Core values: the new assets
"And we're serious about that," said Oden in a late February interview. "We're just as serious about that one as we are about acting with integrity," he said, citing another of the nine values...
Surety bonds: the un-concession
According to a study of nationwide rents by Novato, Calif.-based data specialist RealFacts, rents and occupancy declined in nearly every market in the country between September and December of 2008, suggesting that renters looking...
Change from the ground up
When it comes to those goals, Booker thinks he and other mayors have a friend in President Barack Obama, whose experience as a community organizer on the streets of Chicago makes him responsive to...
Two Center Street
The $187 million arts center has been a magnet for developers, restaurateurs and even the New Jersey Devils ice hockey team, which moved into its new downtown arena, the Prudential Center, in March 2007.With...
Strategic alliance
The Alliance was formed in 2006 by Newark residents Hassan Keith and Jeffrey Montgomery and Buffalo, New York, native Victor Baker. The principals, who met while attending Rutgers University, each bring to the company...
Green standard
The Jan. 29 approval by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) of the National Green Building Standard (NGBS), a joint project of the International Code Council (ICC) and the National Association of Home Builders...
Give your technology a KISS
Why not replace it with something dramatically less emotional like "office electronics?" It works at home. We don't think twice about spending countless hours mastering our televisions, Bluerays, DVD/CD players, digital video recorders and...
The art of leasing
"Post is a firm believer that quality design sells and I think a strong piece of artwork out in front of the building will strengthen the iconic nature of the architecture and the site,"...
Web sites earning their keep
There are 220.1 million Internet users in the U.S., second only to China at 253 million, and North American users are growing at the rate of 129 percent since 2000. The multifamily management and development...
Experience matters
And, at AIMCO, the nation's largest owner of apartments for 11 consecutive years, CFO Tom Herzog stepped down in efforts to reduce the REIT's general and administrative overhead. Colonial announced in January that Thomas H....
CallSource teams with Hire Heroes USA
"We must support these young people who have given so much," stated Jerry Feldman, CEO of CallSource. "It's our moral duty. But who better to step into our (multifamily) industry than veterans. There is...
Lent for rent
You just can't open a newspaper or magazine these days without being bombarded with tales of our newfound thriftiness - and related godliness - which, we are told, signals the end of conspicuous consumption...
A rising tide
Booker understands the need for housing affordable to low-income and special-needs residents, and to the workforce caught in the middle -- those who earn too much to qualify for subsidies, but not enough to...
New HUD secretary is a multihousing guy
Since 2004, Commissioner Donovan has headed New York's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. During the Clinton Administration he served as Under Secretary of HUD for Multifamily Housing and also served as the Acting...
Get your Sully on
Some were there to catch a glimpse of the unassuming captain, who so deftly belly-landed a disabled US Airways A320 jetliner in the Hudson River in January. Others were there to offer honor to the...
