Services

Our Real Estate Development Team assists clients in the development of projects of all types throughout the United States and beyond, including mixed use, shopping centers, specialty store and "big box" retail units, hotels, office and industrial properties. Our team works with clients at any or all stages of the process from initial planning through acquisition, construction, leasing and permanent financing.

Representative Services

• Annexation and detachment proceedings
• Architect and construction contracts
• "Big box" retail development and documentation
• Brownfields redevelopment
• Condominiums
• Conservation easements
• Eminent domain
• Entity selection and formation
• Flood zone and wetland matters
• Government inducements
• Leasing (both ground and space leasing)
• Lot assemblage
• Real estate tax appeals and exemptions
• Reciprocal easement agreements
• Section 1031 exchanges
• Site development agreements
• Tax abatement
• Tax credits
• Zoning

Representative Matters

• Representation of national developers in:
• Expansion and redevelopment of shopping centers
• Conversion of department stores and other types of properties into multitenant and mixed use projects
• Fashion, streetscape, "big box", mixed use, strip and other types of new shopping center developments
• Telecom hotels
• Urban residential projects
• Representation of a major "big box" retailer in the New York metropolitan market.
• Representation of various national, regional and local specialty retailers in shopping center transactions.
• Local counsel to a Chicago developer and international hotel operator in a $60 million project, including acquisition and redevelopment of a retail arcade facility in Cleveland. The project is supported by tax increment financing, historic tax credits and other public financing.
• Representation of developers and financial institutions on governmental development incentives, and in negotiation of development agreements with municipal authorities, including tax incentives.
• Representation of purchasers of sites with environmental contamination, and coordination of remediation programs in accordance with requirements of state and federal laws, including Ohio's Voluntary Action Program (VAP).
• Ground lease of lakefront property for a museum facility subject to FAA approvals.
• Joint venture transaction involving a 300-acre recreational development in Ontario, Canada.
• Representation of shopping center developers on Asian and Canadian projects.