Build on your investment
Optimizing your real estate involves many complex steps. Determining the highest and best use means understanding the market conditions, what the costs and benefits would be, and hiring a multitude of consultants to gather and analyze all the information for you to make the right decision.
Client Success
Client Success
Mar 23, 2023
‘A Revitalization Story’: How Colliers Strategy & Consulting Helped Enable Canada's Largest Co-op Redevelopment Project
In 1983, the Ashley Mar Housing Co-operative (Ashley Mar) was established to offer non-market housing to families and individuals in Vancouver.
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Mar 10, 2023
599 Clement & 1145 Pacific Multifamily Rental Development
All In Investments was the majority equity partner in two development projects in Kelowna, BC. As the project progressed, All In Investments felt they required additional development expertise to assess and improve overall management and performance, prior to construction
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Mar 10, 2023
619-637 Yonge Street Mixed-Use Town Development
Colliers is leading the development management of this large-scale, transit-oriented, mixed-use community in the heart of downtown Toronto.
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Mar 10, 2023
CanFirst Mississauga Warehouse Development
This industrial site proposed significant grading challenges that needed to be overcome due to the existing topography, which decreased across the site by 5 metres. In order to accommodate the 270,738 SF development, a large earth works program was necessary to create a balanced site.
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Mar 10, 2023
Vancouver Masonic Centre Redevelopment
The Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon’s (Freemasons) Vancouver Masonic Centre is located in an area that possesses strong demand for rental and affordable ownership housing.
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Aug 24, 2022
New Mixed-Use Tower Retaining Architectural Heritage will be Toronto’s Next Bold, Mixed-Use Community
In August 2022, an agreement with the City of Toronto, reached through the Ontario Land Tribunal, approved the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment for 625 Church Street, a mixed-use community in the heart of the City on the border between Yorkville and Church Wellesley Village.
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Our Process
We assemble the right team with the right information.
Colliers’ Development Advisory team has access to proprietary databases and information sources, the back stories, and insights into market demand to advise you on the best use for your site.
We procure the right team of consultants in a competitive way.
We lead them through the entire process, determining the right direction for the project at every step, and steering the project and the team towards it, and ultimately, the end goal.
We procure the right team of consultants in a competitive way.
We lead them through the entire process, determining the right direction for the project at every step, and steering the project and the team towards it, and ultimately, the end goal.
We provide the advice you need to enable you to keep control of your investment – and build on it
If you’re looking for the right piece of real estate with an acceptable amount of risk and an attractive upside, we can help you find it.
With development expertise in our DNA and countless development projects under our belt – not only in Canada but globally – you can count on us to effectively lead your project so you can focus on your primary business.
We provide an ownership mindset without taking an equity stake. Unlike partnering with a developer, when you work with us our Development Management team brings all the critical capabilities, capacity and experience to bear on your project – but you retain control. And when we’re finished, you get to keep all of the increased value that our team has created for your site. We work for a fee; you keep the profit.
With development expertise in our DNA and countless development projects under our belt – not only in Canada but globally – you can count on us to effectively lead your project so you can focus on your primary business.
We provide an ownership mindset without taking an equity stake. Unlike partnering with a developer, when you work with us our Development Management team brings all the critical capabilities, capacity and experience to bear on your project – but you retain control. And when we’re finished, you get to keep all of the increased value that our team has created for your site. We work for a fee; you keep the profit.
We take on the complexity and burden of the development process
We specialize in navigating and negotiating through the complex development process to bring certainty to your project and get it shovel- ready as efficiently as possible.
We work with all stakeholders to achieve both engagement and alignment, and to resolve any issues that could cause your project to stall or cease, or your costs to increase – all while ensuring you extract and maximize value from your investment based on strategy and fact versus chance and hearsay.
We work with all stakeholders to achieve both engagement and alignment, and to resolve any issues that could cause your project to stall or cease, or your costs to increase – all while ensuring you extract and maximize value from your investment based on strategy and fact versus chance and hearsay.
We ensure your project achieves peak performance
Once you proceed with development, we use our domain expertise
– from multifamily projects, to retail builds, to office and industrial facilities – and our comprehensive data to help ensure your project performs optimally.
Count on our market insights, strategic advice and development expertise to help you build on your investment and maximize your returns. Let us help you turn your development idea into an income-producing property.
– from multifamily projects, to retail builds, to office and industrial facilities – and our comprehensive data to help ensure your project performs optimally.
Count on our market insights, strategic advice and development expertise to help you build on your investment and maximize your returns. Let us help you turn your development idea into an income-producing property.
Our Capabilities
- Planning Context - Research planning policies and urban context
- Assemble the Team - Procure and manage additional consultants required
- Conceptual Options - Develop conceptual options for site intensification
- Project Schedule - Estimate timeframes for all project phases through completion
- Financial Analysis - Collect and Analyze the costs, revenues, returns, and residual land value
- Road Map - Outline the program to achieve success
- Risks - Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
- Recommendation - Issue final study including recommendation and next steps
Colliers Development Management Process
Feasibility
- Concept Origination & Visualization
- Existing Municipal & Zoning Context Review
- Market & Demographics Research
- Financial Proforma Analysis Commencement
- Partnership Agreements
- Master Scheduling
Design and Planning
- Design Team RFP & Award
- Design Development Oversight
- Municipal Approvals & regulatory Entitlement
- Community & Political Engagement
- Cost and Schedule Control
- Innovation & Sustainability Programming
- Leasing & Tenant Requirement Design
- Construction Financing
Construction
- Tender & Award
- Contract Drawings and Specification review for Construction Contract
- Construction Peritting
- Value Engineering
- Site Works & Building Construction Monitoring
- Tenant Fit-up, Coordinating & Possession
Ongoing financial proforma analysis & development status reporting to stakeholders
UDI Pro Forma Program
Colliers' Development Advisory experts regularly instruct Urban Development Institute classes about the fundamentals, inputs, and functions of financial analysis for development programs ("Pro Forma").
Click here to watch the course from 2020
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