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OWNER'S REPRESENTATION · RESORTS · DESTINATIONS · VENUES

Every project is
decided twice.

Once in design, when the reason guests come is created. Once in delivery, when it's quietly negotiated away. Hi-Resi sits on the owner's side of the second.

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UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

$6B
PROGRAM. OWNER-SIDE CHECK.

VIRGIN TRAINS USA

670,000 ft²
FIVE FACILITIES, TRAINS RUNNING
15 months
REBRAND, POSITION TO LAUNCH

HOW HI-RESI IS PAID

Fixed fee
NO DESIGN FEE. NO DOWNSTREAM SCOPE.

WHY OWNERS CALL HI-RESI

“Cutting $80M is easy. Keeping the experience is the job.”

The designer's argument is aesthetic, and it loses to a number. The PM firm's argument is a number, and it can't say what the cut costs in attendance. Hi-Resi makes the third argument: what the cut does to the pro forma, in guest terms, in writing, before you sign.

Traditional reps measure two things. Hi-Resi measures three.

TRADITIONAL REP + HI-RESI

BUDGET

Every cost, seen before it's committed.

TRADITIONAL REP + HI-RESI

SCHEDULE

Every opening date, held.

ONLY HI-RESI

EXPERIENCE

What guests come for, priced before anything is cut.

Not here to audit your team. Here to arm it.

HOW HI-RESI HANDLES VALUE ENGINEERING

Cut the cost, not the experience.

Every value-engineering package gets the same three-way sort, from people who have designed for the budget and built to it.

  1. 01 Invisible to guests.Cut it. That money belongs where guests can see it.
  2. 02 Erodes the memory.Priced. You decide, with the consequence attached.
  3. 03 Removes the reason for the trip.Refused in writing, with the attendance cost attached.

So the refusal survives the meeting you're not in.

Then through delivery: bids and change orders benchmarked by someone who has issued them.

COMMERCIAL
PROJECTS.

A rail system that couldn't stop running. A food warehouse that became a museum. A theme park program with dates that couldn't move. Tap any project for the facts.

MIAMI, FLORIDA · BRAND CONVERSION — 01 / 03

Virgin Trains USA (now Brightline)

Owner's representative for the conversion of Brightline to Virgin Trains: three stations, a headquarters and support facilities, converted while the trains kept running.

  • 670,000 ft² across five facilities
  • Budget, schedule and every hire, from zero
  • Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, architects

MIAMI, FLORIDA · MUSEUM · ADAPTIVE REUSE — 02 / 03

Rubell Museum

A 100,000-square-foot food distribution warehouse covering a full Miami city block, rebuilt as a museum in time for Art Basel 2019. Steven Resnick was COO of the company that built it.

  • COO, construction company
  • Annabelle Selldorf, architect
  • Open in time for Art Basel 2019

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS RECREATION GROUP — 03 / 03

Universal Studios

Owner-side check on a program of roughly $6 billion, holding design to budget from concept forward against opening dates that could not move.

  • ~$6B program
  • Cost estimates at every design stage
  • Business operations, company-wide rebrand

BRIGHTLINE + RUBELL MUSEUM · ART BASEL 2019

Art Moves. In nine working days.

Brightline's president wanted the trains to matter during Art Basel. Steven Resnick had built the new Rubell Museum, so he took the idea to Mera Rubell.

One campaign tied the museum's opening, Art Basel and Brightline together: coaches wrapped in Keith Haring, a ticket that got riders into the new museum free, onboard digital content and online banners.

It positioned Brightline as the train for Miami's art, fashion, food and future.

  • APPROVALSKeith Haring Foundation and the Rubell Museum
  • SCOPETicket design, livery, onboard digital content, online banners
  • SPEEDApproved concept to installed coach wraps: 9 working days

FROM THE CLIENT · VIRGIN TRAINS USA / BRIGHTLINE

“Steven never presented me with ‘problems,’ but he did aptly identify issues and always provided me with various solutions so as to decide on the best course of action.”

“The budget for this project was lean, and at the same time, the quality had to be high. Steven showed tremendous skill in resourcing firms to bring the project to fruition.”

PATRICK GODDARD · PRESIDENT, BRIGHTLINE

INQUIRIES — IN CONFIDENCE

Discuss a project in confidence.

Steven Resnick, founder of Hi-Resi
Steven Resnick, FounderClose to 40 years as builder, fabricator and owner's rep, from Universal's $6B program to estates in Aspen and Beverly Hills.

Send the drawings, the budget and the schedule. One conversation will tell you whether you have a problem worth your time, or ours.

steven@hi-resi.com858.353.2981

HOW WE START

A pressure test, not a mandate.

Two to three weeks inside your project. A fixed fee and a written owner's-eye assessment you can hand upward. No commitment beyond it.

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© 2026 Hi-Resi. Rubell Museum photography: Chi-Lam (completed), Steven Resnick (construction). Other project images courtesy of the project owners.steven@hi-resi.com · 858.353.2981

Assessments and cost ranges are planning tools, not construction documents or a guaranteed price. Hi-Resi does not give legal advice or practice architecture.

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