Mixed Use Destination Kickstart
Turn a land asking price into a mixed-use underwriting verdict—GFA/NLA, capex, revenue, and Residual Land Value—fast enough to pitch or walk away.
Problem
Urban land trades are increasingly happening on compressed timelines, but mixed-use feasibility is still treated like a slow design exercise. Private developers and investors must decide whether a land asking price is rational before sinking weeks into planning and consultant studies. On compact sites, small mistakes in stacking logic, efficiency, parking, and cost assumptions can destroy value—yet most early “feasibility” decks are either marketing-heavy or spreadsheet-fragile, with no clear Residual Land Value (RLV) logic. The result is predictable: bad deals get pursued too long, good deals don’t get defended convincingly, and negotiations lack a numbers-first anchor.
Solution
Kolabs.Design built Mixed Use Destination Kickstart, a feasibility + acquisition underwriting tool for compact, vertical mixed-use sites. It replaces early-stage guesswork with a guided decision engine that converts site + regulations + program mix + parking + cost/revenue assumptions into an investor-grade snapshot—complete with RLV per m², headroom vs asking price, and a clear Good / Borderline / Overpriced verdict. Users can test different mixes (retail, office, hotel, residential, event/other), typologies (podium+tower, mid-rise, courtyard block), and parking strategies, then export a one-page investment snapshot designed for negotiations, IC discussions, and landowner conversations.
How
Inputs: site area and frontage, shape complexity, FAR/KDB/height/setbacks/green coefficient; vertical program mix (% GFA) by use; typology selection; parking rules (per m² / per unit / per key) and parking strategy (surface/podium/basement); land asking price (Rp/m²) and total asking; capex bands by function; soft cost/contingency/target return; revenue assumptions (rent, ADR/occupancy, sales price) and yield/cap rate proxy.
Outputs: buildable footprints and total GFA; GFA/NLA by use with efficiency %; parking required vs achieved and compliance status; capex and annual revenue/EBITDA proxy; Residual Land Value (Base/Down/Up) and break-even ask; headroom vs asking; final land verdict (Good/Borderline/Overpriced) with a defensible explanation; exportable single-page PDF and CSV metrics for investor pitch and land negotiation.