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Multifamily & Mixed-Use

Unit counts hit, draws on time, buildings turned over in sequence.

Built for developers and owners of apartments, lofts, and mixed-use — where the schedule is a financial instrument.

Garden & podium apartmentsLofts & adaptive reuseMixed-use with ground-floor retailClubhouses & amenity packagesUnit renovation programs

Multifamily is production construction: hundreds of repeating decisions where a small inefficiency multiplies by every unit. We run it like a production line — unit-by-unit cadence, trades sequenced floor to floor, and turnover by building so lease-up starts before the last slab is even poured.

On mixed-use, we speak both languages: residential production above, commercial tenant coordination below, and a sitework plan that serves both.

How it works

The process, on one page

Phase 1

Precon against the pro forma

Budget, schedule, and phasing built to your lender's math — with draw schedule realism from day one.

Phase 2

Design coordination

Unit plans, structure, and MEP coordinated to kill repeating conflicts before they repeat two hundred times.

Phase 3

Sitework & structure

Earthwork, utilities, podium or slab-on-grade, and vertical structure on the critical path with weekly look-aheads.

Phase 4

Unit production cadence

Trades flow floor-to-floor on a published rhythm; quality checked per unit, not per building.

Phase 5

Amenities & sequenced turnover

Clubhouse and amenity finish timed to leasing; TCOs by building so revenue starts early.

Who does what

The working relationship

You bring

  • Capital stack & lender relationship
  • Unit mix & finish-level decisions
  • Leasing & property-management timeline

We decide together

  • Draw schedule & phasing
  • Value engineering that protects rentability
  • Turnover sequence

Cook owns

  • Full site & vertical construction
  • Trade cadence & quality per unit
  • Inspections & TCO sequencing
  • Draw documentation your lender likes

Past builds

We've done this before

Questions we always get

Straight answers

How do you keep a big unit count on schedule?

A published trade cadence — the same crews doing the same scope floor after floor — plus look-ahead schedules that surface problems two weeks before they cost anything.

Can leasing start before the whole project is done?

That's the design: turnover and TCO by building or phase so property management is leasing while we finish the back buildings.

How do draws work with our lender?

We document to your lender's inspection format and calendar; clean draw packages are part of the job, not a favor.

What about the retail spaces in our mixed-use project?

We deliver white-box or full TI, coordinated with your tenant reps — rollout-brand tenants are literally our other specialty.

How do you control quality across 200 identical units?

Per-unit checklists, first-unit mockup sign-off, and punch as we go — so the last unit is as good as the model.

Do you do renovation programs on occupied properties?

Yes — unit-turn and phased renovation programs with resident-notice logistics handled with the property manager.

Talk to us about your project