Land Development

The world is your canvas—we help you find the right place to paint.

Whether you are seeking to redevelop a property or are looking at a greenfield, we can help you study it and understand it. LaBella’s site selection and feasibility studies synthesize a wide range of information—historical, existing, and forecasted data—to assess whether a site is suitable for development.

We use this data to assess the time, complexity, and cost required to unlock a site’s potential, equipping you with the insight needed to make informed site selection decisions. Our feasibility studies analyze key site conditions, including:

• Soils and topography
• Infrastructure presence and capacity
• Transportation connectivity and access
• Environmental constraints such as wetlands and ecological habitats
• Historical uses that may have resulted in contamination
• Archaeological records
• Local land use regulations

Concepts that planning boards are eager to approve.

With the site selected, we collaborate with you to develop a concept that meets your project goals while working within the site’s constraints and budget. We help you understand and evaluate big-picture issues such as underground utilities, traffic and parking demands, and sustainability.

Our goal is to develop a well-thought-out project for the initial planning board meeting. What attracts the board to the project? What raises red flags? Using this early feedback, we refine the concept and begin the design development and entitlement process with confidence in securing planning board support. We also work with you to anticipate questions and prepare thoughtful, thorough responses from the outset of the process.

We’ve been on both sides of the table.

LaBella works with municipalities, helping their planning boards review site development plans. We understand how boards operate and what they look for in an approval-worthy project. Armed with this knowledge, experience, and a network of local connections, we can shepherd projects through the approval process swiftly and successfully.

We routinely obtain permits and approvals from federal, state, and local agencies. The relationships we have developed with these regulators help us understand what is needed to get your plan approved.

A well-designed engagement plan helps the public understand the thought process behind your project.

We craft proactive community engagement strategies—such as open houses and informal forums—that can “turn the heat down” on the typical public hearing process. Community members are often more supportive of a project when they understand it and have the opportunity to provide input early in the process.

It’s all in the details.

In parallel with the entitlement process, LaBella advances design development plans. Design development includes civil site, traffic, structural, architectural, and landscape architectural plans for both planning board and agency approval, as well as establishing bidding packages and construction phasing.

We work with you to create a sustainable, functional, and cost-effective development that realizes your vision and addresses planning board and public comments. Using powerful visualization techniques, we help all stakeholders—including you—picture the completed project.

Bringing your project to life.

With a full range of construction support services, we see your project through to completion.

LaBella’s design professionals remain involved throughout construction. Our full-time construction inspectors are dedicated to overseeing safe projects and can assist in specialized areas such as work in highway rights-of-way. We prepare final punch lists and inspections and work with regulators to help you obtain final sign-offs and open your project on schedule.