They tend to have many years experience and you watch and learn as they take the project from start to finish.Right now it seems you do not even know if the base tenants will be national, regional, or local in nature.

I currently have multiple speculative development projects across the Puget Sound Region (and Colorado) in my portfolio all of which are in different stages of the process.

In your situation, a smaller local lender may be a better choice vs. a regional bank (M&T, Capital One, etc.). 

I believe Calgary will be the next emerging RE market in Canada as Vancouver & Toronto are getting very saturated and the prices are just out of hand.

More often than not these days the tenant is a regional site for a national credit tenant often publically traded.Delaware Statutory Trust - A twist on the TIC with a slightly different structure allowing for many more investors in a single project and more autonomy to the syndicator. 

Looking for referrals for real estate attorney in the Dallas TX region

crashes are regional, so are prices, and so is recovery.

In Feb 2016 my wife and I moved from Toronto Ontario to Hamilton Ontario and purchase our first house.

I am looking to bid the work out to construction companies in the NY Capital Region area (Albany/Schenectady, Etc.). 

I suggest you not depend on a site that has every Realtor in the region listed like Realtor.com.