Summary of Qualifications
Charles
Carrington has focused his twenty-two year legal practice in all
aspects of real estate transactions, finance and development, including
hotel, retail, multi-family, office, industrial, warehouse/distribution
and residential projects. Entrepreneurial approach with emphasis
upon identifying ways to “enlarge the pie” for the benefit
of client and, selectively and in a well-timed manner, parties across
the table. Unexpected upside for clients and other participants
beyond achieving their stated objectives has served to overcome
impasses in difficult negotiations. Well documented track record
of projects/land use initiatives and effective negotiations in which
this style successfully added value and/or achieved cost savings on
behalf of clients. References and other materials regarding these
initiatives are available upon request.
Areas
of Experience
Traditional
real estate practice:
- Sales and acquisitions of hotel, retail, multi-family,
industrial, warehouse/distribution and residential projects and related
due diligence
- Financing (representing either the borrower or the
lender)
- Project permits and approvals, including entitlements,
transportation issues, impact fees, concurrency and other land use
issues
- Real estate documentation, including purchase
contracts, closing documents, CC&Rs, easements, etc.
- Management, leasing, construction and brokerage
Land
use/development matters:
- Developing strategies for new development proposals
- Agreements (including public/private partnerships) for
development and construction of smart growth projects, TODs and related
transportation and other public infrastructure
- Site and regulatory due diligence
- Zoning matters
- Obtaining entitlements
- Processing comprehensive plan amendments to achieve
consistency
- Negotiation of economic development incentive packages
with local governments (annexations, corporate relocations, etc.)
- Resolving impediments under concurrency, adequate
public facilities ordinances or LOS through development agreements,
road agreements and other means
- Establishing vested rights, including impact fee
credits
- Annexations
- Associated environmental permitting matters
- Other land use aspects including smart growth, new
urbanism, TOD, sustainable communities, sector planning, urban service
areas and environmentally sensitive development
- For specific types of projects see Significant
Representations
Transportation
and public infrastructure projects:
- Master Agreements for development and construction of
mass transit systems (light rail, bus systems, transit stops,
intermodal centers, TOD, etc.)
- Multi-Party Agreements including Interlocal Agreements
for roadway/transit projects and interchanges providing for the
assemblage of necessary lands and easements, land swaps, access,
entitlements and other land use matters, design, engineering and
construction
- Negotiation and drafting of public/private
partnerships for transportation projects
- Agreements integrating land use and transportation
considerations to promote livability and transit-oriented development
under recent joint U.S. DOT and HUD “Sustainable Communities
Initiative”
- Mass transit (light rail, intermodal centers, TOD,
etc.)
- Tax increment financing, MSTU and other funding
mechanisms
Negotiation
and drafting of public/private partnerships for smart growth projects
and TODs:
- Master Agreements with local governments for smart
growth projects, sustainable communities and TODs including
entitlements, packages of economic development incentives, land use
aspects, CRA matters and local government funding devices.
- Negotiation of economic development incentive packages
with local governments (annexations, corporate relocations, etc.)
Development
of Regional Impact (DRI) process:
- Formulating strategies under the DRI law, including
the aggregation rules
- Negotiating provisions of Development Orders
- Processing amendments (change determinations) for
previously approved DRI's
- Preliminary Development Agreements
- Binding letters, including advising clients concerning
changes to the project and processing clearance and "comfort" letters
Distressed
Real Estate:
- Transactions (distressed real estate and debt)
- Real estate re-structuring (work-outs, modification
agreements, deed-in-lieu agreements)
Significant
Representations
- Marbella DRI (tourist commercial project in west
Orange County).
- Interlocal Agreements relating to completion of
interchanges.
- Public/private partnership (right-of-way and airspace
utilization) with county’s convention center on behalf of
developer for proposed pedestrian oriented mixed-use project (DRI) over
International Drive.
- Festival Bay project (prospective purchaser owned
other properties in close proximity to Festival Bay and proposed
acquisition of this themed tourist commercial project presented DRI
considerations under the aggregation rules).
- Multi-Party Interlocal Agreements for major
roadway/transit projects and exchange of parcels.
- DRI in east Orange County in the vicinity of the
environmentally sensitive, protected Econ. River.
- Winter Springs Town Center (DRI matters involving this
smart growth project in Central Florida).
- Master Agreement for proposed intermodal center (park
and ride parking garage, bus and light rail connections and
accompanying private sector mixed-use development).
- Real Property Exchange Agreements (land swap
agreements).
- Maitland Town Center (obtaining a binding letter from
the Florida Department of Community Affairs on DRI aspects for this
smart growth project).
- State and federal funding aspects (intermodal
center/TOD) serving the North I-Drive area.
- Transportation Impact Agreements.
- Interchange, highway and roadway
beautification/streetscaping, including MSTUs, agreements with
adjoining property owners, signing of private sector funding sources,
etc.
- Acquisition (due diligence) of office tower in
downtown Orlando.
- Local government funding devices and community
redevelopment act matters.
- Roadway Extension Agreements.
- Public/private partnership providing for the funding
and construction of parking garage, Central Florida.
- Negotiation of public/private partnership for 4-lane
boulevard in St. Lucie County, Florida.
- Maitland Town Center ( right-of-way, easements,
access, traffic calming and other issues relating to this proposed
smart growth project bifurcating U.S. 17-92).
- Agreements for conveyance of property for
rights-of-way.
- 566-acre land assemblage in west Orange County
involving DRI, proposed road network, land use and real estate issues
(the key parcel for the mixed-use development comprising the second
village of Horizon West, a smart growth project).
- Cooperation Agreements for roadways.
- Development of new I-Drive mixed-use project (hotel,
retail, restaurant) including DRI matters (binding letter) and
rehabilitation of existing retail development located on portion of
site.
- Representation of owner of outlet mall, including DRI
matters (binding letter) and other land use aspects of proposed
redevelopment and expansion.
- Acquisition and development of large convention-based
hotel/mixed-use project.
- Developer’s Agreements relating to Capacity
Reservation.
- Multi-Party Agreement for interchange on I-4 to
connect International Drive to Palm Parkway and Apopka-Vineland Road.
- Multi-Party Agreements (public/private partnerships)
providing for assemblage of necessary lands and easements, land swaps,
access, land use entitlements, design, engineering and construction
(major road projects including Taft Vineland Extension and Palm
Parkway).
- Master Agreements (including public/private
partnerships) with local governments for smart growth projects,
transportation projects and TODs, including packages of economic
development incentives.
- Development and land use aspects of 50-acre mixed-use
development, west Orange County, Florida (Town Center for initial
villages of Horizon West).
- Agreements regarding utilities.
- Approvals for borrow pits and landfills, including a
50-acre landfill in west Orange County, Florida.
- Annexation/Developer's Agreement and related land use
and development matters concerning annexation of 50-acre urban area.
- Legal counsel to owner's representative for Gaylord
Palms projects in Florida and Texas.
- Reciprocal Easement Agreements.
- Master Agreement (public/private partnership) with
Lynx for proposed light rail transit stop, accompanying private sector
development (TOD) and related matters.
- Acquisition, development and financing of two
mid-sized hotel projects.
- Representation of owner, manager and developer of
portfolio of grocery anchored retail projects.
- Various other value enhancement and/or cost saving
initiatives involving entitlements, access, impact fees, off-site
drainage, signage and similar matters.
Professional
& Community Involvement
- Member, NAIOP
- Member, Central Florida Hotel Motel Association
- Member, Orlando/Orange County Convention and
Visitor’s Bureau
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, The Florida Bar
Environmental
and Land Use Law Section
Local
Government Law Section
- Member, Orange County Bar Association
Lectures,
Publications & Distinctions
- Frequent seminar speaker on land use law (typically,
one seminar per year)
- “AV” rating, Martindale-Hubbell
Education
- J.D., University of Florida Levin College of Law, 1986
- B.S., University of Florida, 1982
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