Placemaking Between Downtown and Suburbia
With the economy healthy again after the recession and rents on the rise in urban centers, commercial office tenants and developers are considering alternative locations to the traditional central business district. This trend is coupled with the millennial generation growing up and reaching child-rearing years.
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January 29, 2018Benefits, methods to foster outdoor engagement
Plants and landscaping used in senior outdoor spaces are other contributing factors in increasing outdoor engagement.
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January 29, 2018Interlocken Matures as North Park Begins
If “money talks,” then real estate makes the world go ’round. Much more than a simple business deal, real estate transactions transform communities and create our collective vision of “place.” This vision changes over time in response to advancing technologies, economic factors and market dynamics.
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January 21, 20186 ways to build loyalty and avoid staff turnover
Property management is an industry built around outstanding customer service, so our team knows the importance of people. Maintaining good relationships with residents and tenants of all kinds is what keeps
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January 15, 2018Is Open Office Dead? Not if Properly Crafted.
Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen several articles in various publications hinting that the “open space office concept” is a failed or failing experiment.
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January 14, 2018The return on investment of intelligent buildings
The commercial property of the future, like its residential cousins, will be a building with which you can have a two-way conversation, incorporating each subsystem of a whole building system. A simple analogy to this is
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January 14, 2018Survey finds Energy Star remains indispensable
In early 2017, the White House’s administration’s budgetary draft recommended the Environmental Protection Agency start “developing legislative options and associated groundwork for transferring ownership and
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January 8, 2018Transforming Denver’s Theater Experience: The Unique Art of Performance Design
A common misconception of theater design is that architects are given the opportunity to create a “dramatic space.” In reality, however, good theater architecture creates a supportive enclosure that focuses as much energy as possible toward the performance that will inhabit the space. The challenge is to bend all of the layers of the project toward the goal of serving future performances as completely as possible, and making it look simple.
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January 8, 2018Building a City Takes a Village, Deserves Thanks
We celebrated my son’s birthday recently and, as is tradition in our family on every holiday, he received a Lego set. As we were pouring over the instructions and laying out the pieces, we talked about how Lego blocks are created. We discussed the plastic material used, that there was a different mold for each brick and specialty piece.
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December 31, 2017Key implications of the Denver Green Roof Initiative
On Nov. 8, 2017, the voters of Denver passed the Denver Green Roof Initiative. As of Jan. 1, the construction of any building with a gross floor area of 25,000 square feet or greater must include covering a portion of its roof
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December 30, 2017