The Challenge: A key strategic mixed-use site, stalled for 15 years due to intractable public-private friction, threatened the entire precinct's regeneration. No workable transaction pathway had been implemented for the site.

Our Intervention: Unlocking Political and Commercial Viability Acting as the critical interface between the Council, community groups, and counterparty developers, we successfully resolved the deadlock and secured final council approval for the path forward. Our work was a simultaneous application of public mandate adherence and commercial negotiation.

Our Impact:

• Strategic Enablement: Identified, negotiated, and secured the first workable transaction pathway after 15 years of stalemate. 

• Political De-risking: Managed complex, multi-stakeholder liaison and public consultation processes to convert community opposition into embedded community benefits and broad political support. 

• Commercial Clarity: Developed commercial parameters and determined the basis of value that aligned both the market’s demands and the public's financial objectives. 

• Outcome Blueprint: Developed a rigorous transaction structure that future-proofed the project by embedding 7 specific community benefits into the deal's performance milestones, including retail renewal, public open space, public amenity and housing outcomes. 

• Our Intervention: Unlocking Political and Commercial Viability Acting as the critical interface between the Council, community groups, and counterparty developers, we successfully resolved the deadlock and secured final council approval for the path forward. Our work was a simultaneous application of public mandate adherence and commercial negotiation.