From Initial Opportunity Through Execution

CRS brings together disciplines that directly influence whether a development opportunity succeeds: entitlement strategy, development planning and design, financial analysis, budgeting, capitalization, and execution.

Services can be structured around a specific assignment or provided as continuing senior development leadership.

CRS provides executive-level leadership without requiring the client to add a permanent development officer or build a complete internal department.

Responsibilities may include:

• Establishing development strategy 
• Organizing and leading the project team 
• Directing critical decisions 
• Coordinating design, approvals, costs, and capital 
• Representing ownership throughout the development process 
• Maintaining accountability for the overall strategy

CRS evaluates the physical, regulatory, financial, and market considerations that determine whether an opportunity should proceed—and in what form.

Services may include:

• Site and acquisition analysis 
• Highest-and-best-use evaluation 
• Development programming 
• Preliminary site and building design 
• Financial modeling and sensitivity analysis 
• Preliminary budgeting 
• Risk assessment 
• Development and execution planning

CRS develops approval strategies that respond to municipal and community objectives while protecting the project’s financial viability.

Services may include:

• Zoning and land-use analysis 
• Entitlement strategy 
• Municipal engagement 
• Neighborhood and stakeholder coordination 
• Public incentives and financial entitlements 
• Coordination of consultants and counsel 
• Presentation and negotiation support 

Chase’s development work has included variances, planned unit developments, new zoning classifications, overlay districts, public land acquisitions, tax abatements, industrial revenue bonds, tax increment financing, New Markets Tax Credits, and historic tax credits.

CRS represents ownership across the disciplines required to move a project forward.

Services may include:

• Architect and engineer selection 
• Contractor and consultant coordination 
• Design and budget review 
• Capital and lender coordination 
• Schedule and decision management 
• Municipal and institutional coordination 
• Oversight from initial planning through execution

CRS evaluates entitlement, design, cost, and financial implications together, allowing more alternatives to be tested before a preferred direction is selected. The result is better-informed decisions earlier in the process, with less at-risk predevelopment capital.

For developments undertaken through a company he co-owned, Chase personally created the initial site and building concepts, financial models, preliminary budgets, and entitlement strategies used to evaluate and advance the projects.

CRS is particularly valuable when ownership:

• Has a promising opportunity but no established development strategy 
• Needs senior leadership without adding a permanent executive position 
• Is evaluating an acquisition or significant capital commitment 
• Has a stalled or underperforming project 
• Needs to align design, approvals, costs, and feasibility 
• Requires an experienced representative to lead a multidisciplinary team 

More informed iterations. Better decisions. Stronger projects.