Planning

Once a site is selected for a school, the next, and critical step, is in-depth facility planning. Even a great location for a school is useless unless the location can be prepared on a timely basis to serve the needs of the school's students and help the students achieve their potential. So, once the site is selected, NPL assists the school and its management organization with the process of determining how to renovate the location to suit the needs of the school's educational programs, initially and in the future, without incurring costs so great that the school cannot service the debt.

Thoughtful planning can avoid costly and organizationally-risky real estate decisions. Because NPL understands the importance of the planning stage, most of the time we spend on a project is in the planning stage for the project. During the planning stage, we work very closely with school administration and board, as well as our architects and designers in order to come up with the most effective space for the school's needs.