Connecting and Transforming Communities through Experience and Innovation
Services We Offer
Planning
Good early strategic planning produces a diligently researched and realistic foundation for a successful development. Garfield’s first phase services include needs assessment, ownership/business planning, programming/design concept, development budget and schedule, operating pro forma and financing/fundraising plan.
Development
Garfield provides a full range of development services and team leadership tailored to the client’s needs, including site acquisition; deal structuring; legal documentation; financing and fundraising; and oversight of development, design and construction, operator/brand selection, and pre-opening staffing and marketing.
Financing
Garfield applies unsurpassed public/private financing ingenuity and experience to solve financial, legal, and political challenges, enabling facilities to be built and delivered faster and more reliably than traditional public methods. Our deal techniques are not commonly known to conventional private developers.
Asset Management
Garfield offers asset management services for the properties we develop, ensuring that performance standards are met, operations and financial performance are optimized, and facilities are maintained to the 1st-class standard established at opening. Services include periodic site visits and regular reporting.
Testimonials
Hon. Lenwood A. Jackson
City Court Judge and Director of Facility Development
Lenwood A. Jackson, Sr. Justice Center – City Court of Atlanta
"This was a very complicated transaction fraught with difficulties, all of which Garfield and its team worked through successfully. The City of Atlanta is very pleased with the outcome. "
James M. Palenick
City Manager (1996 – 2002)
Bay City DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center
"I cannot speak highly enough of Garfield and its principals. In their absence, Bay City would not be celebrating the fulfillment of an otherwise impossible development dream.”
John C. Breternitz
County Commissioner, Washoe County (2008-2012)
Reno Public Safety Training Center
“We couldn’t have made a better choice. The taxpayers of Washoe County benefited from Garfield’s leadership throughout the entire process. I highly recommend them.”
Joseph F. Stellato
Director of Real Estate, State of New York
New York DOT Region 1 Headquarters
“This project demonstrates what partnering of the private and public sector can accomplish together. Garfield’s contribution in this team effort has resulted in an asset to the community.”
Manuel Sánchez-Biscombe
Executive Director, Puerto Rico Convention Center District Authority
Sheraton at the Puerto Rico Convention Center
"The way to evaluate an economic development project is by how much money it brings to the local economy. [The convention center/hotel complex] is expected to generate $300 million a year. This is a unique project for Puerto Rico and opens all kinds of doors of opportunity. "
Rob Allison
Assistant City Manager, Development Services, City of Lubbock (2006 – 2011)
Overton Hotel and Conference Center
"I would give my highest recommendation for Garfield and its team to complete any first-class facility for you. If the City of Lubbock has a future project of similar scope, we would not hesitate to use them."
Jim Cowell
Deputy, Chief Facilities Executive, Los Angeles Unified School District (2004 – 2007)
Los Angeles Unified School District
"The Developer’s experience and expertise ensured ultimate success of this highly visible and important project in LAUSD’s building program. They did a superb job."
Robert D. Lowry
Director of Public Works, City of Overland Park (1995 – 2004)
Overland Park Sheraton
"I have been involved in construction and construction management for almost 40 years and have never seen a project executed as flawlessly as the Overland Park Sheraton. Garfield and its team truly ‘under promised and over delivered’."
Alan DeLisle
Assistant City Manager for Economic and Workforce Development (2002 – 2009)
Durham Performing Arts Center
"Garfield was instrumental in the planning and development of the DPAC. The City of Durham has benefited greatly from their leadership and expertise in this process.”