– The Ivy Group helped their client (California Badminton Academy) successfully lease a commercial indoor recreational property by obtaining from the City of Fremont a Conditional Use Permit (“CUP”) in an industrial zone;
– The Ivy Group helped the client refine the business plan to address traffic and safety concerns, as well as parking requirements, among others;
– The Ivy Group’s CEO Tim Vi Tran, SIOR, CCIM met with then Mayor of Fremont to get his buy in on the project;
– Thy Ivy Group negotiated with the Landlord to relocate a large transformer from the floor space, and secured a 10-year lease with a 5-year renewal.
This project demonstrates that leasing a recreational property in a nontraditional industrial zone can be done—but it takes:
- Zoning expertise to identify viable properties before time is wasted on dead ends.
- Municipal navigation skills to secure approvals in unprecedented situations.
- Negotiation strength to win landlord concessions on costly improvements.
- Commitment to seeing a project through, even when the timeline stretches to a year or more.
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