A complete catalog of the services Commonwealth Development Advisors provides to developers, landowners, and capital partners across energy, AI infrastructure, and industrial development.
Greenfield discovery for hyperscale, energy, and heavy industrial loads.
We identify candidate sites against a structured matrix of grid access, fiber availability, water, zoning posture, topography, and labor shed. Our pipeline is built — not bought — through direct landowner relationships and proprietary parcel intelligence across the Commonwealth.
Every candidate is scored, ranked, and packaged so developer site-selection teams can move from a long list to a short list in weeks, not quarters.
Multi-parcel aggregation across complex rural ownership patterns.
Hyperscale campuses and generation projects rarely sit on a single parcel. We design and execute multi-owner assemblage strategies — sequencing approaches, negotiating options, and managing confidentiality so no single conversation tips the broader deal.
Where heirs, trusts, or absentee owners complicate title, we run the relationship work that out-of-market teams cannot.
Deep title traces, heirship mapping, and encumbrance discovery.
Before money moves, we trace ownership back through deeds, wills, and tax records — exposing easements, mineral severances, encroachments, and heirship gaps that surface late and kill deals.
Our reports are built to be handed directly to title counsel, accelerating diligence rather than restarting it.
Cartographic intelligence at the parcel and corridor scale.
We maintain a working GIS environment for every active project — overlaying parcels, utility infrastructure, FEMA floodplains, wetlands, slope, transmission corridors, fiber routes, and zoning boundaries.
Maps are not deliverables for their own sake. They are the substrate on which every other decision is tested.
Local code review, conditional-use paths, and entitlement scenarios.
Pennsylvania zoning is hyper-local. We read the actual ordinance — not a summary — and map a realistic path from current designation to permitted use, including the conditional-use, variance, or rezoning steps required.
Where the path is unworkable, we say so early. Where it exists, we sequence it.
Power, water, fiber, gas, and transportation capacity in plain numbers.
We evaluate available substation capacity, queue position, water and sewer headroom, fiber backbones, and road access — coordinating directly with utility planners, EDCs, and local authorities to validate what can actually be served.
The output: a defensible picture of what the site can support, in MW, MGD, and Gbps.
A single accountable hand on title, survey, environmental, and geo.
We run the diligence calendar across third-party consultants — title, ALTA survey, Phase I/II environmental, geotechnical, wetlands, T&E species — so the developer's internal team receives a synthesized record, not a stack of disconnected reports.
Issues are surfaced as they emerge, not at the end.
PA DEP, USACE, and federal interface for complex sites.
From NPDES and Chapter 105 through Section 404, Clean Streams, and threatened-species review, we coordinate the permitting workstream with qualified consultants and engage agency staff early to de-risk timelines.
We do not stamp permits — we make sure the right people are working on them, on schedule.
Municipal alignment, county engagement, and state-level coordination.
We engage townships, counties, and economic development offices on behalf of projects — building the local relationships and shared understanding that determine whether a project is welcomed, tolerated, or fought.
Community support is not a soft variable. It is a hard input to schedule and capital cost.
Option, purchase, and sale execution at the parcel and portfolio level.
We support clients through the transactional phase itself — option terms, purchase agreements, closings, and downstream dispositions — coordinating with counsel, title, and lenders to keep deals on rails.
For landowners we represent, we structure transactions that protect long-term interests, not just headline price.
Long-horizon counsel for developers, owners, and capital partners.
Beyond any single transaction, we advise clients on market entry, geographic strategy, regulatory posture, and pipeline construction across multi-year horizons.
We work best as an embedded advisor — not as a one-off vendor.
Tell us what you're trying to build — or what you own. We respond personally to every inquiry.