It’s crucial that your facilities support the services you provide today and in the future utilizing cost effective space. Under-utilization, maintenance, utility, and improvement costs can become growing burdens to a budget if you space is no longer aligned to your needs.
By identifying and prioritizing core public services, staff usage, and the space the facility truly needs and aligning them to benchmarks and best practices, governments can realize long-term solutions to budget restraints.
To assist county governments in examining methods of how to further reduce and control operational costs, the following questions can serve as guidelines to help identify space and cost-saving opportunities:
• What are the services and the service level that your organization needs and wants to provide?
• Based on these identified services, how much space is necessary to support or provide them?
• What are the political and financial realities of your organization, and how can this affect the decision-making process?
Our team will help you understand your facility use and capacity needs as well as the current condition of your real estate. This information is crucial to determine the capital investment and maintenance expenditures necessary to sustain your facilities as well as to identify inefficiently or underutilized facilities as well as potential opportunities.
This facility assessment would include:
• Architectural elements and building codes
• Mechanical systems
• Electrical systems
• Energy and environmental sustainability
• Security and communications systems
Our evaluation would help you categorize capital spending into:
• Critical needs
• Deferred maintenance
• Property enhancement
• Life safety
No surprise is still the best surprise
Successful projects simply do not just happen. They require strategically planning the work and tactically working the plan. Acting as your trusted advisor, our firm brings you dedicated resources, proven processes, and deep experience to guide you in making the right strategic, financial, and mission-driven capital project decisions.
We understand that your organization must focus on its core mission and it simply does not have the resources to additionally manage a significant capital project of this magnitude. Every capital project is unique and will face foreseen and unforeseen obstacles; you require a tailored, strategic approach that aligns your project's goals.
Are you negotiating on a level playing field?
Often real estate firms that claim to offer tenant representation also represent landlords and developers. We choose to represent only you, the tenant, and never the landlord. This exclusive relationship allows us to be totally independent, solely advocating on your behalf.
Our approach to tenant representation includes identifying all viable options for you and invites competition, thereby leveraging your position and minimizing costs. Best of all, our fee typically is paid by the landlord. Therefore, you get unbiased commercial tenant representation and it costs you nothing more.
To support your economic development issues, our real estate advisory services can draw on our experience helping businesses as site selection consultants. We can assess your community and help you decide the kinds of businesses you might attract. We can also help you decide on incentives to increase your position in a competitive market.
Plante Moran CRESA can add a layer of security to high-profile real estate and construction projects by monitoring policies and procedures, allocation of financial resources, and adherence to strict time deadlines.
Our experts will create and monitor compliance and financial tracking systems to allow your team access to real-time data and information at any given time throughout a project.