Real Estate, Zoning & Land Use Public Affairs

Strategia helps developers, property owners, public agencies, business groups, and community stakeholders move complex real estate, zoning, land use, and development matters through public review, political scrutiny, and community engagement.

  • Zoning and land use communications

  • Public hearing preparation

  • Municipal and county stakeholder mapping

  • Community benefits messaging

  • Coalition and grassroots

  • engagement

  • Neighborhood outreach

  • Opposition research and issue tracking

  • Media strategy

  • Digital advocacy and geotargeted messaging

  • Public meeting materials

  • Government relations

  • Legislative monitoring

  • Elected official engagement

  • Regulatory and agency strategy

  • Crisis and reputation protection

Why Strategia?

Knowledgeable real estate developers know that to be successful in this fast-paced region, a public affairs or community affairs setback or delay can be devastating to the bottom line. That’s why real estate developers, infrastructure, and building consulting trades count on Strategia. 

 Strategia brings the rare combination of government affairs, housing and real estate policy, crisis and reputation judgment, media credibility, civic governance, and a Chicago MSA-tested stakeholder strategy that can be scaled to be the perfect complement to your development’s public affairs advisory work.

Our team has a decades-long unique and in-depth relationship with utilities, planning, and councils of governments throughout the region and has worked on a wide range of development-oriented services from initial site review, through convening meetings with elected government, bureaucrats, and community leaders to occupancy.  We open lines of communication and develop working coalitions and partners dedicated to bringing your job in on time and on budget.  

Selected Case Studies

Railroaded

Infrastructure • Municipal Government • Public Affairs • Land Use • Crisis Communications

Coordinated advocacy and communications efforts across eight municipalities responding to a major rail merger involving freight congestion, safety concerns, infrastructure impacts, and federal regulatory engagement.

DuPage Water Commission

Public Infrastructure • Government Relations • Municipal Communications

Supported strategic communications and stakeholder engagement surrounding regional infrastructure, municipal coordination, and public agency policy discussions.