Urban Diplomats
Mediation is a process in which an impartial third party enhances negotiation and promotes voluntary and satisfactory decision-making to resolve a dispute. A way with less side-picking and acrimony, and more deal advocacy toward a mutually beneficial solution.
The real estate, economic development, and community development process is fraught with complexity, emotion, competing goals and objectives, and sometimes conflict, distrust, and disputes that prevent beneficial projects from occurring. If not managed carefully, complex and emotional issues and resultant communication gaps associated with a conflict will thwart development and related community benefits. A neutral but experienced deal ombudsperson is the missing piece to most effectively build trust, enhance communication channels and connectivity, and seek out a more facilitated and neutral position workable to all sides that also keeps the project moving forward.
Enter Steadfast City’s mediation services. Our Urban Diplomacy team rethinks the field of real estate, community, and economic development through the approach of a neutral, with its unique ability to simultaneously understand and mitigate pressures and conflicts created through project interactions among businesses, real estate developers, investors, public sector economic developers, public officials, and community residents. Our team ranges in industry expertise from tax and finance, to real estate and planning, to social policy and research. Adding Mediation services was the natural next step for a firm whose foundation is built on multidisciplinary knowledge-sharing. Our experience is deep and varied, and as we head into our 5th year of operations donning a new hat in mediation, we are furthering our commitment to #developbetter .
Our mediation services are especially tailored for:
Real Estate Developers
Local governments, neighborhoods, communities
Public-Private Partnerships
Community / Economic Development Organizations
Businesses
Legal professionals seeking a neutral/mediator, who represent those listed above.
Reach out to Doug Rasmussen (doug@steadfastcity.com) with inquiries.
