Al Dekrey
Al Dekrey is an MAI Senior Appraiser and has been in real estate appraisal since 1984, joining McGrath & Company in 1992. He specializes in natural resource and conservation lands, special use properties, and valuation of going concerns.
Al has a Masters Degree in Community and Regional Planning from North Dakota State University, was a past President of the Mid Hudson Chapter of the Appraisal Institute, and is a member of the Village of Rhinebeck Zoning Board of Appeals. He has lived and raised his family in Rhinebeck, having been there for over 20 years.
Qualifications
Education
Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI), Chicago, Illinois,
1993
Master's Degree - Graduate Program in Community and Regional
Planning, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota,
1977
Bachelor of Science - Sociology with concentrations in economics
and mathematics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks,
North Dakota, 1974
Work History
Real estate appraiser and analyst specializing in valuations,
market and feasibility studies and related consulting activities.
Background in community planning.
2002 - Present : Appraiser - McGrath & Company, Fishkill,
New York
1992 - 2002 : Appraiser - McGrath, Basciani & Associates,
Fishkill, New York
1987 - 1992 : Appraiser - L.T. Bookhout, Inc., Rhinebeck,
New York
1984 - 1987 : Appraiser - Hines, Price & Hage, Fairbanks,
Alaska
1981 - 1984 : Assistant Planning Director - Fairbanks Development
Authority, Fairbanks, Alaska
1981 : Assistant Planning Director - Fairbanks North Star
Borough, Fairbanks, Alaska
1977 - 1980 : City Planner - Mercer County Energy Development
Board and City of Hazen, Hazen, North Dakota
Specialty Appraisals of:
Natural resource and conservation lands
Special use properties
Market/feasibility studies
Community planning and land use regulations
Appraisal Experience
- Retail and shopping centers
- Agricultural Properties
- Hotels/motels/country inns
- Parking lots
- Apartment complexes
- Environmentally contaminated
- Restaurants
- Medical clinics
- Bank facilities
- Agricultural
- Office buildings
- Residential subdivisions
- Airport related properties
- Municipal buildings
- Single family residential
- Automobile related
- Subsidizing housing
- Parkland/open space properties
- Marinas
- Institutional
- Utility facilities
- Easements/Rights-of-way
- Industrial
- Fuel storage
- Timeshare developments
- Group, adult & nursing homes
- Mobile home parks
- Senior housing
- Condominium and cooperative sites and developments
- National and state historic sites
- Recreational, including indoor tennis, movie theater, bowling,
golf course, health clubs and performing arts properties
- College classrooms/private schools
- Natural resource and conservation lands. Examples include:
the William C. Whitney Area, Bartlett Carry, Black Rock Forest,
Swatara Creek Greenway (Hershey, PA), and 435,200 acres of
Native Entitlement Lands along the Yukon River, Alaska.
- Conservation easements
- Comprehensive Real Estate Inventory and Forecast for Fairbanks,
Alaska, October 1986
- Real Estate Market Study, Mid-Hudson Region, 1994, 1995
& 1997
Planning Experience
Employed by the Fairbanks Development Authority, a non-profit
corporation created by city ordinance to stimulate economic
development in the community through the use of public/private
partnerships. The initial priority was revitalization of the
downtown core. Work included negotiations, purchase and management
(40 tenants) of the prime development block (16 individual
properties) and the negotiation of a development agreement
(long term land lease) for the construction of a 250 room
first-class hotel, convention center and parking garage. Other
efforts included:
-Master planning and construction of a riverfront park and
greenbelt
-Planning and construction of a downtown utilidor system
-Historic preservation of the historic federal building
-Planning and construction of 100 units of senior citizen
housing
-Administration of a loan/rebate program designed to encourage
code violation corrections and storefront renovations. As
Assistant Planning Director for the Fairbanks North Star Borough
was responsible for staff supervision, community liaison and
representation at Planning Board and Borough Assembly meetings.
The department was responsible for long range planning, zoning
administration, subdivision review and code enforcement.
As a planner for the Energy Development Board, assisted the
local communities in planning for and managing rapid growth
resulting from the area's energy development, including the
nation's only operating large-scale coal gasification plant.
Introduced the concepts of comprehensive planning, zoning
ordinances, subdivision regulations and capital improvement
programs. Assisted in rebuilding public facilities and infrastructure.
While in Hazen, also initiated a downtown revitalization plan.
Professional Memberships and Advisory Boards
Appraisal Institute 1991 - 2001
American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers 1985 - 1990
President, Mid Hudson Chapter 1997
Lawrence D. Benton Award for Exceptional Chapter
Service, Mid-Hudson Chapter 1995
Mid-Hudson Chapter Education Committee Chair 1995 - 1996
Board of Directors, Mid-Hudson Chapter 1995 - 1999
Regional Ethics and Counseling Panel 1993 - 1995
American Planning Association 1996 - 2001
Rhinebeck Village Zoning Board of Appeals 1995 - 2001
Rhinebeck Village Zoning Revision Committee 1998 - 2001
Rhinebeck Village Master Plan Committee 1988 – 1991
Rhinebeck CAC/Greenway Committee 2001
Alaska Planning Association 1982 - 1986
Northern Region President 1984 - 1985
Governor's Recreation Advisory Committee, State of Alaska
1983 - 1986
Fairbanks North Star Borough Transition Team 1985
FNSB Comprehensive Plan Technical Advisory Committee 1983
FNSB Industrial Site Selection Committee 1981
Hazen Recreation Committee 1978 - 1980