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We pioneered real estate market intelligence in the 1960s, and continue to be at the cutting edge of innovation and knowledge today.

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Our Services

Real Estate Economics

Investment Strategy

Asset Management

Management Consulting

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Real Estate Economics

RCLCO’s real estate economics and market research services center around in-depth analysis of demographic, economic, and industry-wide real estate trends. Turn to us for trusted, unbiased third party reports and recommendations regarding achievable market pricing, product definition and absorption potential for any proposed development concept, site, or product type.

Investment Strategy

RCLCO uses informed real estate analytics to help institutional investors create and implement top performing portfolios. Clients call us to make critical decisions even during times of uncertainty—decisions that prove to be durable and lead to successful outcomes.

Asset Management

Our asset management team will work with you to enhance the value and cash flow of your real estate holdings, providing strategic advice, risk management and monitoring, joint venture management, and operational management.

Management Consulting

Established in 1967, RCLCO has been paying close attention to strategic real estate trends for over 50 years. Our management consulting services focus on strategic planning, organization, and mergers and acquisitions, helping you achieve operational excellence for your brand.

Legal Support

Position your legal case for success with RCLCO’s customized support services. We offer a large array of analyses, valuations, entitlement support, and expert testimony services that are backed by our reputation of excellence.

Client Case Studies

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Tropicana Field Site Masterplan

St. Petersburg, Florida

RCLCO, as part of a vision planning team led by HKS Architects, was selected by the City of St. Petersburg, Florida to provide master planning services for the Tropicana Field site, home to the Tampa Bay Rays. The city was undergoing negotiations to retain the Rays, and engaged the planning team to help envision the possible redevelopment opportunities at the 80-acre site with the tandem goals of economic development for the City, creating a destination to drive baseball attendance, and building a new downtown neighborhood.
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Strategic Planning Services

For Investors Real Estate Trust

In 2016, IRET made the decision to pivot from a multifaceted real estate company with a mix of rental apartments, senior housing, medical office and other commercial assets, to a single-purpose multifamily REIT focused on the upper Midwestern markets. However, in Q1 2017, it was evident that the transformation to a pure-play rental apartment REIT was progressing slowly, and the Board retained RCLCO to facilitate a long-range strategic plan intended to assess the company’s plans, its capabilities, progress to date, and fine tune the go forward plan.
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City of Sandy, Utah

Nick Duerksen, Economic Development Director

“The RCLCO team brought exactly what the city needed by assessing market trends and development potential for the repositioning of our civic center area. They were able to articulate potential in terms of scalability, public commitment, and viability that city officials could understand. The quality and completeness of RCLCO’s work has aided the city in determining investment and direction as we move forward on the project.“
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Anderson Pacific, LLC

Ryan Altoon, Executive Vice President

“Over the past 12 years, Anderson Pacific has worked closely with RCLCO on all of its entitlement and development projects throughout California. Their thoughtful approach to the market, balanced with strong analytics, in-depth review of the region and sub-market, and understanding of the quality level of the asset being delivered compared to the market, all played a collective role in providing us the necessary information to make sound business decisions.”
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Sacramento City Center

Sacramento, California

With the Sacramento Kings poised to build a new arena in Downtown Sacramento, the time was ripe for land owners around the planned stadium to explore changes in market conditions driving development from the improvements that the arena would catalyze. JMA Ventures tasked RCLCO with providing a strategic residential and retail market analysis and program optimization for the proposed redevelopment of Sacramento Downtown Plaza. The challenge was to provide a macroeconomic analysis of the surrounding area as well as an evaluation of the potential options for developing the site and its positioning in the market.
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Capitol Riverfront Business Improvement District

Washington, DC

RCLCO successfully re-branded the entirety of metro Green Line station areas and breathed economic life into their land assets. Our findings debunked conventional thinking about the Green Line, suggesting that the Green Line Corridor study area has become a formidable competitor for capturing highly-prized young professional housing demand and high-wage employment. Additionally, RCLCO’s analysis suggested that the Capitol Riverfront BID—given its access at the Navy Yard Station and its significant amount of development capacity—had become among the most competitive locations in the region for residential, retail, and office development.
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LWR Communities, Inc.

Laura Cole, Vice President

“I am unaware of any other market research firm in the real estate space that can bring the level of talent, experience, and insights that RCLCO brings to each and every client engagement. I hold the firm and people who work there very dear to my heart.”
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LCOR

Harmar Thompson, Senior Vice President

“RCLCO is a great partner and resource who has worked closely with us on several projects to give clarity to the market trends we are experiencing through detailed research and graphical presentations. Their analytical approach and strategic guidance has been critical in helping us make investment decisions on a number of the complicated urban mixed use developments and acquisitions that we have been involved.”
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GTIS Partners

Fort Bend County, Texas

RCLCO evaluated the remaining 3,700 acres of Siena Plantation, an established master-planned community in Fort Bend County, Texas, a suburb of Houston. As a result of RCLCO’s work and recommendations, the client has since introduced a number of new product lines to better serve under represented buyer segments, resulting in an increase in new home sales.
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Palmetto Bluff Strategic Development Recommendations & Segmentation Strategy

Bluffton, South Carolina

RCLCO was retained by Crescent Communities to provide strategic recommendations and a detailed segmentation strategy for the master-planned community of Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton, South Carolina. At the time the community, like the industry overall, was experiencing slower than desired levels of sales. This was at least in part due to its uniformly high price points, shallow resulting customer pool, and limited product segmentation. Expanding the customer pool required significant new thought about the customer and what conditions were necessary to achieve a significant volume of sales throughout the market cycle.
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Transwestern

Robert Duncan, Chairman

“Charlie Hewlett and Gadi Kaufmann—both pros at strategy—know how to help real estate companies assess their strengths and weaknesses, forge consensus on strategic decisions, and get everyone on the same road map and pulling in the same direction. It’s a very, very, powerful process.”
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Analysis for the Lafitte Corridor

New Orleans, Louisiana

As one of New Orleans’ signature revitalization projects in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Lafitte Greenway was set to transform a former shipping canal and railroad right-of-way running through the heart of the city into a vibrant greenway path to link residential neighborhoods and provide much-needed recreation space. RCLCO was retained as a part of a team of consultants tasked with understanding how this trail and surrounding park areas could be used as a basis for economic development and neighborhood revitalization. Further, while the proposed construction of the trail was funded, RCLCO was asked to explore and recommend a funding solution for the ongoing maintenance and operation of the proposed trail and surrounding parks.
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Atlanta Beltline

Atlanta, Georgia

During the past 20 years, metropolitan Atlanta’s growth has occurred in widely spread and disconnected pockets of development which have strained the region’s quality of life and economic growth. Changing the way Atlanta grows is the goal of Atlanta BeltLine Inc. RCLCO conducted a macro-level market analysis for the BeltLine Study Area as part of the due diligence for the creation of the BeltLine Tax Allocation District (TAD). In 2008, RCLCO then updated the original market forecasts, and in 2011 as a part of a large multidisciplinary team, RCLCO worked with ABI to create a transit implementation strategy for subareas identified as priority corridors for early implementation and incorporated the impact of other investments such as the downtown streetcar into the TAD development forecasts.
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Landmark Mall

Alexandria, Virginia

Landmark was a mid-1960, regional shopping center with Macy’s, Sears and Lord & Taylor anchors. In the early 2000s owner General Growth Properties began to explore redevelopment concepts, but no viable plan was ever finalized. The mall was one of the assets awarded to Howard Hughes Corporation after the restructuring of GGP, who turned to RCLCO to help conceptualize a reuse plan and a real estate strategy for the asset.
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Centennial Campus North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

The Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University is a highly successful model of integrated research and academic facilities. The University administration retained RCLCO to help improve the park’s competitiveness; we recommended exploring strategies to bring a mix of uses to the park and increase service and recreational offering. This recommendation resulted in a detailed study, financial analysis, and preparation of a transaction strategy for a mixed-use development on a 15-acre lakefront site.
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Strategic Planning Services

For Kettler, Inc.

RCLCO was retained to conduct corporate strategic planning at the holding company level, and then proceeded to conduct strategy plans for the two main operating divisions of Kettler, including the multifamily development company and the residential property management company.
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Collage of Stock Images Used as Header for 2020 Year-End Sentiment Survey

January 18, 2021

RCLCO’s Year-End 2020 Sentiment Survey: 2020 – See Ya, Wouldn’t Want to Be Ya…

The U.S. economy and job markets have been in full-blown downturn mode over the past several months, but may be finding the bottom now, and the economy and real estate markets (with some notable exceptions) are expected to return to growth mode over the next several quarters.

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