Pietragallo’s Real Estate, Development & Construction Group represents developers, investors, lenders, owners, operators, contractors, landlords and tenants in sophisticated real estate and business transactions throughout the United States. The Group combines large-project transactional experience with practical business judgment developed through decades of involvement in complex commercial, mixed-use, hospitality, industrial, retail, office and residential development projects.

Our attorneys routinely guide clients through all phases of the real estate lifecycle, including acquisition, entitlement, financing, development, construction, leasing, restructuring, operation and disposition of real estate assets and portfolios.

The Group’s experience includes:

• Real estate acquisition, disposition and assemblage transactions
• Zoning, land use planning, subdivision and development approvals
• Planned residential developments, condominium regimes and homeowners’ association documentation
• Large-scale mixed-use, office, retail, hospitality, industrial and multifamily development projects
• Construction contracting, construction management agreements, GMP contracts and design professional agreements
• Commercial, industrial, retail and office leasing for landlords and tenants
• Hotel and hospitality development, franchising, management and operations
• Project financing, construction lending, tax credit financing, public-private partnerships and layered capital structures
• Loan restructurings, workouts, forbearance arrangements and distressed asset transactions
• Brownfield redevelopment and environmentally challenged properties
• Easement, reciprocal easement, operating, access and shared facilities agreements
• Title, survey, air rights, condominium and complex ownership structuring matters
• Real estate aspects of mergers, acquisitions and corporate transactions
• Representation of developers before municipal boards, zoning hearing boards, planning commissions and governmental agencies

Members of the Group have served as in-house and outside counsel to national real estate developers, owners, operators and institutional stakeholders and have represented clients in projects involving office towers, hotels, parking facilities, industrial facilities, retail centers, sports and entertainment venues, master planned communities and transformative urban redevelopment projects.

The Group’s practical business-oriented approach reflects extensive real-world development experience, including representation involving project structuring, public incentives, construction delivery systems, operational risk management and long-term asset management considerations. We understand that successful real estate projects require more than legal analysis — they require strategic, efficient and commercially practical solutions that help move projects from concept to completion.