Suzanne Perilloux Leckert
Director of Land Use and Urban Design

With a solid background in urban and land use planning, Suzanne Perilloux Leckert provides Innovation Project Development clients with the assurance that their project's scope is viable and appropriate for the community it serves. As Innovation Project Development's director of land use and urban design, Suzanne analyzes the project scale, the site and the surrounding area to optimize current placement and future growth issues.

Suzanne is a former city planner for the City Planning Commission of New Orleans where she helped author the New Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance for the city, a difficult task in a 250-year old metropolis whose growth patterns followed both traditional city design as well as the spread of industries built around natural resources of the past.

At The Innovation Group, Suzanne's responsibilities include such analytical duties as market assessments of gaming environments, trend analyses, strategic marketing and competitive research. Her talent and training enable her to draw insights into the potential activity of the future by analyzing data to study the movements of the past.

Suzanne's recent projects include the analyses of large scale resort developments and expansions in locations such as Central Florida, Wisconsin, Oregon, California's wine country and Central Louisiana. Her analysis for these projects involved both a study of the global view of the development as well as of the individual components. Suzanne has also completed a number of international projects in developing countries, including studies analyzing the feasibility of new types of gaming and hospitality developments in southeastern Africa and various locales in the Caribbean.

Suzanne also recently completed a gaming market assessment for Monte Carlo, Monaco, analyzing the current southern European market and projecting future market revenues in light of anticipated developments. In her work for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, she pulled together the pertinent data to perform an extensive assessment of Ontario's competitive markets and evaluated the land use implications and financial feasibility of possible expansion projects, studying in detail the surrounding markets and projecting the impact of future competition.

Suzanne began her career with the Tax and Estates Section of the New Orleans law firm, Jones, Walker, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, and was on the staff of United States Senator John Breaux.

Suzanne holds a bachelor's degree in History from Louisiana State University and has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning, specializing in the Economics of Historic Preservation, from the University of New Orleans.