There are few areas in business where the phrase caveat emptor – “Let the buyer beware” – is more salient than ground-up real estate development. “Due diligence” is the critical process of rigorously investigating a property before closing on an acquisition.

Business owners looking to maximize financial leverage and efficiency should take a deeper look at the rent they’re paying for their space. Owning your own building may be more affordable than you realize.

There’s no one-size-fits-all strategy to assembling a successful portfolio, but conventional wisdom says your investments should include some mix of savings, stocks, bonds and real estate. But for many investors – even high net-worth individuals – real estate is often underrepresented.

This redevelopment concept suggests historical rehabilitation and vertical expansion of an abandoned multi-story industrial building along the Milwaukee River into a mixed-use multifamily development with retail-restaurant space and interior garage parking

This redevelopment concept suggests strategic interior renovations and structural modifications that would revitalize, repurpose and reposition a prominent, historic and underutilized industrial building at the entrance to the Walker’s Point Neighborhood

This development concept suggests historical rehabilitation, interior subdivision and other strategic investments in a large — and largely empty — manufacturing building on a prominent property in the Milwaukee Riverworks Industrial Park

This development concept suggests a public-private partnership to rezone an underutilized City-owned property, incentivize targeted private investments, expand popular recreational amenities, repair neighborhood connections and generate new public revenue

This development concept suggests supplementing a previously downsized two-story office building and surface parking proposal with a lineup of luxury row houses and a subgrade parking level that would, in turn, support an additional office floor

This redevelopment concept explores the unique potential of the existing building and site to experiment with a construction type that has not yet been attempted in Milwaukee — the adaptive reuse of steel shipping containers for multifamily construction

This development concept suggests improvements to the Bay Street Corridor and the strategic disposition of public parcels as a means to fund those improvements, nurture growing local firms and incentivize targeted catalytic private investment

This development concept proposes the construction of a stand-alone structure in the outfield plaza of American Family Field that would house unique, year-round, revenue-producing facilities and services benefitting both the Brewers and the local community

This development concept suggests modifying Phase II of the River House Development in response to oversaturation of the proposed product type in the local market and to take advantage of the unique potential for the property to support a higher-margin rental product