Services for all shapes and sizes of projects

Retail, Foodservice, Workplace, Urban Agriculture & Special Uses

  • Feasibility, real estate location and type, ESG and sustainability, market research and business plans. project scope, budget, and timeline, branding and signage

  • Integrate facilities, construction, sourcing, and sustainability into project planning

  • Aligning products, services, and ingredients with business mission, vision, and values. Connecting with locally sourced businesses, as well as, similar business practices and objectives

  • Work with tenants and/or landlords to manage contractors and professionals

Mixed Use, Residential, and Multi-Family Developments

Public Art, Maker Space, Classroom, or other Creative Places

  • Feasibility and affordability, analysis, real estate location and mixture of uses, ESG and sustainability, market research, assess public space and retail use, project scope, budget, and timeline

  • Create workshops for collaboration and community input on projects, work with individual owners to manage contractors and professionals, and streamline processes

  • Review project design, signage, wayfinding, and public space

  • Feasibility, real estate location and type, market research and business plans. project scope, budget, and timeline, placement and art type assessment

  • Integrate facilities, fabrication and installation, coordination with lighting designers or other fabricators, and storytelling into project

  • The process of selection of artists, materials, services, classes, and community engagement

  • Work with stakeholders to manage artists, studio managers, tenants, students, and/or landlords, facilities to integrate compelling events, create rotating installation of new exhibits, showcase new works, and integrate temporary and permanent works. Coordinate with contractors and other artists and professionals

Fee Schedule

Armchair Advice

It all begins with an idea. Having an Advisor sitting with you to bounce off ideas, ideate your dreams, and share experiences can allow a founder, a team, or a stakeholder group the ability to share ideas and assess their potential success before the start of a business or project

  • do you want to launch a new brick and mortar business and are wondering about selecting a location, assessing real estate, permitting, construction, design scope or other areas of a project?

  • are you a real estate developer or investor that imagines turning unused real estate into a new blend of uses or adapt your ideas to old codes?

  • do you have a creative collaborative idea for a real estate use and/or development project to share with the world?

    Lets start with a chat over coffee, wine, or virtual.

60 mins l $250; 90 mins |  $350 

Guidance

Being an entrepreneur, a leader in your field or team, or a start-up, you have a lot of areas to focus on. Having someone to stand by you and advise on :

  • construction and design processes

  • project coaching about how to deliver a successful project.

  • ESG, Product and Ingredient Curation, or Sustainability Project Review.

  • design options that need to be assessed from an objective 3rd party with diverse viewpoints and expertise

  • ways to streamline the process, speed up delivery, reduce budget without sacrificing quality and innovation.

  • review of new concepts and business plans.

30 mins |  $125; 60 mins l $250  

Project Help

Your project and team have gone off the rails! You need help STAT! You need an expert who has experience in jumping in and hitting the ground running

  • you have contracts to review and you are not sure what they should or should not include

  • you want to create a high level timeline and scope for all to follow and need help to include all key areas

  • you are looking for a fresh project eye and someone that can communicate quickly and professionally to your team

  • you don’t have time to review project plans, pay apps, and team member communication and need to make decisions now.

30 mins |  $125; 60 mins l $250  

Team Planning & Project Review

There are a lot of pieces and parts to your project. Having someone that has been thru hundreds of projects successfully will create efficiencies and remove redundancies to free up time for discovery and innovation.

  • who to place on the team and when

  • what is the project scope and deliverables

  • who to collaborate with and when

  • what critical information is needed to make decisions

  • what sustainability and operational goals should be integrated at the beginning of a project

60 mins |  $250

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“Melanie follows through on her commitments in a timely manner. She is creative and appreciates innovation while simultaneously taking the needs and risk comfortability of her clients into account.”

— Karen Malody

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