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Adventure Entertainment Cos. has new website.

The Adventure Entertainment Cos., an affiliate of StoneCreek Partners (“SCP”), has launched a new website at AEC Creative – in Beta form. Some of the client experience and specific projects that have been listed here along with SCP experience will be moved over to AEC Creative.

The Adventure Entertainment Cos. (AEC) is a conceptual design and project implementation company, focused on themed attractions, location-based entertainment, and outdoor recreation. AEC regularly collaborates with StoneCreek Partners during the project feasibility and conceptual design stages of client assignments, providing early “previsualization” of potential site organization, project massing and relative scale, and exploration of guest scripting and experience.

AEC has also established ventures with 3rd-party organizations for the operation of niche destination facilities in outdoor recreation (GoBOLD Adventures), creative campuses (Monumental Studios), and living stories (StagePlex). These new ventures are led by highly-experienced professionals in these industries, including Paul Bierman-Lytle, Justin Zoladz, and Robert “Bob” Johnson, among others. The purpose of Adventure Entertainment Cos. having a new website, is to prepare for more direct-to-consumer communications about these coming destination facilities. The Adventure Entertainment Cos. is committed to the creation of destination experiences for major project as well as smaller intra-regional locations, that combine the outdoor recreation, extreme sport, themed, and location-based entertainment industries.

The EB-5 Program is Reauthorized

11.03.2022 all Real Estate Industry News, EB-5 Project Feasibility Consultants, Economic Development Consultants, Economic Development Growth Monitor, Industrial and logistics real estate consultants, News about acquisitions and financing, News about economic development, News about local government real estate, Office and Industrial Facilities Consultants, Opportunity Zone Consultants, Project Consultants for North America, Project Consultants for Tribes and First, Project Feasibility Consultants, Public Sector Work, Real Estate Consultants, StoneCreek Partners News and Research, Tourism Destination Strategy Consultants

President Biden signed legislation today with the effect that the EB-5 program is reauthorized, in particular its Regional Center component, effective now through September 30, 2027. The program is part of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (the “Act”), which itself is part of the Omnibus spending bill signed by the President.

The reauthorization of the Regional Center program follows an almost 9 month lapse, when prior efforts failed to extend the program beyond July 1, 2021. The Regional Centers aspect of EB-5 have allowed foreign investors a special opportunity to invest in high-profile developments that they likely would not otherwise find accessible. The EB-5 program had its controversies and numerous parties had worked to place safeguards to prevent fraud and encourage investment in areas that followed from the original intent of the program.

The EB-5 program allows foreign investors to invest a specified amount of capital into a U.S. enterprise that creates American jobs, in return for permanent residency. With passage of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022, changes were made to the program to presumably improve its implementation. The new legislation emphasizes compliance with EB-5’s intent along with enforcement procedures. Program sponsors under EB-5 will face greater scrutiny in recordkeeping, investment types, audits, and investor communications. The minimum EB-5 investment amount now increases to $800,000 from the current $500,000 for Targeted Employment Areas and Rural Areas, and, changes to $1.05 million from the current $1.0 million for Non-Targeted Employment Areas. These changed minimum investments apply to both regional center and direct EB-5 investments.

With the news that the EB-5 Program is reauthorized, a backload of foreign investors who were in the midst of processing last June, will hopefully soon see progress in the processing of their investment / visa applications.

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program was created in 1990 by the Immigration Act of 1990.

Cold Chain Logistics is Attracting Investor Interest

02.11.2020 Industrial and logistics real estate consultants, Mega Projects Tracking and Monitor, News about global real estate consulting, News about office and industrial properties, StoneCreek Partners News and Research

Cold chain logistics is attracting investor interest as a real estate asset class, given its increasing demand across industries. Although cold chain is a specialized kind of asset, it is part of the broad range of facilities within the office and industrial facility sector.

Cold chain logistics companies handle temperature-controlled and temperature-sensitives goods. The logistics include all or part of the supply chain, including procurement, storage, transport, and distribution. Refrigerated goods handled in the cold chain logistics industry include foods, beverages, and bio-pharmaceutical products (life sciences), among other items.

The increased investor interest in cold chain is interesting since many of the large operators and portfolios are somewhat historic having gotten their starts in the early 1900’s. United States Cold Storage got its start in 1899, for example. And Americold Realty Trust (Atlanta) traces its origin story back to 1903.

Now, newly-established global real estate conglomerates such as Constellation Cold Logistics S/A and Qualianz, each established in 2020, are bringing asset management and best-practices techniques from other industries. And we’re seeing the acquisition and consolidation transactions to achieve operating footprints than can better support client supply chain issues, such as Lineage Logistics’s recent acquisition of Henningsen Cold Storage (in May 2020), and Americold Realty Trusts’ acquisition of Agro Merchants Group (The Netherlands)- also in 2020.

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Truck Tonnage Declines in 2020, Through August

22.09.2020 Economic Development Growth Monitor, Industrial and logistics real estate consultants, News about economic development

SCP’s The Economic Growth Monitor

Truck tonnage declines in 2020 included the fifth consecutive year-over-year decline in the U.S., through August 2020. Freight transportation is a barometer of U.S. economic health, making monthly truck tonnage estimates a key indicator for local economic development officials.

Trucking represents an estimated 72.5% of tonnage carried by all modes. According to American Trucking Associations, in 2019 trucks hauled 11.84 billion tons of freight. The American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry.

Transport Topics reports on truck tonnage throughout the year. Their most recent recap is available here: Tonnage Declines 8.9% Year-Over-Year in August

The American Trucking Associations’ press release about truck tonnage declines in 2020 is available here: Index 8.9% below August 2019. According to the ATA, the apparent softness in truck tonnage was due to softness in the industrial and energy industries where truck loads are heavier, than any softness in consumer-related loads. Fleets hauling for retailers reported strong freight volumes. ATA calculates U.S. tonnage volumes and index based on surveys from its membership and has been doing so since the 1970’s.

Recreation Vehicle Sales & Service Center

26.11.2017 Industrial and logistics real estate consultants, Project Consultants for Tribes and First

Illustration work shown here is a product of aec‘s Rapid Prototyping Unit, combining feasibility results with preliminary project scaling, layout, and overall guest experiential design – created to assist Ownership group in confirming design intent and project budgets.