Services & Clients

What We Do

Pario’s fundamental skill is understanding real estate markets—and what will make your project and investment successful. Feasibility is our core service: market research, supply and demand, financial feasibility, as well as project planning and positioning.

In addition to a long history with mainstream real estate industry feasibility, Pario also has over ten years experience with feasibility and implementation advisory work for urban betterment programs. Pario is a leader with these programs: sustainability, green building, New Urbanism, Smart Growth, eco industrial development, and community arts and cultural programming. Relative to these urban betterment programs–

• For mainstream developers, Pario understands how to integrate sustainability into your processes and product.
• For sustainability advocates and specialists, Pario understands the real estate industry and its needs relative to implementation and market transformation.

As the first urban economics firm fully committed to urban betterment programs, Pario has strong experience in these increasingly important movements. Pario uniquely understands urban betterment program objectives, industry process change, and consumer response. See Pario Writings and Speaking.

Pario works in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Pario Research studies

• Market research and market analysis for all major land uses
• Feasibility assessment
  • Market
  • Financial
  • Product or service
  • Other feasibility determination as needed
• Highest and best use
• Financial modeling
• Valuation and appraisal
• Capital investment and RE development strategies, and how to accomplish them
• Project specifications and programming
• Due diligence and underwriting support
• Consumer research
• Target market identification
• Marketing and sales process planning and implementation
• Arts and cultural markets and program definition and implementation
• Other special research needs
• Program design and implementation for Pario’s Time Value of Community and C-Change initiatives

Ways to engage us — Pario can improve your outcomes with

• Research studies
• Strategic plans for implementation (what to do, how to do it)
• Time Value of Community initiative presentations and workshops
• Hourly or daily consulting
• Real estate development (including Pario Programs and C-Change Partnerships)
• Hybrid engagements

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Clients

Pario serves developers, equity investors, debt investors, cities and other municipal governments, federal government agencies, product manufacturers and service providers, design professionals, and other real estate industry participants.

Representative Clients

Bovis Lend Lease
RPP International
Dotts/Lusk Corporate Campus
New Urban Communities/MetLife
Southern California Edison
Community Preserve Bozeman
Lake Erie Land Company
RGC
University of New Mexico
New Mexico State Land Office
Fannie Mae
KPMG
City of Tucson
Civano
Westwood Development
San Elijo Ranch
Countryside Homes and Land
McClean Group of Companies Vancouver
Meyers Group
BioSpace Development
Noisette Company
Cape Charles Eco Industrial Park
Marshall Foundation
Cornell
Industry Canada
Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Drew George & Partners
Cal Poly Pomona
McMillin
Playa Vista
HNTB/City of Milwaukee
Canadian Consulate General
Tom Bradley Legacy Foundation/Little Tokyo Service Center CDC

As a Senior Consultant at the Goodkin Group and Senior Manager at KMPG, Mark Smith has directly managed over 250 market studies and consulting engagements prior to forming Pario.