During my employment with Midway Companies, I was fortunate to serve as a property manager for the Century Square development in College Station, TX. Midway as the developer has a niche in creating unique developments and leasing space to users that will thrive in a mixed-use concept. My duty is to manage the space and its user after the space is delivered. The role of the middle man between developers and end users allowed me to have a unique perspective on the development process. I believe it is imperative to not only see the development vision through fruition but to also understand how that vision is realized and adopted by the end-users of space.
The goal in any development is to deliver a project on time and under budget, and in doing so, realizing the development opportunity envisioned in years prior. A skill that I learned in the MLPD Program to help achieve this goal is to conduct a quantity/price takeoff on a set of civil plans for a residential subdivision. The purpose of this is not to nitpick or to foster dishonesty, but to hold the engineers and contractors accountable to what is absolutely necessary for the development, hopefully saving both time and money for all parties.