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THE FIRST STEP IN<br /> SUCCESSFUL PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Facility Planning & Property Consulting Guide

THE FIRST STEP IN
SUCCESSFUL PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Growing your business often requires making critical facility decisions, from selecting the right site to evaluating existing properties for expansion or renovation. Whether you’re considering a greenfield site or an existing building, the planning and property evaluation process is complex and filled with opportunities for costly missteps and unforeseen financial consequences. Many of the decisions that have the greatest impact on project success occur long before a property is selected or design is underway.

A M King helps you navigate these decisions with a holistic approach that considers your operations, long-term business goals, and facility requirements. Our experienced team asks the right questions, evaluates the factors that matter most, and helps you make informed decisions that reduce risk and support long-term operational success. We help uncover critical considerations that are often overlooked, helping you avoid costly surprises later in the process.

Our comprehensive Property Consulting Services combine property identification, comprehensive analysis, and experienced consultation, all executed in parallel with master planning and schematic design. This approach allows you to fully understand and identify the crucial facility elements that directly impact final selection and purchase of a site or property.

At each stage of the property search, you’ll likely have new questions. Below, we’ve highlighted some of the most common ones, along with the services we provide to help you move forward with confidence.

Define Facility Needs

Your Questions:

  • What does our business need?
  • What problem do we hope to solve?
  • What solutions will a new facility offer us?
  • What impact could it have on our customers, suppliers, logistics and future growth opportunities?

How We Help:

Before you begin the property selection process, you must develop a basic understanding of your needs and expectations for a new facility. You want to define the facility requirements first, then find a property that supports those needs.

We may ask you questions related to the following:

  • Current operational challenges and growth projections
  • Future capacity requirements
  • Facility type (greenfield, expansion, renovation, new market)
  • Process and equipment requirements
  • Building size, layout, temperature requirements, utilities, logistics needs

Identify & Select the Right Property

Your Questions: 

  • Where should we locate?
  • How do I secure a property that will fulfill my growth and expansion requirements?
  • Is it possible to keep my property selection and evaluation process confidential?

How We Help: 

We work closely with you to establish clear property parameters, then leverage our industry relationships to find the best site options for achieving your operational goals.

We manage and assist Owners in the site selection process by providing the following services:

  • Confidential representation
  • Property and site identification (Greenfield and existing)
  • Brokerage management
  • Economic incentives development
  • Purchase / lease considerations

Evaluate Property Feasibility & Risk

Your Questions: 

  • Can this property support our needs?
  • What are the pros and cons of buying land versus an existing building?
  • How do I know I am paying the right price for a property?
  • Am I eligible for economic incentives from state and local governments?
  • What is the best strategy for managing environmental issues, such as wetlands, poor soils or zoning classifications?
  • How do I protect myself from hidden or unforeseen future property costs?

How We Help:

Our in-house design, engineering, and construction teams will manage the full due diligence process, ensuring that all pertinent information is determined and evaluated, thereby eliminating or minimizing surprises and uncertainties after final property purchase. We use a fact-based and engineered analysis to compare the “ultimate cost” of multiple properties, considering all financial aspects including initial price, development costs, and long-term costs of each and every property.

Extensive services can be provided including:

  • Comparative analysis
  • Geotechnical studies
  • Environmental studies
  • Constructability analysis
  • Zoning analysis
  • Traffic studies
  • Survey and mapping
  • Development restrictions
  • Utility and infrastructure assessment
  • Purchase price evaluation and comparatives
  • Governmental incentives analysis
  • Multi-property comparative cost analysis
  • Development cost budgeting
  • Risk mitigation and projection

Develop the Facility Plan & Investment Strategy

Your Questions: 

  • What will it take to develop this property?
  • Should I buy the property first, then design my facility around the property, or do I design my facility first, and then purchase a property that will accommodate my design?
  • Can the full cost of my development be understood before I spend considerable monies?

How We Help:

Our Design-Build experts will develop facility planning and design to coordinate with the property consulting phase. The result is more innovative and creative project solutions, as well as a seamless process of project development. Services we perform during this period include:

  • Master planning
  • Programming and space planning
  • Conceptual design development
  • Expansion/renovation studies
  • Design comparisons
  • Structural analysis
  • Existing building analysis and evaluation
  • Project scope and cost development
  • Planning commission approvals
  • Permitting submissions and negotiations

Know Before You Build

A M King partners with you to integrate site selection with design and planning from the outset. By catching regulatory, environmental, and engineering risks early, we optimize your property purchase, protect your investment, and ensure long-term facility performance. Connect with our property consulting experts today.

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Brian McGee
Business Development Manager

Brian McGee brings more than 20 years of Owner-side experience in site selection, property acquisition, entitlements, agency coordination, and permitting to A M King. Having spent his career making many of the same facility development decisions his clients face today, he now helps food processing, food distribution, and cold storage…