 A Measurable Difference
We provide a full range of services from ideation to implementation. Specifically we work with clients to:
- Determine project feasibility
- Secure public and private deal financing
- Assemble and manage project team
- Ensure predevelopment and due diligence is completed
- Provide owner’s representative services for joint ventures
- Identify strategic sites for public investment
- Provide recommendations for implementing existing plans
Who Our Clients Are:
- Small and growing private developers
- Large and institutional developers working on public/private ventures
- Nonprofit and community development corporations
- Redevelopment agencies and other public sector clients
- Faith-based institutions
- Others working to redevelop urban spaces
Firm Background and Specialty Areas:
Green Door Advisors, LLC (GDA) is an urban focused full service real estate advisory firm. Green Door was founded specifically to provide comprehensive advisory services to public sector and nonprofit clients, institutions, developers and others working in the increasingly complex urban, first rung suburban and emerging markets.
Urban, redeveloping suburban and emerging market development is a challenge that requires site-specific problem solving sensitive to market, political and socio-economic drivers. Thorough, thoughtful and accurate analyses are critical to successful development. Green Door's distinctive combination of relevant experience and nimble organizational structure allow it to provide comprehensive consulting services to its clients effectively and efficiently, maximizing both their social policy and financial bottom lines.
Green Door Services
- Development Feasibility and Market Analysis: Services include retail, residential, office, mixed-use and other commercial real estate market analysis, market demand and absorption, financial feasibility and positioning/re-positioning strategy. Our residential market analysis expertise includes for-rent, for-sale, senior, workforce, affordable/subsidized, market-rate, and mixed-income housing product types.
- Financial Analysis: Private and Public Financing Feasibility: including traditional financial structuring, New Market Tax Credits, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Tax Increment Financing and other local/federal financing incentive programs. Services include creation of project proforma, development of financial strategy, pursuit of certain public funding programs and negotiation of financial terms with funders.
- Development Strategy and Management: Strategic development opportunity analyses and market driven real estate recommendations on overall developments strategy and public/private deal structuring. Services include identification of acquisition site, negotiation with public or private entity for development rights, management of predevelopment process including team selection, financing and owner’s representation during development process.
- Neighborhood Revitalization and Economic Development: Analytics and advisory services that guide public and non-profit entities in pursuing economic development, neighborhood or commercial corridor revitalization, directing resources to priority projects, and determining specific steps for plan implementation. Services include identification of priority redevelopment sites for public or non-profit investment, recommendations for catalyzing private market activity through strategic public action and investment, determining economic and development spin-off opportunities from large institutions or employers. GDA also engages the business and development community and local property owners through stakeholder interviews and roundtables.
- Fiscal and Economic Impact Analysis: Determining the short and long-term fiscal and economic impacts of development projects on local jurisdictions, including an analysis of development costs, tax revenues generated, and the benefits of spin-off economic activity. Services include fiscal impact analysis, direct and indirect economic impact analysis, analysis of job creation, and opportunity cost analysis for multiple development scenarios.
- Community Surveys and Focus Groups: Determining market demand and household preferences in challenging or emerging markets often requires additional research through community surveys or focus groups to understand and capture existing and potential future market demand. Services include creation of community surveys, conducting focus groups and analysis of community response for residential, retail, or other community land uses.
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