OUR SERVICES
From revitalizing underutilized property to leading capital projects, we’re here to help enliven community assets.
Specializing in the non-profit and government sectors, we also support private developers, investors, and lenders by providing additional capacity and expertise.
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Owner’s Project Management and Representation
We provide full-service advising and project management, guiding owners from concept to completion. Our services include budgeting, scheduling, financing, team procurement, permitting, and overseeing design and construction.
We work closely with clients to bring their vision to life while keeping them engaged and in control.
Our approach is collaborative, accessible, and transparent, ensuring every project’s success.
Services include:
Project Feasibility: Assessing program, budget, schedule, and site constraints, and undertake financial underwriting, to ensure a project is viable before significant resources are committed.
Site Identification & Acquisition: Supporting owners in identifying, evaluating, and securing buildings or project sites that meet organizational goals, funding requirements, and long-term feasibility.
Budget Management: Developing and managing detailed project budgets, tracking expenditures, and identifying cost-saving opportunities without compromising project goals.
Scheduling: Creating and maintaining realistic project schedules, coordinating across teams to ensure milestones are met and delays are minimized.
Consultant & Contractor Procurement: Leading fair and strategic procurement processes to identify the right design, engineering, and construction teams for the project’s goals and budget.
Permitting & Approvals: Navigating local, state, and federal approval processes, coordinating with public agencies to keep projects compliant and on track.
Design Management: Overseeing each phase of design from concept through construction drawings to ensure plans reflect the scope, and meet budget and stakeholder priorities, while maintaining quality and constructability.
Construction Oversight: Representing the owner throughout construction, advising on schedules, budgets, RFIs, change orders, and contractor coordination to reduce risk and ensure accountability.
Project Closeout: Ensuring a smooth transition from construction to operations, including advising on final inspections, punch list completion, documentation handoff, and lessons-learned review.
Real Estate Advisory
We provide real estate advisory services to municipalities, helping unlock the full potential of public land and community assets. Our work spans site analysis, developer engagement, RFP development, deal structuring, and project implementation.
We partner closely with public agencies to private clients match redevelopment efforts with community goals, economic realities, and long-term stewardship.
Our approach is thoughtful, pragmatic, and mission-driven, ensuring projects are feasible, impactful, and tailored to the unique character of each community.
Services include:
Site Analysis: Identifying highest and best use scenarios for underutilized or surplus municipal land, informed by market context, community needs, and long-term viability. Assisting client team with due diligence and in identifying all permits and approvals necessary to execute a potential project, including navigating local zoning.
Financial Underwriting and Analysis: Assessing project viability through detailed financial modeling, evaluating risks, returns, and funding strategies to support sound decision-making for both public and private clients.
Developer/End-User Outreach and Cultivation: Creating a developer and end-user outreach plan, and engaging trusted private-sector partners to build interest, shape development expectations, and meet municipal priorities.
RFP Development: Drafting targeted Requests for Proposals that attract quality respondents and clearly articulate public goals and expectations.
Selection Process Oversight: Managing fair, transparent evaluation processes to ensure project feasibility, community benefit, and the realization of the client’s vision, including financial and market analysis.
Deal Structuring Support: Assisting in crafting financially viable, enforceable agreements including land disposition terms, affordability covenants, development milestones, etc.
Market Studies: Conducting tailored market analyses to ground project strategies in economic reality and help inform land use decisions and development scenarios.
Owner’s Project Management: Representing municipal or nonprofit interests throughout the design and construction process to ensure projects stay on time, on budget, and on mission.
Public Financing Structuring: Advising on tools such as TIF, special assessment districts, and grant layering to maximize public resources and support feasible, community-oriented projects.
Compliance and Implementation Monitoring: Providing oversight through entitlement, permitting, and project delivery to ensure developer performance and adherence to agreed-upon terms.
Temporary Placemaking: Designing and implementing interim uses that activate sites, build community engagement, and attract private-sector interest during planning and pre-development phases.
Master Development Advising: Supporting municipalities in evaluating and managing large-scale, multi-phase development projects, ensuring strategic phasing, stakeholder collaboration, and long-term public benefit.