Kate Millikan Joins Babst Calland
Kate W. Millikan recently joined Babst Calland’s Harrisburg, Pa. office as senior counsel in the Corporate and Commercial Group. She focuses her practice on complex real estate transactions and development matters, including advising clients on the sale, acquisition, financing, and development or redevelopment of multi-unit residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use projects.
Ms. Millikan represents national and regional developers, builders, investors, and lenders in guiding diverse, large-scale, multi-faceted real estate development from start to finish. She provides strategic guidance on financing, land use, zoning, and regulatory approvals, and has extensive experience navigating municipal processes, including securing Special Exceptions, Conditional Uses, and Variances. She regularly appears before municipal boards and commissions and works closely with local officials, solicitors, engineers, and other stakeholders to advance project approvals and resolve development-related issues.
Ms. Millikan has significant experience with Pennsylvania’s Municipalities Planning Code (MPC) and Subdivision and Land Development Ordinances (SALDO), including zoning analysis, ordinance amendments, and compliance strategies. She is also highly experienced in the statutory frameworks governing common interest communities, including the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act and Uniform Planned Community Act.
In addition, she counsels clients on risk mitigation, complex title analysis, and due diligence matters and on complex real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financing, mergers, reorganizations, leasing, and development projects.
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Millikan was of counsel with McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC and Troutman Pepper Locke. She is a 2015 graduate of The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law.