Ground Lease/Land Option

First time looking at a certain deal structure for a ground up deal, interested to get the communities thoughts.Deal facts: - developing on 100 year ground lease- unentitled land. Developer would sign option and seek to entitle land (which currently has improvements on it) - upon achieving entitlement, ground lease would start.

The developer would have created value, and incurred time/expense to entitle the land. If the cannot do so, it seems like a sunk pursuit cost, for which they shouldn't be compensated. If they do, however, and the developer should no longer want to do the deal, then the landowner would owner/control significantly improved land with higher land value.If you were the developer, how would you structure the option such that you are appropriately compensated for your time/effort of entitling the land, but not proceeding with the deal?

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