Development/Land Opportunity Identification & Qualification
Critical Path Project Feasibility Analysis and Budgeting
Market Research and Trend Analysis
For its build-to-suit relationships “it’s all about integrity”. RDP has a rock-solid reputation for delivering projects on-time and on-budget for highly critical business icons such as FedEx and Cox Communications. RDP’s Build-to-Core (or speculative) project partners rely on RDP’s vast experience, relationships and solid performance capacity to recognize and seize opportunities in today’s fast-changing, highly-competitive environment. Experience, Integrity and Vision pay off in knowing which relationships and opportunities to seek value in.
Land Acquisition
Land Assemblage
Acquisition Due Diligence
Acquisition Contract Negotiations (fee simple and ground lease)
Land Contract Management and Execution
Project Pro-forma and Budgeting
Equity and Debt Capitalization (Acquisition and Development)
As a both a Buyer and Seller of real estate, RDP understands the sensitivities and motivations on both sides of the negotiating table. Actually, we prefer to think of it as “all parties coming together for a mutually beneficial relationship that culminates in a successful transaction”.
“The numbers don’t lie.” RDP has proprietary, specialized modeling tools to underwrite the potential of a development opportunity. We pride ourselves in underwriting these opportunities realistically in today’s uncertain environment. RDP has a vast array of financial resources and relationships ready to “seize” those financially worthy opportunities from $2m to $200m. “Carpe Diem!”
Project Design - Phase Management
Professional Design Team Solicitation and Engagement
AIA and Consultant Contract Negotiations
Professional Design Discipline Integration/Management
Value Engineering Management
Cost/Benefit and Schedule Impact Analysis
Preliminary/Conceptual Design Management
Final Design/Construction Document Management
Tenant Improvement Design
RDP has been assembling and managing teams of project design professionals for over 30 years. Our ability to attract and select the many professional architects, engineers and consultants to fit the dynamics of a particular project scope is a cornerstone to the quality and value of a class-A timeless result. We understand what best-in-class means and we give them license to perform while keeping the common goals of the project in the center of all critical path decisions. Even though the exact team makeup may be fluid from one project to the next these teams epitomize the "Resources of Many… Integrity as One" byline.
Project Entitlement - Phase Management
Discretionary and Ministerial
Jurisdictional Design Review Processing
Environmental Review / CEQA Document Process Management
Public Review Entitlements and Conditions of Approval Negotiations
Construction Document (“CD”) Plan Check Process Management
Jurisdictional Fee Analysis and Budgeting
Having successfully navigated project entitlements in today’s toughest jurisdictional bureaucracies such as New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles, we have earned our stripes in “cutting through the clutter”. This is where we truly excel. It takes a great deal of collective skill, fortitude and perseverance to direct the team of consultants through the complex maze of approvals and permits required just to put a shovel in the ground. “If it were easy…everybody would be doing it.”
Construction - Phase Management
General Contractor (“GC”) Solicitation and Bidding
GC Qualification, Reconciliation Analysis and Selection
Project Construction Management and Administration
Construction Contract and Loan Draw Administration
Tenant Improvement Construction Management
Project Turnover and Closeout
This is the most rewarding phase of the process. We have all green lights from the many City, Regional, State and Federal agencies and have passed muster with the environmental zealots. Now we get to build a real building. We keep the pedal to the metal when we can smell the finish line. This phase is all about execution, attention to detail, schedule and budget. Through countless details and complex coordination of trades, its where all the quality planning and hard work culminates into a productive asset. We manage this complex process of construction management, administration, and reporting all the way to the checkered flag… and then the winner’s circle.
