What do you do when bureaucratic red tape puts you in a situation where no matter what decision you make, you end up losing? In today’s episode of Just One More Site I want to tell you the frustrating story of a developer who, because of poor zoning laws, was left...
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...
3 Design Features To Make Your Carwash Stand Out If you drive past ten carwashes today, nine of them will look almost exactly the same. Same tunnel. Same walls. Same layout. And that’s a problem, because when everything looks the same, the only thing customers...
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...
