Due diligence, entitlements, site design, and construction support - engineering that carries a development from the first sketch to the last inspection.
The proof is on the ground across southeastern Wisconsin. The East Troy Business Park's roads, utilities, and stormwater opened lots that were 80 percent full within three years. Oakmere Farms turned rolling farmland in Rochester into 39 estate lots around wetlands and a central pond, with 4,500 feet of new roadway and balanced earthwork. The Lynch Mukwonago site put an 11.4-acre, two-building campus on a parcel with high groundwater and adjacent wetlands - and delivered it on time and on budget. The New Berlin Farmers Market went from concept to opening day on a schedule most would call unreasonable.
The scope covers the whole arc: feasibility and due diligence before you buy, site layout and grading design that protect yield, WDNR-compliant stormwater management, sanitary and water design, street and access design, permitting and entitlements across town, village, city, county, and state reviews, and survey and construction staking from the same office. Our team brings more than 20 years of land development experience, with licensure in 17 states.
One more advantage: we sit on the other side of the review table, too. As municipal engineers for Wisconsin communities, we review development submittals for a living - so the plans we draw for developers arrive the way reviewers need to see them, and the questions get answered before they are asked.
Four examples of what developers hire us for - follow any of them for the full story.
More development work: the Pleasant Prairie dealership and Chick-fil-A at Chula Vista. Building for a national brand? See national retail site development. Still evaluating the parcel? Start with site due diligence and feasibility.
Before the offer, if you can. Wetlands, floodplain, soils, stormwater requirements, and utility capacity all shape what a parcel can carry - and what it is worth. A due diligence review costs a fraction of a purchase mistake, and it pairs naturally with the ALTA or boundary survey the transaction already needs. Our site due diligence and feasibility page covers exactly what the review includes.
Typically some combination of municipal site plan or plat approval, county review, WDNR stormwater and wetland permits, and utility district coordination - the exact map depends on the community and the site. We run the full approval path, and because we also serve as municipal engineers for Wisconsin communities, our plans are drawn the way reviewers need to see them.
Detention, infiltration, and drainage easements all take land, so a stormwater strategy decided early protects lots and leasable area. On the Lynch Mukwonago site, high groundwater and adjacent wetlands were engineered into the layout with underdrains and underground storage - and the site stayed on schedule and on budget.
Yes. Boundary and topographic surveys, ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys, certified survey maps, subdivision plats, and construction staking are all performed in-house by our survey team - one contract, one team, no handoffs between the survey and the site design.
