Clients turn to Ice Miller to plan, entitle, and deliver complex land development projects nationwide—from large scale mixed use and residential communities to office/industrial campuses, health care and higher ed facilities, and destination retail districts.
We pair entitlement strategy with transactional execution to move projects from vision to approvals to delivery.
Our experience also includes affordable housing developments, where we help navigate layered regulatory frameworks, public financing tools, and public private partnerships to advance community focused projects.
Our team guides projects through every phase of the development lifecycle, including:
- Entitlements & approvals: rezonings; variances and Planned Unit Developments (PUDs); plats, site plans, and development agreements; and traffic, utility, and agency coordination.
- Public incentives & P3s: Tax Increment Financing (TIF); Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILOT); abatements; infrastructure cost sharing; master development agreements; and ground and air rights.
- Transactional interfaces: joint ventures and entity formation; reciprocal easements (REAs); phasing; lease/sale integration; lender requirements; and closing deliverables.
We represent development companies, REITs, hospitality brands, senior living providers, universities. As an established and trusted resource in the space, these clients trust the firm’s counsel regarding the full range of land development opportunities and challenges, for the complex and novel to the traditional and routine.
