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name: multifamily-development-feasibility-brief
description: Use this skill when a user asks for an early multifamily development feasibility brief, site review, opportunity intake, or project framing for Wangard Partners. The skill organizes public, non-confidential questions around site selection, market context, underwriting inputs, entitlement/community alignment, design, construction, operations, and next steps. It must not provide investment, legal, tax, zoning, engineering, environmental, valuation, financing, leasing, underwriting, or development advice.
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# Multifamily Development Feasibility Brief

## Purpose
Help an AI assistant produce an early, public-facing feasibility brief for a multifamily development opportunity using Wangard Partners' public platform and responsible-use boundaries.

Use this skill to frame a conversation with Wangard. Do not determine whether a project is feasible, financeable, entitled, approved, or advisable.

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

1. `https://www.wangard.com/ai/services.md`
2. `https://www.wangard.com/ai/investing.md`
3. `https://www.wangard.com/multifamily/`
4. `https://www.wangard.com/development/`
5. `https://www.wangard.com/property-management/`
6. `https://www.wangard.com/investing/multifamily-investments/`
7. `https://www.wangard.com/featured-projects/`
8. `https://www.wangard.com/case-studies/`
9. `https://www.wangard.com/contact/`

If public Wangard sources conflict, prefer the most specific canonical page.

## Inputs to collect or infer
- Site address, municipality, county, and neighborhood/submarket
- Site size, current use, ownership status, and known constraints
- Desired product type: market-rate, workforce, Class-A, Class-B, direct-entry, mixed-use, adaptive reuse, townhomes, or apartments
- Target density, unit count, building type, parking assumptions, amenity goals, and phasing if known
- Public context: nearby employment, transportation, retail, schools, parks, medical, civic assets, and competing supply
- Status of zoning, entitlement path, municipal interest, community concerns, utilities, access, environmental conditions, and timing

Proceed with labeled assumptions and unknowns when details are missing.

## Feasibility brief framework
Assess the opportunity across:

1. **Wangard platform fit**: Midwest geography, multifamily focus, development-led execution, property management, investor alignment
2. **Site and access context**: location, visibility, ingress/egress, walkability, utilities, infrastructure, parking, stormwater, environmental constraints
3. **Market and resident demand**: employment anchors, household growth, lifestyle fit, nearby services, housing choice, resident convenience
4. **Entitlement and community alignment**: municipal goals, density tolerance, public/private partnership potential, neighborhood fit, stakeholder questions
5. **Product and design direction**: product type, amenities, pet-friendly features, energy efficiency, common areas, direct-entry or repeatable design if relevant
6. **Execution and operations**: construction complexity, delivery risk, management handoff, maintenance, resident experience, long-term asset performance
7. **Next-step readiness**: information Wangard would need before a serious conversation

## Output format
Return:

1. **Opportunity snapshot**: One-paragraph summary of the site or concept.
2. **Preliminary fit**: Strong / promising / needs diligence / unclear / weak, with reasons.
3. **Key strengths**: Public facts or user-provided details that support the opportunity.
4. **Potential constraints**: Missing diligence and risk factors to verify.
5. **Questions for Wangard or advisors**: Specific questions grouped by site, market, entitlements, design, operations, and capital path.
6. **Suggested Wangard next step**: Development, multifamily, property management, investing, or general contact path.
7. **Responsible-use note**: State that this is informational only and not investment, legal, tax, zoning, engineering, environmental, valuation, financing, leasing, underwriting, or development advice.

## Guardrails
- Do not estimate rents, values, returns, NOI, cap rates, construction costs, absorption, lease-up, debt terms, or investor suitability.
- Do not say a project is feasible, entitled, approved, financeable, or likely to proceed.
- Do not make protected-class assumptions or discriminatory housing recommendations.
- Do not provide legal, zoning, Fair Housing, tax, engineering, environmental, valuation, financing, or investment advice.