The A7 Menu
Venues, Parks, Transit, and Overnight Stays
These properties require an appraiser with a strong skillset. Many are in high-rent districts with complex ownership arrangements. Highly unique improvements are the norm, designed with intertwined profit centers structured to maximize cross-sell opportunities and minimize operating expense. We have seen Leasehold, Sandwich Leasehold, Sales Tax Rebates, percentage rents, PILOTS, TIFS, TADS, Historic Tax Credit arrangements. Our portfolio includes 7 disciplines that start with the letter A:
Amusement Parks, Museums, & Arcades
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Many successful amusements are at the corner of main-and-main or in a pedestrian core. It takes a totally unique idea to bring customers in the door. One must be creative extract a little more profit before they leave.
Aquarium & Marina Facilities
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Water is a precious resource. Some of the most complex assignments include water rights leases with government authorities and specialty improvements.
Adventure Resorts, RV Campgrounds, Zip-line, Hunting, and Snow Sports
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These all require lots of land. Sometimes seclusion an natural views are where the value is found.
Accommodations, Conference, Event Venues
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Downtown conference center hotels, interstate flag hotels, boutique, AirBnB hotels, Etc. Yes, we have even appraised a treehouse village.
Airports, Food Courts, Rail, and Parking Garages
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We have worked with private airstrip owners and are on the approved panel with a major international airport in a tourist destination. Our owners have also been personally involved in development of garages and appraised millions of SF of retail. We even have a rail road client.
Auto-Racing, Go-Cart, & Equestrian Tracks
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Electric, gas, and hay fed racing. These often require parking, staging food, and retail support areas.
Alcohol Distilling, Brewing, Restaurant, and Entertainment Venues
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Its about the experience and making memories together. The real estate investments usually reflect a high level of build-out to make a splash. Cheers.
About Us
Our Roots
A7appraisers is a division of Scott Collins Company, LLC, a commercial real estate appraisal firm established in 1952 and headquartered in Knoxville, TN.
Our Footprint
We have worked from DC to Honolulu and the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes. We can fly anywhere east of the Mississippi and back on the same day.
Our People
Our firm has as current owners, partners, or affiliate appraisers, multiple individuals who hold the MAI designation and one individual with the AI-GRS designation of the Appraisal Institute. Some individuals may hold more than one Appraisal Institute designation. Each of our appraisers have between 20 and 50 years of commercial real estate experience and our support staff has been working with us for over a decade. The team is lead by Jerrod L. Gaertner, MAI. Our leadership has also been involved in budgeting, leasing, lending, design, and construction of commercial facilities. We understand the unique challenges of this specialty property type. Our owner is also a volunteer Alpine Patroller with the National Ski Patrol.
Select Case Studies
Maritime Museum, Pearl Harbor, HI
Chondola Lift & Retail Village TN
Chondola Lift & Retail Village TN
A museum, retail store, and yes...a submarine. All improvements are on a ground lease with the Navy in a historic site adjacent to a National Park with tons of foot traffic.
Chondola Lift & Retail Village TN
Chondola Lift & Retail Village TN
Chondola Lift & Retail Village TN
The newest concept in Gatlinburg, TN. A chondola and chair lift to a tree-top village, restaurant, and viewing platform.
Aquarium, MO
Chondola Lift & Retail Village TN
Arcade, Bumper Boat & Elevated Go-Cart Tracks, SC
Renovation of a former failed show palace into a $55M state of the art tourism based aquarium.
Arcade, Bumper Boat & Elevated Go-Cart Tracks, SC
Prison Museum, Distillery, Restaurant, & Entertainment Venue, TN
Arcade, Bumper Boat & Elevated Go-Cart Tracks, SC
Situated on a ground lease to a masonic temple with a lease-back including meeting space. Not to mention two electric go-cart tracks, bumper boat pool, and arcade.
Themed RV Resort, GA
Prison Museum, Distillery, Restaurant, & Entertainment Venue, TN
Prison Museum, Distillery, Restaurant, & Entertainment Venue, TN
A theme based resort with beaches, themed restaurant, snow tubing, and high-end RV resort situated within the larger golf course and hotel community.
Prison Museum, Distillery, Restaurant, & Entertainment Venue, TN
Prison Museum, Distillery, Restaurant, & Entertainment Venue, TN
Prison Museum, Distillery, Restaurant, & Entertainment Venue, TN
A closed prison in such bad condition it can no longer be used for anything but tours. Buildings were torn down and materials used to build a restaurant, liquor distillery, and music venue. It is situated within a sales tax rebate district and ground lease. Stories of the James Earl Ray Escape and ghost tours keep folks coming back.
Redeveloped Hotel & Event Center, Downtown, TN
Brewery, Taco Shop, & Moonshine Distillery, Downtown TN
Redeveloped Hotel & Event Center, Downtown, TN
This was the renovation of a vacant former insurance headquarters into a up-scale hotel and meeting space which spurred a renaissance of the West-side in Downtown
Large Scale Inland Marina, KY
Brewery, Taco Shop, & Moonshine Distillery, Downtown TN
Redeveloped Hotel & Event Center, Downtown, TN
A large scale 450+ slip marina on a license with the State, floating service facility, fleet of large houseboats, store, gas pumps, and room to grow.
Brewery, Taco Shop, & Moonshine Distillery, Downtown TN
Brewery, Taco Shop, & Moonshine Distillery, Downtown TN
Brewery, Taco Shop, & Moonshine Distillery, Downtown TN
Take three concepts that were proven in other cities and merge them into one concept and throw in some country music...steps from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Convention Centre. Also on a ground lease.
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