A platform capability, not a standalone service.
The same platform,
applied to your project.
Advisory at Russell Glen is an extension of the development platform we use on our own projects. It is not a separate consulting practice. The same relationships, underwriting discipline, and execution standards inform the guidance we provide to owners, municipalities, and institutions.
Every recommendation is tested against real market demand, real construction cost, and real entitlement risk, because we apply the same judgment to advisory engagements that we apply when we put our own capital to work.
You get the judgment of a principal developer, delivered as a strategic capability.
Four advisory lanes, backed by the full platform.
Development advisory + consulting
Independent, developer-grade advice on what a site can actually become, before capital is committed. We test the plan against real market demand, real construction cost, and real entitlement risk.
- Highest-and-best-use and repositioning studies
- Trade area, demand, and tenant demand analysis
- Development pro forma, capital stack, and feasibility
- Site assemblage and acquisition strategy
- Second-opinion review of an existing master plan
Project + construction management
Owner's representation from pre-development through certificate of occupancy. One accountable team holding design, budget, schedule, and contractors to the plan the ownership approved.
- Owner's representative and program management
- Design and consultant team procurement
- Budget, schedule, and change-order control
- Contractor selection, buyout, and delivery oversight
- Tenant coordination, lease-up, and turnover
Public-private + community strategy
The part most groups outsource and most projects fail on. We structure the public participation and the community process that make complex redevelopment financeable.
- Incentive strategy: TIF, PID, grants, and gap funding
- Entitlement, zoning, and council strategy
- Public-private partnership structuring and negotiation
- Community engagement and stakeholder alignment
- Impact reporting and commitment tracking
Asset + portfolio strategy
For owners holding legacy retail, institutional land, or underperforming centers: what to hold, what to reposition, what to recycle, and in what order.
- Portfolio triage and repositioning sequencing
- Leasing and merchandising strategy
- Operating and capital plan review
- Disposition and joint-venture readiness
- Quarterly reporting against the underwritten plan
Cities + public agencies
Municipalities, economic development corporations, and authorities that control a site and need a developer's read before they issue an RFP or commit incentives.
Institutions + anchors
Health systems, universities, faith institutions, and civic anchors with land holdings that could carry housing, retail, and public space alongside their mission.
Owners + capital
Owners of legacy malls, centers, and land, plus funds and family offices that need execution capacity on an asset they already control.
Start small.
Scale to delivery.
- 01
Diagnostic
A fixed-fee, four-to-six week read on the asset: market, cost, entitlement, and a ranked set of viable outcomes.
- 02
Advisory retainer
Ongoing counsel through planning, incentive negotiation, and partner selection, priced monthly, scoped to the decisions in front of you.
- 03
Owner's representation
Full project and construction management through delivery, fee-based on project cost, with the same reporting we give our own capital partners.
- 04
Co-development
When the work argues for it, we move from advisor to principal and put Russell Glen capital and balance sheet alongside yours.
Tell us about the initiative.
Send the site, the ownership situation, and what has stalled. We will tell you candidly whether the work is advisory, delivery, or something we should pursue together as principals.
Contact the advisory teamSee the capability behind the counsel.
Advisory is one of five disciplines inside the Russell Glen platform. Explore how development, acquisitions, investment management, and asset management inform every recommendation.
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