WRA is an industry leader in the field of mitigation banking and conservation banking services. Its dedicated Banking group provides a broad array of services to would-be-bankers, Bank Operators, Bank Investors, and permittees seeking mitigation. Land owners attempting to monetize their property by means of conservation and restoration activities need a team that combines biology and ecology with real estate and conservation finance to fully capture their land’s ecosystem services value. Bank sponsors have relied upon WRA to bring together the following components which are crucial to any successful banking venture:

Site Selection
WRA offers front-end services to help landowners and any public or private holders of large land portfolios evaluate and identify sites ideal for conservation and/or restoration activities.

Market/Financial Analysis
WRA has proven itself an expert in evaluating mitigation banks across the country. Through careful analysis of economic drivers of demand, regulatory environment, established methodologies, historical impact data, and development pipeline, WRA provides bank sponsors and investors with a greater degree of market transparency and assessment of potential risk.

Design and Strategy
WRA uses its extensive staff of landscape design and restoration experts to maximize a property’s natural resource value, and design a project that will optimize functional lift and associated mitigation credit and/or conservation credit yield. WRA has helped users to tier and phase their operations to reduce risks and expedite targeted restoration goals.

Bank Entitlement
WRA’s team of mitigation banking consultants aids its clients in navigating the nuanced regulatory process of entitling a wetland mitigation and/or conservation bank. WRA’s long time work with government agencies gives it a competitive advantage in garnering stakeholder support for projects. WRA has a large staff of biologists, wetland scientists, and permitting experts to expedite a proposed bank through the process toward approval.

Asset Management/Sales and Marketing
WRA’s personnel have worked on both the operations side of banking and the investment side of banking, and the company understands the importance of proper bank management and reporting to investors. As a consultant to project permittees, WRA will often be working with the potential buyers of mitigation credits early in the process and has the opportunity to solicit and market mitigation banking credits before the project is known to the public.

Bank Disposition/Fundraising
WRA has worked with bank and land owners who are seeking a potential investor or buyer for their asset. WRA has many relationships in the industry, and most importantly can create an investment package that will reduce due diligence time and highlight the upside investment opportunity.