Carrying costs run at the speed of the review queue.
The entitlement is approved and the loan is drawing. Interest runs on every day the file sits in a review queue, and nobody at the county is counting those days for you. We do, phase by phase — ground-up and build-to-suit, industrial and distribution, data centers, multifamily, senior living, medical, mixed-use.
Call and talk to a permit specialist — scoped to developers & owners.
What your projects run into
- Site plan approval and record plat
- Grading, erosion and sediment control, and stormwater permits
- Public improvement and right-of-way permits
- Water and sewer allocation and connection approvals
- Phased permits — sheeting and shoring, excavation, foundation
- Core and shell building permits, then tenant permits
- Bonds, letters of credit, and fee-in-lieu filings
- Temporary and final certificates of occupancy
Where the time goes
- A grading permit waiting on a bond that cannot be sized until the engineer's estimate is accepted
- Interest accruing by the day while a resubmittal sits in a third review cycle
- A phased permit strategy nobody filed for, so the whole building waits behind one approval
Each of those is days or weeks on a calendar you don't control. Handled early, most of them never happen.
We are not your land use attorney. Rezonings and hearings belong to counsel; everything between an approved entitlement and an issued permit belongs to us.
Straight answers
What is the difference between entitlement and permitting?
Entitlement is permission for the use and the density, usually with a hearing attached. Permitting is the construction approval that comes after it, and it is a second full review by people who were not in that hearing. An approved entitlement issues nothing on its own.
Can construction start before the full building permit issues?
In many jurisdictions, in stages. Sheeting and shoring, excavation, and foundation permits can issue ahead of the full structure. Whether that path exists, and what it costs, changes jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
What is a temporary certificate of occupancy?
A building occupied with a defined list of items still open, on a clock with an expiration date on it. It is a schedule tool, not a shortcut: every item on that list belongs to someone by name, and the ones that get missed are the ones nobody was named for.
Do you work with national developers and design-build teams new to Maryland?
Yes. Maryland runs twenty-four separate permit counters — twenty-three counties and Baltimore City — each with its own checklist editions, bond formats, and review queues. An out-of-state preconstruction team gets one number to call, and a package prepared, filed, and tracked at every counter the project touches.
Does the permit stack differ by project type?
Completely. A distribution warehouse is a site, grading, and shell story with a race to slab. A data center adds generator, fuel-storage, and fire-review approvals on the critical path. Senior living and multifamily carry health, elevator, and occupancy layers a shell building never sees. Mixed-use runs several of these stacks at once, on one parcel. The stack changes; the tracking doesn't.
Call and talk to a permit specialist
(240) 344-5075Ten minutes on your project. You leave with the permits and licenses it needs, in order, with the clocks that run on each.