Services & Approach

We work directly with cities and counties on the housing and development decisions that shape their communities, alongside architecture, engineering, and planning firms who need a market or feasibility partner on a specific project, and with mission-driven organizations that need development consulting advice of their own. Our work falls into three areas: Analytics, turning market and economic data into a clear read on what a community needs and a project can support; Development Consulting, carrying a project from feasibility through construction closeout; and Planning and Policy, turning findings into an adopted plan.

Analytics

Building informed decisions

Housing Needs Assessments A full picture of a community's housing market — demand drivers, supply gaps, and a forecast of future need — translated into a concrete menu of policy strategies. → Market Research Absorption, comparable pricing, and competitive supply, tested against every viable use — housing, office, retail, industrial — to find a site's highest and best use. → Financial Feasibility We're building toward tools that make a policy's real tradeoff visible: change a setback or floor area ratio, and see exactly what still pencils, and what funding gap remains. → Economic Modeling Rigorous statistical and financial models, from a corporate-ownership impact study to a zoning choice's effect on city tax revenue, built to be genuinely useful, not just technically correct. →

Development Consulting

Predevelopment through closeout

Feasibility Analysis An objective go/no-go picture of a site: market insight, purchase and lease comps, and a full financial pro forma, before a client commits. → Pre-Development Project Management We bridge the gap between a client's vision and breaking ground: programming, due diligence, RFPs, and stakeholder risk management. → Owner's Representation We act as your advocate in the field — owner, architect, and contractor meetings, draw requests, and change-order recommendations — through final closeout. → Construction Draws & Financial Reporting A standalone service managing draw requests and funding-partner relationships, catching issues before they become expensive ones. →

Planning and Policy

From findings to an adopted plan

Policy Assessment A full-toolkit review of existing zoning, permitting, and housing policy, checking whether it's working as designed, or quietly working against the outcomes a community wants. → Engagement Interviews, focus groups, and equity-focused engagement that surface what the numbers miss, and turn stakeholders into advocates along the way. → Strategy A sequenced, politically realistic plan for acting on findings: what to prioritize first, and who needs to champion it through adoption. → Policy Design A consistent process from policy review to adopted ordinance: best practices, community engagement, financial modeling, and drafted language that gets real projects built. → Digital Tools Building toward custom dashboards, interactive pro forma models, and smart parcel maps that help design better policies, make smarter investment decisions, and engage communities in complex topics. →