Consistent with budgets and program requirements, Urban Partners works with top quality design talent to produce outstanding architectural work and progressive sustainable and environmentally sensitive design.

Many Urban Partners projects have earned local and national design awards and the firm was recognized by the American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Chapter as a leader of the “Building Team of the Year” in 2005 and 2007.

Building on the legacy of the late Ira Yellin, Urban Partners and Keller CMS have earned a national reputation for the adaptive re-use of significant historic buildings.

Landmark structures rehabilitated by the firms include the Bradbury, Million Dollar, Grand Central Market and Herald Examiner Buildings and El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, Santa Fe Railroad Depot in Pasadena and Masonic Temple Lofts in Long Beach, California.

Urban Partners and Keller CMS provide highly specialized real estate and construction consulting services including asset management, land use planning, entitlement, preconstruction and forensic consulting services. The firms are frequently retained to provide state-of-the-art private sector services for public and institutional owners and to assist investors with due diligence investigations, long-range planning, workouts and restructurings.

Urban Partners and Keller CMS are often retained to manage planning, entitlement and construction of building projects for public and institutional clients. The firm also advises on tax-exempt and alternative financing structures for not-for-profits.

Many of these projects, including The California Endowment Campus and Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, have won national and international design and construction awards.

Urban Partners has special expertise with the arcane details of real estate financial restructurings and “workouts.” Working closely with sophisticated capital partners and with tax, bond and legal counsel, the firm has successfully restructured hundreds of millions of dollars of distressed debt, revived or re-entitled foundering developments and often, in the process, obtained future development rights at below market costs.

Urban Partners is working with the University of Southern California and with other schools to bring the highest standards of village-scaled, mixed-use, urban infill design to the unique requirements of student housing.

Urban Partners is recognized nationally for its successful urban infill, mixed-used projects on new and existing urban transit lines.

The firm and its Principals have completed ten landmark developments on the emerging Los Angeles Metro light rail and subway system, including Del Mar Station in Pasadena and Wilshire Vermont Station in Los Angeles, and have several additional projects in planning.

The firm is also developing along the new Seattle Sound Transit “Link” light rail line and is in discussion regarding opportunities in other communities.

Urban Partners and Keller CMS have completed over 1,000 new rental and for-sale homes in the past seven years and have almost 2,000 more under development. Many of these residential environments are integral parts of larger master planned mixed-use (and often transit-oriented) infill developments and often include “affordable” as well as market-rate housing.

Urban Partners is a respected innovator of “urban infill” mixed-use development. Working closely with public agency staffs and elected leaders, the firm crafts unique combinations of commercial, residential, civic, recreational and other uses to match local development goals and economic opportunities in both large and small communities.

Urban Partners has an outstanding reputation for land planning, entitlement, environmental review and predevelopment services, furthering its own portfolio and on behalf of investors and clients. Significant value is created through careful attention to community concerns, environmental considerations, market-driven product planning and detailed development scheduling.