The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Kimmerle Group
February 17, 2021
By Lorena Blaga
Meghan Barlotta, a senior associate at Kimmerle Workspace, offers expert commentary for a Commercial Cafe article about the future of workspaces after COVID. She is part of a roundtable of architects and interior designers addressing topics such as how office spaces could be made healthier for employees; the techniques and materials that will play an important role in the future; and the next trends in commercial real estate interior design.
Turnbridge Equities
February 12, 2021
By Lori Hawkins
An Austin American-Statesman story details the influx of national brands to Music Lane, a recently completed three-block mixed-use project on South Congress Avenue in Austin by Turnbridge Equities. Tenants include Equinox, Lululemon and Ray-Ban. The area’s walkability and foot traffic as well as the opening up of the region after the early stages of the pandemic contributes to the strong leasing activity.
February 11, 2021
By Arshiya Khullar
Waterton, a Chicago-based manager, has closed its latest value-add multifamily vehicle at its $1.5 billion hard-cap. Waterton Residential Property Venture XIV is the largest to-date, and exceeds significantly the $920 million raised by its predecessor fund in 2018/
RALCompanies & Affiliates
February 8, 2021
By Sandy Smith
RAL Companies has begun leasing apartments at its Broadridge mixed-use development in Philadelphia, which includes a ground-floor Aldi supermarket and 478 rental apartments. The company has brought on Common, a leading operator of furnished shared-living communities to manage and lease 147 apartments on the 5, 6 and 7th floors designed for co-living. RAL says that Philly is an ideal location, and, with Common’s involvement, Broadridge, for increasingly priced-out young professionals and a influx of new renters from other cities.
Camber Creek
February 1, 2021
By Jake Fingert, Camber Creek
Jake Fingert, general partner at Camber Creek, authors a thought leadership piece on the importance of technology in real estate for Institutional Real Estate Americas.
The venture capital firm provides strategic value and capital to operating technology companies focused on the real estate market.
RALCompanies & Affiliates
January 26, 2021
By Lois Weiss
COVID-19 may have shocked the city’s commercial market but that hasn’t stopped developers from doing what they do best. In fact, a bevy of newly constructed and redeveloped towers are poised to hit the market in Manhattan. Industry experts told The Post that it will be those new buildings, designed with cutting-edge tech and with future pandemics in mind, that will have the greatest advantage on the market. According to Josh Wein, managing director of finance at RAL Companies & Affiliates, there will be a touchless experience coming into the rotunda with personal phone apps providing the keys to the elevators.
Thornton Tomasetti
January 26, 2021
By Erica Berardi
Ross Cussen, who at 39 is one of Thornton Tomasetti’s youngest principals, has been named one of Engineering News-Record California’s 2021 Top Young Professionals. He is focused on the development of anti-terrorism technologies for critical infrastructure and force protection. One of Cussen’s most notable projects is the World Trade Center redevelopment, where he implemented protective design features for several of the new towers.
Darwin Homes
January 25, 2021
By Alex Nicoll
Darwin Homes, a single-family rental property management startup founded by two ex-DoorDash executives, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The company provides full-service property management for the owners of single-family rental homes, powered by a proprietary software platform called Origin. The round, led by early-stage venture firm Canvas Ventures, also included funding from new investor proptech specialists Camber Creek, as well as existing investors Khosla Ventures, Wave Capital, Pear Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Doordash CEO Tony Xu, Andrew Marks of TQ Ventures, and Uber co-founder Ryan Graves.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
January 25, 2021
Michael Werner, a partner in the real estate practice of Fried, Frank, is one of Crain’s New York Business’ Notables in Real Estate 2021. Werner’s transaction experience and his industry relationships make him a go-to commercial real estate attorney in New York. As a partner at Fried Frank, Werner advises high-profile owners, developers, financial institutions, institutional investors, real estate investment trusts and corporations on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions in an array of asset classes. Werner recently represented Amazon in its $1 billion acquisition of the Lord & Taylor building at 424 Fifth Ave. from WeWork, estimated to be the largest single-asset acquisition in the city in 2020. Werner is on his firm’s attorney development committee, where he supervises the professional development of the firm’s attorneys and facilitates programs to help them become the next generation of market-leading lawyers.