It's Not About Us. It's About You.
Augustana Care’s priorities are your priorities when guiding your work to completion:
- Gaining control of site
- Obtaining required approvals
- Organizing and managing project and design teams
- Negotiating a construction contract and supervising progress
- Facilitating financing/budgets and overseeing financial reporting
- Securing pre-sales targets and arranging pre-opening activities
- Coordinating continued marketing efforts
- Navigating unplanned challenges, revising strategies as conditions change and resolving issues
- Communicating regularly and often throughout the project process
Development Process
Project Idea
- Define the need
- Discuss leadership
- Create the vision
Project Evaluation
- Assemble team (Architect, Engineers, Contractors, Owners, Marketing/Management)
- Conduct market and feasibility analysis
- Select site
- Procure entitlements
- Survey/conduct land planning
- Create budget
–Construction
–Development
–Operating - Engage fundraising support/leadership if needed
- Provide schematic and conceptual designs
- Assemble financing options
- Define service assumptions
Design Phase
- Prepare working drawings
- Secure approvals
- Negotiate lending requirements
- Finalize construction documents
- Discuss bidding process
- Revise projections
Construction
- Solicit bids
- Assemble bids
- Secure bid approval
- Finalize contract
- Approve final financing documents
- Prepare and proceed to closing
- Begin construction
- Begin marketing
Occupancy
- Close out construction
- Implement management
- Continue ongoing marketing
Contact us at kkopp@augustanacare.org or 612-238-5445 to learn more about how Augustana Care can help you with your development needs.