The decisions that determine a project get made before design begins. Which site. What program. Which approvals path. How the capital stack shapes the building. JZW’s development team helps owners make those calls well, and stays alongside through delivery.
Most advisory engagements run alongside a JZW design engagement, for developers who build with us and want owner-side thinking in the room from the first site conversation. We also step in when a site is under contract and the deal is still forming, or later as needed.
- Site analysis and preliminary feasibility
- Underwriting and pro forma support
- Programming and early concept, tied to the operating model
- Entitlement strategy and approvals management
- LIHTC and private activity bond application strategy
- Consultant procurement and scope management
- Project budgeting, scheduling, and value engineering
- Owner’s representation through delivery
Where the Practice is Deepest
The advisory practice grew out of the firm’s own developments and the thousands of projects we have been involved in over years, including multifamily and affordable housing, where the firm is fluent in LIHTC and Utah’s private activity bond allocation, and the mixed-use and aviation projects in our in-house portfolio. The practice serves each of the asset classes we design.
How Engagements Start
Advisory work usually starts small and scoped. A feasibility and code read on a site under consideration. A program and early concept package built to go in front of a lender or an investment committee. A second set of eyes on a project that is over budget or in trouble. Reach out with the site or the problem, and we will scope the first step.
Our Experience
We advise with the same discipline we run on our own developments. JZW carries its own entitlements, budgets, and lenders on its in-house projects. Our development team has screened more than 200 sites across the Mountain West. Owner’s-seat judgment is the thing our advisory clients are actually buying. See In-House Development.
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