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Community Recreation Park – Ideation

aec   Confidential Client  |  As outdoor recreation consultants and designers, part of an overall land use planning assignment for a new master-planned community called for a new kind of public park feature.   We devised a public park featuring a looped rollerblading path designed for co-use with walker and joggers.

 

This active participation gathering place is one of a number of AEC Wellnyss (wellness) strategies for planned communities.  The looped pathway was intended to not only be functional and easy to secure, but to also be part of a high-activity gathering place for the entire community – a place-making hallmark.

 

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.

 

Retail-Entertainment Consultants - Planned Community Consultants

Project Advisory – Jumeirah Hills New Town

Sama Dubai – Dubai Holding  |  Retail district programming for planned mega mixed-use development in Dubai, including guest experiential programming, district- and neighborhood-level tenant mix, tenanting, and leasing strategies.

 

StoneCreek Partners was retained to create retail and shopping center concepts and a leasing plan, in a dozen locations throughout the planned Madinat Jumeirah “new town” in Dubai. The project was envisioned as a new urban core for that district of Dubai.

 

Work included a detailed retail tenant mix, leasing, facilities descriptions, critical success factors, and detailing of the retail-entertainment program for more than two million square feet of retail space (GLA). StoneCreek Partners also helped devise the “big idea” for this master-planned community – a network of great streets and grand canals with destination entertainment at major intersections throughout the community.

 

Opportunity Zone Consultants

Burton Station Urban Village

As real estate consultants for project feasibility, StoneCreek Partners provided feasibility analysis, a conceptual site plan and rapid-prototyping massing study, and business plan for proposed mixed-use urban village to be developed on infill properties in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Components of the urban village to include office space, main street retail, hotel, senior living, and for-sale housing.

 

In addition to the subject Project, the neighborhood in which the Project is situated continues to be a major focus for redevelopment and regeneration, for developments featuring for-sale housing, apartments, and shopping facilities.  One of the more recent developments in the neighborhood is Norfolk Premium Outlets, a Simon Property development which opened in June 2017.    A new regional IKEA store is now in development in close proximity, further enhancing the regional retail draw of the Project’s immediate neighborhood.

 

The Project site is well situated within the Hampton Roads region, just off the Hampton Road Beltway (Interstate 64).    The Hampton Road Beltway is the primary transportation route through the Hampton Roads region.   Hampton Roads refers to the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metropolitan area, which includes the cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Poquoson, and Williamsburg.   The resident population of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metropolitan area ranks among the top 50 metropolitan areas of the U.S.

 

Owner Representation Consultants - due diligence consultants

Real Estate Acquisition – Banning Lewis Ranch

NEI / Al Tameer Trading Est.  |  Acquisition and property management of master-planned landholding on behalf of a major offshore investor client, Banning-Lewis Ranch was purchased from the Resolution Trust Corp. for $18.5 million. The property had been assembled, acquired, and held for development by well-known Colorado entrepreneur Frank Aries, through more than $200 million in investment in infrastructure and land purchases. The property was re-sold several years later for $60 million.

 

Banning-Lewis Ranch is a highly strategic landholding, existing essentially as the entire direction of growth for metropolitan Colorado Springs, encompassing more than 20 square miles along the city’s eastern edge.

 

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