Overview
Carlton Fields' development team consists of attorneys and consultants devoted to deal-making. We handle the full cycle of real estate development projects, from conception through completion and exit. Our work runs from site acquisition and due diligence through entitlements and permitting, deal structuring, including joint ventures and operating agreements, development financing, and the architectural and construction documents that get the project built. We serve developers, builders, contractors, architects, and engineers locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally across a full spectrum of asset classes.
We help clients locate and acquire viable sites, address land use and zoning issues, and obtain entitlements. That work continues through project completion, covering permitting, public lands acquisitions, leases and easements, local government approvals, utility agreements, lobbying, litigation, and appeals. We offer a team of both lawyers and land planners, and our land use work includes comprehensive plan amendments, rezonings, code changes, variances and special exception approvals, developments of regional impact, and community development districts and other special districts.
Our work includes multilayered vertical and horizontal mixed-use developments, hotels and resorts, retail centers and shopping centers, office properties, industrial parks, self-storage facilities, fulfillment centers, master-planned communities, residential, commercial, and industrial condominiums, residential and commercial subdivisions, and senior housing and assisted living. Our attorneys also document specialty projects, including data centers, transit-oriented development and transportation facilities, marinas, stadiums and entertainment venues, convention centers, medical facilities, and affordable and modular housing.
Experience
Structured and prepared documentation for a mixed-use commercial condominium in Manatee County, Florida, containing various commercial uses and an apartment complex.
Structured and prepared documentation for a mixed-use project in Hillsborough County, Florida, containing various commercial and residential uses.
Structured, prepared documentation, and prosecuted the required state regulatory filing for two luxury branded residence towers in Lee County, Florida, together with a master declaration and various easement documents.
Created documentation for a nonresidential cabana condominium project in Lee County, Florida.
Represented multiple national hospitality brands in the management and operation of multiple hotel and branded residence projects.
Structured and prepared vertical subdivision and shared facilities documentation for a mixed-use project in Palm Beach County, Florida, containing office, commercial, hotel, and residential condominium components.
Structured, prepared documentation, and prosecuted the required state regulatory filings for more than 300 residential condominium projects in various locations in Florida.
Structured and documented the termination of multiple condominium regimes in various locations in Florida, ranging from high-rise and mid-rise condominium buildings to projects containing multiple low-rise condominium buildings to commercial condominiums.
Advised multiple lenders on loans for new construction of condominium regimes, renovations of existing buildings, and the financing of condominium termination plans.
