Firm Expertise

Development Economics, through the experience of its Principal and associates, provides a high degree of expert capability that offers real estate development industry and its advisors with targetted expertise in the following areas:

Economic Analysis:

  • regional and urban trends analysis and forecasting,
  • economic base analysis,
  • business feasibility,
  • fiscal impact assessment,
  • growth management planning,
  • capital investment and facility planning.

Market Analysis

  • Residential analysis: for-sale, rental projects
  • Amenity programming: golf, open space, community facilities
  • Commercial development: office, retail, industrial, medical
  • Mixed-use project development and feasibility
  • Master planned communities: residential, business
  • Golf course construction, acquisition, financing

Planning:

  • land use planning,
  • project programming,
  • master planned development design,
  • marketing facility design.

Marketing:

  • private and public entity branding,
  • corporate and project positioning,
  • communications and event managemen,
  • Sales and Marketing plan development and review.

Project Management:

  • development process design and management, 
  • team building,
  • entitlement strategy and implementation including master plan, platting, construction applications,
  • homeowner or property owner association creation and documentation,
  • project budgeting and review,
  • project critical path scheduling and discipline coordination,
  • planning and architectural design process management,
  • construction management and supervision,
  • Sales and Marketing team building, strategy development and implementation.

Financial Analysis:

  • business plan development,
  • project financing plans -- public and private,
  • project cash flow projections;
  • Litigation Support:
  • condemnation support,
  • partnership disputes, lender disputes.

Software and Collaboration support:

  • project management,
  • database management,
  • web communications,
  • video communications.

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