Our dedicated and experienced team of developmental professionals will work closely with you to clarify your vision, goals, and objectives and to assess your options. We will listen carefully to ensure we understand your input and create a facility design and implementation workplan that will add value, minimize risk, and lead to a predictable result consistent with your vision.

Our development services include:

• Turnkey Development

• Site Selection and Evaluation

• Budget Creation

• Financial Forecasting

• Detailed Workplans and Schedules

• Facility Planning

• Financial and Capital Planning

• Financing and Ownership Options Evaluation, Structuring and Implementation

• Zoning, Regulatory, Permit and Entitlement Approvals

Summit Smith helps clients identify ownership and financing alternatives for their new projects and current real estate holdings.  We thoroughly analyze different ownership and financing solutions to determine what effect different structures have on our client’s balance sheet, income statement, cash flow and overall financial picture.  We prepare cost benefit analyses and make recommendations that match our client’s goals and objectives and then create and implement ownership and financing structures that meet their objectives.  Our goal is to help our clients make informed decisions on ownership structure and financing issues, to feel comfortable with the decisions they make and then properly follow through and implement those decisions.

We are often asked by our clients to take the position of both developer and owner of their real estate projects.  When this request is made, Summit Smith is prepared to develop, own, and manage commercial real estate and assume 100 percent of the risk of real estate ownership and 100 percent of the responsibility for the debt and equity.

Build-to-suit development allows our clients to occupy custom designed facilities that meet their unique operational requirements.  Build-to-suit project implementation places full accountability for development, financing, architecture, engineering and construction in one set of hands and results in a customized, highly integrated and operationally efficient facility, lower project costs, shorter schedules and a better overall value.

We can structure build-to-suit transactions as a lease, lease/purchase and/or a purchase upon construction completion.

Summit Smith has completed build-to-suit projects for corporate clients, healthcare providers, and state and federal government agencies.

Design build project implementation places full accountability for architecture, engineering and construction in one set of hands.  Design and construction are overlapped and bidding periods and redesign are eliminated as a result of the up-front coordination.  Material and equipment procurement and construction work can begin before construction documents are fully completed which allows a project to be implemented on a fast track schedule.  Fast-tracking saves time and money.  Although capable of providing project implementation under any methodology, Summit Smith prefers the design-build methodology because it results in shorter schedules, a more integrated and operationally efficient facility, lower project costs and a better overall value.

The chief advantages of design build are:

• Singular Accountability

• Cost Savings

• Time Savings

• Early and Firm Costs

• Improved Risk Management

We understand that lease administration, facility maintenance, budgets, cost controls, cash collections, cash management and financial reporting are vital to the success of your property. Summit Smith provides a complete range of asset management and property management services.  Our asset management services include lease administration, planning and budgeting, rent collections, operating expense reconciliations, cash management, accounts payable processing, debt payment processing and lender compliance coordination.  Our property management services include, construction management, facilities maintenance, capital improvements, energy management, and financial reporting.

Our asset and property management professionals make tenant satisfaction the highest priority. Outstanding customer service, pro-active facility management and dedication to tenant satisfaction are the cornerstones of the Summit Smith asset management program.

If your company’s long-term facility and real estate objectives aren’t fully developed, Summit Smith can help create a customized strategic real estate plan that’s thoroughly grounded in your unique market situation, capital capacity, and vision for the future. We can also validate your existing plan with an integrated, objective, fact based approach.

Summit Smith’s feasibility assessment process answers questions such as:

• Your Market: Who are your referral sources and competition?  What is your service delivery plan?

• Your Vision, Scale and Scope: Where do you need to be 10 years from now?

• Your Operations Model: What are your goals for level of service and efficiency?

• Your Technology: How “film-less”, wireless and paperless will you need to be?

• Your Sites: How and where can you expand in your market, what sites are available and how do different sites impact cost?

• Your Zoning, Regulatory and Entitlement Process: How will zoning and entitlement requirements impact site selection, cost and schedule?

• Your Facility Plan: What facilities are needed and/or not needed to address market, vision and mission?

• Your Budget: What are the total capital costs associated with implementing your facility plan?

• Your Financial Issues: How much future capital do you need, and how do you access it and what ownership and financing option works best for your organization?

• Your Workplan and Schedule: What tasks are required and what schedule is associated with implementing your facility plan?