Molly McNamara and Skylar Bisom-Rapp founded Get Go Group LLC in 2020, building on over twenty years of combined experience in architecture, planning, branding, and real estate development. The company practices an integrated design-development model—where project concept, aesthetic considerations, site layout, cost constraints, and financial goals are in constant conversation from the beginning (the get go) of every project—to deliver unique, design-focused, place-based development projects. Get Go Group developments will be elegant yet approachable and sustainable. Our emphasis is on celebrating places not just delivering products, providing a distinct, meaningful and locally-specific experience for our guests and tenants. No less important to our process is a mandate to lift up and honor the communities that our projects call home, ever-mindful of the collateral damage that thoughtless, homogeneous development can bring. Wherever possible we seek to work with long-term residents and local businesses, celebrating neighborhood culture and cherished ways of life.
In our development work, we are pursuing a build-to-own, long-hold portfolio model, where each project is carefully considered for long-term success, and risk on each subsequent project is mitigated by stable project income from previous projects. This vertically integrated model will allow us to be selective in the few traditional, client-initiated projects we choose to take on. In both the work we initiate ourselves, and the work we do for others, our organization strives to design sustainable environments for people who care about thoughtful details, have a healthy respect for history and the environment, and appreciate a legible “sense of place.”
Our first project, Beverly Basecamp is a micro-resort in Washington State, around two hours east of Seattle, along the Columbia River. The location is a short 25-minute drive from the Gorge Amphitheatre, a 20,000-plus-person outdoor concert venue. The site has views of a 3,000 foot-long, 110-year-old rail bridge across the river, which can be accessed directly from the property via several hundred feet of trail frontage along the Palouse to Cascades Trail, part of the Great American Rail Trail that will eventually link Seattle to Washington D.C. The project is fully entitled to build 40 cabins and a 30 bunk hostel; and is shovel ready for a first phase of five cabins.