Confidential client | Strategic marketing concepting to support new resort positioning to attract guests. The intention was to reposition the gaming resort’s perceptions among its guests, and new guests, in a more compelling way.
BCE Development | Strategic planning consultants for this prominent master-planned residential community, in North San Diego County.
2,200-acre residential and industrial project in Carlsbad, near the La Costa Country Club in north San Diego County
The work was in support of company’s overall business planning effort. Client organization was interested in understanding the financial comparison of various build-out strategies, exiting either through bulk land sale, finished lot takedowns to end builders, or hold and develop through end homebuilding. Work included “finished lot vs. builder pad” take-down scenarios.
BCE Development had acquired this North San Diego County master-planned community with substantial remaining build-out inventory, as part of a portfolio acquisition of major land developments. A business plan with detailed market and financial analysis was prepared, for use by California senior management of this major Canadian company, in presenting to the Board of Directors various alternatives for disposition and/or development. One key strategic marketing issue in the business planning effort, was the amount and type of senior housing (independent living, assisted living, skill nursing, etc.) to be included in the land use plan.
The La Costa Ranch property is part of he City of Carlsbad, a unique coastal community located about 35 miles north of the City of San Diego surrounded by mountains, lagoons and the Pacific Ocean. The City’s overall build-out population is about 135,000 residents based upon a total dwelling unit cap ratified by Carlsbad votes in the November 1986 election. While a smaller, coastal community, Carlsbad is the location of multimedia, biomedical, electronic, and light industrial businesses.
Our strategic planning and disposition valuation for these residential assets was part of an overall BCE Development Corp. portfolio sale involving the company’s properties in the western U.S., which included the Hamilton Cove resort-residential community.
The Irvine Company | Part of the management team contributing to overall for master planning the Newport Coast project of The Irvine Company.
Directed company strategic financial planning for The Irvine Company. This extensive experience became the foundation for StoneCreek Partners’ approach to work as strategic planning consultants.
Feasibility consultants for planned community in San Bernardino County, California, as part of the project’s master-planning design team.
The site of the former Greenspot Ranch is a 1,046-acre planned community featuring 2,045 units of single family, condominium, and detached residential, commercial and 27 hole golf. An equestrian area was also included in the overall master land use plan. A planned unit development located at cross streets, Newport Avenue and Emerald Avenue.
As project feasibility consultants for this planned community, our work was part of ongoing master-planning and entitlements. Specific financial analysis also evaluated the residential land value yield on specific enclaves of the development, estimating net margins that could be achieved in pad sales to end-builders. Our work for this client was part of our land development consulting practice at the time, during the halcyon days of master-planned community development in the U.S.
The project was related to what was then known as the East San Bernardino County Water District, the name was changed to East Valley Water District in 1982. An annexation in September 2000 increased the District’s service area by 3,228 acres and included the Greenspot Ranch Area.
During the process of initial planning and securing overall land use entitlements, the project was purchased by Landmark Land Co., a New Orleans land developer. Our work as feasibility consultants for this planned community, as well as the overall master-planning and entitlements, were competed prior to the sale to Landmark Land Co.
Landmark Land was a high-profile golf community developer with extensive landholdings and properties throughout the Western U.S. Following a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Landmark Land filed for bankruptcy protection and its affiliated savings and loan (“S&L”) was seized by regulators.
The seizure of Landmark Land’s S&L interests was part of somewhat forgotten major meltdown within the U.S. financial services industry. Between 1986 and 1995, some 1,043 out of 3,234 savings and loan associations in the U.S., failed. Before the crisis was concluded, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) closed or otherwise resolved 296 institutions, and the (then) newly established Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) closed or otherwise resolved 747 institutions.