Our strategic planning team will help add to your bottom line by optimizing your real estate portfolio, conducting an in-depth project feasibility analysis and creating strategies to reduce your fixed real estate costs.

Plante Moran CRESA’s strategic planning experts do not serve as architects, contract developers, or owners. This independence means our responsibility is to provide you with unbiased advice. Whether it is creating a long-term real estate strategy, monetizing existing assets, restructuring ownership or debt structures, or simply deciding whether to lease, buy, or build, Plante Moran CRESA will work with you. Most importantly, we will help you develop a real estate strategy that aligns with your organization’s mission and objectives.

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. Therefore, you get unbiased commercial tenant representation.

We can help your organization execute a single commercial real estate initiative or act as a fully integrated real estate department for hire.

Deciding where to expand or relocate your operations is an opportunity to establish a competitive edge. Operational excellence is achieved by aligning labor, tax and incentives, logistics, and real estate with customer requirements and business goals.

Plante Moran CRESA’s national site selection process uses a disciplined approach with national market knowledge to help you leverage today’s competitive marketplace. Our process will help you identify the locations that provide an optimal business climate, allowing your organization to grow and flourish.

Our services include:

Let Plante Moran CRESA’s site selection team help you optimize your facility expansion/relocation project and find the best location for growth.

Plante Moran CRESA stays attuned to the continuously changing incentive landscape. Not only do incentives intend to level the playing field between states, they can encourage investment in your current facility.

Our expertise encompasses:

+ State, local, and national incentives
+ Renaissance zones
+ New market tax credits
+ Brownfield
+ Personal property
+ Energy

We will assist your organization in the identification and procurement of applicable incentive opportunities.

Our capital markets advisory team possesses a deep expertise in all aspects of real estate finance, including project financial structuring, capital procurement, sale/leaseback transactions, 1031 exchanges, and capital stack layering. Our team of experts analyzes each project from all angles to provide clients with the information necessary to make an informed decision and follows up by implementing the best strategy.

Whether you are a developer, investor, or corporate/institutional user, applying financial strategies to your real estate gives you the potential to maximize asset value, reduce occupancy costs, unlock cash, and leverage your assets to increase returns and the bottom line.

Let Plante Moran CRESA help you identify the best financing strategy for your real estate.

Building a new facility or renovating existing space can be very complicated, time consuming, and expensive. Making informed decisions about construction delivery methods, space utilization, architects, engineers, contractors, and furniture selection can be overwhelming for even the most competent executive.

Our seasoned project management professionals advise you on every aspect of your construction project. We provide up-to-date market knowledge, a disciplined process, and the highest level of design and construction expertise.

Our diligence professionals offer a due diligence process that is flexible and scalable to the specific demands of each transaction. We address a range of strategic, financial, and operational issues as part of the due diligence process.

With deep experience in manufacturing, distribution, real estate, and construction, we are able to bring a team to your project that is accustomed to working with our due diligence process specifically in your industry. The team will also have a range of expertise and a collaborative spirit, so that you will get the deep assessment and comprehensive analysis you need to mitigate risk, ensure a healthy return on investment, and get the deal closed.

There’s no question that energy is a hot topic. From managing costs, to efficiency, to renewables, energy topics dominate today’s headlines. Perhaps less well-publicized are the rewards well-thought-out energy investments can yield in the form of federal, state, and local grants, renewable energy certificates (RECs), and utility incentives.

Let Plante Moran CRESA analyze options for improving energy usage at your facility, lowering your utility costs, and researching and procuring available tax credits.

Our affiliation with Plante Moran, one of the nation's largest accounting and management consulting firms, leverages access to a cross-functional operations improvement group. Incorporating an effective plant layout strategy can effectively reduce operating costs, improve performance, and boost your bottom line.

Our operations improvement team includes professionals who assist organizations with:

Plante Moran CRESA’s space projection program can assist both small and large companies in comparing real estate growth projections by examining headcount by department, future revenue projections, and space use density and then benchmarking these requirements across others in the marketplace. Frequently, organizations commit to space without a thoughtful understanding of how much is best for their function.
 
The project team can assist with the development of space standards that are utilized in defining the size and scope of our clients’ space needs. This process allows a company to clearly define the office and cubicle sizes as well as ancillary support areas based upon current and projected headcount. Developing these standards will establish consistency and cost savings, streamlining the acquisition process.  

Cost segregation can mean tax savings and increased cash flow.

Cost segregation can be a strategic tax-saving tool for any organization that has purchased, renovated, or constructed property in the last 15 years. A cost segregation analysis identifies personal property that can be depreciated over a variety of shorter recovery periods utilizing accelerated depreciation methods.

Logistics encompasses so much more than transportation.

Logistics is the planning and execution of efficient and effective flow and storage of all goods, services, and related information to meet customer requirements. A sound logistics strategy incorporated with real estate will give industrial and manufacturing companies a competitive edge.

There are nine building blocks involved in developing a comprehensive logistics strategy:

Uncovering all options is a crucial component in a successful real estate strategy. Our lease assessment services range from mark to market, current lease rate analysis, building and real estate valuation, and FASB-13 considerations. Additionally, our seasoned professionals can help you better understand all of your obligations and opportunities, putting you in the best position to make a smart real estate decision.

Our process identifies, documents, and correlates both positive and negative aspects of our clients' current facilities to the overall business plan.  For clients with multiple facilities, we analyze various consolidation scenarios and the total cost impact of each.

Our standard analysis encompasses: