How materials actually reach an out-island site
Every Caribbean construction schedule is a shipping schedule first. What a mainland sponsor gets wrong about island logistics, and how an owner plans around it.
Insights
Insights
Field notes on development management, owner's representation, and delivering complex projects in the United States and the Caribbean.
From the owner's side
Plain answers to the questions owners actually ask.
Field notes on development management, owner's representation, and delivering complex projects in the United States and the Caribbean. Also published as the LinkedIn newsletter The Owner's Side.
Owner's representative versus construction manager, honestly
The two roles sound alike and are sold alike. They are paid differently, sit on different sides of the contract, and protect different people. How to tell which one you are buying.
The shrinking denominator
Seven straight months of record Caribbean occupancy, and fewer available rooms in every one of them. What the fraction hides, and why the window is a schedule problem.
The 18-key hotel
Aman's first Mexico resort opened with eighteen rooms. The hotel is not the business. It is the engine, and the model moves the sponsor's risk into design and construction.
Paradise is a terrible place to build
The postcard hides one of the hardest construction environments in the hemisphere. That is exactly why the returns are there.
The most expensive mistakes are not made in the spreadsheet
Finance mistakes get named correctly. Design and construction mistakes get blamed on bad luck. Why the second half of 2026 separates prepared owners from everyone else.
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