board of directors

At the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, Tosh is responsible for the development of mobility and infrastructure in Pittsburgh’s Central Business District, spanning from right-of-way improvement projects to transportation demand management programming.

Prior to joining PDP, Tosh served as the Program Director of Move PGH, where he coordinated a consortium of transportation service providers to produce Pittsburgh’s first Mobility as a Service offering. This program built off of his previous work with the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, where he drafted formational policies related to shared mobility service operation.  He has developed projects, policies, and programs related to smart curb management, electric vehicle charging, and transit integration.

Tosh hails from Lancaster, PA and migrated westward to attend the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated with a BA in Environmental Studies and a minor in Geographic Information Systems.

Lynn DeLorenzo is a commercial real estate specialist with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Ms. DeLorenzo’s focus is on adding value to land through strategic analysis and repositioning of real estate. She has an extensive background in land, acquisitions and sales; and an understanding of entitlements and the horizontal development process.

Originally from the greater Pittsburgh region, Lynn spent over twenty years in south Florida where she was involved with master-planning large-scale land tracts, business parks with both office and industrial uses and the integration of housing, apartments, office and accessory retail into mixed-use environments. Ms. DeLorenzo continued to commute to Florida for several years before leading an acquisition of vacant commercial land at Parkway Center where it was re-positioned to apartments and sold by TARQUINCoRE, LLC to a national developer in 2012, the project is known as City Vista.

Ms. DeLorenzo has been active in NAIOP Pittsburgh and is a past chapter president. She was inducted into NAIOP Pittsburgh Hall of Fame in 2022.  Lynn is also a member of the ULI Pittsburgh District Council Executive Management Committee and Vice Chair-Emeritus of its Women’s Leadership Initiative.  She is active on municipal and government agency committees in the review of zoning codes, and transportation and economic development initiatives.

Elijah Hughes practices as an urban designer and strategic planner at HDR Inc in Pittsburgh, PA. His award-winning professional work emphasizes prudent, sustainable, and forward-looking investment by public agencies to foster equitable and impactful outcomes. His SW PA transportation work includes transit-oriented communities and corridor planning for Pittsburgh Regional Transit and a 10-county multimodal transportation plan for the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission.

Elijah was previously a researcher at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History where he published on the evolution of the mammalian brain and inner ear and was an adjunct faculty member of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. Elijah received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is an EcoDistricts Accredited Professional. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Allegheny Land Trust.

Throughout his career, Ken maintained a general real estate practice, with most of his time devoted to zoning, commercial leasing, and low- and mixed-income housing development. Ken’s clients included for- and non-profit developers and housing authorities. He also devoted a substantial amount of time to related pro bono work, including representing tenants faced with eviction and helping form tenants’ and homeowners’ organizations. During his legal career, he also had numerous occasions to assist his nonprofit clients with issues regarding the governance of nonprofit organizations.

Ken currently sits on the Board of the Rail Passengers Association and has been a member of the boards of several organizations, including Children’s International Summer Villages USA, the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, and the Thomas Merton Center. He has also served on the Allegheny County Transit Council, SPC’s Citizen’s Advisory Committee, and was a founding member of Western Pennsylvanians for Passenger Rail.

Ken attended St. John’s College (Annapolis) and the Duquesne University Law School. He was a practicing attorney from 1984 until his retirement in 2016. He has always had an interest in how folks could get around without an automobile and is an extensive user of transit himself.