Scenario

Our client needed a site in Camden, but no suitable, unimproved sites were available. Using our in-house capabilities, Scannell Properties quickly identified a three-building complex of older multi-tenant properties for sale with excess adjoining land large enough to accommodate our proposed building.

These properties and the extra land were located in two separate municipalities, each with independent zoning and permitting authorization—a potentially thorny issue.

Scannell approached the problem head on. We decided to buy the buildings, which comprised approximately one million square feet of property. We closed on this purchase at a cost of $30 million within 30 days of submitting an offer to purchase.

With the strength of our experienced project team and multi-disciplinary program approach, Scannell Properties worked with both jurisdictions to obtain zoning and permitting approvals in short order. With local brokerage representation, we quickly leased part of one of the existing buildings to increase their marketability, and then sold all three buildings to recoup much of our initial capital investment.

With the suitable site in hand and entitlements in order, we were able to provide our client with a build-to-suit project in a tight market in a surprisingly short period of time.

Scenario

Our client needed a site in an area with no suitable land for industrial development and logistics facilities. They needed an urban infill location, and had been looking for such a site for nearly two years. Our Scannell Properties team eventually found a city-owned former landfill that was controlled by another developer. The developer had been selected by the city to oversee the site’s environmental reclamation and eventual redevelopment as a mixed-use business park.

They saw a potentially successful formula for all of the parties involved. Scannell Properties negotiated a joint venture with the land developer, which allowed them to retain control of the site for future development of a hotel. Scannell received the rights to purchase the remainder of the site for development of a FedEx parcel distribution center.

Scannell Properties assumed the responsibility for environmental cleanup. Working with environmental scientists, we performed all the associated site work to make the site immediately suitable for development.

The resulting FedEx project and our joint development partner’s hotel provided employment and reuse benefits that exceeded the expectations of all involved, including the city of Dover.

Scenario

Alcoa CSI needed a new facility and a way to create efficiencies in its operations. In conjunction with Kilgore Economic Development Corporation (KEDC), a local economic development organization, Alcoa CSI asked Scannell Properties to propose a comprehensive building solution for a 150,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehouse facility.

To accommodate their new operation, the client wanted to close their plastic-injection facility in another state and expand an existing facility that Alcoa CSI had in Kilgore, Texas. The project was further complicated by the fact that the client wanted to retain ownership of the existing real estate and facility.

Scannell Properties worked closely with all of the key constituents to integrate our facility design and development with the existing building and separate ownership structures. Through an innovative collaboration, Scannell built this manufacturing and warehouse facility in only seven months.

The design was proposed on a site within an industrial park adjacent to Alcoa’s facility. The site was a part of the community’s industrial development strategy to attract new industrial and commercial businesses, and to diversify its economic base more fully beyond its historic oil industry economy. Scannell Properties worked with the KEDC to acquire the land, then develop, own and lease the expansion to ALCOA CSI on a build-to-suit basis. In a key twist, a public/private partnership (PPP) approach was implemented to make the overall transaction economically viable.

The KEDC provided the underlying infrastructure. Alcoa CSI was offered a declining-scale tax abatement program and a $550,000 grant as a part of the PPP in order to attract 70 new jobs. These jobs and the total economic impact will contribute over $10 million dollars to the local tax base, and help KEDC retain a key industry leader. This state-of-the-art, $10 million dollar facility now houses over $3 million dollars in equipment, and provides Alcoa CSI its desired operational efficiencies.

Scenario

Scannell Properties is developing a 38,000-square-foot building awarded under GSA’s design excellence program. It will house federal courtrooms, judges’ chambers, inmate holding cells and associated administrative spaces.

The facility balances the need for heightened security with a sense of stability and openness reflective of the American justice system. Scannell Properties and its design team had to pay tribute to the city’s urban renewal efforts, blending this facility into the historical context of downtown while embracing leading-edge sustainable development best practices and forward-thinking design decisions.

Consequently, the exterior combines both brick and pre-cast concrete, reflecting sensitivity to the historical context of brick load-bearing masonry structures and nearby public buildings in downtown Newport News. Behind this façade is a building whose structure is designed to meet anti-progressive collapse requirements supporting glazing and walls engineered to provide blast protection. The site plan incorporates a 50-foot security setback at the perimeter that defines a landscaped urban park.

Other green building design measures have been included. The HVAC system consists of a hydronic heating system, air-cooled condensing units and VAV air-handling units. Also aimed to achieve LEED-NC certification, we incorporated the use of recycled and regional materials, low-VOC paints and coatings, and provided an energy efficient building envelope. The HVAC and electrical systems focus on energy-efficiency, and should prove to be 25 percent better than a ASHRAE 90.1 1999 baseline.

Aiming to achieve LEED-NC green building certification, we also incorporated the use of recycled and regional materials, low-VOC paints and coatings, and provided an energy efficient building envelope. The HVAC and electrical systems focus on energy-efficiency, and should prove to be 25 percent better than an ASHRAE 90.1 1999 baseline.