HOW MUCH LAND DO I NEED? Over the last 2 years, Hover has sent out over 500 conceptual site plans. We’ve seen our fair share of ½ acre PAD sites, even more 1 acre greenfield sites, and the occasional 50 acre parcel looking for help with master planning. We’ve looked...
Episode 5: What is a Preapp Meeting? In the first few episodes of this series, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on site selection and conceptual site planning. So what happens next? While you might be chomping at the bit to get started with planning and...
Episode 4: Greenfields, Brownfields, Infills - Oh My! In commercial development, Greenfield doesn’t always mean easy. Brownfield doesn’t always mean dangerous. And infill doesn’t always mean fast. These assumptions drive a lot of site decisions. And they’re often...
Episode 3: How to Get Ahead of Offsite Improvements You think you’ve found the perfect site… until the city drops a five-page list of offsite improvements you never budgeted for. Suddenly you’re staring at tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of dollars in...
Episode 2: Third Time's a Charm Some projects test your patience. Others test your process. And every once in a while, you get a project that tests both. Today, I want to share a story. It’s about a developer who’s been put through the ringer and has not given up....
Episode 1: Welcome to Just One More Site If there’s one thing that separates profitable developers from the ones who bleed time and money, it’s this: they make better site decisions, earlier. That’s it. Better decisions. Earlier in the process. Welcome to Just One...
