OUR PROCESS
A clear framework for the work ahead.
Nieves Development Consulting uses a clear development process to help property owners, developers, investors, and project teams move from early strategy through municipal review and follow-up.
The details vary by project, but the consulting method remains disciplined: understand the facts, identify the process, anticipate obstacles, coordinate the team, and keep the client prepared for the next milestone.
Five Steps
Understand the Project
We begin with the property, ownership, proposed use, unit count, development goals, available plans and records, professional team, current status, and target timing.
Identify the Process
We organize the anticipated municipal path, responsible bodies, required professional inputs, sequencing, meetings, and milestones based on available information.
Anticipate the Obstacles
We identify missing information, procedural concerns, coordination gaps, changed facts, scheduling risks, and issues that may require professional review or a revised strategy.
Coordinate the Team
We help align the client and retained professionals around responsibilities, deadlines, decisions, submissions, meetings, and follow-up.
Keep the Process Moving
We track material developments, follow up administratively, prepare for the next step, and help the client adjust when the project or process changes.
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What We Need From the Client
- Complete and accurate ownership, affiliate, property, use, unit-count, design, financial, schedule, application, notice, correspondence, and professional-team information.
- One authorized representative who can provide timely instructions and decisions.
- Prompt disclosure of material changes.
- Timely retention of required licensed and specialized professionals.
- Attendance at required meetings and hearings and timely payment of governmental and professional costs.
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How an Engagement Begins
- Submit the project-intake form and available documents.
- The firm performs an initial fit, conflict, ethics, and professional-boundary review.
- If appropriate, a discovery discussion is scheduled.
- The project-specific scope, exclusions, fee, payment schedule, appearances, and deliverables are documented in writing.
- Work begins after the agreement is signed and the required initial payment is received, unless confirmed otherwise in writing.
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New Jersey Development Process FAQs
How does a development consulting engagement begin? The first step is to organize the project facts, available records, current decisions, and immediate timing. After an initial fit and professional-boundary review, the written engagement identifies the project-specific scope, responsibilities, deliverables, and milestones.
What should a project team prepare before municipal review? The team should confirm the property and ownership facts, proposed use or program, current plans, agency history, required professional inputs, submission sequence, and decision-makers. A clear record of open items helps prevent a filing or meeting from becoming the first time gaps are identified.
Does the process differ across New Jersey municipalities? Yes. Local zoning standards, application requirements, public bodies, notice procedures, hearing calendars, redevelopment frameworks, and administrative practices can differ. For Paterson and elsewhere in New Jersey, the roadmap is developed around the project’s confirmed local procedure rather than a generic sequence.
What does coordination not include? Nieves Development Consulting provides advisory and coordination support, not legal, engineering, architectural, surveying, appraisal, environmental, or professional planning services. Retained licensed professionals remain responsible for their advice, testimony, certifications, designs, analyses, and work product.
How is the project roadmap maintained? The roadmap is a working record of milestones, open items, responsibilities, and expected decisions. It is reviewed when the project team receives new municipal feedback, changes the program or schedule, adds a professional input, or prepares for a submission or meeting. This gives the client a clearer basis for next steps and coordination; it does not guarantee a governmental decision, permit, financing result, or project outcome.