Mike advises industrial, commercial, and residential property owners and developers on land use planning and zoning, environmental permitting, and regulatory compliance throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He handles all phases of development and redevelopment — including brownfields and adaptive reuse projects — and regularly appears before municipal planning boards, zoning boards of adjustment, governing bodies, county boards, and regional agencies.

Known for "quarterbacking" projects from inception through construction, Mike coordinates the full project team, negotiates with municipal staff and government agencies, prepares land use applications, and drafts municipal and development agreements.

His background in the private sector and as a small business owner gives him a practical understanding of client concerns around entitlements and government bureaucracy. Representative matters include industrial parks, warehouse and distribution facilities, e-commerce fulfillment centers, data centers, affordable housing, mixed-use projects, manufacturing facilities, and renewable energy projects.

Mike also has extensive experience securing approvals for projects that attract neighborhood or political opposition — including billboards, solar farms, group homes, and addiction treatment facilities.

Lindsey Samsi joined Pennrose in 2016. As a member of the real estate

development team, she assumes full responsibility for the successful

completion of multi-faceted real estate development projects – affordable,

mixed-income, and market-rate – from inception through construction

completion and lease-up. She is responsible for the leadership of an in-

house team of Associate Developers and Assistant Developers, and simultaneously assembles and

manages an external team of financiers, architects, designers, engineers, attorneys, and contractors.

Lindsey manages multiple projects in varying stages of development throughout the City of Philadelphia,

PA, and NJ.

In addition to her work at Pennrose, Lindsey is a member of the Urban Affairs Coalition (UAF) Impact

Development Roundtable (IDR), Women in Housing and Finance of Pennsylvania (WHF-PA), Facilities

Committee of the Board of Directors for the Community Partnership School (CPS), Signature Events

Development Committee of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations

(PACDC), and the Annual Giving Committee of the Pennrose Foundation. Lindsey graduated from

Temple University.

Peter A. Chacanias is an attorney in Flaster Greenberg’s Real Estate and Land Use Practice Group. He represents commercial real estate developers, property owners, and investors throughout New Jersey in land use, zoning, environmental, and historic preservation matters. Peter regularly appears before planning and zoning boards and has significant experience with coastal and waterfront development, Pinelands approvals, and complex environmental permitting and regulatory compliance issues.