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Austin, TX Infill LOT Residential Developments Insights & Tips Email from: CEDAR

 You're Invited: Future of Small Multifamily, Making it Pencil on Urban Infill Sites

Greetings from the Cedar team!

Over 200 developers and folks from the infill community joined us for our last small-multifamily event, where we covered how landmark housing reforms in Texas are unlocking a whole new catalog of infill development opportunities.

These projects are faster to permit, more cost effective to build, and perfectly aligned with the next generation of housing demand. It’s the future of urban infill, and it’s being built today.

But since that event, we’ve continued to get the same question...
...“how do I actually get these projects to pencil?
While we can’t necessarily help with financial modeling, we can help you understand the complex equation of entitlement scenarios, design options, and construction tradeoffs that make infill projects successful.

On June 25th, we'll cover the key unlocks that make residential and small-multifamily projects work on tight, complex urban infill sites.

We hope you’ll join us!
Expect to learn:
  • Zoning. Best infill opportunities for single-stair (and small multifamily)
  • Yield. How density & code compliance impact multifamily configurations
  • Construction Costs. Optimizing construction types with density and costs
  • Execution. Techniques to minimize risk & maximize project quality
  • Unlocking Potential. Competitive advantages in finding & analyzing sites
  • Partnership. Working with Cedar to underwrite, design, & permit small multifamily
Underwriting infill housing potential, faster
We’ll explore a unique approach that helps you understand the full range of compliant development paths.
Backed by the same architectural intelligence responsible for designing and permitting built projects.
Proven on the most complex infill projects
Awkward site geometries, overlapping and conflicting overlays, sites thought too challenging to develop...
Cedar has designed and permitted small multifamily on all of them, and we’ll compare notes.
Right-sizing projects for your market
Every infill market has a sweet spot for aligning unit sizing and density with where the math actually works, and most projects seem to miss it.
On June 25th, we'll show you how we think about that zone, by neighborhood, by zoning, by product, and by site.
Questions?
Schedule a time below to learn more about Cedar or share your feedback.
Cedar - a technology enabled architecture firm that connects local zoning and land development regulations with a national standard for infill housing.
522 Congress Avenue, Suite 400 · Austin, TX 78701



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