Commercial Real Estate
Our commercial real estate attorneys bring experience and a variety of perspectives to every project, including outside counsel experience with local, regional and national law firms, and in-house experience with regional and national shopping center developers and master-planned community developers. Lee Kaess PLLC’s client-driven, focused and practical service approach has become the hallmark of our firm.
Our Commercial Real Estate Attorneys
Some of our commercial real estate practice areas of emphasis include:
- Commercial real estate acquisition, disposition and development
- Commercial real estate debt and equity financing
- Joint ventures
- Shopping center and other retail leasing
- Student housing projects, including public-private partnerships
- Master developer representation, including tiered covenants structures and contract negotiations with homebuilders and contractors
- Evaluation and acquisition of in-progress master developed communities
- Lender representation
- Office and industrial development and leasing
- Secured commercial debt acquisition, complex foreclosure and restructuring
Our Recent Commercial Real Estate Projects
The sun never sets in Summerville Project
Lead counsel on the negotiation, entitlements review, due diligence, and project evaluation, and acquisition of an ongoing 5,000-acre, master-planned, multi-use community north of Charleston in the South Carolina Low Country, entitled to over 12,000 residential units and 5 million sq. ft. of commercial uses.
The Multifamily Zoning and Land Use Project
Conditional District rezoning of an abandoned movie theater tract to bring much-needed multifamily housing to the Oleander corridor. The new project will even preserve the open space the neighboring shopping center uses for yoga classes (including goat yoga).
The Lagoon with a View Project
Ground lease and finance of a waterfront on-campus student housing facility located in Key West, FL.
