We also draw on lawyers skilled in other disciplines, marshalling expertise to handle issues that arise involving environmental impact, construction dynamics, and coal and mineral rights. Included as part of the representation was negotiation and implementation of all land use planning arrangements. Site Acquisition Site acquisition is frequently the most sensitive stage in a development. Our lawyers decades of experience in the region means they are familiar with most potential sites. In some cases, the same site has been bought or sold by lawyers in our office on several occasions.
Confidentiality is critical to the site acquisition process.
We have regularly represented site acquirers without the seller discerning our client s identity. As special development counsel to a municipal authority, we worked with a major manufacturing corporation to assemble eight downtown city blocks for a new headquarters building. A retail mall developer wanted to assemble close to 200 acres for a new facility along a new highway without the competition knowing its game plan. As counsel to an undisclosed principal, we bought or took under option 175 acres of land in five separate parcels without publicity or rumor. Perhaps the least glamorous stage of any project is preparation and negotiation of project development agreements.