- Experience
The range of solutions we have generated are represented by the following:
Fiscal/economic analysis focus with a strategic component:
- Documenting the benefits of major real estate projects, which are eligible for municipal support by virtue of their magnitude, the key locations they occupy, or other factors.
- Demonstrating whether an incentive program for international shoppers would be feasible in a state and how tourism spending and tax effects would affect communities throughout the state.
- Estimating how the impacts of highway bypass development on a
small visitor-oriented city could vary according to alternative
routes, and the net effects of the bypass on the community.
- Evaluating the soundness of concepts and formulas used to set development impact fee rates.
- Advising on the redevelopment prospects of a severely depressed urban area not far from the urban core.
- Determining the measures needed in order to model fiscal relationships between real estate development and the operations and maintenance activities and capital expenditures of host cities (a).
- Documenting the impacts of both new and phasing-out mining operations on local communities, and devising recovery strategies for areas negatively affected (b).
Market analysis focus with fiscal and strategic components:
- Estimating market size and growth for regional shopping centers in high-growth areas, using housing development and other data, where standard demographic reports are inadequate to track the rate of change.
- Determining the extent to which a set of downtown revitalization concepts, in a border city with unique visitation patterns, can be justified on the basis of market feasibility and urban design factors.
- Assessing the competitive strength of existing retail centers, and recommending remedial action at the project and city level.
- Evaluating the market, fiscal, and economic development implications of a series of plans for highly desirable lakefront property with a combination of federal, state, city, and private ownership.
- Advising a non-profit agency on the soundness of market assumptions used to promote a low-moderate income housing development in a remote community.
- Determining the market implications to
existing stores and the fiscal implications of major new
retail facilities in a community (a).
Economic development strategic focus; economic base analysis:
- Consolidating views on economic development targets, issues, and approaches within a multi-community region, through executive interviews and summarizing written documentation
- Relating a region’s existing economic base to its competitive environment and to emerging economic opportunities, in the form of strategic plan guidance
- Establishing guidelines for the organization and management of economic development organizations (a)
- Documenting the changing state of the retail industry, in the face of Internet shopping, warehouse stores, and the like, and assessing the implications of these changes on a city’s retail environment (a)
- Documenting the prospects, challenges, and recommended solutions to developing and operating a business development center for an island-state with unique cultural influences on the conduct of business (b)
- Assessing the impacts of NAFTA on the Mexico-Canada border regions of western states (b)
(a) Through affiliation with The Natelson Dale Group, Inc.
(b) Through affiliation with Lay James Gibson, Ph.D.
