When You Should Hire Waterfront Community Consultants

• At the outset of a planning effort. We help set the course, cover all relevant concerns, review successful applicable efforts in other communities, and direct you to available funding and information sources.
  
  Waterfront Community Consultants work should precede a bidding process involving the release of a formal Request for Qualifications (RFQ) or Request for Proposal (RFP). A community, armed with a Waterfront Community Consultants report or a community-based plan, is in a much stronger bargaining position and better equipped to direct a consulting team. With preliminary planning work done, the RFP cost can be significantly reduced.
  
  
• When you need independent, expert comment on an ongoing comprehensive waterfront planning effort, prepared either by outside consultants or a city planning department. We'll make sure all factors are considered, all relevant options explored — in short, that your plan is the best it can be for your money and effort. Competent consulting firms welcome our participation in this way.
  
  
• At mid-course in a waterfront undertaking we'll help you take an objective look at what's been done, suggest additions or changes that might be made, and generate ideas for augmentations or other ways you can build on the developments in place.
  
  
• After a plan has been largely implemented, we'll help you take a fresh look at where to go next and help you chart the next phase.

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