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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.

Master Plan Revisions – Raleigh Studios Wuxi

01.02.2019 Film Studios and Backlots, Project Consultants for China, Site Planner

aec Raleigh Studios | Conceptual plan for film studio layout, in support of overall campus master planning by operator, Raleigh Studios. The site plan included a backlot studio attraction as a draw for visitors.

Confidential – At client request, the rapid-protoyping image shown here includes limited details only. 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.

Global Real Estate Consultants - Project Conceptual Site Planning

Feasibility & Due Diligence – Victoria Beach Mixed-Use

20.08.2018 Project Consultants for Sub-Saharan Africa, Site Planner, Transaction and Dealmaking Projects

Kwara State (Nigeria) | StoneCreek worked with regard to this Kwara State parcel, in our capacity as global real estate consultants. Initial feasibility study and conceptual design for proposed mixed-use development on Victoria Island (Lagos), Nigeria. Work also included a proposed ground lease and deal structure for involvement of third-party developer.

Redevelopment Project Consultants - European Region Project Consultants

Redevelopment Design Management – Hotel Illyrian Resort

19.08.2018 Redevelopment Project Consultants, Site Planner

Becovic Holdings Corporation / Becovic Management Group, d.o.o. | Owner representative for conceptual design phase in planning this destination resort for coastal Montenegro, in the south Ulcinj region. Situated on a site footprint that includes the existing Hotel Mediteran in Ulcinj. Project team included Kahler Slater Architects (USA), and Selim Resulbegovic of Ital Design (Montenegro).

The project is involves the redevelopment of a portion of an existing resort hotel, the Hotel Mediteran Ulcinj. Hotel Mediteran is a destination resort situated along the Adriatic coast, in the scenic coastal town of Ulcinj (Montenegro). StoneCreek Partners has provided owner representation support to the facilities management and development teams.

The property was purchased by Becovic Management Group, d.o.o., an affiliate of Chicago-based Becovic Management Group. Another Becovic affiliate organization, Becovic Holdings Corporation, manages Hotel Mediteran and provides owner representation for all renovation and new construction activity.

The Becovic organizations were founded by Husein Becovic, a native Montenegrin who emigrated to the U.S. in the 1960’s. Now retired from the business but active in philanthropy, Husein Becovic purchased Hotel Mediteran out of fondness for his hometown – Ulcinj – and in interest in initiating the greater economic development of the Ulcinj South Coast region.

Nalubaale Resort at Lake Victoria – Project Feasibility Analysis

19.08.2018 Hotel Development Consultants, Site Planner

Initial resort project feasibility and conceptual site master plan for destination resort on the shores of Lake Victoria, near where Owen Falls existed in Uganda.

Facilities were envisioned to include a main hotel building (lodge), garden attraction, marina on Lake Victoria, a cultural venue, and other venues. “Nalubaale” is the Uganda name for Lake Victoria.

For this hotel development consulting assignment, interesting site design issues included significant elevation changes between the lake shore part of the site and the upper site hilltop.