For more than 45 years, retailers and developers have trusted VHB to deliver high-value sites across the East Coast. From big-box stores and grocery anchors to convenience stores, pharmacies, financial centers, and quick-service restaurants, we've helped clients execute expansion strategies.
As a strategic advisor, VHB partners with clients from the earliest stages—evaluating portfolios, guiding site selection, and developing execution plans across multiple sites and locations. Through systematic data collection and management, we provide the intelligence needed to track progress, anticipate challenges, and identify the right resources to keep development programs moving forward.
Our deep market knowledge and understanding of local regulations allows us to evaluate sites from every angle and unlock each asset's full potential. From concept to opening day, we deliver integrated planning, due diligence, permitting, engineering, and design services that resolve traffic and access challenges, secure permits, and create community-focused retail environments that enhance the customer experience.
The VHB Advantage
Single Point of Contact
A dedicated VHB Program Manager minimizes coordination complexity and keeps your project moving forward.
Speed to Market
With 30+ offices on the East Coast, our local teams leverage established relationships and market intelligence to help national and regional brands identify high impact locations, evaluate development risks, and accelerate permitting to meet opening day schedules.
Navigating Regulatory Complexity
Our deep understanding of the regulatory process and local experience helps our clients anticipate regulatory challenges—zoning, environmental reviews, traffic impacts, and stormwater regulations—before they impact schedules.
Program Delivery—Centralized Production & Quality Control
VHB standardizes processes and creates reliable schedules and accurate budgets, providing scalable program delivery and consistency in store design implementation—resulting in fewer change orders and greater cost predictability.
East Coast Geographic Reach
VHB has more than 2,300 professionals across multiple disciplines which give us the depth to manage production peaks and deploy the right professionals—engineers, planners, designers—where your project is located.
How VHB Can Help
VHB acts as a strategic advisor to help retailers plan, permit, and deliver programs that meet evolving market demands. By leveraging local market knowledge and regulatory relationships, we streamline site selection and entitlements, accelerate approvals, reduce risk, and address community concerns. Our focus is on getting you open for business with the critical infrastructure that positions your sites for long-term success.
