Red Brick Consulting, Inc.

08/14/2024

Happy to be named...

11/15/2023

Another Red Brick project in the news...

Red Brick was pleased to be able to support the contractor (WPIC) on managing the schedule risk on this project.

We are fortunate enough to be able to be a trusted member of the teams and help them see the path to the finish line.

The Parker provides much-needed housing with extensive amenities near Culver City and Miracle Mile.

11/14/2023

Red Brick has been named as a B2B Power Partner in the Inc. Magazine 2023 Awards.

We are so proud of our team and how they always endeavor to add value beyond the norm to our clients and work to exceed their expectations in every encounter.

Exciting times!

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Inc. Business Media announced that Red Brick Consulting, Inc. ("Red Brick") was named in the second annual Power Partner Awards, honoring...

09/19/2023

We were fortunate enough to be a part of team to renovate and expand this wonderful historical structure.

The effort required excavating underneath the seating areas to create new green rooms, making tunnels to a new building to the north, creating a new stage, new lighting, new access...

What an amazing and challenging project.

(We were consultants on it to the Pankow team)

Construction of the seating area of the new Pilgrimage Theatre, located at 2580 Cahuenga Boulevard East, designed to resemble the ancient architecture of the Holy Land for the purposes of the play performed there, 1931. Source: LAPL

The previous amphitheater on the site was built in 1920, but a brush fire in October 1929 destroyed that wooden structure. The religious-themed Pilgrimage Play, written by Christine Whetherill Stevenson, was performed every summer between 1920 to 1941. During WWII the theater was deeded to Los Angeles County and converted into dormitories for servicemen. After the war, the play resumed until 1964, at which time it was legally ordered to close due to its religious content. In the early 1970s, the amphitheater was renamed after John Anson Ford, in honor of his dedicated and successful campaign to revive the facility.

09/15/2023

Thankful to be a key part of this effort... We have the best folks around working on delivering these projects.

Red Brick is now providing services in 13 states - coast to coast! And, not only do we span the country, the total value of our current projects in process is approaching $10Billion in construction value.

Feeling blessed!

12/24/2022

As we close out 2022 and our 14th year of business, we are incredibly grateful to be working on over 8 billion dollars worth of construction projects. Thank you to our wonderful client partners for making that possible. We are excited to see what 2023 brings.

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

03/04/2022

We here at Red Brick have made a substantial investment in developing our Construction Risk Management practice for the multi-housing markets.

We saw this coming 5 years ago and at this point, we are providing consulting services on over 10,000 housing units being constructed all across the west (and have another 5,000 in the pipeline).

We only see this market getting larger over the next decade.

Our services help the project owners, investors, and contractors figure out how to build complex construction to meet the pro-forma timelines as well as manage the chaos of this crazy economy.

So thankful that we saw this coming...

Sacramento housing policy is setting off flashing red lights across cities right now. You need to be aware of how this could change your community.

As a matter of policy, decisions ought to be made at the level closest to those effected. In a recent article, I was quoted saying: “When a new development is contemplated in or around a neighborhood, residents naturally expect that they can speak to their local city council … A mayor is a whole lot easier to get on the phone than the governor. Cities should have an overriding say on what happens in their borders.”

Instead, Sacramento has declared that lack of housing supply is a statewide concern and is passing legislation overriding local land use decisions for cities throughout the state.

Plus, an administrative agency called “Housing &Community Development” (HCD) has the power to dictate that regions plan for a certain number of units. These regional governments then dictate to cities how many housing units they plan for the next 8 years.

Every city has to have a “General Plan” primarily for land use. One element of the General Plan is a “Housing Element.” So, every 8 years, a city has to submit a new housing element to HCD for review and certification that the city complied with the dictated number of housing units.

In this coming cycle, HCD has dictated MASSIVE numbers of housing units. NB must plan for 4845 new units; Costa Mesa (11,760), HB (13,368), Irvine (23,610), etc.

If HCD refuses to certify an element (it has only approved 7 of 197 so far), then new legislation requires that the city change its entire zoning code by October … of this year. That’s typically a multi-year process.

And HCD just this past week rejected Los Angeles’ element. LA must now rezone to accommodate 250,000+ housing units by mid-October. Failure means lost access to housing grants and subjects a city to substantial state enforcement. For example, CA’s Attorney General can sue noncompliant cities, request to take over a city’s planning department, and simply start issuing permits.

Arrogance and tyranny are at our doorstep. Back your city council if we have to fight.

(Thanks to for today’s pic!)

Resources:
· Good twitter thread discussing LA’s element rejection: https://mobile.twitter.com/cselmendorf/status/1496762637455028229

· LA Times “L.A. must add more than 250,000 homes to zoning plan by October, state rules” https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-02-24/la-needs-to-rezone-for-a-lot-more-housing

· Voice of OC “New Housing Plans Pit OC Cities Against Sacramento Over State Mandated Housing Goals” https://voiceofoc.org/2022/02/new-housing-plans-pit-oc-cities-against-sacramento-over-state-mandated-housing-goals/

· SCAG’s allocations: https://scag.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/6th-cycle-rhna-proposed-final-allocation-plan.pdf?1614911196

· Statewide Housing Plan - https://statewide-housing-plan-cahcd.hub.arcgis.com/

12/24/2021

All of us at Red Brick Consulting wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year!

We are so thankful for our clients/business partners and hope that 2022 brings much joy and sucess to all.

Merry Christmas, one and all!

03/18/2021

Congratulations to our Partners on the Frank Gehry Project in Downtown LA.

This is a key milestone on this 39 story and 20 story tower project and we are thankful to be a part of its success.

Great Job Team!

Red Brick has been providing scheduling and risk management services on this project from before the project was even out of the ground.

Red Brick provides full project consulting services including Program/Project/Construction Management, Owner's Representation, Scheduling, Project Controls, and overall Construction Risk Management services. We are a certified WBE firm and are prepared to assist on any project from a small commercial project, themed entertainment, multi-family housing, schools, hospitals, etc... to a billion-dollar-plus skyscraper project.

Two years after The Grand, the Gehry-designed $1-billion mixed-use development, broke ground in Downtown Los Angeles, construction reached a major milestone this week with the enormous structure officially topping out. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Grand () A...