The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Client
RAL Development Services
Date
December 13, 2021
Zero Irving Development Nabs First Office Tenant, Payment Platform Melio
By Celia Young
summary
Melio, a financial technology firm, is the first completed lease at the RAL Development Services’ Union Square tech hub, Zero Irving. Melio’s deal includes 25,000 SF, the entire 15th and 16th floors of the 21-story office building. Melio is relocating from a WeWork space at the 11-story 18 West 18th Street. The company plans to build out its new office at 124 East 14th Street and move in upon completion.
Client
View, Inc.
Date
December 9, 2021
Smarter Windows Will Enable Arena to Let in the Light
By Corinne Grinapol
summary
Engineering News-Record features the installation of View Smart Windows at Sacred Heart University’s new hockey arena in Fairfield, Conn. It will have a design feature not typically associated with indoor ice rinks: windows. View Smart Windows feature dynamic glass that uses an electrochromic coating to respond to external light conditions. In addition to tempering glare indoors, the surface reflects light, reducing heat gain from the sun’s rays.
Client
RFR Realty
Date
December 5, 2021
Wellington Hotel appears poised to close – and will oust two restaurants
By Steve Cuozzo
summary
Pickleball is the latest amenity at RFR Realty’s Seagram Building in New York City to help attract tenants. A pickleball court has been added to its Playground, a 34,000-SF, $25 million recreational complex beneath the building’s plaza, set to open in mid-2022. The facility will also have spaces for basketball, volleyball, floor hockey and even a rock-climbing wall.
Client
Jonathan Rose Companies
Date
December 1, 2021
DC Affordability, Sustainability Project Secures $2M Pre-development Loan
By Lisa McDuffie
summary
DC Green Bank, Jonathan Rose Companies and Somerset Development Company have closed a $1.85 million pre-development loan to finance the design and planning of Faircliff Plaza East, an affordable housing redevelopment in Ward 1 of Washington, D.C. The project is expected to increase available affordable units in the building by more than 50%, from 80 units to 185. The project is also scheduled to include a solar-integrated green roof and to feature the usage of carbon-sequestering concrete as well as up to 10 electric vehicle charging stations.
Client
Hines
Date
December 1, 2021
An $80 billion real estate company just named its first chief carbon officer. Here’s what he’ll do
By Nate Berg
summary
Hines, the international real estate company with more than $80 billion in assets under management, has created a new role that could soon become common in the industry: chief carbon officer. Michael Izzo, who will hold what is likely one of the first such positions in the RE industry is tasked with finding ways to improve building operations and energy efficiency throughout Hines’ portfolio, and also to find less resource-intensive materials and construction processes to get those buildings built.
Client
Waterton
Date
December 1, 2021
Waterton Acquires Sierra Nevada Resort & Spa In Mammoth Lakes, Ca For Second Lifestyle Hotel Repositioning
summary
Waterton, a Chicago-based national real estate investor and operator, has acquired The Sierra Nevada Resort & Spa, an independent hotel in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Under Waterton, the 151-key lifestyle hotel will undergo a full renovation and repositioning. The top-to-bottom renovation strategy will include updates to current hotel rooms and outdoor common areas and add 30 well-appointed resort cabins to the site.
Client
Hodges Ward Elliott
Date
November 30, 2021
Hyatt Regency DFW sale is North Texas’ largest single hotel deal since COVID-19
By Steve Brown
summary
The 811-room Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport has sold in the largest North Texas hotel transaction since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally a project of Dallas’ Woodbine Development, which sold the huge hotel property in 2014. Now Woodbine has bought the Hyatt back in a deal negotiated by a Hodges Ward Elliott team of Bourret, Austin Brooks and David Auer brokered the sale by a New York-based investment partnership.
Client
Kimmerle Group
Date
November 29, 2021
Kimmerle Group, a NJbased, multifaceted design, real estate, planning, development, and branding practice, announced four new hires
summary
Kimmerle Group, a New Jersey-based, multifaceted design, real estate, planning, development, and branding practice announces four new hires: Manuel Sia joins as associate in the production department; Leighann Laurencelle as a junior designer in the interiors practice; Marleni Galindo joins as an account manager for Kimmerle Workspace; and Kimberly Allman will manage all marketing/communications and administrative efforts at Kimmerle Group.
Client
Populous
Date
November 29, 2021
Populous-designed UBS Arena debuts on Long Island with hockey and Harry Styles
By Matt Hickman
summary
The Architect’s Newspaper features the completion of UBS Arena in Elmont, NY.