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The EPA’s WaterSense labeling program has been highly successful, using voluntary compliance and incentives for manufacturers, consumers and homeowners. Recently it added commercial users to its target audience with the first label for a commercial use – flushing urinals.
Commercial buildings and tenants often lead the way in unconventional design. This leadership is evident in the leasing of green commercial and mixed use buildings. The largest and latest Midtown Manhattan lease may be another green indicator for multifamily.
For young adults moving into their first apartment is not only as big as it gets, but a rite of passage. In fact, bravo! Becoming independent is a great accomplishment. As landlords and parents, we know you’ll do fine, but just in case? We hope you will forgive us for offering more advice.
In the second part of our interview, veteran asset manager Will Clark again focuses on multifamily operations and sustainability and shares his expertise and experience with a refreshing candor. His ideas and solutions are practical, profitable and based on a valuable, real world view.
Patrick Kennedy wants to fill those urban locations with eco-friendly, sustainable multifamily housing that is highly energy efficient, dark green and very, very tiny. How tiny? 310 to 340 square foot studios.
With $1.4 billion in venture capital to solar companies in 2009, investors are telegraphing the news that solar energy’s time may be here. PACE financing may (or soon will) be available in your state to finance conversion to solar in your commercial or residential building.
Renters may need to emphasize the financial benefits of green property management in order to gain traction with management.
Property owners and their managers constantly struggle with which retrofits, improvements and restructures make the most sense for the dollars invested. This post is not intended to be particularly heady but what we call practical ‘sparkler science’.
Americans have always been highly adaptable. This is evidenced most recently in radically changing demographic trends which will affect multifamily housing over the next several decades. Will it be a positive effect?
Proposed legislation awaiting Public Comment in Seattle will eliminate parking requirements for multifamily properties in urban centers and villages, paving the way for greater density and ancillary income for savvy managers.
