Cultural & Civic · Site WorkCompleted 2023

Bayfront Park Master Plan, Phase I

Fifty-three acres of waterfront, and two partners who needed to see the same plan.

LocationSarasota, FL

ClientConfidential

LocationSarasota, FL

SectorCultural & Civic

Value$46M

Size53 acres

DeliveryCM at Risk

Duration20 months

StatusCompleted 2023

Why it mattered

Civic projects belong to the public, and the public notices when a date slips. Elected officials, donors and residents deserve a schedule that tells them the truth early.

The challenge

A city and its nonprofit partner began transforming a waterfront district into a major public park.

Shoreline restoration, environmental permits and public events all shaped the schedule, and each partner had its own board and reporting cycle. Without a shared plan, the two organizations risked announcing different dates.

Our role

Baseline Schedule Development Milestone Planning Schedule Updates

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.

StartNov 2021

Duration20 months

HandoverJul 2023

Progress—

Respect the windowsMake permits milestonesReport for the publicWork to opening day

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 01Respect the windows

Environmental, seasonal and event windows built in as hard constraints from the first baseline.

PHASE 02Make permits milestones

Every agency approval tracked as a dated milestone with a named owner.

PHASE 03Report for the public

Progress reporting clear enough to share with residents, donors and elected officials without translation.

PHASE 04Work to opening day

The celebration date held as the critical finish, with every activity driving toward it.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01Shoreline restored in window

Environmental work was completed within its permitted windows.

Result 02Public opening held

The first phase opened for a community celebration on the planned date.

Result 03One schedule, two boards

City and nonprofit leadership reported from the same schedule.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

2.01.02Baseline Schedule Development

Approved baselines that capture scope, sequence and risk with precision: the fixed reference against which every future decision, dollar and day is judged.

2.01.11Milestone Planning

Milestone frameworks that align contracts, payments, regulators and teams around the few dates that truly count, with early warning when any of them is at risk.

2.01.06Schedule Updates

Disciplined periodic updates that capture verified progress, explain every movement and keep the schedule an instrument of command rather than a record of hope.

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