Ports

MFA has championed the integrated port planning model, leveraging our extensive industry knowledge to help ports seamlessly integrate keystone documents across their planning and operations. Our approach fosters alignment, transparency, and efficiency, strategically positioning ports for increased resilience, community benefit, and expanded opportunities for future funding and economic growth.

• Strategic Plans
• Comprehensive Scheme of Harbor Improvements
• Capital Improvement Planning
• Response and Resiliency Plans
• GIS Asset Management
• Relationships with Key Regulatory Agencies

Ports are catalysts for the revitalization of brownfield sites, facilitating their transformation into productive community assets while enhancing environmental quality. Clients engaged with our Brownfield Redevelopment Services gain access to our extensive network of regulatory contacts and can rely on our decades-long experience in assisting both public agencies and private enterprises in rejuvenating brownfield sites across the Northwest. Our collaborative approach prioritizes the end goal, operates within the framework of state and federal environmental regulations, and recognizes the contributions of all involved.

MFA’s Site Planning and Development team offers comprehensive support, from thorough site analysis and due diligence to shepherding clients through the permitting processes and providing construction oversight, enabling ports to successfully complete their projects. We recognize the distinctive requirements and challenges encountered by ports and implement inventive approaches to ensure their projects thrive, seamlessly integrate into their overall portfolio, and contribute positively to the community.

Ports are the caretakers of key infrastructure that provides jobs and economic benefit and facilitates connections across the region and the world. MFA helps ports maintain and improve these valuable assets through strategic planning, environmental and property assessments, GIS services, and more. Our expertise allows us to examine your infrastructure and associated systems to provide insights and recommendations to guide budgeting, capital improvements, and future funding needs.

Ports are among the enduring public institutions of our communities, and each has a story to tell and a core identity that guides their work. Yet the full scope of the port, its operations, and its many benefits to the community and region are not always evident. Whether through ongoing support or project-specific assistance, our Communications and Public Engagement services empower our clients to articulate their identity and stories and create authentic, two-way communications with a variety of key interested parties. These efforts cultivate relationships that improve awareness, bolster support for ongoing and prospective projects, and promote more inclusive decision-making processes with widespread benefits.