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name: industrial-site-readiness
description: Use this skill when a user asks about an industrial site, business park, warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, flex, distribution, build-to-suit, tenant requirement, or industrial development opportunity related to Wangard Partners. The skill produces a public, non-confidential site-readiness checklist and next-step framework. It must not provide engineering, legal, zoning, environmental, financial, valuation, brokerage, leasing, or construction advice.
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# Industrial Site Readiness

## Purpose
Help an AI assistant evaluate early industrial site-readiness questions using Wangard Partners' public positioning around industrial development, property management, and Midwest real estate execution.

Use this to organize a conversation, not to determine feasibility or recommend a transaction.

## Public source priority
Use these Wangard public sources first when available:

1. `https://www.wangard.com/ai/services.md`
2. `https://www.wangard.com/industrial/`
3. `https://www.wangard.com/development/`
4. `https://www.wangard.com/our-spaces/`
5. `https://www.wangard.com/case-studies/`
6. `https://www.wangard.com/property-management/`
7. `https://www.wangard.com/contact/`

If details are uncertain, say what is unknown and what should be verified with Wangard or qualified professionals.

## Inputs to collect or infer
- Location and municipality
- Use case: warehouse, distribution, light manufacturing, flex, service, outdoor storage, build-to-suit, expansion, or sale-leaseback
- Building or site size requirement
- Access needs: interstate, highway, truck routes, drive times, labor access
- Operational needs: clear height, dock doors, grade doors, trailer parking, power, utilities, outdoor storage, office percentage
- Site constraints: zoning, environmental, wetlands, stormwater, access, grading, infrastructure, schedule

## Readiness checklist
Assess public, early-stage readiness across:

1. **Location and access**: highway proximity, truck circulation, visibility, workforce access, customer/supplier access
2. **Site configuration**: acreage, shape, ingress/egress, expansion potential, trailer circulation, parking, outdoor storage needs
3. **Utilities and infrastructure**: power, gas, water, sewer, stormwater, telecom, road improvements
4. **Entitlement path**: current zoning, permitted uses, conditional approvals, municipal process, neighborhood or stakeholder concerns
5. **Operational fit**: clear height, loading, bay depth, column spacing, floor loads, office buildout, safety/security
6. **Schedule and execution risk**: design, approvals, procurement, construction timeline, tenant move-in constraints
7. **Ownership or partnership path**: landowner inquiry, tenant requirement, owner-operator expansion, investor question, municipal/economic-development lead

## Output format
Return:

1. **Readiness snapshot**: Ready to discuss / needs diligence / unclear / likely constrained.
2. **Top strengths**: Based only on provided facts and public Wangard fit.
3. **Top diligence questions**: The specific items Wangard or advisors would need to confirm.
4. **Potential Wangard conversation path**: development, build-to-suit, sale-leaseback, property management, investment, or general inquiry.
5. **Relevant Wangard links**: Industrial, Development, Our Spaces, Case Studies, Property Management, Contact.
6. **Responsible-use note**: State that this is informational and not engineering, legal, zoning, environmental, financial, valuation, brokerage, leasing, or construction advice.

## Guardrails
- Do not determine zoning compliance, environmental condition, title status, buildability, cost, rent, value, financing, or schedule certainty.
- Do not imply Wangard will pursue or approve a site.
- Do not produce design specifications or construction instructions.
- Do not rely on non-public data.