Services

Design, planning, management, construction, marketing and maintenance decisions can be sources of latent problems creating major real property risk leading to a variety of unanticipated costs and loss of revenue and value. Our services will help you know precisely what they are; know their causes; know what to do about them.

Due diligence

analysis of functional threats and opportunities of buildings and sites for real property acquisition (link to a pdf on Due diligence)

Problem properties

diagnoses functional obsolescence of existing and proposed buildings and sites and tests potential cures in the contexts of portfolio and asset management, renovation, development, disposition

Intellectual property

develops comparative information for architectural copyright and trade dress analysis

Access takings (eminent domain/regulatory)

measures access and before-after impacts

Location selection

models vehicle and pedestrian traffic flows for retail site selection and economic development projects and shows how to optimize them

Owner-builder-designer-tenant disputes

evaluates existing and proposed designs in relation to negligence, contractual requirements, valuation, economic loss doctrine

Public space

evaluates public space patterns in the contexts of creating street life, public forum (First Amendment) analysis, peddling and vending and public art siting

Spatial trend analysis

monitors spatial changes occurring in public infrastructure and building and property types

Architectural selection

identifies, qualifies and works with design firms in terms of real property strategies

Examples

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