
The situation
My own project: a broker reached out about a vacant Midtown Phoenix office tower and I walked it.
A schedule-sensitive conversion: the plan-review queue was the largest risk, outside architects quoted a fee the deal could not carry, and a rooftop buyer asked for the whole roof.
The classification locked before the unit program, a packet the architect of record could stamp, more checking on the model than a schedule allows, a divisible roof, a re-audited data room.
Zoning first, the classification before the unit count, self-certification, an in-house Revit model with a review pipeline, the architect of record for the stamp, the roof scoped to the footprint.
By right, no rezone or hearing; the self-certification packet assembled.
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The decision and the reasoning
Why we did it this way, told first.
ReadWhat we did and what it produced
The work, decision by decision, and the result.
ReadA slice of the project list
A few related projects.
ReadPrivate side
The full report, the source files on record, the timeline and every figure with its source. Password.
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