ABOUT US

About DCG Corplan Consulting LLC


DCG Corplan Consulting LLC (DCG Corplan) is a national leader in economic development strategic planning, corporate site selection and location intelligence, and real estate development feasibility studies and market analysis. DCG Corplan's principals have counseled nearly 25% of the Fortune 500 corporations, assisted with more than 2,600 location decisions, as well as hundreds of assignments for public development agencies in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.

The firm provides strategic guidance to public agencies with practical business attraction/retention programs and implementation. Public sector clients include regional, state, county and municipalities who seek economic development and diversification in specific industrial, commercial, trade, and tourism activities, as well as development entities who seek assistance on positioning surplus or underutilized facilities into positive cash flows.

For private sector assignments, the firm is dedicated to helping corporations or private investors improve their bottom-line results and capitalize on growth opportunities through geographic repositioning of their capacity. Corporate clients include major industrial and service companies for whom DCG Corplan provides guidance on expansion, consolidation, or reconfiguration of administrative, marketing, production, research, and distribution facilities, including: headquarters and field offices, manufacturing plants, data centers, laboratories, telemarketing centers, and warehouses.

The firm combines the talents of experienced professionals in the three practice areas: Economic Development, Corporate Site Selection, and Real Estate Development.

Firm History


Origin of the firm is traced back to the Fantus Company of the mid-1950’s, whose area development and site selection practice is partly responsible for much of the southern tier of the United States economic prosperity today. Our late Managing Director of Location Services, L. Clinton Hoch, was personally responsible for relocation of over 50 major corporate headquarters from New York City to new locations worldwide.Investment portfolios that are burdened by non-performing real estate can be positively reinforced through creative adaptive use strategies -- a unique means of promoting the value of local properties based on achievable performance measures.

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Firm Leadership


The firm is led by our Managing Director, Bruce M. Hoch. Mr. Hoch is a seasoned consultant with over 35 years of experience advising private and public sector organizations on a variety of location and development topics. Range of services include diversification in specific industrial, commercial, trade, and tourism activities, assistance on positioning surplus or underutilized facilities into positive cash flows, and capitalizing on growth opportunities through geographic relocation of existing capacity.

Mr. Hoch is a nationally recognized leader in corporate site selection, economic development, market analysis and real estate feasibility. He has conducted over 400 consulting assignments involving projects from coast to coast, as well as several foreign countries assignments in Europe and the Caribbean. Mr. Hoch has written extensively on the subject of adaptive reuse and is co-author of a ULI best-selling publication, "New Uses for Obsolete Buildings" (1996).


Repositioning assets for adapatve reuse