Brownfield Redevelopment

At O’Brien & Gere, our brownfield redevelopment teams think like developers. This approach to projects enables us not only to understand, but also to anticipate the questions that will be raised by prospective owners/tenants, and determine the best and highest end-use for a site. Whether working for a municipal, private, or industrial sector client or a developer, venture capitalist, or publicly traded company, we address properties from the beginning with a consideration as to what the property’s end-use will be. Our ability to envision end-use concepts and develop realistic exit strategies enables clients to make well-informed business decisions about real estate transactions, which translate to job creation and placement of properties back on the tax rolls in a more efficient and focused manner.

With a commitment to advancing economic development and creating job opportunities, O’Brien & Gere has assisted businesses in divesting impacted properties, serving at various times as environmental services provider, developer, clean-up firm, and impacted properties reuse planner. In appropriate situations, O’Brien & Gere has functioned as an investment partner by taking title to environmentally affected properties, assuming the associated risks, remediating and redeveloping the property, and selling it to an end-user.

Our 360° Project Execution Process™ for brownfield redevelopment creates the right balance between environmental considerations and property reuse by addressing the following challenges:

Ownership issues
Evaluating reuse alternatives
Identifying environmental concerns and/or liabilities
Balancing real estate assets versus environmental liabilities
Evaluating brownfield programs and identifying alternate funding sources
Identifying partners and stakeholders
Combining remediation with redevelopment
Identifying exit strategies, including liability transfers
Navigating "Right-to-Build" processes

Overall, beginning with the end in mind, we see blighted, environmentally-impacted properties as opportunities to apply our creative redevelopment solutions to properties that have been plagued by environmental complications. Resolving these complications, while at the same time creating job opportunities for the community, ultimately produces a win/win resolution for each stakeholder.

Offering single-source responsibility, O' Brien & Gere’s brownfield redevelopment team has the ability to conceptualize, design, build, remediate, redevelop, commission, and support a wide range of properties. We offer innovative contracting arrangements to meet the business needs of our clients, individually tailored with regard to schedule, cost, quality, and facility performance.

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