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Our Skills Put to Work For You
Real estate is more than just space for your office, warehouse, distribution, manufacturing or other industrial operation. It’s a critical element to successfully serving clients and customers, and producing, packaging and delivering your product in a competitive timeframe. Leasing or buying the right space in the right location can elevate your brand, streamline logistics and the supply chain, attract and retain talent, and make a meaningful impact on your bottom line.
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We have extensive experience in the development and execution of real estate strategies for industrial companies with a single requirement in the Puget Sound Region or multiple projects as part of national and global portfolios.
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By bringing together specialized market knowledge, understanding of your business strategy and goals, customized negotiations, and a library of best practices and successes, we arm you with actionable market insight, meaningful business connections and occupancy analysis to maximize decision making. Additional experience as landlord agent for large, institutional owners of industrial space provides insight into that side of the transaction process, allowing for tactical deal-making to your benefit.
Strategic Planning
Are you growing or shrinking? What type of talent do you want to attract? What locations align with your vision? We’ll work with you to answer these questions and more so all the information necessary for targeting markets and making smart decisions is available. Then we’ll help craft a framework through which future actions are funneled.
We have represented clients from across the real estate spectrum in transactions of all types and sizes in all economic environments. This experience combines with industry-leading market research, demographic and financial analysis, and workplace solutions to forecast market conditions and position you to understand your options, take advantage of trends, and find properties that match your criteria. Using proprietary software and your real estate profile, we can identify and evaluate opportunities by county, zip codes, census tracts and other criteria, whether you need a single location or multiple locations around the country.
Site Consultation & Selection
Portfolio Consulting & Management
Through an understanding of how you use real estate and how real estate impacts your business strategy, we help construct and execute forward-thinking strategies, build and maintain a competitive advantage, align real estate with core business, optimize real estate assets, utilize innovative technology, and increase productivity — whether your portfolio encompasses a single site or multiple locations. We also act as a resource for accessing expertise relating to workplace strategy and change management, supply chain and logistics networking, distribution centers, data centers, project management, facility management, and other Colliers services.
Workforce Analytics
Employee demographics
The ability to attract and retain talent is key to competing in today’s market. We work with our in-house Research team and external vendors as appropriate to evaluate how specific real estate scenarios and locations effect both current staff and recruitment targets.
State and local incentives, identification and negotiations
Many states, counties, municipalities and other government agencies offer incentives for significant real estate commitments in their areas. These can include tax breaks for job creation, property tax abatements, cash grants, and non-cash awards such as building code equivalency variances and reduction or elimination of permitting fees. Through diligent research, in-depth financial analysis and savvy negotiation, we help you obtain incentives that reduce the cost of construction or retrofitting and minimize both your total capital investment and recurring operating expenses over the life of the facility.