Table of Contents February 2006

FEATURES

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  Upping the Ante

  Spacious rooms. Walk-in closets. Gleaming hardwood floors. Years ago, renters and condo buyers seeking a rental or condo could be wooed by these must-have amenities, considered high-life luxuries at the time.

   

Cover Story

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  Redesign on a Dime

  The storage room looked like a scene from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A 150-year-old monastery door from a temple in Burma, a 3-foot-tall statue of Buddha, and countless other Far East treasures covered the cold basement floor. These artifacts, though, were not destined for the famous New York...

   

FROM THE EDITOR

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  Measure of... Progress?

  In the blur our daily lives have become (What are we having for dinner? What time was that meeting? Where's my BlackBerry?), we now forget about attention-getting tragedies almost as quickly as the 24/7 news networks make sure we hear about them. Remember the December 2004 tsunami? Just over a year...

   

CORNER OFFICE

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  Density Calls

  In the past 15 years, multifamily living has surged in popularity. This is especially true in downtown and city neighborhoods, in locations near light rail, and in new suburban town centers that combine residential, office, and retail in walkable environments.

   

NEWS + NUMBERS

Direct Reports

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  Closing the Pipeline

  When Bob Krause, president of Newport Development in Atlanta, spoke to lender Merrill Lynch in December about construction and mezzanine loans for a condominium development in Florida, the answer Krause received is becoming all too familiar to multifamily executives.

   

PEOPLE + PLACES

Corporate Ladder

• Deal Maker

  In a way, Drew Goldman's new job is a homecoming. As a college student, he interned with a multifamily company, a commercial brokerage, and a developer, giving him a strong background in real estate. But after degrees in business from the University of Texas at Austin (bachelor's) and Emory...

   

SALES + SOLUTIONS

Done Deal

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  Class Acts

  When the Integral Group redeveloped Centennial Place, an aging public housing project in Atlanta, company leaders wanted to do more than just build new housing. They wanted to do something about the dreadful elementary school in the neighborhood, which was one of the worst-performing elementary...

   

Tech Specs

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  Flirting with Disaster

  When Hurricane Katrina blew across the Gulf Coast and devastated New Orleans, she left countless businesses broken in her wake after she essentially wiped out critical communications infrastructure; dowsed systems and facilities with dirty, debris-laden water; and brought business operations to a...

   

PRODUCT STUDIO

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  Higher Security

  Stroll through the University of Georgia campus in Athens, and you'll get a glimpse into the future of security at student housing communities. The university uses hand-geometry readers to grant access to its residential buildings.

   

LANDMARKS

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  The Idanha

  The Idanha stands in Boise, Idaho, but the building's history sounds straight out of Hollywood. Since its 1901 opening, the Idanha has seen its share of soap opera-style drama, including an assassination attempt and the occasional report of a ghost sighting.