- Development
Restoring places worth keeping.
Frontier Development Group transforms historic and challenging buildings into places people want to live, work, and gather — assembling the capital, the crew, and the craft to make each one happen.
- What We Do
We see potential where others see risk
The buildings worth saving are rarely the easy ones. They’re the theaters that went dark in the 80s, the schoolhouses mothballed in the 90s, the downtown blocks every developer called infeasible.
We structure the capital stack; everything from federal and state historic tax credits, bridge loans, and housing credits, and pair it with a team that actually knows how to rebuild a 1911 cornice.
Each project is a community we chose, a building we studied, and a plan we believe in enough to invest our own money alongside our partners.
The result is a portfolio of places that weren’t going to be built by anyone else, and communities that got something back that they thought they had lost.
- Four pillars, one developmental group
What we do, end-to-end
Historic Rehabilitation
Adaptive reuse of buildings on the National Register. We preserve what matters, modernize what must, and document every decision for SHPO review.
Capital Stack Structuring
Federal & state historic tax credits, KHITC, Opportunity Zones, New Markets. We source, structure, and syndicate the financing that makes these projects pencil.
Development Management
From the feasibility memo to the certificate of occupancy. We carry the entitlement risk, the equity risk, and the execution risk — so the building gets built.
Long‑Term Ownership
We hold what we build. Ninety percent of our portfolio is owner‑operated, which means the phone still gets answered ten years after the ribbon‑cutting.
- Case study - Completed 2018
The Avalon
Originally converted to multi-family housing during WWI, the Avalon had fallen into severe disrepair before Frontier secured it just two weeks before a tax sale. The renovation required zoning variances and historic approvals, along with careful restoration of failed brick walls, arched porches, and original enclosed porches that helped expand the upper-unit kitchens.
- What They Say