In my day job, I am the regional product manager for Microsoft's online content business in the middle east (basically MSN.com content service). 

@Russell Brazil is a very good agent that understands the region and what investors want.

Regional bank (midwest), lend all 50 states though.

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.