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The Lansing Melbourne Group LLC (LMG) was formed in 2003 in response to the partners’ desire to provide detailed, creative products and solutions for our clients in an intimate and manageable environment.  As a small firm, the Principals have direct hands-on impact on every project and with every client.  LMG is most interested in highly demanding and unique projects located in urban locations, including downtowns, hospitals, medical centers, universities and other institutional and campus-scale settings.  We specialize in providing boutique, niche services specifically related to transportation and parking advising, public private venture planning, parking economics and financial advising.  LMG teams with like-minded creative firms across the country such as Wachovia Capital Markets-Wells Fargo, The Carlyle Group, GE Capital, Parsons-Brinkerhoff, Desman Associates, Fortress Investments and Urban America to provide state-of-the-art and unique solutions.

LMG's co-founders, Christian R. Luz, PE, AICP and Peter Flotz, PE, AICP have been actively involved in setting policies and guidelines in the planning and parking industry for nearly 30 years.  Both Principals are trained as professional engineers (registered) as well as land use planners (certified by the American Planning Association) which underlies their wide-ranging approach to developing projects that are not only creative, but also buildable and financially feasible.  LMG is an international firm with clients including PETRONAS (Malaysia), City of Shanghai, PRC, Canada, Hyderabad, India and the Virgin Islands.

Successful parking solutions are prepared in concert with users, patients, students, economic development strategies, the local business community, special event and tourism boards, universities, transportation planning, land use planning, local residents and the local and national financial institutions and investment communities. 

“LMG’s approach to parking consulting is rarely focused on parking solutions alone, because parking tends to be a symptom of other issues such as inefficient land use or conversely, highly successful land use development, lack of growth or rapid growth, or simply inefficient use of resources or lack of adequate parking and other infrastructure planning.” 

Development of parking solutions requires analytical expertise but also experience gained from networking and interfacing with other communities across the country, and in some cases, across the world.  What sets us apart from our peers is what we bring to your project:

• unparalleled negotiation skills
• land use development expertise
• deep relationships with many financial institutions and investors
• consensus building skills
• an understanding of political sensitivities

 

No solution is feasible unless the community embraces the findings, recommendations and implementation strategies. Understanding the numerous stakeholder needs, political sensitivities, ability to finance, and development feasibility is as critical as developing the proper technical solution. 

"This is the world and these are the strategies that LMG flourishes in”

Lastly, LMG does not provide architectural or engineering design services and therefore, has no carried interest or stake in promoting recommendations involving new, or an expansion of structured parking facilities. In fact, because of LMG’s unparalleled expertise in high-level finance and applied understanding of economic development, typically our last choice in management strategies is a recommendation for new publicly funded parking structures.

Transportation
Expert Witness

Chris Luz of LMG was asked by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to participate on a Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT)

Miami Parking Authority-Coconut Grove BID Parking Study continues with presentations to Stakeholders

Design Phase of Eastwood Towne Center nearing completion. Economic Recovery Zone Bonds have been issued and sold. Ground breaking in Summer 2011.

The International Parking Institute has invited Chris Luz to return as a speaker at their 2011 conference in Pittsburgh. Presented topics will include How Parking Is Financed in American Cities and Inclusion of Parking Management Tactics in the Development of TDM Plans.

Wisonsin Parking Association selects Chris Luz of LMG as speaker for the annual conference. "Parking System Monitization, what it is and isn't" will be presented November 15th.

Pompano Beach CRA calls on LMG to redevelop Pompano Pier (more)

LMG develops concepts for West Palm Beach City Hall site (more)

Banyan Street Garage Study (more)

LMG selected as part of the project team for Hines VA Hospital Campus Parking and Traffic Study (more)

Peter Flotz appointed to serve on the Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation Friends of Florida Main Street Board (more)

LMG to team up with Parsons Brinkerhoff on City of Durham, NC contract bid (more)

LMG continues long-standing involvement in IPI program (more)

Peter Flotz, Managing Member of LMG, appointed Chair of the Parking Consultants Council (PCC) Committee for developing standards of care for the parking industry (more).

Luz participates in Urban Land Institute's Professional Advisory Services Panel report for Main Street, Daytona Beach, FL (more).

View a listing of publications that LMG has co-authored (more).