Sports & Entertainment · New ConstructionIn progress · 2027

Arena & Entertainment District

An arena, a plaza, restaurants and a hotel, with several owners and a single opening night.

LocationAustin, TX

ClientConfidential

LocationAustin, TX

SectorSports & Entertainment

Value$760M

Size18,000-seat arena + district

DeliveryCM at Risk

Duration40 months

StatusTarget 2027

Why it mattered

Sports and entertainment run on dates printed on tickets. Opening night is not a target; it is fixed, and the schedule has to be built backward from it.

The challenge

A developer is building an arena and the mixed-use entertainment district around it.

Several owners, contractors and tenants share one opening night, and each arrived with its own schedule. Lenders wanted an independent read on whether those schedules actually added up.

Our role

Program Controls Independent Schedule Reviews Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Executive Reporting

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartMar 2024

Duration40 months

Target finishJul 2027

Progress—

Work the windowsPlan the fallbackAlign every ownerRevenue spaces first

How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04

PHASE 01Work the windows

Off-seasons and dark periods planned as projects of their own, with every day accounted for.

PHASE 02Plan the fallback

Any unfinished work planned in advance to be safe and usable for the next event.

PHASE 03Align every owner

Teams, operators and tenants working from one schedule toward one night.

PHASE 04Revenue spaces first

Premium seating and other revenue-critical spaces prioritized in the sequence.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01One opening night

A program schedule aligns every owner and tenant toward the same date.

Result 02Shared logistics

Site access and laydown are planned across all contractors rather than negotiated daily.

Result 03Independent assurance for lenders

Lenders receive a monthly independent schedule review.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

2.02.02Program Controls

Program-level controls that bind multiple projects, contractors and funding sources into a single picture sponsors can steer by.

2.03.07Independent Schedule Reviews

Objective, senior reviews of baseline and update schedules for owners, lenders and sponsors who need confidence in the dates they are relying on.

2.01.03Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)

Integrated Master Schedules that bind design, procurement, construction and commissioning into one traceable program view, from board summary to field activity.

2.02.09Executive Reporting

Concise, candid, decision-grade reporting for boards, executives, lenders and public stakeholders.

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