Practice Areas
Real Estate
Whether you call it New Urbanism, Traditional Neighborhood Development, Smart Growth or something else, our expertise guides you through land use planning, acquisition and real estate development for walkable mixed-use projects.
New Urban projects require a specialized toolset.
The Toolset
How we help
Zoning and Entitlements
Working with local government to permit a project, even if that means rewriting the zoning code. Our experience helps ensure that entitlements and governance documents protect and enable your vision.
Land Acquisition
Negotiating the deal, financing and closing.
Master Plan
Reading a master plan in multiple dimensions, both space and time, to unlock the potential your planner designed into it.
Financial Strategy
Understanding your long-term goals and how to achieve them, even if that means holding and managing certain assets for the long term.
Development
Site work, phasing, take-down agreements and lot sales with design review that communicates and protects your vision.
Governance Structure
Tailoring easements, operating agreements and deed restrictions for the complicated mix of commercial and residential property, based on the master plan, your management strategy and applicable law. An operating system that will guide this community for generations.
We’ve learned how to do this by working closely with New Urban developers all over the country.
We’ve watched projects develop over time, and how decisions made at the beginning of a project played out over time. We not only know how to avoid the pitfalls, we might even suggest ways to improve your project.