreach and advisor to various boards of directors. Bob has been an At-Large member of the Board of Directors and continues to play an active role on the Board.

Robert’s passion for sustainability, economic development and adaptive re-use of metro Detroit’s aged building stock places him at the crossroads of southeast Michigan’s rebirth through implementation of PACE financing to jump start community development and re-development.

Bob was an early supporter and advocate of PACE financing when the law first passed in 2011, having published articles, blogs and spoken on the topic in front of various legal, business and real estate audiences. As a PACE-Equity market leader, Bob can now bring the advantages of Pace financing to help his own community and others in Michigan recover and become vibrant again.

Robert holds a BA from Michigan State University, a JD from the Detroit College of Law, an LLM in Tax from the Wayne State University Law School and certification from the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED AP BD&C (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Accredited Professional, Building Design & Construction).