Services
The practice has evolved to provide a wide range of services that can best be organized by the following categories. Each is driven by strategy and led by a principal with 30 or more years of proven expertise. Because of the experience and diversity of the principals, our planning and design work is also informed by decades of financial, leasing, community revitalization, and real estate development experience that better ensure long term success.
And we know our clients’ success is engendered by the emotional engagement of the people who experience our buildings and places as authentic and belonging to the communities served… be they social, civic, or corporate.
STRATEGIC
MINDLINconsulting provides a strategic approach to planning and design services for corporations, developers and communities… minimizing risk and expense… while guiding teams towards visionary, but practical, solutions. We believe in a broader definition of success that resonates with more stakeholders and better insures our clients’ long-term success. Strategic services identify the essential qualities that guide planning and design best achieved through a deeper understanding of local culture, values, and history.
ENHANCING AND TRANSFORMING REAL ESTATE
We specialize in strategies for the revitalization, repositioning and intensification of communities, real estate assets, and development. We translate those strategies into plans and designs that anticipate a wider range of needs. Because we also have development, leasing, and investment experience, we are focused on finding the qualities and leverage points that allow our work to better compete in complex markets. Our projects return profits, enduring value, enthusiastic patronage, and surpass their strategic goals… precisely because our work achieves a strong emotional place in the life of the cultures and communities served. We strongly believe that enhanced and enduring value is possible… even during market disruptions.
REVITALIZING COMMUNITIES
Creating a foundation for enduring communities starts with a deeper understanding of local culture and values… and, often, recognizing unseen strengths. We seek a visionary, but practical, approach to creating lively and enduring communities that organizes existing properties and infrastructure to enhance and promote long term economic success. Its messy work that creates a compelling cacophony of experiences that is at the heart of successful communities. And just important is an “implementation strategy” that informs a path forward towards success by identifying the steps, their order of implementation, and interim accomplishments towards a long-term process. This implementation strategy also gives cities the tools to make decisions and measure success.ent.
PLANNING
Nothing is more essential than a visionary and strategic starting point that offers clarity while anticipating all the messy nuance that makes your development possible. Master plans give birth to an idea and, if done well, ensure long term success. They must integrate a wide range of requirements from cultural to economic… from the mundane to the exciting… and from initial leasing success to long term growth and inevitable change in the marketplace. A master plan with really good “bones” is a wondrous thing.
DESIGN
The strategy, or a clear definition of future success, is the driver for our design work… as is a sense of appropriateness that ensures our work reflects our clients or a community's' values, history, and aspirations for the future. We offer the flexibility of creating the most appropriate design solutions from traditional to eclectic and avant-garde… design that inspires and comforts. Each design is organized to give teams of architects and engineers a clear understanding of the path forward and ensure that the design work is not merely a reflection of any one style or personal taste. And we work within existing budgets, right from the start to ensure a smooth process to opening day.
PRACTICE CONSULTING
Most architects got into the business out of a love of design and the building process. But that love is seriously challenged by the realities of professional practice here in the United States. It is a complicated profession and there are no guarantees of success, nor personal satisfaction. There are, however, strategies and methodologies that can make the path forward more predictable and manageable.
And often, it takes an “outsider” to see what ownership or management simply can’t because of their deep involvement in what is. We make this expertise available at rates that even small firms can afford. We offer the following areas of consultation:
Change Management
Branding
Marketing & Communications
Business Strategies
Planning & Design
Project Management
Staff Engagement
Firm Management