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Windows of opportunity
Windows, along with doors and skylights, are almost always the weak link in a building's envelope. They can account for 35 to 40 percent...
Whoops
See Multihousing Professional's July 2006 cover story, "Vision meets reality." A year later eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion. At the time, Skype had...
And the beat goes on
Brad Pitt toured the construction site of a house in New Orleans that is based on the winning design in a competition he launched...
Playing favorites
The fact that favoritism in the workplace exists is not news, but in high-profile cases, it often makes the news. Two years ago, for...
The changing office
Management consultant and professor Peter Drucker once asked, "Why would any company pay (in salary and time) to transport a 190-pound body when all...
Agency borrowing: Why the multifamily industry relies on GSEs
First, there are the portfolio lenders including banks and insurance companies. These lenders retain loans "in their portfolio" by making loans using funds from...
Hold Everything
The keenly watched deal is the second largest real estate buyout in history, eclipsed only by the $39 billion acquisition of EOP by The...
Be Inspired
I know that our cover story, Newark Mayor Cory Booker was never a Girl Scout... but then again, what do I know? At Oxford,...
Rebuilding History
The builder that is famous for massive mixed-use redevelopment projects like Stapleton, the makeover of a 4,700-acre former airport site just outside Denver, and...
One For the Landlord
Just weeks ago, U.S. District Court Judge James Munley struck down a local Hazelton, Pa. ordinance that attempted to curb illegal immigrants into their...
Extreme Urban Development
The first market-rate apartments created in Downtown Newark, N.J., in more than 40 years are nearly complete. Since pre-leasing began last August, the 317...
The War Within: Newark
Newark, the third-oldest major city in America behind Boston and New York, was founded as a farming community on the banks of the Passaic...
The Sound Of Silence
Luxury amenities and finishes like ceramic tile, high ceilings, wireless Internet connection and state-of-the-art appliances, business centers, and fitness rooms that once provided multifamily...
Secondhand Sound
Acoustics experts and healthcare professionals agree that unwanted sound, which is the basic definition of noise, can be a whole lot more than simply...
Southwest Bound
During his 23-year career in the multifamily industry, the Southern California native served as partner for some of the nation's largest multifamily developers, including...