Data-Driven Approach:
We leverage extensive data to pinpoint the best locations for your business.
Five Points Strategic Advisors
711 Navarro St. | Ste 300-103
San Antonio, TX 78205
In site selection, businesses typically focus on four points: location, real estate, workforce, and infrastructure. But there’s a critical fifth point that transforms a good location into a strategic advantage: expert guidance.
At Five Points Strategic Advisors, we are that crucial fifth point. We connect data, negotiation, and strategy into one seamless process that maximizes both location value and available incentives. While others focus on selling real estate or pursuing individual tax credits, we take a comprehensive approach that considers your full operational picture.
A Clear Path from Start to Finish
We guide you through every step—from initial market analysis to final negotiations—so you can move forward with clarity and confidence.
Because the right location isn’t just about the property—it’s about positioning your business for long-term success.
Our Mission
To help businesses find the perfect location, using data and expert advice to ensure long-term success.
Our Vision
To be the trusted advisor for companies looking to improve their operations by choosing the right location and getting the best incentives.
Our Team
We’re site selection and incentives experts, but more importantly, we’re trusted guides. We navigate the complexities of finding the right location and securing the best incentives, so you can make clear, confident decisions.
With years of experience and a deep understanding of the process, we cut through the noise, simplify the details, and help you move forward with certainty.
Five Points Community Capital
Five Points Strategic Advisors is an affiliate of Five Points Community Capital, a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE). Since its founding in 2009, Five Points Community Capital has received $230 million in allocation of tax credits through the New Markets Tax Credit program, creating thousands of jobs in low-income communities.
THANE HUTCHESON
Founder and President
Thane is the Founder and President of Five Points Strategic Advisors, providing corporate site selection and state and local incentives consulting services to clients. With a background in urban planning, finance, and politics, Thane brings a holistic approach to assisting clients through complex location decisions.
Prior to founding Five Points Strategic Advisors, Thane led teams in large accounting and consulting firms, providing site selection and incentives services. He started his career working in politics working under Speaker John Boehner and Congressman John L. Mica. He holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Florida State University and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Central Florida.
Michael Ross
Michael Ross has had an extensive career with community development in his prior role as the founding partner/leader of Baker Tilly’s community development practice. The practice includes providing professional services that benefit community developed clients focus on affordable housing, energy, historic, and New Markets Tax Credits.
He is a CPA and holds securities licenses in Series 7, 79, 63 and 24. Mr. Ross has been involved in NMTC’s since 2002. He is experienced in structuring, modeling, and analyzing transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, and reorganizations of real estate and related businesses. Mr. Ross has personally overseen raising capital and deploying $1.6BB of NMTCs over his career. In addition, he developed a loan servicing and compliance platform that presently works with a portfolio of over $3 billion in NMTC enhanced loans.
Roy Alston
Roy Alston has been with Five Points in various capacities since its formation in 2009. Mr. Alston has been actively involved in community development and finance for over 30 years in various consulting roles, specializing in urban redevelopment, community development finance, public investment, and community economic development policy.
Mr. Alston served as a Senior Consultant for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, Foundation for Louisiana, and PolicyLink, a national policy and communications firm, focused on developing State and Local Equitable Policy issues with the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans along with providing advocacy support of many community-based organizations involved in the Gulf Coast Recovery. Mr. Alston serves on the advisory boards of the multiple Community Development Entities. Mr. Alston has spoken extensively on community economic development for the Community Development Finance Association, National Leased Housing Association and Neighborworks America.
Ryanne Shuey
Ryanne Shuey comes with nearly 20 years of experience in community development finance field with significant experience in the New Markets Tax Credit program. Prior to joining Five Points, Ms. Shuey led a nationwide team of New Markets and Historic Tax Credit originators for a large financial institution.
In addition, she previously served as program operations director for a government affiliated, multiple award winning CDE, as well as in-house legal counsel for its controlling entity, a leading statewide housing finance agency. Ms. Shuey earned a bachelor’s degree in government with a focus on public policy from Franklin & Marshall College and a juris doctor degree from the Pennsylvania State University – Dickinson School of Law.
The Five Points Difference:
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Your trusted partner in site selection and incentive maximization.
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