Commercial & Multifamily · Minnesota

From raw land
to sold out.

We cover developments for the length of the project, not the length of an afternoon. Master-planned communities, apartment lease-up, municipal work and multi-year construction time-lapse, scoped around what the project actually needs.

Scope a project See how we cover one
350+
Home-site communities covered
3 yr
Longest running time-lapse
100%
Custom-scoped engagements
Why this is its own thing

A development is not a listing that happens to be bigger.

A listing is one visit and one delivery. A development runs for years, changes shape every quarter, and gets sold over and over before anyone lives in it.

To a board of investors. To the builders bidding the work. To a city council and a planning commission. To lenders at refinance. To brokers, to tenants, to the buyers who put a deposit down on a house that is currently a stake in the dirt. Every one of those rooms wants something different from the same site: the trajectory, the context, the impact, or what the kitchen looks like at seven in the evening.

So commercial work is scoped, not ordered. There is nothing to add to a cart on this page, because the right coverage for a 350-home community and a forty-unit infill building have almost nothing in common.

Which is the good part: you get exactly the coverage the project needs, and none of the coverage it does not.

What we cover

Four kinds of project, shot differently.

Aerial view of a master-planned residential community
01

Master-planned communities

Phased campaigns for national homebuilders. Site plans from the air, model homes as they open, and the same aerial framing repeated each quarter so the progress reads at a glance.

  • Quarterly aerial progress from fixed positions
  • Model home and amenity coverage as phases open
  • Community lifestyle and neighbourhood context
Apartment community clubhouse and amenity space
02

Multifamily & leasing

Everything a leasing team needs on day one, and the content that keeps the building full after. Unit types, amenities, the walk from the lobby to the lift, and social cuts for the property's own channels.

  • Every floor plan type photographed and toured
  • Amenity spaces, rooftops, common areas
  • 3D tours for units that are not built yet
Civic plaza and municipal project
03

Municipal & civic

Documentation that survives a council meeting. Before and after from matched positions, context aerials that show how a project sits in its neighbourhood, and stakeholder interviews.

  • Matched before and after from the same coordinates
  • Context aerials for planning and public meetings
  • Stakeholder and resident interview video
Industrial and commercial building exterior
04

Industrial, retail & healthcare

Buildings that get leased on specifications and photographs. Clear span interiors, dock and yard access, signage and frontage, and the parking count a tenant is going to ask about anyway.

  • Interior volume shot to read as usable space
  • Access, loading, frontage and parking
  • Site aerials with boundary and access context
Beyond the obvious

The work that keeps a project sold.

Photographs of a finished building are the easy part. These are the pieces that carry a development through the years in between.

Progress updates for the people buying

Monthly updates sent to buyers and homeowners watching their house come out of the ground. A family who gets a photograph of their framing going up in March stops calling the sales office to ask how it is going, and starts showing it to everyone they know.

Renderings that sit inside real footage

We take the 3D renderings and blend them into footage of the actual site, at the real light and the real angle, so a building that does not exist yet reads as already standing there. It sells a phase that is still a field far better than a flat render on a slide.

Inspection photography and video

Documentation shot to be evidence rather than marketing: condition, defects, progress against draw schedules, and anything a lender, an insurer or a dispute might need to look at later. Organised and dated so it holds up when somebody goes back to it two years on.

The Full Arc

We shoot the whole life of the project.

Multi-year coverage runs on a cadence you set: monthly or quarterly, from positions we record so every update lines up with the last one. That is what turns a pile of site photographs into progress you can actually watch.

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How it runs

What working together actually looks like.

No forms to fight. Four steps, and you know the number before anyone books a date.

  1. 01

    A call about the project

    Twenty minutes. What is being built, who has to be convinced, and when the first thing is due. If we are not the right fit for it we will say so on that call rather than three weeks later.

  2. 02

    A written scope

    Deliverables, cadence and a fixed figure, in writing. Phased projects get a per-phase number so nothing is open-ended, and you can approve one phase without committing to the next.

  3. 03

    We shoot the cadence

    Whatever the scope says: quarterly aerials, a groundbreaking, the run of work a building needs before leasing opens. Recurring coverage is booked in advance for the year so it never depends on anyone remembering.

  4. 04

    Delivered organised

    Named, dated, and sorted by phase, in a library your marketing team and your agency can both use without asking us for anything. Stills next morning by 11AM, video within 48 hours.

Portfolio

Selected development work.

Master-planned community photographed from the air
Master-planned community · quarterly aerial coverage
Modern commercial building at twilight
Twilight exterior · mixed use
Healthcare facility exterior
Healthcare · exterior and approach
Amenity lounge interior in an apartment community
Amenity lounge · leasing media
Golf course community amenity photographed from the air
Community amenity · aerial
Commercial building exterior with signage and frontage
Commercial frontage · leasing package
A starting point

What can be in a scope.

The things that come up most. It is not a menu and it is not the limit: if the project needs something that is not here, it goes in the scope the same way everything else does.

Licensed and insured

Commercial drone certification, and certificates of insurance and site safety documentation before the first visit.

Cleared for restricted sites

We have worked inside HIPAA constraints and on government facilities, under whatever the site requires.

Source material destroyed on request

Where the rule is that nothing survives the project, nothing survives the project. Confirmed in writing.

Good to know

The questions that come up every time.

Answered properly rather than deflected to a call, because the ones that matter tend to decide whether there is any point having one.

What does a commercial project cost?

It is scoped, so there is no list price here and we are not going to pretend otherwise. As a rough anchor: commercial work generally starts somewhere above what a large residential listing costs, and goes up from there with the size of the site and the length of the coverage. A multi-year community campaign is a different conversation again. You get a fixed written figure before anything is booked, phased work is quoted per phase, and our terms are net 30 with no exceptions, which we would rather say now than at invoice time.

Do you fly drones commercially?

Yes, licensed and insured, and we handle the airspace authorisation where a site needs it. A good deal of the Twin Cities metro sits under controlled airspace, which is worth raising early because clearance can take time.

Can you match shots over several years?

That is most of the value in a long project. Positions are recorded so the same framing, altitude and angle can be flown again months later. Matched frames are what make progress legible; unmatched ones just look like different photographs of a building site.

Who owns the media?

You get full commercial usage for the project: marketing, leasing, press, investor material, social, print, for as long as you want it. What you do not get is the right to resell or license the media on to somebody else, because copyright stays with us. In practice that distinction never comes up unless an agency tries to sell your photographs to a third party. We keep the right to show the work in our own portfolio, and hold anything confidential until you say otherwise.

How far do you travel?

There is no limit. The Twin Cities metro carries no travel charge, greater Minnesota is quoted with travel folded into the scope rather than added afterwards, and if a project is out of state or out of the country we will get on the plane. The figure you approve is the figure you pay either way.

Can you work under confidentiality or on secure sites?

Yes. We have worked inside HIPAA constraints and on government facilities, under whatever the site requires: background checks, escorts, restricted equipment, no-fly conditions, and destroying all source material on completion where that is the rule. Say what the constraints are on the first call and they go into the scope rather than becoming a surprise on the day.

Can this fit our budgeting cycle?

It is usually easier if it does. We will put a year of coverage into a single figure you can take into fiscal year planning, split it by quarter or by phase to match how your budget is actually approved, and hold the price for that year. Recurring work booked in advance is cheaper for us to run, so it is cheaper for you than the same visits booked one at a time.

Can you work with our agency or marketing team?

Often how it works. We deliver to their specification and file naming, and can shoot to a shot list somebody else wrote. Delivery is organised so the people using the media do not have to come back to us for it.

Start here

Tell us what is being built.

Send the project, the stage it is at, and roughly when the first thing is due. You will get a written scope back, not a brochure. If it is not a fit we will say so quickly.

  • A fixed figure in writing before anything is booked
  • Phased projects quoted per phase, nothing open-ended
  • A year of coverage costed for your fiscal planning
  • Net 30 terms, and we hold to them
  • Certificates of insurance before the first visit
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