Real Estate Development: Make smart investments, maximize impact and ROI

• Developer Services
  • Preliminary design and pre-development consulting
  • Site selection and acquisition strategy
  • Concept to Completion project management
  • Feasibility Analysis 
  • Economic impact analysis
  • Market analysis and research
  • Highest and best use analysis
  • 3D Design and conceptual rendering
  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Strategic relationship building
  • Surplus Property Redevelopment
  • Project Marketing/Developer Solicitation
  • Creative Financing Strategies
  • Tax Increment Financing
  • Build out - lot yield analysis

Case Study: Austin Avenue, Waco, Texas

In the late 1980s, a Waco, Texas city council member famously and publicly declared downtown Waco “brain-dead.” For decades Austin Avenue, the City’s main street, was populated with vacant buildings and little else.

Under Chris’ leadership an effort to revitalize the heart of the city was realized, beginning with Austin Avenue.  In just a few years, the five block Austin Ave. corridor has been transformed into a bustling hub of 18 hour days. Restaurants, specialty retail, lofts and new office have replaced the boarded up facades and all but two buildings have been renovated, changed hands or otherwise brought back into useful purpose.

Chris has advised developers and business owners associated with the redevelopment of dozens of commercial and mixed-use projects on Austin Avenue and beyond. Projects of note that Chris has assisted with:

• Dichotomy Coffee and Spirits
• Sergio’s Seafood
• The Waco Hippodrome
• Austin Avenue Flats and Waco Town Square
• Hearth Stone Indian Café
• Club Sandwich Food Truck
• And many others