GB Farris Strategies (GBFS) is engaged in applying innovation campus concepts to anchor vibrant urban districts and neighborhoods around today’s engineering and information technologies and University collaborations. Focusing on healthy living, the firm partners with clients to develop active urban districts serving the university community and surrounding neighborhood. These include a seamless mix of tech R&D, office, retail, restaurants, hotels, schools, and residential communities combining pedestrian friendly parks, and green design.

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A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO LIFE

Success requires building a space, not just buildings in a place. Assisting anchor institutions and innovation districts to be catalysis for building reimagined neighborhoods: Place 2.0. This is where collaboration, permeability, flexibility, hyper-change culture comes together to drive how and where we learn, work, play and live well.

Our Approach

  • Collaborative, focused, and strategic.
  • Results-oriented driven by numbers and budget.
  • We resolve complex issues around visioning, consensus building, and finding compromises that address all stakeholder needs.
  • Hands-on, value-add, time and cost efficient.
  • We utilize our mixed-use expertise to help our clients maximize the investment value of under-utilized real estate and land holdings adjacent to University and Institutional anchors.
  • We bring the developer / owner’s perspective, relationships, planning, and development phasing and execution expertise.
  • Provide our clients the blue-print, tools, financial structuring, development, and implementation phasing strategy.
  • We combine our tech industry, tech -transfer and commercialization and real estate expertise to help our Developer, University and Institutional clients achieve their multiple investment and innovation district placemaking objectives.

What are innovation districts and why are they beneficial?

Courtesy of Bruce Katz and the Brookings Institution