Margaret “Peg” Moertl

Senior Vice President PNC Community Development Bank

A Cincinnati native, Peg has worked for over 20 years in Community Development to revitalize urban neighborhoods. Now a senior vice president with PNC Bank, Peg is responsible for Community Development Banking in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

She was previously the director of the City of Cincinnati Department of Community Development and Planning, supervising housing, economic and workforce development, neighborhood and small business, planning, contract compliance and human services. In over two years, she kick-started the City’s first mixed use urban infill developments at DeSales Plaza and Riverwalk at Collins, hundreds of units of housing in the basin communities, and hundreds of units of new and rehabbed housing in neighborhoods like Westwood, Madisonville and Avondale. On her watch, the city’s innovative SPUR

(Strategic Planning for Urban Revitalization) Team helped create Ohio’s top-scoring brownfield redevelopment projects and a citywide homeowner tax abatement program was launched.

Between 1977-2001, when she began her public service, Peg was an award-winning community development banker, director of an organization of women business owners, senior small business executive, and more, as well as a recognized civic leader with service on many boards. Among other achievements, Peg was a Cincinnati Business Courier Forty Under 40 honoree, a graduate of the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at Harvard’s JFK School, and a member of Leadership Cincinnati Class XXIII.

Peg lives in Hyde Park with her son Nick, an eighth grade student at St. Mary’s.

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