Business & Logistics Centres

Our team of planners and designers create plans and policies for business and logistics parks that support diversification and strengthen regional economies.

Business and logistics park development is driven by an array of regional and sub regional influences spanning population and employment growth, market influences, land use, multi-modal transportation and servicing considerations. Our team collaborates with our clients to assess these factors and development objectives to inform project visioning, exploration and discovery, and creates compelling planning submissions necessary to position and secure development entitlements.

BUSINESS & LOGISTICS CENTRES EXPERTISE

Advisory Services

With our pulse on local political environments, regional and sub regional planning policy and our ability to evaluate land efficiently, we have a solid understanding of project influences and provide strategic advice to aid business and logistics park development.

An early understanding of the complex conditions pertaining to business and logistics park development is an important first step when deciding whether or how to start a project. Our team takes a multidisciplinary approach to provide a full understanding of environmental, economic and regulatory requirements that may be encountered on any scale of project.

Our interdisciplinary team has proven experience in the development of customized land strategies to support asset management objectives. Whether you hold existing land assets or are looking to acquire, our team can leverage localized planning knowledge and comprehensive land analysis to support asset disposition or acquisition objectives.

Working collaboratively with our clients and project partners, we support project visioning and preliminary design and evaluation as part of project conceptualization. We assist business and logistics parks teams with a comprehensive evaluation of all external factors to arrive at a preferred land use and development strategy.

A Concept Plan, Outline Plan or Conceptual Scheme is a planning tool typically prepared and advanced by a developer to establish a detailed development vision for a large parcel of land. They provide a vision that address such factors as land conditions, opportunities and constraints and outline in detail intended land use, road and lane dedication, forecast population and employment density, and define parks and open space, mobility and servicing systems. They also inform land use, subdivision and development applications. We lead the development of Concept Plans, Conceptual Schemes and Outline Plans for leaders within the development industry.

A Master Site Development Plan (MSDP) is a detailed planning instrument that establishes a project vision and framework to guide the development of a specified area of land over a period of time. To support the development of business and logistics parks, we have developed compelling MSDP’s that outline project location and context, baseline and future conditions, proposed development objectives, transportation, servicing and phasing strategies. Our MSDP submissions have helped secure municipal land use, subdivision and development approvals for major business park and logistics facility development throughout Canada.

Implementing business and logistics park development aspirations often requires creating or amending existing statutory and non-statutory plans. Our team of policy planning experts are able to ensure clear alignment between development objectives and municipal policy to advance either new or amended non-statutory plans to bring a project to life.

Using our extensive land use planning and development experience, we help navigate local government regulations, securing the approvals required to bring complex projects to fruition.

We represent client and project interests spanning municipal councils, planning commissions and subdivision and development appeal boards. Beyond local approval and appeal authorities we have experience providing evidence and expert witness testimony at the Government of Alberta Land and Property Rights Tribunal, Alberta Utilities Commission, and the Court of Queens Bench.

Our communications experts and graphic design team produces high impact marketing materials to support projects to entice investors and showcase opportunities.

FEATURED BUSINESS & LOGISTICS CENTRES PROJECTS

With more than 30 years of experience, our award-winning team delivers

A customized approach across diverse areas of expertise.