Frequently Asked
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The airspace above land, roads, and buildings, up to the allowed (by zoning) buildable height and volume or the designated navigational space above a city. There are various laws and jurisdictions that govern that space, and every city is different.
In residential areas, this airspace can go up 2-8 stories depending on zoning restrictions. In civic centers and downtown areas, it can go over 60-80 stories, with the tallest buildings reaching over 100 stories (in the US).
The really interesting space in civic airspace is where the municipal jurisdiction begins, this is the next frontier where cities need to grow (not just for drones and eVTOL).
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We provide you with the ability to sell, purchase, or lease residential or commercial air rights, transferable development rights, and other civic airspace solutions.
Civic airspace transactions are just like any other real estate transaction, so you will have to enlist the help of a licensed Realtor and other partners to complete the transaction - we can help with all of that too.
We provide everyone on the platform the ability to better understand airspace with unrivaled mapping, valuation/comparables, and a streamlined document and solutions suite to guide you along the way.
Beyond that, we provide a variety of specialized and enterprise-level advisory services for corporate entities, developers, and municipalities to maximize their use of civic airspace.
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You are most welcome to continue to work with the same realtor and transaction team you have worked with in the past, just please refer them to our website - they will need to engage with us directly to get the data, the documentation they need, and reach out to the other potential stakeholders in the transaction, .
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We're here to provide the platform, guide the collaborative process, bring ideas to the table, and get things moving, but we will always defer to your needs, pace, and goals. No sales pitch, no pressure, just a crosscutting data service to facilitate your decision making and any transaction you might want to engage in civic airspace
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We don’t subscribe to the antiquated notion of air rights and challenge the assumption that only the wealthy should be able to fully maximize their property values. If you own a property, you own the airspace above it and you should be able to unlock that value.
We also don’t subscribe to one-size-fits-all solutions, from the individual property owner to the municipal level. Every owner will have different needs and every municipality will be a different marketplace. We are here to help solve unique problems with unique solutions.
Lastly, we are here to help cities grow to their fullest potential. We don’t dictate how cities should or shouldn’t grown, we facilitate and democratize the process as much as possible to let common sense solutions prevail while making room for the latest technology to be implemented responsibly. Cities are slow to heed new tech and we are here to help that too.
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The socialization of growing cities outward and not upward, the complexity of three dimensional space, the broken up jurisdictional and data systems, and the ad hoc nature by which air rights have been transacted have all contributed to a fairly opaque marketplace.
We are here to fix that.
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We offer tiered pricing for realtors, brokers, corporate partners, and developers to engage with us and property owners on the platform, but also offer a wide range of custom solutions for corporate and municipal entities.
We also charge a structured platform fee for civic airspace transactions depending on the project type and complexity. After an initial consult for our services, we provide a transparent quote with no hidden costs.
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You are welcome to cancel any subscription anytime but we do not offer partial subscription refunds. We are a software as a service company and hope you can engage us for as long as you need, no more and no less.
We are not responsible for the services provided by our corporate partners. However, should you be unhappy with any of the services provided, please send us a note and we will do our best to rectify the situation any way we can.
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Several layers of public data, some innovative uses of mapping/visualization, and proprietary algorithms to bring it all together into something truly useful for all the stakeholders involved.
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We are eyeing expansion to the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Each market offers different signals and challenges, but we are eager to learn, grow, and help cities move into the next century.
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Please use one of the several pre-formatted engagement sections throughout the website, each of them has been tailored to help us prioritize our time and personnel to specific topics/outcomes. We are a small but mighty startup team, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
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We’re working on it, trust me…