about us

Alfred B. Henson, Ph.D., is a planner and a professor in the Houston Metropolitan Area. He is a native Houstonian who has studied architecture, construction technology, urban planning, and environmental policy. He attended the University of Houston and Texas Southern University where his coursework led to professional, academic, and civic service in the Houston Metropolitan Area.

Alfred Henson has provided community development support for public and private land planning activities for over 30 years. He has worked with housing programs, residential design, community engagement, and development feasibility at the private, public, and institutional capacity. He has also delivered spatial and analytical visualizations that include mapping, analytics, renderings, LiDAR imagery, and planning data for disaster recovery efforts. He has over a decade of disaster recovery experience and has provided geospatial services for government funded housing plans and programs. 

A.B. Henson has contributed to community service, business development, city management, and academia. His tenure as a business developer, as well as a GIS Manager at the City of Houston advanced design and planning software applications to assist decision-makers with addressing problems and communicating best practices with solutions. He has trained students to utilize emerging technology and data science as tools to answer questions from the local perspective to the global perspective.

He’s currently an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering. His teaching focuses on transportation and GIS logistics for the Supply Chain and Logistics Technology program. He's also taught at Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern University in construction science, community development, and urban planning programs. He’s a Principal Planner with AB Land Planning and provides planning and development consulting, with technological and innovative support for state agencies, local government, local agencies, and Houston’s communities within Houston’s super neighborhoods.

Algenita Scott Davis is a native Fifth Ward Houstonian and attorney whose life has been devoted to community service and engagement in scores of neighborhood organizations, governmental entities, and professional organizations, some of which she established with community engagement, to improve the quality of life of those in need. Her knowledge of the requisites of development, financing, planning and community engagement was acquired during over forty years of hands-on experience. She successfully led community-driven initiatives in the public and private sectors. 

Davis’s career involving commercial and housing development began with her focus at Howard University School of Law on tax law, the basis for federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances that facilitate improvement. As the General Counsel of the Port of Houston Authority for ten years, she assisted in the legislative passage and was the designated attorney for Port Development Corporation (PDC). She represented the PDC in its authorization and issuance of bonds for over a dozen commercial development projects throughout Harris County, thus beginning her foray into the property development arena. Utilizing her legal expertise and community involvement, Davis became Senior Vice President and Community Affairs for Texas Commerce Bank and its successor, JPMorgan Chase Bank Texas. 

There, she coordinated the Bank’s community ascertainment in its sixteen cities and, consequently, directed funding to create 25 community development corporations across the state of Texas, five in Third Ward Houston. In this capacity, Davis also coordinated the funding for development of the 70 home West MacGregor Estates subdivision in Houston, secured approval of similar development funding in Dallas and, through the bank’s national retail initiative, construction of two grocery store-based shopping centers. Her combination of community engagement and direction of institution financial and personnel resources helped earn the regulatory recognition of outstanding throughout her sixteen-year tenure at TCB/Chase. The creative use of public/private funding was the foundation of affordable housing and neighborhood projects. 

As a volunteer coordinating public meetings for years, Davis helped to establish and served as Chair for 20 years of the South Post Oak Redevelopment Authority. Working with and funding the infrastructure for the Pyramid Community Development Corporation, a faith-based entity, the Authority facilitated the development of 460 affordable houses, an elementary school, YMCA, senior housing facility and dozens of businesses within its 200-acre boundary. Davis is now Chair of the OST Almeda Corridors Redevelopment Authority (served as Vice-Chair 25 years), helping to guide over $500 million dollars of development of public infrastructure, parks, street and other projects. As Chair of the Texas Southern University housing and facilities corporations, Davis presided over $55 million dollars of construction funding for university multi- story dormitories and thousand car capacity garages. She was Executive Director of Houston Habitat for Humanity for seven years, constructing 350 houses, including three subdivisions.