These are real examples of the difficult situations that building owners, investors and developers find themselves in all too often.

Compounded Risk. What these examples all share is their complexity and the clear risk each presents to the client—not only on the level of the specific project but also its potential implications for the overall business.

These examples have something else in common—the initial team of professionals hired to oversee them actually compounded the risk their clients faced instead of mitigating it.

Who To Trust? Building owners, investors and developers today face an ever more challenging market alongside a changing economy. Lenders, limited partners and tenants are all becoming increasingly demanding at a time when margins have never been tighter. All of this means that there is vanishingly little room for error. Building-related advisors must be true advocates with the knowledge and ability to follow through.

The business of buildings is also subject to all the complexities that the modern world brings in terms of information overload and endless optionality. The market is flooded with software solutions that promise to magically cure every pain point in commercial real estate. There are project delivery methods with trendy names adopted from the technology sector and enormous firms that claim they can do it all. How do you know whom or what to trust?

True Advocacy. The Cooperative Companies exist to meet this demand for higher-order insight and true advocacy on behalf of clients. We envision relationships where our partners charge forward with confidence because of the strength of our counsel—knowing that we will always enhance their deals and their operations. We envision relationships where our partners also rest easier at night—knowing that we are fastidiously working to clear any obstacles. We work each day intent on making such relationships a reality for our clients.