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FINANCING
Through RISE’s 24 years of experience in financing over $3 billion in campus development, we have utilized
numerous financing structures with the steadfast goal of achieving the optimum value for each client in
an ever-changing market. As one of the nation’s pioneering firms for higher-ed P3’s, coupled with one of
the most tenured teams in the industry, RISE swiftly analyzes each unique development opportunity and
determines the optimal financing solutions to pursue. As a private company with a tremendous depth of
resources and industry contacts, we possess a unique flexibility to align our financing approach with the
individual goals of each client and project, allowing us to maximize effectiveness by ensuring that capital
sources and terms are the most competitive in the market at any given time.

DEVELOPMENT
RISE carefully guides the comprehensive development process from inception of each project to ensure
that the project moves forward efficiently, with precise accuracy on the determined goals. Our proven
experience and understanding of the complex development process enables us to confidently work through
the multitude of development tasks concurrently; creating tremendous value in time and cost savings as well
as minimizing market volatility risk. A sampling of services provided during this stage include:

• Selection of Architect, Contractor and Engineer partners
• Extensive collaboration with university on all development details
• Review of team’s “lessons learned” from past projects
• Programmatic design concepts (living/learning program, FYE, etc)
• Building and Architectural design concepts
• Site analysis and corresponding design/density schematics
• In-depth phasing analyzes to determine exact bed capacities during buildout
• Building systems, components and materials review
• LEED and sustainability review

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