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Hart Howertons business is about helping clients
optimize returns and minimize risk, while ensuring that thedevelopment strategy is appropriate to the land, the commu-nity and the environment.
Jim Mozley, Crescent Resources
Hart Howerton understands the capacity of land and what it
takes for a project tocompete in the global marketplace. om Harrison, Colony Capital
A dynamic, focused and knowledgeable firm that goes wellbeyond design andunderstands the business of their clients.
Mark Harmon,Auberge Resorts
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Optimizing asset valuethrough four decades
of market cycles
C O N T E N T S
Overview 2
Selected Case Studies
Walt Disney World, Florida 4
MetroCenter, Nashville,ennessee 5
Vail Valley, Colorado 6
New City Center, Arizona 7
Costa Smeralda and Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy 8
Niseko Higashiyama and Minakami Kogen, Japan 9
Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina 10
Hotel Del Coronado, California 11
Santa Catalina Island and own of Avalon, California 12
Cattle Creek Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado 13
Te Santa Lucia Preserve, California 14
Kukio, Hawaii 15
Serengeti National Park, anzania 16Bridges of St. Paul Waterfront Development, Minnesota 17
Selected Biographies 18
Where We Are Working 20
Our Clients 22
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Trough four decades of real estate cycles we have helped developers, lenders,
equity investors, and landowners in over 35 countries to optimize the value
of their real estate assets through innovative development strategies and
superior market-driven design.
Our portfolio of success stories through
four decades of market cycles enables us to
leverage our long-standing global networks
to connect our clients with premier, turn-
key teams, including strategic partners for
capital, branding, marketing, development,
operations and holding land.
What We Do:Accelerated Strategic Planning
Te core of our practice lies in accelerated
strategic planning and team building
for promising and/or troubled real estate
requiring an objective, practical and
rigorous approach. We provide strategic
recommendations, due-diligence, evaluations,
design and re-development solutions for
clients faced with:
Distressed AssetsRestrictive Entitlements
Sensitive Environments
Changing Markets
Trough our experience with large-scale
mixed-use communities like Palmetto Bluff,
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urban town centers such as Mesa, Arizona,
resorts and hospitality including Kukio in
Hawaii, conservation communities like Santa
Lucia Preserve, and family land holdings
including the Rockefellers and Callaways,
we have developed value-add strategies for
real estate assets that have continued to hold
a competitive edge in changing markets.
Who We Are:A Global Network
Hart Howerton is a creative and disciplined
team of development strategists, land
planners, urban designers, architects and
landscape architects, founded in 1967,
with offices in New York, San Francisco,
and London, and field offices in Boston,
Minneapolis and Park City.
We have the global background, technicalexpertise and research capabilities of a large,
international practice, but we are organized
to provide personal attention to detail and
fast response of local specialized firms. We
make this possible by thoughtful selection of
our projects and clients.
Global connectionsExpert teams
Market positioningOptimizing assets
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Our Approach: Comprehensive
We select and organize a team around thespecific requirements and objectives of
the client.
eam Organization:We draw from our in-
house real estate, land planning, architecture,
environmental design and engineering
professionals and tap our global networks,
which include many of the most innovativeand experienced minds in the real estate
business.
Assessment: As a team, we conduct an in-
depth, objective, confidential assessment of a
real estate assets potential, including, but not
limited to:
Strategic VisionMarket Position
Business Operations
Sustainable Opportunities
Cost Factors
Risk Factors
Environmental Constraints
Legal Restrictions
Entitlement Planning
Innovative Alternatives
Phasing Strategies
Potential Financial Results
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Strategy: Based on the assessment, we
develop a vision and strategy that packagesand positions, or repositions, the real estate
asset to optimize its value in the market while
minimizing risk.
Execution: We manage the execution of
the strategy through design, construction,
marketing and operations in collaboration
with our clients and their partners.
Te Results: Real Estate Successes
We have proven success bringing workable
strategies to market. We combine our
real estate thinking with award-winning
master planning, architecture, landscape,
environmental and infrastructure design. We
measure our results, year by year, through ourcompleted projects and our clients real estate
success. We deliver landmark places that are
successful real estate ventures.
Overview
Hart Howerton is a fast, strategic, and very creative partner.
Ed Divita, Partner, Discovery Land Company
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Situation:Te 10,500 hectare Walt Disney World property
Solutions:We were members of the Disney team for environmental studies
and town planning.
Design concepts and site planning for the first Disney 1,400
hectare residential resort community
Lake Buena VistaArchitecture for its first residential buildings and landscapes
Te Results: oday, our work is part of the most successful destination
resort ever built and we have continued to collaborate with Disney on new
projects.
Te Origins of a Great American Landmark
Project: Walt Disney World, Florida
Client:Te Disney Organization
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Selected Case Studies
Situation: A 285 hectare abandoned riverfront brownfield site adjacent to
Nashvilles Central Business District and the State Capitol.
Solutions:
A cost effective, phased, real estate strategy, detailed development plans and
design guidelinesransformed environmental constraints into amenities
Master Plans for a prestigious new in-town business address
Architects for the catalyst anchor buildings, including Northern elecoms
U.S. Corporate Headquarters and the innovative Nashville House
Te Results:A successful expansion of Nashvilles Central Business District,
attracting IBM and other top corporations. Effectively a new town in-town
that repositioned a brownfield.
Expansion of the Central Business District
Project:MetroCenter, Nashville, ennessee
Client:Te Matthews Company and Aladdin Industries
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Situation: On-mountain development and base village redevelopment in the
cyclical growth patterns of the Vail Valley resort region
Solutions:We were part of the Vail Resorts strategic planning and real estate
development team over 15 years, through two business cycles. Te major
projects:
Village to Village skiing master plans linking Beaver Creek, Bachelor
Gulch and Arrowhead
Bachelor Gulch design of a distinctive, indigenous Rocky Mountain
village one of the great mountain real estate successes in Colorado
Vail Village Master planning and on-going redevelopment for the
Arrabelle and the Vail Front Door projects
Breckenridge and Keystone planning and architecture for upgrading Vails
Summit region propertiesLow risk, packaged land owner/developer partnerships
Te Results:All-season villages and on-mountain destinations that capitalize
on the high end markets reinforcing the Vail Valley as North Americas
most prestigious mountain resort experience, now the standard for mountain
resort communities worldwide.
Strategic Tinking and Design for Landowner/Developer Partnerships
Project:Vail Valley, Colorado
Client:Vail Resorts Development Company
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Selected Case Studies
Situation: A brownfield site, 15 square kilometers, with the potential to
anchor the desert growth corridor east of Phoenix/empe/Mesa
Solutions:
A global team of innovative specialists
Development framework and entitlement strategy to capitalize on longterm trends
Design of a new city center high density mixed use, transit oriented
Te cutting edge of sustainable urban living in a desert climate
Controlled risk creating value step-by-step
Balanced, marketdriven phasing and time-saving entitlements
Te Results: Commitment for a major 2,000 room hotel and convention
center by a respected national investor/operator.
Prime sites for residential neighborhoods, cultural, recreational, retail, and
CBD office development at a city scale many thousands of square meters
a practical new model for growth corridors and urbanism in Americas
metropolitan areas.
A Sustainable Long Range Strategic Development Framework
Project:New City Center, Arizona
Client:DMB Associates
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Situation: Costa Smeralda 16 kilometers of spectacular coastline; 2,450
prime hectares, the iconic resort town of Porto Cervo originally developed
by the Aga Khan for a high end, world market
Solutions:
Land development strategy, master plans and entitlement documentsValue-creating new entitlements for expanded hotels, new hotels and
villas, golf and the famous yachting scene
Updated plans for circulation, roads, parking, public parks, plazas,
promenades
Extensive network of new marine and land preserves
Architecture, landscape and infrastructure concepts that reinvigorate the
maturing resort town
New government investment and zoning plans
Te Results:A reinforcement of Costa Smeraldas position as the leading
Mediterranean resort while broadening its penetration into expanding world
markets.
Repositioning a World Class Destination with a New Vision
Project:Costa Smeralda and Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy
Client:Colony Capital
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Selected Case Studies
Situation: CurrentlyJapans premier golf and mountain resort destinations
Solutions: Fast, cost-effective and comprehensive feasibility analyses
for CPIJ.
Repositioning the two leading, but under-performing, golf and mountain
resort propertiesRethinking and restructuring club and resort operations
Updating and re-configuring land and real estate products as complete
resort villages
Te Results:A comprehensive business plan and short term asset
management strategy to immediately improve each propertys earnings
potential while still protecting long term value.
An Accelerated Business Plan for Immediate Action
Project:Niseko Higashiyama and Minakami Kogen, Japan
Client:CPIJ Citigroup Principal Investments Japan
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Situation:A 7,300 hectare barrier island landholding on the South
Carolina coast planned for the next generation markets
Solutions: Development strategy, positioning and Design of
a Complete Environment
A prestigious new resort community on the cutting edge of sustainable andconservation based development
argeting the evolving high-end real estate market
Extending low country traditions of coastal village life within a vast,
protected natural setting
Design for an innovative Auberge Inn as real estate catalyst
Te Results:A new threshold of land values in the region and sustained
sales velocity in todays down market.
A Community Shaped by History, Sensitive Environmentsand a New Boutique Hotel
Project:Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina
Client:Crescent Resources
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Selected Case Studies
Situation: New ownership of one of Americas classic but aging landmark
properties on the Southern California Coast
Solutions:A repositioning strategy to upgrade facilities and operations
Comprehensive analysis of operations and the 11 hectare site
Alternatives for architectural and landscape improvements and expansionA new business plan and entitlements for renovations, new expansions and
site improvements
Te Results: Our Design for a Complete Environmentupgraded theproperty from a four to a five star resort adding significant earnings
potential and asset value.
Adding Earnings Potential to a Venerable Asset
Project:Hotel Del Coronado, California
Client:Lowe Enterprises
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Situation: A 1,200 hectare historic landmark resort town surrounded by a
land preserve a Los Angeles island exurb
Solutions:
Recapturing the value of a once prime, international resort destination
Unlocking additional saleable land for the ownerWorking out ways to intensify development
Packaging phased, feasible projects for the developer
Complementing the communitys high standards for sustainability, growth
controls and environmental protection
Te Results:A development agreement currently under review by the
government and design of a new anchor hotel planned for 2010.
Advising a Landowner and a Developer on Joint Development Strategies
Project: Santa Catalina Island and own of Avalon, California
Client: Te Island Company Catalina and Te Koll Company
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Selected Case Studies
Situation:A 120 hectare brownfield site and degraded watershed and stream
corridor in the Roaring Fork Valley, with a prime location for workforce housing
Solutions:Development strategy and community master plan
for Cattle Creek
ransit Oriented Development to address on-site trip reduction andregional transportation.
A complete Colorado town neighborhoods, schools, retail, offices,
recreation and community facilities
A cluster of walkable neighborhoods
A range of residential products including work force and affordable housing
A revitalized landscape for trails, parks and open spaces
A restored watershed and stream corridor
Performance-based design standards for infrastructure, landscapes andbuildings
Te Results:A new model for environmentally sensitive community
development to complement expansion in the region, and the basis
for negotiating multi-agency entitlements.
A Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainable Community Development
Project:Cattle Creek Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado
Client:Te Related Companies/WestPac
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Situation:An 8,100 hectare valley above Monterey and Carmel redwood
forests and a cattle ranch on one of the largest private landholdings in coastal
California
Solutions: Development strategies, master plans and design of a Complete
Environment for an innovative, high end Community Preserve ensuring a
rural lifestyle for 280 families surrounded by vast tracts of protected ecological
preserve
Te most extensive environmental analysis ever undertaken by a
private landowner
An intensive and complex entitlement process with county, state and
federal agencies to lock-in land use and water rights
Restoration of watersheds degraded by grazing
Protection of 7,300 hectares in perpetuity by creative and rigorousdevelopment standards and an endowed Conservancy
Value creating conservation easements
Te Results: Te Santa Lucia Preserve established a new model for how a limited
amount of high quality development can permanently protect a one-of-a-kind
natural setting and produce outstanding real estate investment results.
Creating the First Community Preserve
Project:Te Santa Lucia Preserve, California
Client:Rancho San Carlos Partnership/Pacific Union Company
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Selected Case Studies
Situation:A 267 hectare oceanfront lava flow on the prestigious north Kona
Coast of Hawaiis Big Island
Solutions: Development strategies, master plans and designs for the Complete
Environment of this private beach club community
Challenging ecological, cultural and geological conditions turnedinto assets
Beachfront values extended deep into the property, through grading and
landscaped open spaces
Architecture using traditional Hawaiian materials and construction
methods including thatched roofs
A seamless tropical landscape setting, a defining characteristic of Hawaiian
mauka-makai lifestyle connecting ocean to mountain
Te Results: Kukio showed how the best of traditional Hawaiian
architecture and ambiance can be delivered to a high-end market
as it established the highest value real estate on the Big Island.
Te Highest Residential Values Respecting Hawaiian Values
Project:Kukio, Hawaii
Client:Discovery Land Company, Westbrook Partners, Te Getty rust
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Situation:A need to ensure continuing protection for the future of the wildlife
and its habitats in anzanias Serengeti National Park
Solutions:
A planning process that ensures all stakeholders are represented in future
plans for the ParkA General Management Plan that establishes development zones, capacity
standards and operational and management guidelines
Positioning to attract best-in-class operators and influential, long term
investors
A Strategic Land Plan to increase park revenues while balancing public
access and new long term private concessions
A 10 year financial model that expands revenue streams through new
zoning and land management policies
Te Results:A tourism model and public private partnership to unlock
the value of the National Park and provide long range protection and
enhancement through long-term funding and management agreements.
A Business Plan and ourism Model for the #1 World Heritage Site
Project: Serengeti National Park, anzania
Client: anzania National Parks and Frankfurt Zoological Society
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Selected Case Studies
Situation:A 29 hectare brownfield site on downtown St. Pauls Mississippi
riverfront
Solutions:
A development vision and mix of uses to complement and reinforce the
existing St. Paul downtown300,000 square meters of waterfront residential and commercial space
Public open spaces, a museum and marina, a riverfront park and pedestrian
connections to downtown
Flexibility to attract investors and developers to build in sequential, on-
demand phases
Te Results:A large scale, urban mixed-use development plan to guide
the citys growth pattern and enhance the amenity and value of the entire
center-city real estate.
Revitalizing a Center City along its Downtown Riverfront
Project: Bridges of St. Paul Waterfront Development, Minnesota
Client:JL Group, Inc.
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David P. Howerton,ASLA, AICP Chairman
Dave leads the firm as Chairman providing
high-level strategy and planning on all
projects. As a result of his ground breaking
work on many environmentally-sound,
highly marketable new communities and
mixed-use projects, including the nationallyacclaimed Santa Lucia Preserve in California
and Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina, Dave
is consistently relied upon by leaders in the
development industry to provide sound
business thinking.
Dave is widely recognized as one of the leading
talents in the profession, both in the business
and academic fields. He has taken active roles
in ULI, and is a regular guest lecturer at the
University of California, Berkeley and at
Harvard. He also serves as a trustee for the
School of Architecture Foundation at the
University of Virginia.
Education:
University of Virginia, School
of Architecture: Bachelor of City
Planning, 1974
University of California, Berkeley, College
of Environmental Design: Master of
Landscape Architecture, 1977
ASLA Certificate of Honor for Excellence
in the Study of Landscape Architecture
Professional Associations:
American Society of Landscape Architects
American Institute of Certified PlannersUrban Land Institute -- Executive Council
Registered Landscape Architect and
CLARB Certified
Te mainstream of our practice is managing and optimizing the value of realestate assets.
David P. Howerton
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A. James inson,AIA, Chief Executive Officer
Jim works directly with client leadership,
providing strategic vision for complex
projects in sensitive locations throughout the
world. From cities to private estates, clients
seek out Jims business acumen, international
connections, technical expertise, and morethan 15 years of experience as a strategist,
planner, and designer. He combines an
extensive business management background
with broad design talent to lead all of our
New York operations.
Jim has worked to create new communities,
urban centers, and mixed-use environments
for such premier clients and developers as Te
Related Companies, Cushman and Wakefield,
Walt Disney Company, DMB, St. Joe
Company, Rockefeller Group Development
Company, Crescent Resources, Revolution
Resorts, Dolphin Capital, and in association
with others, Georgetown Development Co.,
Yale University, and the New York Jets.
An active educator, Jim serves as a returning
critic for advanced studios at the Yale
Graduate School of Architecture, leads an
Executive Education course on Community
Planning for the Harvard Graduate School
of Design, and has been a lecturer and jurorat the University of Pennsylvania and Notre
Dame. His work has been published and
exhibited internationally.
Education:
University of Notre Dame, Bachelor
of Architecture, 1992
Yale University, unnard Fellowship inUrban Design, Master of Architecture,
1994
Professional Associations:
Registered Architect and NCARB certified
Urban Land Institute
Our objective and creative approach is fully aligned with our clients interestsand yields practical, innovative strategies.
A. James inson, AIA
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T H E A M E R I C A S
Canada
United States
Mexico
Bahamas
Turks & Caicos
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
St. Kitts
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Brazil
Argentina
Bermuda
E U R OP E &
M E D I T E R R A N E A N
Scotland
Ireland
France
Italy
Croatia
Portugal
Czech Republic
Russia
Albania
Greece
Cyprus
Morocco
Libya
Egypt
Our offices
Countries we are working in
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Where We Are Working
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T H E M I D D L E E A S T
Jordan
Bahrain
Dubai
Abu Dhabi
Oman
Saudi Arabia
A S I A & P A C I F I C R I M
Japan
South KoreaChina
India
Thailand
Philippines
Indonesia
Fiji
Australia
New Zealand
A FR I C A &
I N D I A N O C E A N
Kenya
South Africa
TanzaniaZambia
Mauritius
Seychelles
Zimbabwe
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Our Clients
The Aga Khan Foundation
Alexander & Baldwin Properties/Hawaii
Amfac/Kaanapali Beach
Anglo American Farms
Apollo Management, LP
Aston Martin
Auberge Resorts
Australia-based Robina Land Company
Brookfield
Callaway Gardens
Chadmar Group
Citigroup
Colony Capital
Crescent Resources/Duke Energy
CSX Corporation/The Greenbrier Hotel
Cunard Hotels and Resorts
Cushman and Wakefield
DMB
Dolphin Capital Partners
The Donald Trump Organization
Dubai World
The Discovery Land Company
East West Partners
Emaar
Farallon Capital
Foster Enterprises
Four Seasons Residences
Frankfurt Zoological Society
Grupo Pellas
Guinness PLC and The Gleneagles Group
The Gleneagles Hotel
Haas and Haynie
Hartley Farms
Hearst Corporation
Hillwood H. Ross Perot, Jr.
Hines
Hotel del Coronado
The Hudson Bay Company
Hyatt CorporationIMI
Itacare Capital
The Irvine Company
The Island Company Catalina
The JLT Group
Paul Tudor Jones
The Royal Court Jordan
J + P Development
Jack Nicklaus/Golden Bear
Julian Robertson
Kiawah Island Company
The Koll Company
Landmark UK
Levy Family Partners
Lowe Development
The Lyle Anderson Company
Mandarin Oriental
Majid Al Futtaim
Mayacama
MCA/Universal Studios
Miraval
Mitsubishi International Corporation
Mobil Land Development
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
PA Consulting
Parker Ranch Foundation Trust
The Pebble Beach Company
Plum Creek
Premier Group
Pritzker Realty Group
Rancho San Carlos Partnership
The Rank Organization, UK
Related Group of Companies
Ripplewood
The Rockefeller Family
The Sea Island Company
S.Z. Eliades Leisure, Ltd.
Schmidt Family Foundation
Singita
Sorouh
Starwood Capital
Talisker
Tanzania National Parks
Temple
Terrabrook
TurnberryVail Resorts Development Company
Victoria Falls Municipality
The Walt Disney Organization
Walton Street Capital
Westbrook Partners
Zambia National Parks
Zimbabwe National Parks
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