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Real Estate Development Feasibility

Seattle Housing Authority seeks proposals from qualified firms or individuals to assist the agency with real estate development feasibility services on an on-call basis. The RFP is available Word or PDF format (download Adobe Reader).

Scope of work

The selected consultants shall have the qualifications and experience to assist Seattle Housing Authority in determining the development potential and feasibility for specific land purchases, partnership opportunities, or redevelopment possibilities, including but not limited to, the following:

  • Establish the development capacity of land/project allowed by current regulatory framework, including zoning, neighborhood/village/center plans, overlay districts, and related potential bonus provisions.

  • Determine the possibility of, and appropriateness for joint venture partnership(s) with private sector partners.

  • Establish and evaluate the possible range of mixed uses Seattle Housing Authority might incorporate into a particular development opportunity, including an assessment of likely demand for such uses at the project site and neighborhood.

  • Prepare conceptual, or diagrammatic, development envelopes for project under study.

  • Prepare financial assessments of relationship of probable land cost-to development mix-to construction cost(s) for alternate mixes of uses within project.

  • Identify and assess civic issues which bear on the political feasibility of development and which might effect project timing, support, and likely process of development.

  • Prepare recommendations for alternate development and ownership structures when involving potential private partners, private mixed uses, and multi-agency project sponsors and/or funders.

Selected firms

Bay Area Economics

Janet Smith-Heimer, Managing Principal
1285 66th Street, Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone: 510-547-9380 • Fax: 510-547-9388
Contract number: 3913 • Date: 06/30/08

Beacon Development Group

Paul Purcell, President
1221 E Pike St, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98122
Phone: 206-860-2491, ext. 206 • Fax: 206-860-2094
Contract number: 3914 • Date: 07/10/08

Buck and Gordon

Amy Kosterlitz, Partner
2025 First Ave, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-382-9548 • Fax: 206-626-0674
Contract number: 3619 • Date: 06/30/06

Dingfield Associates

Dan Dingfield, Owner
87 Virginia St #14, Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-228-1885 • Fax: 206-441-5129
Contract number: 3620 • Date: No contract

EVR Realty

Scott E. Shapiro, President
1605 Boylston Ave, Suite 202, Seattle, WA 98122
Phone: 206-999-5088 • Fax: 206-374-8298
Contract number: 3621 • Date: No contract

Heartland

Jim Reinhardsen, Managing Director
524 Second Ave, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-682-2500 • Fax: 206-467-1429
Contract number: 3622 • Date: 06/30/06

Jonathan Rose Companies

Munsun Park, Director of Planning
551 Fifth Ave, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10176
Phone: 917-542-3650 • Fax: 917-542-3601
Contract number: 3915 • Date: 08/05/08

Legato Consulting

Keith James, Manager
2310 N Molter Rd, Suite 111, Liberty Lake, WA 99019
Phone: 509-368-7662 • Fax: 509-927-8395
Contract number: 3916 • Date: 07/11/08