As Portland, Maine evolves into a hub of economic growth, cultural energy, and design-forward development, the demand for highly competent, technically sophisticated project leadership has never been more apparent. Nautare is proud to bring its strategic, performance-focused approach to commercial real estate projects across Portland and southern Maine.
We are not builders. We are not brokers. We are not architects. We are the missing piece in complex real estate initiatives; the trusted owner’s representative and project partner that ensures your goals are achieved with precision, discipline, and long-term value in mind.
Nautare serves real estate owners, developers, healthcare providers, and commercial tenants by managing risk, reducing waste, and delivering clarity across all phases of a project. Whether you’re developing a multi-tenant building, renovating a downtown office, or launching a new healthcare clinic, we make sure the right decisions happen at the right time, so your investment performs.
Our Expertise: Portland’s Growth Sectors Demand Real Project Leadership
Portland is experiencing a moment of profound transformation. We focus on sectors where construction complexity, stakeholder coordination, and long-term performance matter most. Our experience spans commercial office, healthcare, vision and dental care, developer-led mixed-use projects, and urban redevelopment initiatives.
Commercial Office
In a post-pandemic market shaped by flexibility, technology, and evolving user expectations, commercial office projects demand more than design and construction, they require intentional strategy and high-quality execution. Nautare supports owners and tenants through:
- Site feasibility and lease strategy
- Phased renovations and tenant improvement projects
- Infrastructure planning for hybrid work models
- Scope alignment between building owner and tenant
- Vendor coordination and milestone enforcement
We bring clarity to scope, structure to delivery, and leadership across all moving parts, so you can build spaces that retain tenants and drive value.
Healthcare and Medical Facilities
Medical environments are defined by complexity, compliance, and user-critical functionality. Nautare supports private providers, health systems, and outpatient facilities in delivering technical, regulatory-compliant, and operationally sound spaces, including:
- Primary care and specialty clinics
- Ambulatory surgical centers
- Imaging, diagnostics, and lab spaces
- Multi-tenant medical office buildings
- Infrastructure upgrades for MEP and infection control
From licensing coordination to medical equipment planning, we manage the details that others miss, ensuring construction doesn’t disrupt operations or delay patient service.
Oral, and Vision Practices
Dental and vision providers require efficient delivery, controlled budgets, and space that reflects brand identity and patient care priorities. We support independent practices and multi-site groups with:
- New office construction and renovation project management
- Consultant and contractor selection
- Schedule and budget development
- Detailed financial control and payment application review
- Functional coordination between clinical and support spaces
We understand the nuanced needs of medical practice owners and deliver spaces that function from day one, no delays, no surprises.
Mixed-Use and Developer Projects
Few project types require more integrated thinking than mixed-use developments and urban infill projects. With multiple uses, residential, commercial, retail, parking, and amenity, combined into one footprint, these developments are operationally complex and financially layered. Nautare supports developers from concept to occupancy with:
- Feasibility studies and entitlements strategy
- Public-private interface coordination (zoning boards, city officials)
- Design management that supports both lifestyle and yield
- Horizontal and vertical phasing strategies
- Coordination of architect, engineer, contractor, and tenant teams
- Investor reporting, budget forecasting, and lender draw oversight
We understand the pressures of pro forma targets, funding milestones, and community expectations. Our role is to manage technical delivery while protecting the vision and value of the development.
Urban Redevelopment & Repositioning
Many of Portland’s most compelling opportunities lie in adaptive reuse, renovations, and repositioning of existing buildings. These projects require a high degree of problem-solving, permitting savvy, and coordination between historical context and modern performance. Nautare delivers:
- Building assessments and cost modeling
- Zoning and change-of-use strategy
- Phased construction and tenant relocation planning
- MEP modernization and envelope rehabilitation
- Closeout and occupancy support for multi-tenant activation
We help developers and owners unlock underutilized assets by managing complexity and ensuring that every step, structural, financial, regulatory, is synchronized.
Our Process: End-to-End Leadership with Tangible Value
Nautare’s project management process is tailored, transparent, and results-driven. Our method adds value across every phase of a project:
Strategy & Feasibility
We define the right questions early, Can it be built? Should it be built? How should it be structured? and establish a clear path to move forward with confidence. We coordinate early due diligence, entitlement requirements, and stakeholder alignment.
Design Management
We lead the design process on behalf of the owner, ensuring that consultants understand priorities, scope is properly developed, and decisions are made with both technical and financial implications in mind. We reduce design drift and protect your budget before drawings ever hit the street.
Pre-Construction & Procurement
We manage pricing, contractor selection, and value engineering. Our deep experience allows us to lead negotiations that reduce change order exposure and secure qualified teams who align with the project’s goals.
Construction Oversight
During execution, we’re your advocate, monitoring progress, resolving field issues, coordinating vendor activities, and keeping the team aligned on schedule, cost, and quality. We routinely reduce owner change orders by 50–60% by catching risks early and enforcing accountability.
Turnover & Operational Readiness
Nautare coordinates closeout documentation, verifies substantial completion, and supports move-in planning to ensure smooth transitions. We remain involved post-occupancy to resolve outstanding issues and confirm that your space performs as designed.
Technical Oversight That Drives Results
At the heart of Nautare’s project management approach is deep technical oversight, the ability to not just manage tasks, but to critically evaluate decisions, anticipate risk, and lead with technical discipline.
Most construction project issues are not the result of accidents, they’re the result of poor coordination, unclear scope, or bad assumptions made early in the process. Nautare breaks this cycle by leading with intent, clarity, and expertise.
What Does Technical Oversight Mean?
While many firms provide administrative coordination, Nautare offers true technical project leadership. We operate as an extension of ownership, translating your goals into clear direction for architects, engineers, and contractors, and holding each accountable for delivering real value.
Our technical oversight includes:
- Detailed design reviews to identify inconsistencies, cost risks, and coordination gaps before documents go to bid
- Scope reconciliation between design, budget, and operational requirements
- MEP and infrastructure coordination to ensure systems are right-sized, code-compliant, and cost-effective
- Change management discipline, validating that proposed change orders are legitimate, necessary, and correctly priced
- Real-time cost tracking and contingency management, protecting the financial health of the project
Quantifiable Impact
On average, Nautare clients see:
- 50-60% fewer owner-initiated change orders due to proactive oversight
- Significantly fewer RFIs and field conflicts, as issues are resolved upstream
- Faster project timelines, because decisions are clear, scope is tight, and rework is reduced
- Lower project risk, with better control over contractor performance and vendor deliverables
Why Nautare? Why Portland?
We believe great projects are not the result of luck or force of will. They’re the result of systems, communication, discipline, and thoughtful leadership.
In Portland, a city rich in potential but increasingly challenged by permitting complexity, contractor scarcity, and shifting user expectations, Nautare provides the missing structure.
Clients choose us because:
- We bring clarity to uncertainty and structure to chaos
- We represent you, not your vendors
- We reduce rework, delays, and unexpected cost
- We integrate strategic vision with on-the-ground execution
- We treat your project as if it were our own investment
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Nautare is a national commercial real estate project services firm. We partner with ambitious clients to plan and deliver complex real estate projects with clarity, precision, and long-term value.
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