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WHAT WE DO

KMK Consulting is a comprehensive economic development consultancy focused on business success and community prosperity through two major solution groups directly serving Economic Development Partnerships and Business Enterprises.

We bring the highest levels of economic development expertise, experience, professionalism and integrity to our clients across the United States. Our clients range from small communities to major regional markets to Fortune 100 corporations with a track record of success and client testimonials of which we are extremely proud encompassing a service footprint from New York to Hawaii and from Washington to Florida.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS

We focus on building and sustaining high performance economic development organizations. Our services are comprehensive and include:

Strategic Planning
Organizational Development
Governance
Consensus Building
Leadership Development
Executive Search
Performance Audits and Benchmarking
Revenue Formation
Capital Campaigns
Government Financing Advisory
Community Asset Development
Investor Relations
Business Development
Marketing Strategies
Technology Initiatives
Intellectual Capital Recruitment and Retention Strategies
Government Relations
Communication Strategies

Our clients include a large number of the leading economic development corporations in the United States. We also represent Chambers of Commerce at the local, regional and state levels. We also service cities, counties, regions and states and their economic development programs, strategies and delivery systems.

Finally, we also develop specific economic development initiatives such as catalytic development corporations, business incubators and major community assets.

CORPORATE SERVICES

We serve business enterprises across the United States,from growth-focused privately owned firms to Fortune 100 companies,in the area of site selection, relocation and expansion incentives, as well as cost efficiency management, specifically utitlities, energy and “green” strategies.

Site Selection and Incentives

Site Selection, Incentives Negotiation, Procurement and Compliance

KMK Consulting helps clients with their facilities and projects across the United States achieve more favorable outcomes through specialized economic development and site selection advisory services.

Through our national footprint in economic development services, we offer corporate clients a competitive advantage for their relocation projects by leveraging our extensive networks and expertise working with governments at all levels.

We help clients understand and navigate complex community processes and sensitive political issues while fully protecting their corporate image.

Our clients are able to make fully informed location decisions relating to selection of communities, sites and incentives because we have decades of frontline experience as practitioners in economic development and real estate from the local to federal level.

Site Selection and Community Assessments

  • Site searches for new or expanding businesses have grown in complexity due to the realization of substantial ongoing (and costly) advantages and disadvantages inherent in locations beyond the initial real estate costs.


  • In many cases a project location that is deemed to be the right fit initially due to site affordability or tax rates actually is more costly over the long term due to unknown variables.


  • We match the client to not just a site that meets immediate needs but the site located in the best business environment for continuing operational and employee needs.


  • We look beyond the immediate value of factors such as real estate/construction costs and incentives to determine whether key adequate community assets are in place or planned to support the company’s longer-term location needs. Examples include frequency and size of tax increases, infrastructure improvement plans that may benefit or interfere with company access or operations.


  • We also perform valuable project “pre-launch” government affairs work with local, county and state officials to lay the groundwork for more favorable project reception.


Incentives Procurement

  • Public incentives can substantially reduce project costs for companies with the projects most desired by communities. To secure incentives, however, companies must demonstrate a tangible economic impact on the community.


  • We assess the qualitative and quantitative value of projects based on the community’s individual economic condition and policies; this helps us present a more compelling justification for public investment while protecting the client’s image.


  • Also, nearly all communities tie incentive awards to a company’s performance through legally binding agreements. We work with our clients to procure an optimum level of incentives within a reasonable, attainable framework of performance commitments.


Project Management/Issue Resolution

  • As an essential component to structuring major real estate transactions, we guide clients through complex community planning, zoning and related regulatory reviews and sensitive political issues to assure a more successful project outcome.


Incentives Compliance

  • Nearly half of public incentives awarded for projects are never collected because companies do not have the resources to meet initial and ongoing compliance requirements. Governments impose significant documentation and reporting requirements before and after the award of incentives.


  • To assure our clients gain the maximum value of promised incentives, we manage all aspects of application and reporting required to finalize, activate and maintain incentives for the project duration. We assure all documentation is accurately completed, submitted by deadline, and all follow-up inquiries are addressed.


UTILITIES AND ENERGY

We provide services with the accompanying expertise in the energy area that we believe is unique among site selection firms. Specifically, KMKC provides client representation to utilities on issues ranging from contract negotiations and corporate relocation, to the extenion of utility infrastructure for new facilities. Our colleague, directing these services represents more than $1 Billion in energy transactions under his belt and has saved clients tens of millions of dollars on the installation of energy infrastruture.

KMKC’s services in this arena include:

  • Energy Audits

  • Power Procurement

  • Energy Efficient Lighting

  • Utility Line Extensions and Belated Utility Construction Issues

  • Submetering Systems for Electricity, Natural Gas, Water, Etc.

  • Utility Infrastructure, Installation and Testing

  • Asset Ownership and Operations of Energy Facilities

  • Special Contracts and Tariff Analysis

Green Strategies

Being “green” is no longer just a buzzword. It is becoming more and more of a mandate in communities and industries across the country. Developing a company’s benchmark for Greenhouse Gas Emmissions (GHE) and having the tools and capabilities to implement such strategies is just as important. KMKC has the tools to assess, calculate and benchmark a corporation’s carbon footprint and to implement stratgies and affect programs that will measure and improve upon that benchmark. KMKC assists corporations in identifying their level of sustainability, and provides full support relative to LEED certification of buildings. Moreover, KMKC provides development and implementation strategies that would reduce GHE and capitalize on the monetary value of CO2 Emmisions that will eventually be traded in this country. As such, we believe it is important for companies to prepare for such a “cap and trade” market as part of their energy plan, and to capitalize on the monetary value that such a market will offer, including the implementation of various projects that will create or free up credits.

KMKC can assist and provide the guidance and balance to develop and implement a company’s comprehensive energy and sustainability plan. We assist in defining a company’s goals, and then setting plans for measuring and implementing the plans needed to reach those goals. In addition, our programs enable and empower employees to support the plan, helping assure success.

As part of a energy and sustainability plan for our corporate clients, we perform the following services:

  • Energy audit of both physical facilities and existing energy purchasing practices and strategies

  • Provide strategies to mitigate price risk

  • Assist clients in understanding and implementing green solutions tha thave meaning and value

  • Developing your benchmark for greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”) and a plan to reduce them, including implementation of itnernal programs prior to a cap and trade system being implemented

  • Provide the tools to assess and benchmark your carbon footprint

  • Verification of LEED level per building or portfolio, and an estimation of what is needed to increase the rating

  • Value and capitalize on the monetary value of CO2 emissions that will eventually be traded in the United States (expected after 2008 election)

  • Implementation of strategies, inlcuding projects

  • Educating the organization on energy and sustainability

The Business Consulting Solution Group of KMK Consulting Company is now aligned within the Business Representation and Transactions Practice Groups of our parent company, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL law firm. This restructuring was done to leverage the skills of each entity and to provide the highest level of service for our clients, taking advantage of the $40 billion in transactions led by this law firm group in the past several years. To learn more about the Business Representation and Transactions Practice Groups, go to www.kmklaw.com.