aec Confidential Client | Master planning exploration for new film studio and backlot, devised in a “movie ranch” sensibility.
Posted information and images regarding this assignment is limited at client’s request.
aec Confidential Client | Preliminary ideation and conceptual master plan extension of existing tribal Travel Center.
Illustration work shown here is a product of aec‘s Rapid Prototyping Unit, combining feasibility results with preliminary project scaling, layout, and overall guest experiential design – created to assist Ownership group in confirming design intent and project budgets.
Becovic Holdings | Owner representative and development project managers for redevelopment and operation of this former government-owned hotel along the Montenegrin coast in Ulcinj.
Land development consultants for resort planned for the Big Island of Hawaii. Our consulting work for North Kohala Ranch included a market evaluation, the project feasibility analysis, built product concepts, conceptual master planning, and initial entitlements strategy.
The big idea for the project was a master-planned resort with substantial wellness facilities, golf, and extensive outdoor recreation activities. Recommendations included a 240-room main resort along with residential development overlooking Māhukona Harbor. The harbor is actually an abandoned commercial harbor used by the Kohala Sugar Company.
For this work we acted as land development consultants for for this resort was on behalf of Chalon International of Hawaii. In December 1988, Chalon International of Hawaii (Chalon Hawaii) had been established as a subsidiary of Chalon Corporation, a Japanese company.
This former commercial harbor for Kohala Sugar Company was part of an extensive sugar cane farming and production operation.
The North Kohala district is the portion of the Big Island (a/k/a Hawaii County) at its extreme north tip, the region where Kamehameha the Great was born. This part of the Big Island is known for its scenic valleys, its ranching culture and the Paniolos (Hawaiian cowboys), and extensive role in Hawaiian history. During the initial environmental review of the landholding, more than 11,000 archaeological and historic sites were identified. Our work as land development consultants for resort concepting and development included consideration of such sensitive cultural and historical sites of the indigenous Hawaiians.
The scenic valleys created by Kohala volcano were extensively cultivated in ancient times, where the valleys were terraced for farming with ditch irrigation systems that brought water from mountain streams to crops such as taro, sweet potatoes, and bananas.
Chalon Hawaii (later renamed Surety Kohala) was formed to acquire, own and develop the vacant land of Kohala Land, which at the time consisted of about 19,384 acres. The majority of Kohala Land’s property was zoned at the time, for agriculture. Kohala Land property had been used for sugar cane production for a century or more until 1975 when the primary facility (Kohala Sugar Company) was closed. After the cessation of sugar cane operations there were no major activities on the land, which was left vacant.
Mixed-use redevelopment entitlement and permits support to client project developed at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. The assignment also involved feasibility-related analysis related to the project, given its location within a then transitional retail-entertainment district of Santa Monica.
This project by the Janss Investment Corp. (Thousand Oaks, California) pioneered the redevelopment of the old Santa Monica Mall into what is now known as Third Street Promenade. The seven-story, 138,000 SF building at 3rd and Broadway was redeveloped with office space, 32 apartments, parking, and a restaurant operated by a well-known local chef. The project also included a four-screen Cineplex Odeon theater, which has since been rebranded with a new cinema operator. The theater façade’s was integrated into the mixed-use redevelopment project.
The Janss Investment Corp. was one of the storied real estate development firms of Southern California, first established by Dr. Peter Janss and his sons well over a century ago. During the 1920’s the closely-held family investment firm donated 100 acres land on in West Los Angeles for the establishment of UCLA. Among so many developments accomplished by Janss Corp., the company developed ski resorts in Sun Valley (Idaho) and Aspen (Colorado), the planned community of Thousand Oaks, California, and a myriad of housing and commercial projects throughout Southern California.
This real estate advisory involvement providing mixed-use redevelopment entitlement and permits support was an assignment of StoneCreek Partners’ co-founder while a principal with predecessor consulting and land planning design firm, Phillips Brandt Reddick (Irvine, California).