HIre a Development Manager for your next project
For your next project (large or small), don’t hire a project manager, an architect, a planner or a contractor.Your first hire should be a Development Manager.
This is a relatively new role.
A development manager is a facilitator who fulfills these roles:
- Site acquisition advice and help with due diligence,
- Zoning review and guidance concerning highest and best use of the subject property (HABU),
- Developing a functional program along with animation ideas (ie, how to add new revenue streams to property),
- Budgeting, pro-forma and spreadsheet analysis/cap rate and internal rate of return calculations,
- City pre-consultation,
- Critical path scheduling,
- And many other tasks.
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