Waterfront Property & Marina Services

At PR&A we have experience conducting comprehensive waterfront property assessments tailored for marinas and other waterfront facilities. We provide detailed evaluations of both above and below water infrastructure, focusing on safety, durability, and regulatory compliance for your marina and waterfront facilities.

Waterfront Property & Marina Services

At PR&A we have experience conducting comprehensive waterfront property assessments tailored for marinas and other waterfront facilities. We provide detailed evaluations of both above and below water infrastructure, focusing on safety, durability, and regulatory compliance for your marina and waterfront facilities.

Our Services

Property Condition Assessments by experienced professionals with a broad knowledge of all building systems. Our assessments are defined by:

  • Timely execution for due diligence schedules.
  • Thorough field engineering and document analysis.
  • Detailed and reliable opinions of cost.
  • Comprehensive reporting and photographs.

Development consulting services rooted in engineering & architectural principles; with services that span the project lifecycle:

  • Site & Development Feasibility Analysis
  • Comprehensive Document and Design Review.
  • Construction Monitoring, Oversight, and Draw Review.
  • Close-Out Reporting and Warranty Inspections

Engineering and construction services for owned assets:

  • Capital Projects & Planning Assessments
  • Tenant Improvements & Obligation Review
  • Emergency Repairs & Insurance Claim Oversight
  • Sustainability, Resilience & Building Optimization projects.

Seasoned engineers and architects with experience addressing unique challenges and specialized building systems and an institutional network of established specialty subconsultants for every building system and assessment type.

  • Assessments for all building systems.
  • Actionable recommendations.
  • Extensive and high quality specialist network.

Sustainability, risk, and resilience assessments integrated with our development consulting, asset management, and property condition assessment services. This approach enables stakeholders to explore sustainable and risk-adverse initiatives during investment evaluations and during capital project assessments. This includes:

  • Sustainability and efficiency assessments for acquisitions, developments, and owned assets.
  • Climate Risk & Resilience assessments for asset managers, risk managers and ESG+R leadership.

Sunrise Harbor Marina

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Sunrise Harbor Marina

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

The Sunrise Harbor Marina is a controlled access marina located at the Sunrise Harbor Apartments property in the Coral Bay area of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida. The marina improvements were reportedly completed in the late 1990’s and include 22-slips with 2,475 linear feet of Bellingham floating concrete docks with parallel dockage designed to hold a minimum of a 60-foot yacht with a maximum yacht size of 200-foot capacity as well as the adjacent seawall. The scope of our assessment included the marina component of the property as well as the portions of the boardwalk adjacent to the marina seawall including the Dockmaster office and cabana buildings. We also included an assessment of the marina including above and below water assessment of the docks, guides, pilings, pedestals, lines/cables, and seawall/bulkhead and a multibeam bathymetric survey of the marina basin.

Port Royale Marina

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Port Royale Marina

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

The Modera Port Royale Apartments are a luxury apartment development which includes a marina and dedicated boat slips at the north side of the property. Our assessment of the property included an above- and below-water structural inspection of the bulkheads and docks fronting the property. This include 68-slips and dock equipment, accommodating boats of various sizes.

Liberty Warf

Boston, Massachusetts

Liberty Warf

Boston, Massachusetts

Liberty Warf includes three adjacent, mixed-use, retail/commercial office buildings located on the wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, which includes the 12-slip marina and public boardwalk. The buildings are comprised of 14 above-ground stories; 75,661 total square feet that were reportedly completed in 2010. Restaurant tenants occupy the lower floors and there is office space on the upper two floors of the North Avenue building.

Bayside Square

Corona Del Mar, California

Bayside Square

Corona Del Mar, California

The Bayside Square office park consists of two office buildings on 1.5 acres of waterfront land within the Newport Beach vicinity in Corona Del Mar, California. The improvements consist of two, 2-story office/medical office buildings totaling 35,342 square feet that were constructed in the 1980’s.

401 North Michigan

Chicago, Illinois

401 North Michigan

Chicago, Illinois

401 North Michigan is a 35-story glass-and-steel office tower comprised of 772,404 square feet of office, retail, and storage space. The improvements are situated on a 1.98-acre site located on the north bank of the Chicago River and along the east side of North Michigan Avenue.

Constitution Warf

Boston, Massachusetts

Constitution Warf

Boston, Massachusetts

Constitution Warf is an office complex with three office buildings and associated improvements located along Boston Harbor within the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Treasures on the Bay

North Bay Village, Florida

Treasures on the Bay

North Bay Village, Florida

Treasures on the Bay consists of two, 10-story multi-family residential buildings. The property is located directly on the Intercoastal Waterway and approximately 1.5 miles west of the Atlantic Ocean and includes a 821 foot long boardwalk located along the south and east sides of the property and seawall.

San Fransisco Piers 1.5, 3, 5

San Francisco, California

San Fransisco Piers 1.5, 3, 5

San Francisco, California

The San Fransisco Piers assessment included three piers and boardwalks with mixed use office/retail buildings totaling approximately 82,526 square feet located on the Embarcadero waterfront in San Francisco, California. Improvements were originally completed in 1918 and renovated in 2006 and consist of three, 2-story buildings and their associated piers, public access promenade, water taxi landing, and marina.

Representative Projects

Our expertise encompasses a wide range of waterfront property types—including residential, commercial, and marina developments—and across diverse aquatic environments such as inland lakes, rivers, estuaries, and open coastal waters.

Areas of Focus

Boardwalk & Accessory Buildings

Bulkhead & Seawall Structures

Docks & Accessories

Who We Serve


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Institutional & Private Equity Investors

Pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity firms, that invest in coastal and waterfront properties.

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Lenders & Banks

Lenders and banks that provide financing for acquisitions, development, or renovations, offering loans for coastal and waterfront properties.

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Developers & Managers

Teams that plan, finance, and oversee the construction of waterfront properties.

Our Leadership

Michael Raybon

Michael Raybon

Michael Raybon is the Managing Principal and Co-President of Pond, Robinson & Associates and brings 30 years of experience in the evaluation of existing facilities. Mr. Raybon has been the project engineer on thousands of projects involving all types of construction material forensic investigations. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Raybon has been an integral part of the operations and management of Pond, Robinson & Associates. In addition to previously conducting and reviewing property condition assessments and reports, Mr. Raybon has extensive technical expertise in evaluating the following construction materials: concrete, steel, masonry, stucco, roofing and waterproofing materials and membranes, sealants, coatings, and pavements. Mr. Raybon has been a registered Professional Engineer for 22 years.

Education

B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida 1990

Registrations

Professional Engineer, Florida, 1998

Professional Engineer, Texas, 2009

Justin Lia

As a civil engineer, Mr. Lia was responsible for preparing commercial and residential site plans, due diligence reports/feasibility analyses, entitlements, infrastructure assessments (projects up to $3.7B), building inspections, and various structural and geotechnical engineering services. Clients include both public and private on a host of projects ranging from a runway extension on an air force base, slope stability for a Department of Energy particle collider, to the feasibility of large mixed-use sports and gaming complexes, to the structural design and retrofit of retail centers, to large earth retaining and waterfront structures, and a variety of others across all asset types. Mr. Lia has guided clients through the physical, environmental and capital planning due diligence process on many of the largest, most valuable buildings in the United States including: The Bellagio Hotel and Casino, the Willis Tower, multiple movie studios, a 15MM SF industrial/warehouse portfolio, large hospital/MOB portfolios, large multifamily portfolios, sale-leaseback transactions, retail malls, and many large office complexes. Mr. Lia is a subject matter expert in site, civil, geotechnical engineering, and real estate due diligence, and has served as an expert witness.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University at Buffalo

Introduction to Corporate Finance, University of Pennsylvania

Registrations

Professional Engineer, New York, 2004

STAAD Certified Engineer

OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety and Health

A.CRE Accelerator Certificate (CRE Financial Modeling)

LEED AP Building Design + Construction, USGBC

Rebecca Fischer

Rebecca L. Fischer is the Director of Construction Services at Pond, Robinson & Associates and brings over 25 years of facilities and construction consulting experience to the firm. Ms. Fischer has been involved in the design and construction of several new facilities, development and construction monitoring of large projects, and the assessment of existing buildings nationwide.  She has over 21years of experience at PR&A working with our Investment and Asset Management clients on high profile development projects including high-profile resorts, office and residential complexes, and multi-family projects with total project costs of up to $935M.  Through her experience with development and construction projects she has cultivated an understanding of site development, building construction administration, specifications, scheduling, quality assurance, cost control, and project management issues. She is a registered LEED® AP BD+C professional which has helped clients achieve their sustainability goals within their portfolio.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1997

Master of Engineering, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1999

Registrations

Professional Structural Engineer, Texas since 2003

LEED® AP BD+C since 2012

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