Once the decision is made, the work shifts. You stop asking "should I develop?" and start asking "should I develop this?" Different question, different tools.
The Free Feasibility Calculator - pressure-test any site
The Feasibility Calculator is a free online tool. You plug in the numbers for a specific site - acquisition cost, expected build cost, soft costs, end-value assumptions - and it shows you whether the project actually stacks up. It is the difference between "this block looks great" and "this block works at these numbers, and stops working if any one of them moves by 8%."
Use it early, and use it often. Run it on three sites and you will quickly see which one of them is real and which two are you wanting them to be real. There is no sign-up wall, and no consulting upsell at the end.
The Site Review - expert eyes on a specific block, $249
The Site Review is what comes next when the Feasibility Calculator says the numbers are interesting. You send the details of the specific site and we come back, within 72 business hours, with a written read on what we see - the constraints, the risks, the questions the calculator cannot answer because they live in the planning scheme, the streetscape, or the contour of the block.
$249 is deliberately accessible. The point is not to upsell you into a mentoring package; the point is to put considered eyes on a site before you commit hundreds of thousands of dollars to it. Most people who use a Site Review use it to say no to the wrong site, which is exactly what it is for.
The order that tends to work
Feasibility Calculator first, on every site you are seriously considering. If the numbers do not work at conservative inputs, no Site Review will save the deal. If they do work, the Site Review is what stops you paying for a problem the spreadsheet could not see.