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1735 MARKET STREET, 51ST FLOOR
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-7599
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Matthew McClure

Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner and Team Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Zoning and Land Use Team
Career
Matthew N. McClure is Team Leader of the firm’s Zoning and Land Use Team. He counsels developers, nonprofits, and universities on a full range of real estate matters. His practice heavily emphasizes development, land use, zoning, and historic preservation matters. Matt has represented developer and institutional clients in significant urban redevelopment efforts, with high profile historic preservation issues, and in successful land use appellate matters.
Admissions: New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Memberships
American Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
East Falls Development Corporation, board member and past chair
Central Philadelphia Development Corporation, board member
Lambda Alpha International Philadelphia chapter, President
3rd Century Initiative of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Council member
Education
Villanova University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1999)
Staff Writer, Villanova Law Review
Member, Order of the Coif
Loyola College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1994)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Diploma, 1993)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Land use/zoning
(Leading partners)Ballard Spahr LLP’s zoning and land use team covers a wide range of permits and approvals for real estate development projects, advising on matters ranging from subdivisions and zoning variances to environmental permitting, takings, and historical preservation issues. The department also handles complex appellate advocacy and defense of land use approvals. Amy McClain co-heads the team from Baltimore and focuses on affordable housing transactions, while co-head Matthew McClure is based in Philadelphia and emphasizes land use, zoning, and historic preservation matters. In Salt Lake City, Steven Mehr focuses on acquisitions, dispositions, construction, zoning and entitlements of commercial, retail, industrial and resort properties. In Baltimore, Jon Laria recently advised on redevelopments and new mixed-use developments. Based in Philadelphia, Joanne Phillips and Devon Beverly are further names to note.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Land use/zoning United States > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense