The entitlement process is and always has been complicated, time-consuming and often costly. But to know what can be done with a piece of property is vital to determining the real estate...

While we may already be a month into 2019, it’s never too late to plan your goals for the year ahead. In the end, planning goals is less about when you do them and more about how you do them.

Some risks come with great reward. Others come with great challenges. Commercial real estate development is filled with both.

What is value engineering? In short, value engineering is a process by which alternate means, methods, and materials are investigated and compared against initial construction costs. With a build...

Architects offer a comprehensive service that is broken into several phases. An architect can guide you through the stages of planning, designing, and constructing a project.

With the wrong...

When budgeting for a commercial development project it’s important to remember that costs typically break down into two broad categories: hard costs and soft costs.

And just like that, 2018 is almost a wrap. This year, we focused a heavy amount of our content on the inner workings of commercial real estate development. So, without further ado, here are our...

In one of our recent blogs, we broke down four of the most common off-site improvements that are found in the commercial real estate development world. Access roads, sidewalks, and curbs - this...

As we recently discussed in this blog post, a build to suit lease has various definitions. There are a number of different lease structures and unique elements that separate a build to suit...

With such a noteworthy bounce-back from the Great Recession and the economy on fairly solid ground, there’s been no surprise that the Fed has tightened monetary policy over the last year.