TAT Expands Leadership Ranks
With Announcement of 12 Strategic Promotions
PRESS RELEASE
CHELSEA, MASS., May 05, 2026 – An influential leader in integrated architecture, master planning, and interior design known for its focus on multifamily housing, The Architectural Team (TAT) has announced a series of strategic promotions elevating 12 key team members to new roles within the firm. These advancements include the naming of four new Senior Associates: Phil Renzi, Andrew Stebbins, Meghann Van Dorn, and Anthony Vivirito. Each brings experience leading complex projects across TAT’s national portfolio spanning affordable, mixed-income, and senior housing, adaptive reuse and new construction, and large-scale mixed-use initiatives.
TAT has also named five new Associates, officially elevating longtime team members Al Donovan, Ryan Hagler, Kasumi Humphries, Jim Podesky, and Nathan Thomas to its leadership track. Additionally, the firm has promoted key administrative, marketing, and business development experts including Danielle Eckrich, named Director of Administration; Kristen Parry, promoted to Senior Marketing Coordinator and Pursuits Lead; and Meghan Wynne, who takes on the role of Controller.
Phil Renzi, Senior Associate
Since joining TAT in 1992, Phil Renzi has played an instrumental role in the firm’s continued growth and portfolio diversification, with award-winning nationwide experience. His work includes new construction, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, and the repositioning of existing properties, with a particular focus on mixed-use and mixed-income housing, and community-oriented projects. Highlights of this portfolio include a high-profile renovation at Boston’s St. Francis House day shelter for the homeless, as well as the adaptive reuse of an historic former piano factory into 82 units of mixed-income housing at Tremont Flats at the Piano Factory in Meriden, CT, and the innovative new Evergreen Village affordable assisted living facilities in Bloomington and Fort Wayne Indiana.
Andrew Stebbins, LEED AP, Senior Associate
A skilled manager of projects ranging from mixed-use, market-rate, and affordable housing, to senior living communities, adaptive reuse, and waterfront developments, Stebbins has earned a reputation as one of TAT’s most versatile professionals in his 29 years at the firm. Frequently quoted in the media on topics related to master planned communities, mixed-use, sea-level rise, flood mitigation, and storm resiliency, Stebbins is known for leadership on important projects such as Clippership Wharf, a 12-acre mixed-use residential community on the East Boston waterfront featuring a living shoreline and other notable resiliency elements, and recognized as a Climate Change Project of the Year by the Environmental Business Council of New England.
Meghann Van Dorn, IIDA, LEED AP, Senior Associate, Director of Interior Design
A respected design leader with two decades of experience in multifamily and, institutional, hospitality, and corporate workplace interiors, Meghann Van Dorn is TAT’s Director of Interior Design and brings an expert focus on sustainability and end-user wellbeing to all the firm’s projects. In this role, Van Dorn has shaped thousands of residential units across dozens of apartment and condominium communities nationwide, ranging from Anthem, a transformative mixed-income, transit-oriented multifamily development in Everett, Mass., to Avalon Montville, a 349-unit mixed-income initiative helping to add much-needed density in suburban New Jersey, and ThirtyOne Elm, the award-winning residential adaptive reuse of a former office building and shopping arcade in Springfield, MA.
Anthony Vivirito, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP, Senior Associate
Anthony Vivirito’s background includes more than 23 years of design and project management experience with a specific focus on multifamily housing, senior living communities, and comprehensive continuum of care facilities for independent, assisted, and memory care residents. He is known nationally for thought leadership related to innovation in senior and assisted living, spearheading some of the country’s most advanced communities that provide safe, welcoming, and engaging environments for thousands of residents. Highlights of Vivirito’s project work at TAT include more than 30 assisted living communities such as The Cordwainer, an innovative Senior Housing News Award-winning assisted living and memory care facility offering 54 units designed to promote mindful and physical health and wellness through biophilic design features including an indoor sensory garden; Residences at Bala Cynwyd, which earned a 2025 Montgomery Award for its sensitive transformation of a neglected industrial site into a vibrant community asset.
Al Donovan, AIA, NCARB, LEED-AP, Associate
Al Donovan has been a valued senior team member at TAT for 20 years and is known for his skilled project management of complex high-rise buildings including Raffles Boston, the internationally acclaimed hospitality destination; 41 LaGrange, a new 19-story affordable multifamily community in downtown Boston; and 3-5 Militia Drive, an upcoming mixed-use development in Lexington, MA, that leverages new statewide zoning shifts to encourage missing middle housing production in areas served by public transit.
Ryan Hagler, AIA, NCARB, Associate
Known for expertise spanning new construction and adaptive reuse, Ryan Hagler has played an integral role on significant TAT works such as ThirtyOne Elm; the Residences at Brighton Marine, a unique veterans’ supportive housing complex and one of the largest veterans’ communities nationwide; and projects including Avalon Quincy, a new 395-unit multifamily community lauded for helping densify a largely suburban area outside Boston.
Kasumi Humphries, NCIDQ, LEED-AP ID+C, Associate
An experienced interior design leader for over two-plus decades, Kasumi Humphries has developed a reputation for crafting welcoming, functional, and inspiring spaces. Humphries has contributed to transformative works by TAT including The Cove, an Engineering News-Record 2025 Best Project award-winning mixed-use development in Worcester, MA; and Solara, a new all-electric mixed-income apartment community with zero net energy consumption in Tiverton, Rhode Island.
Jim Podesky AIA, NCARB, Associate
Across more than 34 years of professional practice, Jim Podesky has provided invaluable expertise for clients involved in new construction, adaptive reuse, and moderate rehabilitation initiatives. He has served as senior project manager on a wide range of significant transit-oriented development (TOD) initiatives including the Loop at Mattapan Station, which transformed an underutilized publicly owned site into a mixed-income, Passive House Institute of the U.S. (PHIUS)-certified apartment complex.
Nathan Thomas, AIA, CPHC, Associate, Director of Sustainability
A nationally recognized expert on topics including decarbonization, Passive House construction, geothermal energy, and climate resilience, Nathan Thomas has played an instrumental role as the firm’s Director of Sustainability. He is a certified Passive House Consultant, and brings a commitment across all of TAT’s projects to reduce each building’s energy demand through passive design, smart technical systems, and high-quality construction strategies, including for high-profile works such as The Anne M. Lynch Homes at Old Colony, the long-term redevelopment of an historic Boston public housing complex into a new, fully affordable and largely Passive House residential community.
Finance, Administration, and Marketing
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Meghan Wynne, Controller
With more than two decades of operational accounting experience, Meghan Wynne oversees TAT’s core business processes, focusing on best practices to streamline financial operations. Wynne engages with the firm’s professional partners to oversee long-term relationships and works closely with TAT’s leadership and project managers across departments to monitor the project life cycle and customize reporting to guide business decisions for the overall health of the firm.
Danielle Eckrich, aPHR CAP HR OM TA, Director of Administration
Danielle Eckrich brings more than a decade of experience managing TAT’s office administration team, playing a key organizational role for the 100-plus-person firm. She works collaboratively with leadership and supervises TAT’s admin team to ensure projects run smoothly by improving workflows and planning long-term operations.
Kristen Parry, Senior Marketing Coordinator and Pursuits Lead
An experienced marketing and business development professional, Kristen Parry has helped strengthen TAT’s project pipeline as the firm continues to grow across the East Coast and around the country. In her new position, Parry will play an even stronger role in the firm’s new business pursuits, bringing a strategic and collaborative approach to each initiative.
According to TAT’s senior leadership, this significant round of promotions reflects the 100-plus-person firm’s accelerating nationwide reach, with projects active in more than a dozen states, and embodies an ongoing strategic initiative to expand senior roles and grow its leadership team from within. These new advancements also build on the recent naming of respected TAT architect Thomas Schultz, AIA, NCARB, CPHC, to the role of Managing Principal, underscoring this commitment to identifying, elevating, and retaining top talent in the pursuit of design excellence.
For over 55 years, TAT has grown and thrived because we believe in supporting and nurturing our team members. Everyone in our firm shares a belief in the power of architecture to help create more livable, equitable, and sustainable communities. Especially as our country faces urgent challenges ranging from housing shortages to climate change adaptation, there is no better way to develop solutions than to empower our own experts so they can utilize the full range of their creativity and expertise.
Thomas Schultz, AIA, NCARB, CPHC | TAT Managing Principal
One of the country’s leading planners and designers of affordable, mixed-income, and market-rate multifamily, mixed-use, and senior and assisted living communities, TAT is also recognized for its hospitality and community facility projects, and for its national award-winning expertise in the areas of historic preservation, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse. Recent milestones include the completion of Stone Mill Lofts, an innovative all-electric residential adaptive reuse of a nearly 200-year-old former industrial complex; The Cove, an award-winning new apartment community in Worcester, MA; the start of construction at Mary Ellen McCormack, a large-scale redevelopment of Boston’s oldest federal public housing community, and the upcoming reopening of St. Francis House following TAT’s trauma-informed interior renovation of the well-known Boston day shelter.
TAT’s four new Senior Associates have played important roles on many of these projects and other important firm initiatives. The five new Associates also bring valuable experience and expertise that support the firm’s core architecture, planning, and interiors efforts, and the newly promoted administrative and marketing leaders are also integral players in TAT’s success.