Real Estate Development

Our Focus

ArentFox Schiff’s real estate attorneys have extensive experience representing clients in development projects across the entire real estate landscape, from traditional residential, office, multifamily, retail, industrial, and hospitality developments, to more specialized projects involving senior living facilities, self-storage, data centers, manufactured housing communities, utility infrastructure, major event spaces and professional sports arenas and stadiums. We assist and counsel clients through all stages and documentation of development projects, from RFPs and land acquisition contracts to development agreements, construction contracts, comprehensive declarations, site development agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, and all related service agreements. Our attorneys also work with local, state, and federal stakeholders to help negotiate, facilitate, and prepare entitlements, joint development agreements, and public/private partnership agreements. 

Our Work

• Represented Harbert South Bay Partners, LLC in a $140,515,854 development and construction financing transaction for a senior living facility in Dallas, TX, including an $84,309,512 development construction loan. Scope of representation included negotiation of a Joint Venture Agreement with a sponsor partner. 
• Represented Foulger-Pratt, LLC in the redevelopment of Landmark Mall into a 4,000,000-sf mixed-use project on the former Landmark Mall site in Alexandria, VA. The development includes Inova Hospital’s new campus, residential, retail, and entertainment offerings.
• Represented the City of Falls Church, VA in the development of a $1,200,000,000 transit-oriented mixed-use development in a public/private partnership with a private developer that includes retail, multifamily, hotel, senior living, and community space in West Falls Church.
• Represented US subsidiary of Global Fortune 500 company in the formation of a multi-million-dollar joint venture with IHG Hotels & Resorts for a dual-branded hotel development project in Orlando, FL. Scope of representation included negotiation of the associated development agreement, hotel management agreement, and technical services agreement with IHG. 
• Represented a national developer and owner of senior living communities in the site acquisition, joint venture formation, and construction financing for the development of a senior living facility in Nevada with an estimated total development cost of approximately $65,000,000. 
• Represented a national developer, owner, and manager of senior living communities in connection with an approximately $165,000,000 portfolio acquisition of senior living facilities in New Jersey and New York, including related acquisition financing, management agreements, and joint venture agreements, as well as an approximately $80,000,000 bond financing transaction with the California Public Finance Authority for the acquisition and development of a senior living facility in Southern California.
• Represented ThinkFoodGroup, LLC in connection with the development of José Andrés-branded restaurants in Doha, Dorado Beach, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington, DC.
• Represented Silver Diner, Inc. in the development of Silver Diner restaurants across the Mid-Atlantic.