CGP works with cities and governments to maximize real estate development opportunities by helping to create and maintain strong and vibrant local economies and sustainable economic growth. CGP uses a rigorous and extensive investment process to analyze market fundamentals, identify investment opportunities, build economic activity, protect capital, and manage risk, weighing economic, financial, environmental, political, and social factors to evaluate both public and private return on investment. Strategic economic planning helps create distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place, layered compatible real estate uses, improved access to public amenities and transportation, increased employment and housing choices, improved public health, and sustainable long-term economic growth, while helping to preserve and enhance natural resources and local culture.
CGP’s approach to strategic economic planning includes analysis and planning of:
• Workforce development
• Infrastructure, public amenities, and transit development
• Business marketing, attraction, expansion, and retention
• Community and neighborhood development
• Smart growth
• Sustainability
• Urban renewal
• International trade
• Tourism development
• Technology-led development