Tourism Destination Strategy Consultants Archives

Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Experiential programming and design for town center at CBMR.

Master plan and placemaking for retail-entertainment town center at Crested Butte Mountain Resort.

The ownership group of Crested Butte Mountain Resort planned the development of a town center place at the heart of its resort high in the Colorado Rockies. The town center was viewed as a competitive response to the increasingly competitive Colorado ski industry, which was in the midst of “amenity creep.”

Worked in collaboration with Owner, and the project architect, in examining various “Big Ideas” that would compel the place making at the town center. Guest programming was prepared, including a slate of event programming to provide signature times of year for the resort.

A major effort was made to identify and program for interstitial areas at the town center, to assure activity throughout the operating day and week. Given the relatively modest size of the market area outside of peak visitation seasons, providing for resident use of facilities, in this way, is always of great importance.

Economic Development Consultants - Opportunity Zone Consultants

Economic Development Plan – Native American lands

10.05.2018 Economic Development Consultants, Highest-and-Best-Use, Opportunity Zone Consultants, Tourism Destination Strategy Consultants

Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico | Confidential strategic economic development planning and integrated master land use planning, for tribal lands.

Placemaking Consultants - mixed-use development consultants

Master-Planned Mega Resort – Jordan

01.08.2015 Placemaking Consultants and Designers, Project Consultants for the MENA Region, Retail-Entertainment Consultants, Tourism Destination Strategy Consultants

Ayla Oasis | As global real estate consultants, we advised the master-planned resort project team for Ayala Oasis. We provided design review, leasing plan, tenanting alternatives, and entertainment programming for resort town center under construction. Focus on re-design and enhancement of the resort’s retail-entertainment village, to improve the shopper experience, retail leasing, length-of-stay, and placemaking appeal.

The development company’s business strategy is based upon establishing Aqaba as a world visitor destination. Aqaba is famed for serving as a location filming area for “Lawrence of Arabia. More recently, Aqaba was on the global map for EDM festivals as the location for the Distant Heat Festival in Wadi Rum (situated outside of Aqaba).

Economic Development Consultants - Tourism Destination Strategy Consultants

TRPA TDR Program – Program Feasibility

20.08.2013 Economic Development Consultants, Public Sector Work, Tourism Destination Strategy Consultants

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency | Real estate feasibility and due diligence study with regard to a proposed transfer of development rights program in exploration by TRPA.

Project Consultants for Community Redevelopment

01.11.1999 Economic Development Consultants, Public Sector Work, Redevelopment Project Consultants, Tourism Destination Strategy Consultants

Project consultants for community redevelopment providing analysis and due diligence required for “blighted area” designation, in connection with the 1,107-acre community redevelopment project area for the Hollywood community (Los Angeles, California). The Hollywood Redevelopment Plan was subsequently formally approved and placed under management of the City of Los Angeles redevelopment agency.

Our work as redevelopment project consultants included extensive review of companies, jobs, and residents within the proposed redevelopment project area. Among the interesting analytics to emerge from this due diligence, was our compilation of the extensive industry “back-of-house” that existed throughout Hollywood – the myriad of professionals and small businesses that together are the foundation of Hollywood’s film, television, music, and overall creative industry. Among many, one rationale for the Hollywood redevelopment project area was simply the need to preserve an enhance this foundation of creative industry small businesses throughout Hollywood – an economic development imperative.

Among the projects pursued according to the redevelopment plan was Hollywood & Highland which opened in November 2001, a development of TrizecHahn. Hollywood & Highland was part of a strategy to revitalize Hollywood Boulevard. The well-known urban entertainment project was built with partial funding from the Community Redevelopment Agency.

Our work in providing the due diligence support for this required blighted area designation was on behalf of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, at the time, the municipal agency response for the Hollywood district. More precisely stated, our work and the redevelopment plan was prepared by the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, California (the “Agency”) pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California (Health and Safety Code, Section 33000 et seq.), the California Constitution, and all applicable local codes and ordinances, and is based on the Preliminary Plan as amended.

Our work and the resulting redevelopment project area designation was prior to action taken by former California governor Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. in 2011, to abolish the hundreds of local California community redevelopment agencies. The Governor later sought and secured voter approval in 2015 for the rebirth of incentivized local redevelopment through the Community Revitalization and Investment Authorities (“CRIAs”) Act (California Assembly Bill 2).