EXPLORE
Jamie's Projects
We develop
places
Whether it's a middle school in his hometown or a downtown civic campus stretching six city blocks, Jamie brings the same thing to every project: a willingness to dig in, stay involved, and leave every client feeling like the experience was as rewarding as the result.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT
Long Beach
Civic Center
22 Acres | 6 City Blocks | Civic / Municipal | Long Beach, CA
The Project That Changed Downtown Long Beach.
Long Beach needed to replace its seismically unsafe City Hall, its aging public library, and its deteriorating civic facilities. There was no public funding available — no bond issue, no tax measure, no voter approval on the horizon. Jamie Martin and the Edgemoor team discovered that the city was already spending $12.8 million a year maintaining the buildings it needed to replace.
They believed that same annual commitment could be leveraged into an entirely new civic campus without costing the city a dollar more.
By unlocking hidden sources of value others had missed, including an unrecorded easement that had encumbered a key piece of city-owned land for years, they made a $513 million civic campus possible within the city's existing budget and without a single dollar of new public funding.
By the Numbers:
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$513M civic campus delivered within the city's existing annual budget
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6 city blocks reimagined across 22 acres
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40 years of lifecycle maintenance built into the agreement
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Delivered on time and on budget
The P3 method enabled the City to procure a new Civic Center without any bond issues, tax measures or voter approvals."
— Michael Conway,
Director of Economic and Public Development, City of Long Beach
JAMIE'S PROJECTS
Our projects are successful because Edgemoor is there with the client to the finish line."
