North Star Group - How North Star organizes development work

How North Star Organizes Development Work

North Star uses a structured process to move from a development premise to site investigation, entitlement, cost planning, project formation, and execution.

Site assessment, zoning analysis, highest-and-best-use determination. Funding options include conventional loans, tax credits, grants, and public-private partnerships.

Approval sequencing—zoning, site plan, environmental, building permits. Construction approaches that reduce cost and timeline.

Compass in earth - First Principles

1. First Principles

Reality — what is true

Glasses viewing landscape - Values

2. Second Principles

Values — ethical, transparent business

Glasses showing neighborhood - Vision

3. Vision

Future state — what can be

Aerial with magnifying bubble - Mission

4. Mission

Specific work — this project

Go board mid-game - Strategy

5. Strategy

The approach

Employment application - Tactics

6. Tactics

The options

Hammer striking nail - Operations

7. Operations

Execution

North Star Group

Commercial and industrial real estate origination and development

North Star identifies, investigates, controls, entitles, and advances sites for logistics and related commercial uses. Its work combines founder-led development experience, national site screening, engineering coordination, preliminary site planning, cost analysis, and project formation.

North Star operating platform

The “i” development suite

Six connected systems support the work from verification and screening through planning, funding, development control, and presentation. iVeriPro is multipurpose: it supports both logistics site intelligence and agricultural field compliance.

Built and in internal use

iVeriPro

Multipurpose verification and screening system used for logistics real estate and agricultural field compliance.

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Built and in internal use

iPlacer

Site investigation and placement workflow for candidate properties.

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Built and in internal use

iSitePlan

Preliminary site-planning tools for early feasibility and layout decisions.

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In production use

iDevelop

Component-priced pro forma, deal logic, and development project controls.

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Live

iGrants

Funding-pathway, grant-development, and implementation-planning system.

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Built and in internal use

iPlan

Planning, project presentation, and document-production system.

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Logistics development

Logistics sites now underway

These sites connect the logistics operating systems to specific development opportunities.

Active operator and development-partner outreach

Barstow, California

Shared truck-relay, commercial fueling, secure parking, and driver services at I-15, I-40, and CA-58.

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Active predevelopment and operator outreach

Winnie, Texas

Phased freight-support and Truck Stop Light project serving I-10 between Houston, Beaumont, and Louisiana.

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Active predevelopment and operator outreach

Hog Mountain, Georgia

Truck fueling, parking, and freight services near I-85 and US 129 in the northeast Atlanta market.

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Housing and development

Other current development work

Active building-system and delivery proposal

Solterre, St. Kitts

Preconstruction strategy for durable, hurricane-resilient residential and resort construction.

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Active affordable-housing development proposal

Serenity Village, Mobile

Catalytic housing-development plan for the Roger Williams site in Mobile, Alabama.

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Active institutional-development concept

Sands Drive, Albany

Housing and technical-center development opportunity associated with Albany State University.

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International and earlier work

Africa-related planning and development concepts retained for reference.

Evidence

Experience

Five decades in construction, real estate, development, brokerage, and investment.

National retail work

Five Walmart site-selection and entitlement assignments, with additional work for CVS, Walgreens, Wendy's, Captain D's, Starbucks, and other retailers.

Major redevelopment

Technical partner for the redevelopment of the approximately 400,000-square-foot Huntsville Mall.

Innovation

Eleven issued U.S. patents arising primarily from oilfield heating and fluid-management systems.

Logistics operations

Experience in moving operations, dispatch, drivers, interstate authority, pricing, recruiting, and carrier data.

Current systems

Operating software for site screening, development workflow, carrier intelligence, and driver recruiting.

Current Operating Capabilities

Screens from the software itself, not descriptions of it.

Built and in internal use

iVerify

National market and site-screening system for logistics real estate - screens every U.S. market and candidate site by buildable area, demand signals, and peer-cohort grading.

iVerify national market screen

iVerify national market screen

Built and in internal use

iDevelop

Development workflow and project controls - component-priced proforma and deal-logic modeling for each candidate site (formerly modular.nsgia.com).

iDevelop deal-logic screen

iDevelop deal-logic screen

Operating business

ProHRHQ / Carrier Intelligence

CDL driver recruiting and a carrier intelligence system built on an FMCSA data warehouse - 24 Socrata datasets, refreshed monthly, approximately 4.4 million carrier records with derived grading.

ProHRHQ carrier list interface

ProHRHQ carrier list

Also built and in internal use

iPlacer - site investigation and placement workflowBuilt and in internal use
iSitePlan - preliminary site-planning toolsBuilt and in internal use
iPlan - planning and document-production systemBuilt and in internal use