Advance Planning Associates, LC provides custom site selection, business geography, planning and community development services to individuals, organizations, business, industry, government and communities. Working with for-profit and not-profit groups, we serve both public and private organizations.
We maintain a calm and calculated style that has helped us establish firm, long-term relationships with clients that need a guiding hand. We enjoy working with non-profits, foundations, trusts and smaller communities where relationships count. We know the process of development and the decisions that drive success. We bring value, helping to guide decisions by providing objective choices driven by criteria designed to meet the needs of our client.
We are proud of our work. We want our clients to succeed. It is a competitive world, so strict confidentiality is maintained as we work through the strategic planning process of planning or site selection and the necessary steps of due diligence. We help with implementation when needed. Our projects vary depending upon our client, from planning a strategy to site selection to due diligence and to the conceptual planning stage.
Our process is custom designed individually for each client using our InSite Selection System. We have perfected the art and science of due diligence to assure the facts are real not just market hype. Our Reverse Due Diligence establishes fundamental criteria that will satisfy the demands of an accomplished acquisition team. And, our Quick Entitlement Program helps sort sites quickly. Time is always a critical factor - that is why we are project management and task oriented.
We understand the process of community planning and development. Our Story-Board Issue Identification Process helps quickly identify obtainable goals. We use business geography to help clients succeed with understanding of the relationships and environments, regions, location, movement of goods and characteristics of place. We are objective site selectors that are community oriented.
Site Selection, Business Geography, Planning and Community Development are our core services because when combined give our clients the right balance of experience and value added benefit.
Striving everyday to be our best we want to be your firm of choice.
You have decided to add another franchise store, another warehouse, a new site for your business, a new municipal park or firehouse or perhaps you have decided the market is finally right to begin looking for a new residential project. 
We are as interested in what we discover as what we produce.
From the container ship
To the railroad
To the trucks on I-81
Our old friend and long-time client, Duane, called the other day from his office in Maryland. Duane asked if we could help him locate sites for his gas and convenience store client. He explained his client needed sites in Virginia along the major transportation corridors and at "key" intersections in important cities and towns. He asked if we could help. Of course, we responded, "Yes!" In an economy like this we were happy to get the opportunity.
