Development Consulting

DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING & MANAGEMENT GROUP [DCMG] is an intellectual collaborative for discoursing contemporary contexts for informed development.
With city as a lab/ resource, DCMG positions development as a resolved continuum of interrelations and a challenge of integrating building/ making practices.
It thrives on imagining new possibilities across property scales involving multi-disciplinary inputs from
urban planning + design, architecture + landscape + interior design, and engineering.

Informed Project Intent (PI)

  • Sound boarding/ exploring property development ideas
  • Development due diligence including contextual study and pre-development meeting/s with the city w.r.t. applicable codes and possible preliminary site plan
  • Outlining development vision including project scoping & briefs + initial cost estimates

Project Master Planning (MP)

  • Determining the mix of uses and conceptualizing their physical relationship
  • Defining public, semiprivate, and private spaces and public amenities
  • Developing a phasing and implementation schedule, identify priorities for action, and framework to attract private sector investment

Time-Cost-Quality Control (QC)

  • Owner’s representation including identifying, selecting, contracting & liaison with consultants
  • Design management
  • Bid administration and contractor selection
  • Project planning and scheduling
  • Construction detailed supervision

DCMG teams and fields of expertise are highly complementary. Our analyses and solutions are fed from various perspectives:

  • Research
  • Market Analysis
  • Project Initiation
  • Feasibility
  • Due Diligence
  • Liaison with Surveyor and Civil Engineer
  • Traffic and/or Environmental Assessment
  • Liaison with City for P&Z Approval
  • Capital Sourcing
  • Lender Finance
  • Legal Aspects
  • Tax Aspects
  • Urban Design + Planning
  • Site Planning
  • Architecture + Landscape + Interior Design
  • Liaison with Engineering Consultants
  • Liaison with City for Public Approvals
  • Construction Documents
  • Contract Administration