Whether it’s a 1,000-unit residential development, a mixed-use community, a corporate or industrial site, or even a stadium—LaBella’s Land Development Group will work with you to understand your vision and bring it to life.
We pave the way for entitlement, supporting land development projects from site selection and feasibility through concept planning, design, and construction. Our success lies in a well-rounded, tailored team approach— bringing together architects, engineers, environmental scientists, land surveyors, landscape architects, planners, and other specialists as necessary.
Our expertise knows no bounds. Whatever your project—residential, commercial, industrial, healthcare, education, athletics, municipal, renewables, mixed-use, and more—we have the know-how to support your vision.
Site Selection & Feasibility
The world is your canvas—we help you find the right place to paint.
LaBella’s site selection and feasibility studies synthesize a wide range of information— historical, existing, and forecasted data—to assess whether a site is suitable for development. We use this data to assess the time, complexity, and cost required to unlock a site’s potential, equipping you with the insight needed to make informed site selection decisions.
Our feasibility studies analyze key site conditions, including:
• Soils and topography
• Infrastructure presence and capacity
• Transportation connectivity and access
• Environmental constraints such as wetlands and ecological habitats
• Historical uses that may have resulted in contamination
• Archaeological records
• Local land use regulations
Transforming your vision into reality— from a vacant lot to the ribbon cutting.
No two land development projects are alike, which is why understanding your goals is our top priority.
We tailor our approach to guide you from site selection through construction. With full-service capabilities, we serve as your one-stop shop, helping streamline the development and approval process.
With offices across the country, we can be your boots on the ground. Where we don’t have a local presence, we find the right partners to provide regional intelligence and help root your project in the community.
Minimizing risk with data-driven decisions.
Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we can evaluate the development potential of multiple properties by applying weighted selection criteria that support—or eliminate—sites from consideration.
Site sustainability is a key factor. We consider not only construction costs but also long-term operation and maintenance requirements, climate impacts, and the site’s projected resilience.
Additionally, we provide order-ofmagnitude costs to support your mission—helping you make early decisions about whether to pursue a site.
Every service to understand your site.
LaBella offers a complete suite of in-house services to support site selection and feasibility studies for land development, including:
• Topographic and boundary surveys
• Subsurface utility location and markout
• Soils and geotechnical investigation
• Infrastructure evaluation
• Utility capacity analysis
• Transportation impact analysis and access evaluation
• Watercourse and wetland delineation
• Habitat assessment
• Environmental investigations and remediation
Concept Planning
Concepts that planning boards are eager to approve.
With the site selected, we collaborate with you to develop a concept that meets your project goals while working within the site’s constraints and budget.
We help you understand and evaluate big-picture issues such as underground utilities, traffic and parking demands, and sustainability.
Our goal is to develop a wellthought-out project for the initial planning board meeting.
What attracts the board to the project? What raises red flags? Using this early feedback, we refine the concept and begin the design development and entitlement process with confidence in securing planning board support.
We also work with you to anticipate questions and prepare thoughtful, thorough responses from the outset of the process. From simple, full-color site plans to computer-generated video flythroughs, we are visualization experts. Our goal is to help board members, the community, and potential investors understand the careful analysis and planning that crafted your project—and build their excitement.
Entitlements
We’ve been on both sides of the table.
LaBella works with municipalities, helping their planning boards review site development plans. We understand how boards operate and what they look for in an approval-worthy project.
Armed with this knowledge, experience, and a network of local connections, we can shepherd projects through the approval process swiftly and successfully.
Navigating evolving regulations.
Connections with health, transportation, and environmental agencies help us stay informed of any changes to application submittal requirements and guidelines.
We routinely obtain permits and approvals from federal, state, and local agencies. The relationships we have developed with these regulators help us understand what is needed to get your plan approved.
See the vision.
Scan the QR code to see a sample 3D flythrough— a successful visualization tool that helps build excitement among all stakeholders.
Community Engagement
A well-designed engagement plan helps the public understand the thought process behind your project.
We craft proactive community engagement strategies—such as open houses and informal forums— that can “turn the heat down” on the typical public hearing process.
Community members are often more supportive of a project when they understand it and have the opportunity to provide input early in the process.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
It’s all in the details.
In parallel with the entitlement process, LaBella advances design development plans. Design development includes civil site, traffic, structural, architectural, and landscape architectural plans for both planning board and agency approval, as well as establishing bidding packages and construction phasing.
We work with you to create a sustainable, functional, and costeffective development that realizes your vision and addresses planning board and public comments. Using powerful visualization techniques, we help all stakeholders—including you— picture the completed project.
Construction SUPPORT SERVICES
The level of construction support we provide is tailored to your needs and budget. LaBella provides the following construction support services:
• Pre-construction phase, including value engineering, constructability reviews, master scheduling, bid assistance, and building permits.
• Construction phase, including construction inspection, shop drawing review, stormwater inspections, pressure testing witnessing, RFI response, and owner’s representation.
• Post-construction phase, including punch lists, inspections, certifications, as-built surveys, and commissioning.
Bringing your project to life.
With a full range of construction support services, we see your project through to completion.
LaBella’s design professionals remain involved throughout construction. Our full-time construction inspectors are dedicated to overseeing safe projects and can assist in specialized areas such as work in highway rights-of-way.
We prepare final punch lists and inspections and work with regulators to help you obtain final sign-offs and open your project on schedule.
At LaBella Associates, our job is to create—structures, plans, ideas, results. As a nationally recognized Design Professional Corporation, that’s a given, right? But here’s what really drives us: creating partnership between our team and our clients. So much so that we become one team, unified in the unrelenting pursuit of exceptional performance on each and every project. Reliability. Accountability. Collaboration. Respect. Not skills we went to school for, but innate in LaBella team members.
The pursuit of partnership is embedded in our culture—has been since our inception in 1978. And it affects client outcomes in profound ways. It means we’re built to expertly execute projects from start to finish. That we have the talent and resources to take on any challenge. That projects are completed on time, on budget, and beyond expectations. And that we win awards—not just for our talent, but also for our ethics, employee culture, and growth.
Today, our wheelhouse is broad, with four key service offerings: Buildings, Energy, Infrastructure, and Environmental. Our reach is widespread with staff located throughout the country and Europe. We’re headquartered in Rochester, NY—but our impact is seen, felt, and experienced around the world.
Visit us at www.labellapc.com to get a glimpse of some of the things we’re working on right now. But don’t let us do all the talking— tell us about your goals by calling (877) 626-6606.
