Real Estate
In the highly-competitive West Michigan real estate market, proper timing and unique solutions offer a significant business advantage. Our real estate practice works rapidly, and it is constantly developing creative solutions to the most challenging obstacles. This strengthens our clients' positions and augments their reputation in the community of developers and real estate owners.
Specific areas in which we represent clients include:
Acquisition, development, and management
- Retail and office centers
- Entertainment, hospitality, health care
- Industrial, airport, power plant, and mixed-use facilities
- Residential and commercial condominiums and site condominiums
- Portfolio acquisitions and exchanges,
- Zoning and land use
- Leasing
- Brokerage and management agreements
- Real estate tax appeals
Financing
- Bankruptcy
- Conventional construction, interim and permanent mortgage financing
- Industrial revenue bond financing
- Low income housing financing
- Mezzanine financing
- Private equity
- Sale/leasebacks
- Securitized financing and CMBS
- Workouts and restructures
Ownership and Tax Structures
- Formation of partnerships, limited partnerships, joint ventures and limited liability companies
- Syndications
- Federal and state tax structuring for individual transactions and portfolio management
- Public/private partnerships
- Brownfield credits
- Challenges and opposition to entitlements to competitors
- Development agreements
- Infrastructure development and financing
- Land assemblage and condemnation
- Renaissance zones and Enterprise zones
- Tax abatement
- Tax increment financing
- Other governmental inducements and incentives
Construction Planning
- Structuring and negotiation of design and construction agreements
- Construction liens and bonding
- Construction lending and draw administration
- Dispute resolution and construction litigation
Land Use and Regulatory
- Zoning, including administrative practice and litigation
- Subdivision, platting and site condominiums
- Wetlands regulation
- Enforcement of restrictive covenants
- Liquor licensing
- Practice Area Contact
- James Ens
- Practice Area Members
- Alan Bennett
- Clifford Bloom
- Robert Buchanan
- David Caldon
- Brandon Stewart