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  • Wood Partners Discusses Executive Changes, Evolving Strategy

    Changes are afoot at Atlanta-based Wood Partners. Jerry Durkin will be moving up to the chairman role (and stay on the board of directors), while Ryan Dearborn will become the firm's new CEO. Additionally, CFO Joe Keough will be adding the COO title to his business card.

  • Lease-Ups at New Properties Remain Tough

    In times like these, some apartment developers tout their sparkling-new amenities to stabilize new buildings. Others rely on high-tech fitness rooms and amenity packages to put heads in beds. Still others trumpet their urban lifestyle and proximity to nightlife. Atlanta-based Gables Residential...

  • Atlanta Apartment Community Overcomes Design Challenge

    Topography leads to creative design at an Atlanta apartment community.

  • Terwilliger Will Give $100 Million to Habitat For Humanity

    Trammell Crow Residential chairman hopes his gift, which will help families around the world, to inspire others to examine their philanthropic giving.

  • Acquisitions - I Won't Wait for the Bottom to Buy, But I Will Underwrite Well.

    TRAMMELL CROW RESIDENTIAL, the country's largest builder of multifamily properties, building 10,936 units in 2007, made its name in development. In fact, in 30 years, the Atlanta-based company has done very few acquisitions. But times are changing. “We're looking at acquisitions again,” says Ron...

  • Executive Leadership - I Will Communicate Regularly With My Employees–Even When It's Tough.

    The headlines at the end of 2008 were scary. Citigroup shelved 50,000 jobs. The Big firee auto makers came to Capitol Hill begging for a saving grace. And economists speculated that unemployment could pass the 10 percent mark if the layoffs continue.

  • Learning to Fly

    Top exec finds new private planes more cost-effective, better for the environment.

  • Aqua

    Atlanta-based Tivoli Properties put the Aqua high-rise in the heart of the city's action?Midtown. But that proximity also left the architectural firm, Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates in Atlanta, with major challenges.

  • Merit Awards

    Our 2008 Merit Awards highlight some of the best multifamily projects in high-rise, mid-rise, low-rise, senior, military, affordable, apartment renovation, adaptive reuse, land reuse, marketing, community service, and technology.

  • Columbia Tower

    Atlanta