“The day I introduced Mary to my property at 1001 W 39th Street, she immediately understood the potential of the polygonal site. The overall design captures the eye and limits maintenance. I looked to Mary to advise me on balancing cost and value: her design/build work helped reduce the building cost from original pricing by more than 30% making the project viable, while keeping several upgrades and visual interest.”
Jim Starr, JPS Holdings, LLC
We advised our client how to make best use of a property which contained a residential duplex and a fire-damaged medical building: keep the duplex, demolish the medical building, and create a new mixed-use residential and commercial building. Deep into the Contract Documents Phase the real estate market collapsed and the project needed to take a new course if it was to be viable. Firmness Commodity & Delight, LLC (FCD), our former Architect-Led Design/Build company, was the Design/Builder through which both the Architectural and Construction contracts were performed. FCD was able to reduced the overall costs of the building by 30% based on the early General Contractor-generated 2009 prices with a simplified design and solution-oriented coordination of the construction contracts. Breaking ground with zero tenants, the building was fully leased by the end of construction.
