Land Development
Driving Success in Land Development and Urban Planning
Those involved in land development must remain on top of local and federal regulation compliance, agreement negotiation, permitting, financing, and more to ensure successful project completion.
The Land Development group at Perkins Coie features a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, each skilled in navigating the complex challenges inherent in land development. Our team is equipped to handle the myriad of issues that arise in this dynamic field, ensuring comprehensive and adept legal guidance throughout the development process.
Our clients span development companies; real estate investment trusts (REITs); hospitality firms; state and local bodies; single-family, multifamily, and senior housing developers; hospitals and health services; universities; and individual landowners.
We have successfully managed some of the most significant development projects in the country, from large-scale residential, commercial, and mixed-use urban and suburban communities to infrastructure projects, military base redevelopment, office and industrial campuses, hospitals, university and college campuses, regional shopping centers, port and airport expansions, and stadiums.
Our team regularly devises and implements robust strategies to help clients overcome hurdles, meet regulatory demands, and seize opportunities across a variety of projects and problems.
Our lawyers contribute significantly to the literature of land development, penning or revising notable works like The Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives; Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy; The NEPA Litigation Guide; Curtin’s California Land Use and Planning Law; Practice Under the California Environmental Quality Act; The California Subdivision Map Act and the Development Process; and California Administrative Mandamus and Development By Agreement.
How we help clients
- Formation of joint ventures and single-purpose entities.
- Negotiation of purchase and sale agreements and development agreements.
- Real estate and environmental due diligence.
- Securing land use entitlements and vested development rights.
- Construction and site development agreements.
- State law environmental compliance and permitting.
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance.
- Federal permitting, including under the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA).
- Litigation and defense of land use approvals.
- Coastal development.
- Negotiation of project labor agreements and avoidance of prevailing wage.
- Brownfields and hazardous site remediation.
- Redevelopment.
- Military base reuse.
- Project finance.
- Public-private partnerships.
- Tax.
