DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
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Daydreaming Stage
Engage us early; engage us often. We want to be part of your core pre-construction team, and we want to get involved as early as possible. Whether you have some land looking for a project, or a project looking for some land, we can leverage our skillset and our network to get the project moving.
“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” True, but with LD2003 and Portland’s Recode, they are making more buildable lots. Let us connect you within our network to find the right spot to build your dream home, an ADU for your aging parents, or something else entirely.
Stay tuned for the launch of our Infill Marketplace (name suggestions welcome) that will facilitate transactions for off-MLS backyard real estate transactions.
Land Acquisition
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Any real estate development project is subject to a multitude of constraints. Knowing these constraints early will help focus and conserve your resources. A high-level feasibility assessment is a cost- and time-efficient way to evaluate what can be built where on your property. Here, we focus on zoning restrictions, environmental regulations, property rights issues, and financial pro forma to ensure a project can be built.
Feasibility Assessment
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From coordinating site survey and design to drawing window trim details, our team can coordinate all aspects of site, architectural, and MEP design and engineering. We pride ourselves on taking a holistic approach to your project, continually sanity-checking across the many risks identified in the feasibility assessment stage, with frequent updates to you, the client, to keep you in the know and in the black.
For certain projects, we can also offer architectural design.
Design
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Is the idea of building in Portland daunting to you? It’s not to us.
Understanding the entitlement (permitting) process will help you focus your efforts (and money) where it matters. For instance, a structural engineer stamp may not be required for single family residential development, but the time it saves you through the permitting process may be well worth it in terms of avoided rent, loan interest payments, and headache.
We can help identify required permits, variances, and other approvals needed to make your project a reality, and we can coordinate the various external professional services needed to make sure you start your project on-time and on-budget.
Secure Entitlements
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Owner’s Representation
At Landform, we take a design-build approach to the entire development process. With our team at the helm, we link together surveyors, engineers, designers, and tradespeople as if they were all in-house at the same firm, avoiding cross-discipline tensions of more siloed projects that can waste significant time and money.
Just because you have broken ground on your project doesn’t mean our job is done. We can function as your agent and advocate through the entire build process, making sure that the project built matches your vision and budget.
For certain projects, we can also offer general contracting.