Development and capital projects for commercial real estate owners.
Feasibility, entitlement, owner representation, and construction oversight for ground-up development, adaptive reuse, and major capital projects across Southern California. Since 1987.
Development and capital projects, run from the owner's side of the table.
Development projects have a lot of parties around the table. Architects, general contractors, subcontractors, entitlement counsel, lenders — every one of them is compensated for a job that isn't quite the owner's job.
For four decades, we have represented owners on that side of the table. Not the architect. Not the GC. Not the broker who wants a lease-up commission at the end. Our only job is that the owner ends up with the building they meant to build, on the terms they meant to build it on.
From feasibility through handoff.
Feasibility studies
Site feasibility, program feasibility, and financial feasibility — written before the owner commits real capital. Includes zoning, utility, capex, and preliminary construction-cost review.
Entitlement consulting
Municipal coordination, community input, and entitlement strategy across Orange County and LA jurisdictions. We've worked with most of them.
Owner representation
A principal on the owner's side of the table for the life of the project. Contract review, GC selection, weekly project oversight, change-order review, monthly owner reporting written for an owner, not a general contractor.
Construction project oversight
Weekly on-site oversight during construction — schedule, quality, safety, cost. Written project logs owners can hand to counsel or a lender at any point.
Contract and vendor negotiation
Owner-side negotiation of the GC contract, the design contracts, and the major vendor contracts. Written to protect the owner in the specific places these contracts usually fail.
Post-completion transition to property management
When the project is done, it becomes an operating asset. We hand the building off to the property management team — often our own Property & Asset Management practice — with a full operations handoff, not a stack of binders.
Why owners want us on their side.
- Owner-side, every engagement
- We never sit on the GC side or the architect side. That posture matters when a change order is being negotiated and the owner needs someone in the room whose only job is their interest.
- Four decades of cross-cycle experience
- We've represented owners through every part of the Southern California cycle since 1987: high-rate years, low-rate years, high-supply years, and everything in between.
- Integrated with acquisitions and property & asset management
- Engagements that start as a strategic question live in Acquisitions & Due Diligence. Projects that finish become operating assets in Property & Asset Management. One firm, no handoffs.
- Industrial →
Ground-up warehouse, adaptive reuse, and complex-industrial developments across OC and LA.
- Corporate campuses →
Multi-building headquarters, phased development, and campus-scale delivery.
- Business parks →
Multi-tenant development and flex-space delivery.
When acquisitions work leads into development, it moves from our Acquisitions & Due Diligence practice into this one. When a project finishes, it moves into Property & Asset Management.
Catalina Island Conservancy — Trailhead Visitor Center.
The first LEED-certified building on Catalina Island. T.C. Collins ran owner representation for the Conservancy through design, permitting, and construction — a $13 million project on an island where every material had to arrive by barge and every trade had to be scheduled around ferry timetables.
Additional owner-representation engagements: Rose Gardens at Santa Teresita (a $100 million senior-living development in the LA basin) and the Harvey Mudd Teaching & Learning Center.