Why Selva?

Experience across 40 years and many projects

For 40 years, we’ve worked on projects in California, Texas, Florida, and Indonesia. The Lessons Learned and Case Studies sum up this work. Both the successes and failures have been excellent, demanding, and humbling teachers.

The reality is that risk is inherently high when it comes to development of challenging lands. More deals and projects fail than succeed. But the lessons we’ve learned from those experiences are what have made seemingly impossible projects fly.

Although we’ve spent most of our professional life in the private sector, we’ve sat on the other side of the table. We’ve been a special consultant to municipalities, written major public policy and regulatory documents, served as a planning commissioner and architectural review committee member, and participated in politics in the U.S., Mexico and Indonesia.

We treat each project like it was our own investment and we desire to co-invest as part of the Selva model. But part of the job of an effective advocate is empathizing with other stakeholders’ points-of-view because empathy builds trust. And trust accelerates success.

Some years ago, a city chose us to bring together environmentalists and developers to come up with a planning vision for an environmentally sensitive area ripe for urbanization. When we later asked, “Why us?” they said, “You were the only one trusted by both sides”.

How Selva Partners Benefits You

  • 1

    You have a coordinated team of experts to cut through chaos, see problems and opportunities, and connect dots fast for challenging lands.

  • 2

    You have the opportunity to realize a better and faster return and spend less money overall.

  • 3

    You have less stress because you have a plan based on a cohesive strategy and optimized schedule that allows you to proceed with less risk.

  • 4

    You have the resources to enhance your reputation for goodwill as a landowner, developer or investor because you’ve done the right thing for yourself and the right thing by the community.

We are the conductor of the orchestra of land use.
We connect dots across disciplines and collaborate better
than most. That’s our advantage.

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