About - BlueSky Development Services

Jason Drewelow

Principal & Founder

Started in the field during college. Subcontractor, contractor, construction manager, developer, owner's rep—Jason's worn every hat in the delivery chain over 21 years and $1.2B in delivered projects across retail, medical, dental, and industrial facilities.

He's developed his own portfolio across the Midwest and Southeast. Many of his clients and tenants have been multi-site operators—so he understands the pressure of scaling a footprint while protecting unit economics. He's been on both sides of the table, and he built BlueSky to bring that perspective to operators who want a partner, not just a vendor.

Jason is a published author and frequent national speaker on real estate strategy and disciplined growth execution.

21 Years

Industry Experience

750+

Projects Completed

States Served

The CEPER Framework

Five phases. Every expansion.

This is not a sales deck — it is the actual process we run on every project. Each phase has a gate. You do not move forward until the work is done right.

Clarify

What do you actually want?

We start with your growth plan — not a site list. Unit economics, market priorities, capital constraints, timeline expectations. We pressure-test your expansion strategy before a single dollar is committed. Most operators jump straight to site tours. That feels like progress, but it is not. Without clarity on what you are actually building toward — how many locations, in what order, on what timeline, with what capital — every downstream decision becomes a guess. We define the criteria that make a deal worth pursuing and the red flags that kill one. If expansion does not make sense yet, we will tell you that too.

Evaluate

What are your real options?

Every site gets stress-tested against your trade area requirements, deal structure, and timeline. Zoning, utilities, environmental, real cost ranges. We flag what does not pencil before you are committed. A broker will tell you a site works. We will tell you what it actually costs to get open there — including the surprises most people find after they have already signed. Utility capacity, stormwater requirements, ADA path-of-travel, parking ratios, signage restrictions — these are the details that add $200K to a budget or six months to a timeline. We run the numbers before you run out of options.

Plan

What is the path forward?

Design scope, permitting strategy, timeline, budget — mapped out with the decisions and dependencies that drive your opening date. No ambiguity, no assumptions left unaddressed. This is where most expansion timelines break. Not because of bad contractors or slow municipalities, but because decisions were not made early enough. We define who is accountable for what, map every critical-path dependency, and build a schedule that accounts for the real world — not the optimistic version. Equipment lead times, permit review cycles, landlord approval processes — all sequenced so nothing stalls the project.

Execute

Build the thing.

From entitlements through certificate of occupancy, we manage the process — contractors, submittals, change orders, inspections — in real time so you can focus on operations. When issues come up — and they always do — we handle them directly and keep you informed without the noise. Change orders get evaluated against scope and budget before they are approved. Contractor schedules get pressure-tested weekly. You get a project status that tells you what matters: are we on budget, are we on schedule, and what decisions do you need to make this week. That is it. No 40-page reports. No surprises at CO.

Realize

Open the doors.

Punchlist, final inspections, transition to operations. We stay through stabilization to make sure what was promised is what was delivered. Then we help you decide what is next. A certificate of occupancy is not a finish line — it is a starting line. We manage punchlist completion, equipment installation coordination, final health and building inspections, and the handoff from construction to your operations team. For multi-site operators, this is also where we capture lessons learned. What worked, what did not, what to do differently on the next one. Every project in your pipeline benefits from the ones before it.

Built on the job site. Not in a boardroom.

Five phases. Every expansion.

Projects. Delivered.

Ready to open your next location?