Beacon Station – Augusta GA
15 May 2020
In honor of Ten Years in Business, LDG Consulting is highlighting twelve of our top clients from this past decade. We are delighted to announce Honoree Number Three: Columbia Ventures. LDG Consulting has worked on the Atlanta BeltLine and a 221-unit apartment complex in Augusta, Georgia.
Columbia Ventures’ founders have developed over $2 billion of commercial real 
estate including over 26,000 residential units, comprising market-rate, senior, affordable, and condominium units with extensive regional and national experience. Columbia Residential, a related and older sibling company, has a team of over twenty-five real estate professionals headquartered in Atlanta, who provide services like land acquisition, master planning, construction management, asset management and more. Columbia is known for its enduring relationships, absolute integrity and top-notch execution.
Atlanta BeltLine [ Source: Atlanta BeltLine ]
Atlanta BeltLine’s 2015 Strategic Implementation Plan
LDG Consulting was a part of Columbia Ventures team, led by Jakob von Trapp, tasked to work on the Atlanta BeltLine’s Strategic Implementation Plan. Jakob serves as Co-Founder and Partner for Columbia Ventures and has extensive experience in urban infill multifamily development as well as complex mixed-finance transactions. The team specifically worked on economic development, affordable housing, and real estate strategy for the project. LDG played a critical role for the affordable housing and economic development areas of the plan.
“The Atlanta BeltLine, an initiative that started with one graduate student’s innovative vision, is coming to life. It is one of America’s most ambitious urban transportation and redevelopment programs and is at its core a testament to public, private and community partnership. Grassroots advocates, business, civic, political and community leaders are driving the Atlanta BeltLine’s implementation with their ideas and aspirations, inspired by a once-in-a-generation opportunity to renew our city and create a national model of healthier, more sustainable, interconnected neighborhoods with greater mobility and economic opportunity for all.” – Atlanta BeltLine Strategic Implementation Plan, Final Report
Beacon Station Apartments: Augusta, Georgia
LDG Consulting worked with Josh Thigpen, Senior Development Manager of Columbia Ventures, on this 221 unit Augusta apartment complex project. LDG experts were brought on to help supplement Columbia’s staff in order to help them as developers / owners accepted the units from the general contractor.
Beacon Station is located in the Historic Laney Walker-Bethlehem Neighborhood – just minutes from downtown Augusta in the heart of the city’s medical district. Its location offers easy access to shopping, dining, the canal, and Augusta University’s campus. The complex includes an independent coffee shop, a full gym with Peloton bikes, a resort-style pool with cabanas, a community bar, yoga studio, dog park and outdoor grilling area.
APD Urban Planning + Management
APD Urban Planning Team [ Source: APD Urban ]
APD Urban Planning + Management led the creation of and advised the City of Augusta and led the creation of the Master Plan for the Historic Laney Walker-Bethlehem Neighborhood. Preparing this plan required an understanding of the threats, opportunity, and vision of the community’s residents and stakeholders. The plan documented threats to long-term stability, identified opportunities to build on the neighborhoods rich historic and cultural past, and partnered with local residents and stakeholders in determining an implementation plan that would be enhanced by the NRS designation. As a result of this work, the future site for Columbia Ventures’ Beacon Station became a reality. LDG Consulting has worked with APD in both formal and informal engagements. APD’s early and thoughtful work in many communities lays the groundwork for successful projects by private, non-profit and public-private partnerships.
View more info on these Columbia Ventures / LDG Projects:
· APD Urban Planning + Management’s Website
Stay tuned this year to find out about our nine remaining honorees!
ABOUT COLUMBIA VENTURES: Columbia Ventures LLC formed in 2013 to focus on residentially anchored mixed-use development in urban locations in the southeastern United States. Created in collaboration with the principals of the award-winning affordable housing development and property management firm Columbia Residential, the new company leverages the platform founded in 1991 by Noel Khalil to create a market-rate development and investment company with a unique skill set and dynamic approach to urban development. | columbiaven.com
ABOUT APD URBAN: APD Urban Planning and Management, LLC, established in 1990, is a minority-owned consulting firm located in downtown Atlanta. Our firm consists of professionals trained and experienced in multiple disciplines, including real estate development, neighborhood and urban planning, urban design, architecture, community development, and geographic information systems (GIS). | apdurban.com
ABOUT LDG CONSULTING: LDG Consulting is a boutique advisory and implementation firm. We advise visionary developers and owners on how best to realize their commercial real estate goals and we help them profitably execute their vision. Our diverse backgrounds provide a full-breadth of services – we not only understand the problems in the field but we also explain the impacts on the project proforma; we easily transition between the rugged project site and the corporate board room. As a result, we are as comfortable in our construction boots as we are in our corporate suits.™ | ldgconsulting.com
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