Project development

Sometimes the building a client needs does not have a site yet. That is a different problem from building it, and it needs solving first.

Our development team finds and secures land, runs zoning and entitlement, models the pro forma, and carries a project to a financeable package. For some clients we then build it. For others we hand over a fully entitled site and step back.

The advantage of doing this inside a contractor is that construction cost is real rather than assumed. When a developer's feasibility model uses a per-square-foot number from a market report, the first real bid is often a nasty surprise. Ours come from the people who will actually build it.

We also act as owner's representative for clients who are developing their own projects and want someone on their side of the table — reviewing bids, holding the design team to programme, and telling them when a number does not look right.