Christopher Tracy

Vice President

Chris Tracy is a vice president in O’Neill and Associates’ city and community relations practice. With over a decade of experience, Chris provides clients with valuable counsel on a variety of issues including community outreach, municipal relations, permitting, zoning, regulatory advocacy, real estate matters, and licensing. He assists clients in defining key issues and navigating municipal or community concerns over proposed commercial and residential real estate developments and projects. He supports clients with business before local and state government agencies in cutting through red tape and an often arduous approval process. Chris helps clients identify and engage key stakeholders, opinion leaders, and other audiences for strategic outreach purposes. His experience in the public sector and roles under three mayors has provided relationships with decision makers in agencies that are critical to clients.

Prior to joining O’Neill and Associates, Chris was a senior project manager for the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) now known as the Boston Planning and Development Authority (BPDA). As senior project manager, Chris was responsible for managing the internal and external vetting process for large real estate commercial and residential development projects in Boston. He worked across multi-agency issues that arose with proposed developments and worked with agencies to alleviate concerns.

Chris was previously a neighborhood coordinator for the City of Boston, a citizen’s assistance officer for the City of Newton, and a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Chris has a bachelor of arts in history from Boston College and a master of public administration from Northeastern University. Chris serves on the Town of Hanover Advisory Committee and volunteers coaching youth sports.