Neighborhood Shopping Center Feasibility Studies

If you are a commercial real estate developer who intends to seek non-recourse construction financing to build-out a neighborhood shopping center project, then a feasibility study is required.  Rainmaker provides neighborhood shopping center feasibility studies (both market feasibility studies and financial feasibility studies) for new construction projects throughout North America. 

Rainmaker Marketing Corporation is a commercial real estate development finance and due diligence documentation consulting firm that has a twenty year track record of service to the commercial real estate industry (including the neighborhood shopping center/strip development market segment of the overall retail industry).  If you are a retail developer starting out on your first project, then you should probably be talking to Rainmaker Marketing Corporation, because even a small neighborhood shopping center (or "strip mall", as they are commonly known) represents a potential due diligence documentation nightmare if the application process isn't properly navigated and managed; that's where Rainmaker Marketing Corporation comes into play.

Rainmaker Marketing Corporation is your point source for:

• market feasibility studies.  Rainmaker provides a quality market feasibility analysis that includes space allocations by NRSF by NAICS code - taking the guesswork out of who your leasing targets should be.  Rainmaker focuses the rental scope on the current properties that are fully leased up as prima fascia evidence of the supportable rental rate structure for the future project.  We then reconcile our findings from the field investigation into a final matrix to provide you with all of the data points to support the financial feasibility study's requirements.

• financial feasibility studies.  Once the market feasibility study is complete, the next step is to simultaneously release the findings to the Project Architect (to begin schematic phase drawings) and order the completion of the financial feasibility study.  The consultant that is assigned the financial feasibility study should determine the likely construction costs based upon the findings of the market feasibility study.  This is an important area of differentiation between Rainmaker and other consultants as Rainmaker specializes in the entirety of the capital formation cycle due diligence documentation - including the completion of the pro forma financial statements based upon a spread of likely construction costs and site development costs based upon the exigent circumstances of the proposed development program.  The result is the creation of a pro forma financial presentation that uses the classic "building blocks" approach to determining the likely operating and non-operating cash flows of the proposed project based upon market conditions and the goals and requirements of the developer.

• capital funding plan proposals.  The entirety of the developer's future fortunes lies in the capital funding proposal; the key document used to solicit financing for the project (in this case a strip mall).  This document must be pristine and without any grammatical errors.  There is no substitute for a professionally-formatted, full-color proposal that lays out all of the issues in a concise and authoritarian manner that does not include any unsupported factual representations or fluffy advertising.  This document is typically less than 30 pages and covers the key milestone goals and requirements the developer has for the project and the capital financing.  All proposed funding sources must be "at the table"; there is no exception to this rule.

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