The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Thornton Tomasetti
September 14, 2021
Engineering News-Record New York features Thornton Tomasetti’s recent AECtech Symposium & Hackathon in its “On the Scene” column. The July event studied innovations from the UK design and construction industry. The virtual event was hosted by Thornton Tomasetti’s CORE studio, Simply Rhino, Grimshaw Architects and KPF Architects.
View, Inc.
September 13, 2021
Global design firm Fast + Epp has installed smart window technology at its Vancouver office. Fast + Epp built its new headquarters with sustainability and employee health and wellness in mind. The four-story building’s design features a hybrid mass-timber and steel structural system with cross-laminated timber floor plates, stairwells and elevator cores. Fast + Epp included View Smart Windows to improve the building’s energy-efficiency, maximize usable floor space, and enhance the productivity and wellbeing of Fast + Epp employees.
Waterton
September 10, 2021
By Steve Brown
Alta Strand, one of Dallas’s largest rental communities at 400 units, was acquired by Waterton. The five-story project includes a resident lounge, two swimming pools, a fitness center, three outdoor courtyards and a club space. With the Design District purchase, Waterton now has 2,900 apartments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Waterton plans updates for some of the rental units, and the community is being renamed Abstract at Design District.
Marx Realty
September 7, 2021
By Keith Loria
Marx Realty’s The Herald, which recently underwent a $41 million renovation, has a new tenant. CGCN Group, a Washington, D.C.-based government affairs firm, signed an 8,000-SF lease at 114,000-SF office building in D.C. that opens on Sept. 22. Marx acquired the historic property in April 2020 and immediately set out to create a hospitality-infused transformation.
View, Inc.
September 6, 2021
By Paul Bubny
View Smart Windows have been installed at 410 Motor Pkwy,, Long Island’s first newly constructed speculative office in more than 12 years and the first to feature View Smart Windows. Developed by Aresco Management, the four-story, 35,000-square-foot mixed-use building is part of the new Long Island Innovation Park at Hauppauge, NY.
Thornton Tomasetti
September 1, 2021
By Mark Robins
Jeremy Thorbahn, a project director at Thornton Tomasetti in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, contributes to an article in Metal Architecture which discusses the factors that should be taken into account to control sound waves when designing metal interiors and sound control/noise-proofing them.
Standard Real Estate Investments
September 1, 2021
By Ashley Fahey
Reporter Ashley Fahey conducts a Q&A with Standard Real Estate Investments co-founders Robert Jue and Jerome Nichols. The two have started the new firm to invest in what they call attainable housing. SREI formally launched this week with the closing of a majority equity investment in a 244-unit multifamily project in downtown Indianapolis. Standard Real Estate will develop the project in a joint venture with Indianapolis- based Arrow Street Development LLC.
Jonathan Rose Companies
September 1, 2021
By Gail Kalinoski
IMPACT Community Capital has closed the new $210 million IMPACT Mortgage Opportunity Fund developed in partnership with Rose Community Capital’s Bridge Lending Program for affordable housing properties. The fund, which raised capital from six large institutional investors, exceeded its target and closed five months ahead of schedule. The fund was created in partnership with RCC, the lending arm of Jonathan Rose Cos. that is focused on the origination, underwriting and placement of FHA insured and USDA guaranteed multifamily mortgages. RCC and IMPACT expect to preserve more than 5,000 affordable units across the U.S. during the lifespan of the fund that will provide bridge loans to developers and owners of affordable housing who want to preserve their properties’ affordability status or transition existing market-rate projects to affordable properties. The loans provide borrowers time to apply for permanent financing and government subsidy programs.
Darwin Homes
August 31, 2021
By Will Parker
Darwin Homes Inc. executive, Chris Poston, spoke to the Wall Street Journal