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Economic Development Consultants for Tribes

Our work as economic development consultants for tribes and other indigenous nations has expanded with additional services and new regions covered.

StoneCreek Partners’ client work with Native American tribes and pueblos, as well as Native Hawaiians, now includes Canadian First Nation tribes and organizations. Over the years, StoneCreek Partners has also worked with indigenous nations in addition to those in North America, including those sovereign nations in the MENA region and the Pacific Rim.

The Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 has increased the interest in economic development plans that can reliably produce economic results – increased jobs, new investment, and enhanced quality of life. And sooner than later. Our economic sector analytics have an increasingly granular focus on real estate investment asset classes. This is due to some types of investment now being in question, and relatively new asset classes commanding investor attention.

Our consulting focus is on projects that can be made to happen, and less on broad programmatic objectives.

Another focus is on the feasibility of specific projects. As we act as economic development consultants for tribes we explore how development might occur in a particular region, focusing more on projects that can be made to happen, and less on broad programmatic objectives. With specific projects identified, strategic partners can be identified and pursued.

Today’s economic development strategies can include all manner of visitor destination strategies, location-based entertainment, sports mega-complexes, life sciences projects, and other development can prosper within specific locations and markets. Our experience with design management, development, facilities management, and with overall dealmaking and transactions allows us to take economic strategies through implementation.

What is a charrette? Charrettes explained StoneCreek Partners is a business planning and development firm, with expertise that includes commercial real estate, hospitality, location-based entertainment, and direct-to-consumer technologies. StoneCreek Partners has provided economic development planning and program implementation support to Native American tribes and their sovereign development companies, as well as to similar city, county, and state organizations.

Our firm’s essential value to clients is our hands-on experience in designing, developing, and operating projects and businesses. StoneCreek Partners is led by co-founder Donald Bredberg and his substantial experience as an executive with The Irvine Company, NBCUniversal, and the Riyadh-based family office of Newfield Enterprises International.

The firm was first established in 1984 in Los Angeles, and is now headquartered in Nevada. Our economic development consulting for tribal nations and other indigenous nations got started shortly after the firm’s founding.

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StoneCreek Partners – Economic Development Consultants

29.10.2020 Economic Development Growth Monitor, News about economic development, News about hotels and destination resorts, SCP Tribal Consultants' News and Research

— The Value of Regional Visitor Destinations – for Local Economic Development

Conservation Act Passes Congress, Now Heads to President’s Desk

01.10.2020 Economic Development Growth Monitor, News about outdoor recreation venues

SCP’s The Growth Monitor

In a bi-partisan vote, a next conservation act has passed the U.S. Senate. The unanimous vote in the Senate pertains to America’s Conservation Enhancement Act, S. 3051 (the “ACE Act”), a package of natural resource management and conservation provisions. The House of Representatives is expected to take up the legislation, and vote, as early as next week.

SCP Growth Monitor update on October 1 – the House of Representatives has approved the ACE Act by voice vote; now the legislation goes to the President’s desk for signing.

Consideration of the Ace Act follows passage in August 2020 of the Great American Outdoors Act, widely considered one of the landmark legislative achievements to protect America’s natural environment.

The legislation authorizes the National Fish Habitat Partnership, an endeavor that brings together local, state and federal partners to coordinate and conduct on-the-ground aquatic habitat restoration projects for the benefit of recreational fishing. The ACE Act also reauthorizes and boosts funding for programs critical to the health of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary and a critical nursery for sport fish throughout the Atlantic region.

As the bi-partisan Conservation Act passes Senate consideration, attention now focuses on regional benefit. The ACE Act is expected to be a strong boost to recreational economic development in the region. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the U.S., and is also a critical sportfish nursery for the greater Atlantic region.

Sports mega-complexes the new multi-purpose anchor

Sports Mega-Complexes are a Flexible Anchor; a New Kind of Gathering Place

13.09.2020 Economic Development Growth Monitor, Project Consultants for Tribes and First

SCP’s Projects Tracking & Monitoring

Sports mega-complexes (“SMC’s”) are a flexible new anchor for private and public sector projects. The term “sports mega-complexes” refers to facilities that include playing fields (and surfaces), practice facilities, and support amenities, for more than one sport as part of a single integrated complex. Sports mega-complexes can be outdoor, indoor, or a combination of both.

The coming generation of sports mega-complexes will pull from an array of “best practices” culled from like-kind venues. Consider, the real estate industry has already grown accustomed to fitness venues situated within shopping centers. Communities and private developers have now made the case for sports mega-complexes. Some family entertainment center (FEC) operators have brought elements of both place-products within their facilities. Even elements of so-called “recreation adventure parks” are adaptable and worthy for a role in sports mega-complexes.

All of the above place-products are adaptable to relatively horizontal suburban and exurban locations, as well as more dense (vertical) urban settings. The best mix of activities for a particular location is a matter of consumer demand and preferences in a local market. Given the variation possible with the place-product, sports mega-complexes are a flexible anchor for consideration in a variety of real estate settings – malls, mixed-use, town centers, and of course, standalone community center locations.

Some examples past and present include Cocov Destinations’ repurposing of Summit Mall in Niagara Falls, to form the Niagara International Sports & Entertainment (NISE) complex. Cocov has not only slated indoor and outdoor sports at NISE but has an adjoining outdoor soccer and baseball playing fields complex in planning.

Another very different example, Sport Center Las Vegas (1998), was a terrific new place-product that happened to be developed at a poor location, but included both indoor and outdoor sports and entertainment in a themed setting; some nice ideas worthy of consideration for upcoming developments.

Directory of Sports Mega-Complexes