Client:
University of Tennesse-Knoxville
Solutions:
Planning & advisory services
B&D led a comprehensive real estate planning and implementation effort across multiple asset types—including rental housing, retail, hotel, conference, Greek housing, childcare, and innovation spaces—establishing clear market opportunities, space needs, and success criteria for each. Through robust engagement with students, campus stakeholders, and system representatives, they built consensus around priorities and guided the process of defining and advancing each project. The team explored innovative delivery, funding, and ownership structures to support mission-critical capital investments, performing detailed financial analyses to confirm project viability and evaluating alternative sites to identify the optimal approach. For each initiative, they developed tailored project concepts outlining programmatic requirements, site selection, public-private partnership (P3) structure, and solicitation strategy. In close coordination with the UT System, they established a streamlined state-level review and approval process for solicitation materials and provided strategic advisory support throughout procurement and pre-closing activities—including legal negotiations, design coordination, and state-level approvals—to position each project for successful execution.
