Savanah Limited Partnership / Newfield Enterprises International | Development project managers and asset management of community ice skating rink, associated with the former Ritz-Carlton Aspen and Aspen Mountain P.U.D.
Work included public involvement in naming the facility, “Silver Circle” and appointment of facility operator. The rink is situated at the base of Aspen Mountain in the heart of Aspen, Colorado.
Al Ghurair Group (UAE) | As retail-entertainment consultants, we provided an asset management review during development, including leasing, tenant mix, entertainment, and events at this mixed-use facility. he project involved a mixed-use facility including a major retail mall, hotel, serviced apartments, and office space.
Confidential Assignment | As outdoor recreation consultants we provided business feasibility and select site due diligence reviews, for potential outdoor recreation “adventure park” in the Western U.S. Limited indoor spaces included possibilities of repurposing on-site buildings. Some of the first phase recreation activities may include horseback riding and stables, ATV trails, disc golf, miniature golf, and picnic areas with scenic views.
The phased development plan included consideration of more simple recreation activities easily provided, to be followed by more complex and capital-intensive attractions after the location is established. Some of the later phase recreation activities may include zip lines, a cliff-side downhill coaster, ice skating, a pump (BMX) track, and an elaborate outdoor maze.
As a real estate consultant, a project feasibility study and due diligence review was prepared for the proposed Monterey Plaza resort hotel, to be located in Monterey, California.
Our development consulting work included an analysis of market support for the project, hotel financial projections, preliminary capital budget, an entitlements and permitting assessment, and facility recommendations for the planned hotel development. Meeting space and meeting room configuration recommendations included an overall sizing recommendation, at 18,000 to 20,000 SF of space.
The site for the resort hotel was situated along a rocky beach overlooking Monterey Bay, in the Cannery Row district of Monterey. Cannery Row is the historic waterfront street which at one time was the site of a several sardine canning factories, the last of which shuttered in 1973. Cannery Row was made famous in a 1945 novel set during the Great Depression, by author John Steinbeck. Monterey’s Cannery Row district is also home to the famed Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Subsequent to preparation of the project feasibility study and due diligence, and full project design, this 290-room resort hotel was built and opened as one of the premier independent properties of the Monterey (California) region. The hotel is located at 400 Cannery Row in Monterey, California and is now operated by Woodside Hotel Group.
As project experiential design consultants, Adventure Entertainment is designing a cognitive trail program as part of a retail-entertainment district. Primarily a soft programming manner, the “cognitive trail” can provide an interesting activity for toddlers and young children who are at the development stage of exploring and learning their environment. Children are particular ages strive to master their physical environments; knowing where places are – we all know how children will seek out the same places at museums, zoos, and malls, enjoying their recall of where enjoyable places of interest are located. A cognitive trail accentuates that experience.
As with all other parent-children activities, the cognitive trail activities needs to be planned for parental comfort as well.
A cognitive trail experience can be a nice addition to other simple forms of kid’s soft programming at destination places, together with such activities as “big wheel” or miniature electric jeep races in the plazas, kid’s mazes, as well as scheduled sessions of “Simon says,” jump rope and hop scotch contests, basketball toss, and the like.