May-June 2019

Recycling Is In Peril

An open letter from the Chair of the Texas Alliance for Recycling.

Allix Philbrick of Lord Green Strategies offers insights into what is good data.

the Numbers – Texas Taxes

Dallas dominates BOMAS’ regional competition.

The 10 Tallest Buildings in the World Under Construction or in Development.

Some pictures of the work of the 2019 Pritzker Award winner.

The fourth installment in our series of the international relationship Texas cities develop and maintain – featuring San Antonio.

Laura McDonald Stewart gives us a preview of the region’s biggest designer expo.

The fourth installment in our series of the international relationship Texas cities develop and maintain – featuring Galveston.

Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne looks at how California is redefining the sports venue.

Oceanix City – Bjarke Engels’ Ambitious Plan for Floating Cities.

The Finnish architectural firm has produced some very important buildings.

Two Austin companies are teaming up to create 3-D printed homes.

The Restoration and Redevelopment of the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards

Aconversation with Craig Cavileer, the EVP of Stockyards Heritage Development Company.

Smart homes

TV’s annual presentation and contest. 47 Important Voices

Baylor Law School Professor Ron Beal argues that the governor is breaking the law. 48

Herstory – Waco – How do I Love Thee

Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley’s looks at city’s connection to Elizabeth Barret Browning. 49 The History Page – VEEP

How we select a vice president has changed quite a bit over the years. 50 Legal View: Mineral Rights

Attorney and Contributing Editor Anthony Barbieri looks at how Texas deals with subsurface rights. 52 Artchitecture – The #1 Selling Artist in the World

Michael Godard is the Rock Star of the art world.

On the Cover: Starry Starry Wine

My martini olives come in many forms, so why not my favorite super hero? In this parody the hero is chased thru the city, past the martini bars, suit torn as he barely escapes the fireballs of the goblin , whose close behind.

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Contributors

ANTHONY BARBIERI (P. 50)

is a shareholder at Kessler Collins, where he enjoys a broad legal practice. He has been a speaker for ICSC, IREM, and BOMA, has taught continuing-legal education seminars, and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star for many years, as well as being a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. He and his wife, Cathy, enjoy traveling and spend- ing time with their extended families, getting involved in their church and supporting the community through various pro- grams – including raising awareness of muscular dystrophy, education and exercise to fight heart disease, providing care and treatment for autism, and counseling domesticviolence victims. He is also a Contributing Editor of the network.

ANGELA O’BYRNE (P. 32)

RON BEAL (P. 47)

Professor Ron Beal of Baylor Law School is an expert in administrative law. He has written the definitive treatise, Texas Administrative Practice and Procedure, which is in its 22nd year of publication and routinely cited by the Texas Supreme Court. In his 36 years of practice, he deals with officers of state agencies appointed by the governor who obtain “holdover status”.

GERGIANNNA W. OLIVER

is the president of national architecture, de- sign-build, and real estate development firm Perez, APC. She champions the principles of smart growth in her home community of New Orleans and in her frequent travels across the country and abroad. Born in Cali, Colombia. Angela is a licensed architect in over a dozen states, a licensed general contractor in Louisi- ana, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the National CREW Network (Commercial Real Estate Women) Board of Directors. A singer, golfer, music- lover, and globetrotter, she relishes spending free time with her three grown children and large extended family. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and her Amazing Buildings feature appears in every issue.

is a serial entrepreneur and a corporate executive that has built several businesses in the apartment space. These innovations include EverGreen Solutions, AptBudget both sold to RealPage, Inc. (Nasdaq: RP) and Package Concierge® which sold in 2017 to Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROCK). Her passion for turning roadblocks into efficiencies has resulted in a 19-year track record of building and launching successful businesses fueled by innovation. Her impact on the multifamily industry can be measured in a variety of metrics, but the only one that matters to her is making the lives of the people who live and work in these communities better. She also serves on the Multifamily Technology Entrepreneur Conference Advisory Board, and is an Advisory Committee member of National Multifamily Housing Council. She is also the founding board member of the National Leased Housing Association Education Fund.

ROSE-MARY RUMBLEY (P. 48) holds a Ph.D. in communications from the University of North Texas. She is a well-known speaker in Texas and enjoys researching each and every topic. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and Herstory appears in every issue.

ALLIX PHILBRICK (P. 11)

is a Data Intelligence Analyst II at Lord Green Strategies where her responsibilities include include analyzing data to measure clients’ progress and identifying trends for various reporting frameworks. She enjoys providing clients with insight analytics of performance data to assist in the implementation of ESG factors across the board, and is able to optimize clients’ data by providing a foresight into GRESB performance. Allix has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies of Geosciences from Texas A&M University and is a LEED Green Associate.

LAURA MCDONALD STEWART (P. 44)

received a BS in Civil Engineering from Southern Methodist University and an MFA in Interior Design from Savannah College of Art and Design. After practicing commercial design for eight years, she founded PLiNTH & CHiNTZ, the online magazine that prepares a new generation of designers to enter the workforce. She also manages METROCON Expo & Conference, the annual twoday event in Dallas focusing on the built environment. She currently sits on three interior design department advisory councils and was awarded the designation of ASID Fellow in 2016. Besides traveling and their two cats, she and her husband love good food and wine, which is why they lead the Dallas Chapter of the International Wine & Food Society.

The Bible Through the Eyes of a Child

These statements about the bible were written by children and have not been retouched.

In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, God got tired of creating the world, so he took the Sabbath off.

Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.

Noah’s wife was called Joan of Ark.

Noah built an ark, which the animals come on to in pears.

Lot’s wife was a pillar of salt by day, but a ball of fire by night.

The Jews were a proud people and throughout history they had trouble with the unsympathetic Genitals.

Samson was a strongman who let himself be led astray by a Jezebel like Delilah.

Samson stayed the Philistines with the axe of the Apostles.

Moses led the Hebrews to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread without any ingredients.

The Egyptians were all drowned in the dessert. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten amendments.

The first commandment was when Eve told Adam to eat the apple.

The seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery.

Moses died before he ever reached Canada.

Joshua led the Hebrews in the battle of Geritol.

The greatest miracle in the Bible is when Joshua told his son to stand still and he obeyed him. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Finklesteins, a race of people who lived in Biblical times.

Solomon, one of David’s sons, had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.

When Mary heard that she was the mother of Jesus, she sang the Magna Carta. When the three wise guys from the east side arrived, they found Jesus in the manager.

Jesus was born because Mary had an immaculate contraption.

St. John, the blacksmith, dumped water on his head.

Jesus enunciated the Golden Rule, which says to do one to others before they do one to you. He also explained, “a man doth not live by sweat alone.”

It was a miracle when Jesus rose from the dead and managed to get the tombstone off the entrance.

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The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 decibels.

The epistles were the wives of the apostles. One of the opossums was St. Matthew who was also a taximan.

St. Paul cavorted to Christianity. He preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage.

A Christian should have only one spouse. This is called monotony.

The Husband Shopping Center

A Husband Shopping Center has opened in Atlanta, where a woman can go to choose from among many men to be her husband. It is laid out on five floors, with the men increasing in positive attributes as you ascend. There is, however, a catch: You’re only allowed in once.

Once you open the door to any floor, you must choose a man from that floor. If you go up a floor, you can’t go back down except to exit the building.

So, a woman goes to the shopping center to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door says:

Floor 1: These men have jobs and love kids. The woman reads the sign. ‘’Well, that’s better than not having jobs, or not loving kids, but I wonder what’s farther up?” So up she goes.

The second-floor sign says:

Floor 2: These men have high-paying jobs, love kids and are extremely good-looking.

“Hmmm, even better,” says the woman. “But I wonder what’s farther up?”

The third-floor sign reads:

Floor 3: These men have high-paying jobs, love kids, are extremely good-looking and help with the housework.

“Wow,” says the woman, “very tempting. BUT, there’s more - farther up!” And so again, she goes up.

On the fourth floor the sign reads:

Floor 4: These men have high-paying jobs, love kids, are extremely good-looking, help with the housework and have a strong romantic streak.

“Oh, mercy me.” (That’s how women talk in Georgia) “But just think... what must be awaiting me farther up?” So up to the fifth floor she goes.

The sign on that door says:

Floor 5:

This floor is just to prove that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping. Have a nice day!

Actual Sentences Found in Patient’s Charts

1.Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.

2.On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.

3.She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.

4.The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.

5.The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.

6.Discharge status: Alive but without permission.

7.Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.

8.The patient refused autopsy.

9.The patient has no previous history of suicides.

10.Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.

11.Patient’s medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40-pound weight gain in the past three days.

12.Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.

13 Between you and me, we ought to be able to get this lady pregnant.

14.Since she can’t get pregnant with her husband, I thought you might like to work her up.

15.She is numb from her toes down.

16.While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home.

17.The skin was moist and dry.

18.Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.

19.Patient was alert and unresponsive.

20.Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.

21.She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.

22.I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.

23.Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.

24.Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.

25.The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.

26.The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stockbroker instead.

27.Skin: somewhat pale but present.

28.The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor.

29.Patient was seen in consultation by Dr. Blank, who felt we should sit on the abdomen, and I agree.

30.Large brown stool ambulating in the hall.

31.Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.

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Recycling Is in Peril (an open letter)

Current Situation:

Each Texan generates an average of six pounds of municipal solid waste (MSW) each day; call it household, commercial and institutional trash, more than 35.31 million tons per year. Texans currently recycle 23% or nine million (9,000,000) tons of MSW per year, not including commercial scrap metal and mining wastes. The other seventy-three percent (73%) of MSW is disposed in landfills or worse, becomes litter.

Recycling MSW keeps materials from entering or littering our ground and creates more than 17,000 fulltime-equivalent jobs in Texas. The economic impact is, conservatively, $3,300,000,000 each year in direct, indirect and induced commerce in Texas. This revenue generates $195,000,000 in annual taxes to fund our state and our local communities.

These facts were validated by the recent Texas Study on the Economic Impacts of Recycling, by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. While this is a testament to the progress recycling has made without the benefit of an overarching economic guidance or assistance, the untapped potential of the industry deserves and requires legislative support to help protect and grow these jobs and their economic impacts in Texas.

This State support would enhance the already significant environmental benefits to recycling including lower energy, chemical and water consumption; less air emissions; reduced wasteful disposal of resources; and a more scenic landscape resulting from reduced litter. More immediately recognizable, this support would help to protect and grow a real, measurable and vital impact on the men and women employed in the recycling industry. Jobs in the recycling industry produce additional economic benefits as a by-product of their activity.

Problem:

Fully one-half of the recyclables we capture for recycling are shipped

overseas, mostly to Asia, to be cleaned and manufactured into new products; much of which we then purchase in the U. S. By and large, the economic health of the industry is governed by unpredictable and fickle gyrations of foreign markets. More recently, those markets, as well as the domestic recyclables processing industry, have struggled with contamination, and the associated increase in costs as the recycling industry has grown more complex.

Most impactfully, China has pointed to the growth in contaminated loads of recyclable materials and a growing sense of environmental protection, to justify placing an embargo on the import of recyclables under a new policy called “The National Sword”. They also have endorsed a policy to internalize all their domestic recyclables to productive use in two years substantially reducing the need for recyclable feedstock from the U.S. This has caused the value of

manufacturers, high transportation costs to distant markets and lack of public understanding of what, how and why to recycle.

Proposed Solution:

Since 1990 a ninety-four cent per ton surcharge on all landfilled waste has financed the multi-million-dollar GRS000 Fund, which is partly intended to provide some funding for supporting recycling. The industry asks for support to protect and grow these jobs and for technical help and the support of the State to do two simple but absolutely necessary things: 1) engage the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Economic Development and Tourism Office to prepare a plan, in cooperation with existing and potential new industry stakeholders, to enhance existing and develop new markets for recyclable materials in Texas and 2), implement a public awareness and education program that highlights the recycling industry, its impact on our economy, the jobs it creates and the need to prevent contamination that increases cost and reduces the value of recyclable industrial feedstock.

Call for Support:

recyclables in the U.S. to plummet to near all-time lows. At the same time recyclables processing facilities have also had to increase their costs to produce higher quality materials; causing a double negative effect on the economic viability of recycling.

In many communities across Texas, it is becoming more economical to landfill than it is to recycle. Recyclables that were until recently being collected in recycling programs are currently being landfilled in more than ten states; including California, Oregon and Washington. This is unprecedented in the history of recycling in our nation and illustrates the economic peril and significant challenges that recycling must overcome to survive. There exists a tragic risk that an entire industry and its numerous associated environmental and economic benefits may collapse.

Support Needed:

The State of Texas Study on the Economic Impacts of Recycling indicated that it is (or was, prior to The National Sword embargo) economically feasible to double the recycling rate in Texas. The Study also polled the industry and revealed that among the top barriers to stable recycling in Texas are lack of nearby end-use

The United States has 7% of the world population and produces almost half of all the solid waste in the world. The resources are already in our hands and focused effort will return them to our hands in the form of finished goods and economic benefit to our State and local communities. I ask that you investigate the validity of our assertions and humbly ask for your attention and support. Please support House Bill 286 and its companion Bill Senate Bill 649, which include the requested actions described above and is sponsored by State Representative Ed Thompson and Senator Judith Zaffarini this Legislative Session. We invite your investigation and welcome your support.

Our Battle Cry is:

Recyclables are resources in Texas, generated by Texans, to make jobs for Texans, to create products for the world.

Sincerely and respectfully,

In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

Steve Shannon Chair, Business Council State of Texas Alliance for Recycling

ALLIX PHILBRICK allix@lordgreenstrategies.com

Increasing the Potential for Data Insights in Commercial Real Estate

Many successful decisions are made on insights provided by good data, but the challenge in any industry is defining what “good data” is exactly. GRESB, an investor-driven organization committed to assessing the Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) performance of real assets globally has taken the initial step to define “high-quality data” with the release of their 2019 Data Quality Standard Assessment. Still in the preliminary phase, this assessment was created with the help of GRESB Governance Bodies and an Industry Technical Working Group. The Technical Working Group consists of industry experts with relevant subject matter expertise, interest in the assessment and time dedicated to fully participate.

With the development of this standard, it is becoming clear the industry is not only moving towards implementing ESG factors, but also providing high-quality data insights on the implementation of ESG factors. Unlocking this data could improve investment decision making and give investors more access to the ESG performance of their investments. With this first step, GRESB aims to understand the current landscape of ESG data systems and investigate how to improve

The Dead Frog

the overall quality and trustworthiness of ESG data in the future.

In the assessment, GRESB seeks to analyze the data system. A data system is defined as a structure used to collect, store, and/or analyze the ESG data that is reported and could be a software or data platform,

a hybrid system of manual/ human processes and software, or a system consisting entirely of manual/human processes. After analyzing, they then outlined four aspects of data quality: Accuracy, Completeness, Timeliness and Lineage.

With careful consideration of these four aspects in a data providers system, the industry can move to a more uniformed process of providing high-quality data that is properly vetted, assessed for completeness and audited. This process is now necessary as the abundance of data

is becoming increasingly available. As a GRESB Data Partner, LORD Green Real Estate Strategies, Inc. was the first to submit the 2019 GRESB Data Quality Assessment on April 1st, 2019. At LORD Green Strategies, we take every necessary step to ensure we are providing the highest quality of data to our clients. Describing how our data system considers the four aspects that GRESB outlined allows us to align with robust industry standards. “Quality data is fundamental to advancing sustainability in the built environment,” said Mahesh Ramanujam, President and CEO of USGBC and GBCI. “I am excited that LORD Green Strategies and all of our Data Partners have come together in support of this initiative.”

WHERE IT COMES FROM

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The little boy told his kindergarten teacher that he’d found a frog. She asked whether it was alive or dead.

“Dead.” She was informed.

“How do you know?” she asked.

“Because I pissed in his ear,” the child said innocently.

“You did WHAT?” squealed the teacher in surprise.

“You know,” said the boy, “I leaned over and went ‘Pssst’ and he didn’t move.”

Allix Philbrick is a LEED Green Associate and a Data AnalystIIatLORDGreenStrategies

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THE NUMBERS ARE GINORMOUS!

Dr. Richard J.C. Brown, head of metrology at the National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain, has proposed two prefixes that continues the recent naming conventions: ronna (for octillion – 27 zeroes) and quecto (for nonillion – 30 zeroes). Two other words – ronto and quecto would apply to their fractional counterparts, an octillionth and a nonillionth.

Metrology is the science of measurement. It establishes a common understanding of units, crucial in linking human activities.

It makes sense. If we didn’t have standard systems, international trade, manufacturing, and scientific communication be nearly impossible. So most countries use a standard system of units sanction by the international Bureau of Weights and Measures. Among the seven base units, there are meters and seconds. Among the prefixes are mega, giga and tera (meaning million, billion and trillion). Today, the list goes as far as yotta (or septillion), a number with 24 zeroes. But it’s getting so that may not be enough.

Apparently, the process for expanding the list of official measurements in lengthy. The last was in 1991 when zetta, yotta, zepto and yocto (standing for sextillion, septillion, sextillionth and septillionth) were sanctioned. The Bureau of Weights and measures Consultative Committee will consider Dr. Brown’s proposal in October when it meets in Paris. (The group meets about every three years.) The Executive Secretary of the group – Estefania de Mirandes – said final approval, even if the committee likes the idea, would take years. It’s also possible they could ask Dr. Brown for more research, or it could forward his proposal to the International committee for Weights and Measures (which meets every year). That group,

if they like the idea, would send it on to the General Conference on Weights and Measures (a group that meets every four years). They next meet in 2022.

GERRYMANDERING

Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. The term gerrymandering has negative connotations. Two principal tactics are used in gerrymandering: “cracking” (i.e., diluting the voting power of the opposing party’s supporters across many districts) and “packing” (i.e.,concentrating the opposing party’s voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts).

Elbridge Gerry was the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from March 1813 until his death in November 1814. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence but was initially opposed to the Constitution. In 1810, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, where he became known for dividing electoral

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districts for political gain. Gerrymander is a portmanteau (a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others) of the governor’s last name and the word salamander.

In addition to its use achieving desired electoral results for a particular party, gerrymandering may be used to help or hinder a particular demographic, such as a political, ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, or class group. Gerrymandering is also often used to protect incumbents.

INACCURATELY NAMED HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

For about the first 130 years of our nation’s existence, Congress regularly increased the number of seats in the House of Representatives (from the original 65) as new states joined the Union and the population grew. But since 1929, when the number reached 435 thee has been no expansion at all. That, despite the fact that the nation’s population has nearly tripled

since then, making it virtually impossible for each member of the House to represent anywhere close to the same number of people.

The 435 seats in the House are apportioned after the census (every ten years). By virtue of the 2010 census, that means each representative (in the ideal world) should represent around 708,000 people. However, given the wide disparity of the populations of the states, in the absence of inventing fractional people/ representatives, this is not possible mathematically. For example, Montana’s one representative represents over 1 million people while Rhode Island which had only a 6% larger population (in 2010) has two representatives – or about 530,000 people in each district.

The Constitution says that “each State shall have at least one Representative” and that the rest is to be divided “according to their respective numbers.” Beyond that, it’s up to Congress to decide how many seats there should be and how to divvy them up. To do this, since 1940, Congress has used a method called “equal proportions.” Every state gets one seat and a round robin system determines which state needs another Representative the most. In and of

itself, the method is not unfair, the problem is there aren’t enough seats.

A Possible Solution: Imagine if the size of the house were to be increased (from 435) to 930. By virtue of this increase, each member of the House would represent about 331,000 citizens. This would result in less disparity in the number of Representatives per state, a serious diminution in the scope and amount of gerrymandering and, in all probability, a more representative membership in the House, as well as one which is more responsive to its constituency.

Currently, the average number of citizens per Representative is 708,000. The states with the poorest representation are Montana (with 1 Rep for 989,000 people), Delaware (with 1 Rep per 898,000) and South Dakota (with 1 Rep per 814,000). The states with the most representation are Rhode Island (with 1 Rep per 526,000), Wyoming (with 1 Rep per 564,000) and Nebraska (with 1 Rep per 609,000). There is a 47% difference between the poorest and the most.

The chapter held its first College Case Competition in 2019. Three Colleges with Real Estate programs participated: Southern Methodist University, North Texas and University Texas Dallas. The process began in May of 2018 and the final competition judging was March 1 of this year.

All teams presented compelling cases. Congratulations to North Texas, whose team were the key note speakers at UTD Alumni Center, March 14 where International IREM President, along with IREM Dallas President presented $5000 to the team. UTD came in second and SMU third.

New chapter CPM Recipients: (L-R) Kristen Jaffe (RREAF Holdings), Bethany Stregles (Hillwood), Connie Ackermann (Hillwood), Carissa Hale (TIG)

Happy Hour at Al Biernat’s North – David Martin, Duke Dennis, Ben Deal, CJ Marchain, Sean Li and Steve Burris, CCIM

April Luncheon – Collin Flynn, CCIM, Steve Van Amburgh, Debi Carter, CCIM and Howard Fuerst, CCIM

Chapter President Janet Shipley, CPM (second from right) and Golf Co-Chair Greg Sherman, CPM (right) presented the Greater Houston area Concern of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S) organization with a check from this year’s IREM Golf Open in March. Additionally, the chapter awarded $4,000 to the IREM Foundation for CRE Scholarships.

1st place team from the University of North Texas

2nd place team from the University of Texas at Dallas

Houston Chapter

The NAIOP North Texas annual Texas Shoot-Out Real Estate Challenge was on April 4, 2019, at Jones LaSalle’s conference center in Dallas, Texas. The competition included graduatelevel teams from four Texas universities: Texas Tech, Southern Methodist University, The University of Texas at Dallas, and A&M. The student teams competed for $6,000 and $3,000 cash prizes. This year’s real estate case competition, written by LYNOUS Talent Management, was on Oak Farms which consists of a total 34.09 acres of vacant land located in the southwest quadrant of I-35E freeway and

the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas. The case challenge was a conceptual development plan on Phase one, approximately sixteen acres, which also included a highest and best use analysis.

The World Trade Center in Bahrain is a 50-story twin tower project, the most prominent feature of which is the sky bridges that connect the two buildings. Each bridge is equipped with a wind turbine, and together they provide approximately 11-15% of the total energy for the towers.

The structure is a 50-floor, 787 ft. twin tower complex located in Manama, Bahrain. (Manama is the capital city of Bahrain.) Designed by the multi-national architectural firm Atkins, construction on the towers was completed in 2008 and is the first skyscraper in the world to integrate wind turbines into its design. The project has received several awards for sustainability.

The Society of Commercial Realtors® hosted its Third Annual Commercial Trade Expo on, April 4th at the Cendera Center in Fort Worth. The expo featured 30 vendors including EDCs, brokers, and other businesses in the commercial real estate industry. About 300 people attended.

3rd place team from Southern Methodist University

First prize winner: Texas A&M (L-R) Jordyn Smith, Bryce Martin, Justin Hunt, Martin Spradley

Second prize winner: Southern Methodist university (L-R) Alex Bjornnes, Stuart Sharp, Jay Dreiling, Jeff Robinson

April Luncheon (L-R) Christy Earley, Dan McLaughlin, Dave Smith, Tracey Pals

Annual Bring Your Boss Happy Hour left to right: Ben Manna, Cody Crawford, Courtney Kuebler, Libby Heath

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By the Numbers

Texas’ state sales tax is 6.25 percent.

Localities can add their own sales taxes to this, which can bring the rate up to as much as 8.25 percent in some areas.

ALTHOUGH TEXAS HAS NO INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX, IT DOES LEVY A FRANCHISE TAX OF .375 PERCENT ON SOME WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BUSINESSES. SOLE PROPRIETORSHIPS AND SOME GENERAL PARTNERSHIPS ARE EXEMPT. THIS IS A TYPE OF INCOME TAX BASED ON TOTAL BUSINESS REVENUES. THE RATE INCREASES TO .75 PERCENT FOR OTHER NONEXEMPT BUSINESSES.

Unprepared food, prescription drUgs, and over-the-coUnter drUgs are exempt from the state sales tax.

TEXAS IS ONE OF ONLY SEVEN STATES THAT HAS NO PERSONAL INCOME TAX AS OF 2018 . MOST OF TEXAS’ TAX REVENUES COME FROM SALES TAXES AND TAXES ON BUSINESSES AND SPECIFIC INDUSTRIES. THE STATE DOES HAVE A PROPERTY TAX, BUT IT’S COLLECTED BY CITIES, COUNTIES, AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND IT CAN ONLY BE USED FOR LOCAL NEEDS.

Texas repealed its inheritance tax on Sept. 1, 2015. There’s no estate tax in Texas, either, although estates valued at more than $11.18 million can be taxed at the federal level as of 2018.

Homeowners who are age 65 or older or those who are disabled can qualify for an additional $10,000 exemption for school district taxes and a $3,000 exemption for other local property taxes. The school district cannot tax any more than what a homeowner paid in the first year he qualified. The tax is effectively frozen. Widows or widowers age 55 or older whose deceased spouse qualified for the 65 or older exemption can continue to receive the exemption if they apply.

Veterans of the U.S. armed forces who have been disabled as a result of their service might be eligible for a disabled veteran’s exemption. This exemption is equal to 100% of the appraised value of the primary residence.

THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION: YOU CAN QUALIFY FOR A $15,000 REDUCTION IN YOUR HOME’S APPRAISED VALUE IF YOUR PROPERTY IS YOUR PRINCIPAL PLACE OF RESIDENCE AS OF JAN. 1 OF THE TAX YEAR.

PROPERTY TAXES ARE BASED ON THE APPRAISED CURRENT MARKET VALUE OF REAL ESTATE AND INCOME-PRODUCING TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY. APPRAISALS ARE PERFORMED BY COUNTY DISTRICTS. “INCOME-PRODUCING” IS THE KEY. YOUR VEHICLE IS TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY, BUT IT’S NOT SUBJECT TO A PROPERTY TAX AS LONG AS YOU DON’T USE IT TO EARN A LIVING..

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Texas residents also don’t pay income tax but spend 1.83% of their income on real estate taxes, one of the highest rates in the country.

The state offers sales tax “holidays” each year and certain purchases are exempt from sales tax on these occasions (if you spend over a certain dollar amount). They are usually April, May, and August, and the August’s dates often exempt clothing, backpacks, and back-to-school supplies.

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AUSTIN:

Hearty market fundamentals define the first quarter of the year

Occupancy: 89.4%

Net Absorption: 469,804 sq. ft

DALLAS/ FORT WORTH: Bullish on industrial: DFW has 22.7 million sq. ft. underway

Occupancy: 93.9%

Net Absorption: 3,505,061 sq. ft.

HOUSTON: First quarter absorption slips as tenants move to new space

Occupancy: 94.6%

Net Absorption: (58,774) sq. ft.

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Hotels embrace co-working

Also riding on the experience economy is the increase of co-working space in hotels. There has been a strong demand for communal workspace as more and more companies have flexible working policies.

These spaces, if designed aptly, can be the perfect place for the new generation of consumers to socialise and work. Hotel operators can maximize real estate and boost revenue by creatively repurposing existing, under-utilised spaces.

Those who opt to work from hotel lobbies tend to order food or drinks. Also, it can help hotels to strengthen branding among guests and the local community. A number of hotel brands have embraced this trend, attracting guests through various co-working offers:

The Virgin hotel in Chicago charges a membership fee for its co-working space which includes a bar, private meeting areas, free tea and coffee, a library, Wi-Fi and wireless printing

The Curtain hotel in London offers co-working facilities exclusively for hotel guests and members

French hotel brand Mama Shelter and Latin America-based Selina are both developing their own co-working product, building on their brand and hospitality expertise

We foresee other hotel companies, especially brands targeting the younger generation, to follow suit and use their public space to invite more digital nomads.

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Up and Coming

The 10 Tallest Buildings Under Construction or in Development

In the 1950s, Frank Lloyd Wright once proposed a mile-high skyscraper to be set on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago, a towering giant of a building powered by atomic elevators to be called The Illinois. Wright’s vision is coming closer and closer to reality.

Developments in building technology and an abundance of construction projects in Asia makes the title of tallest building more short-lived than ever; only one of the buildings (on this list of the ten tallest in waiting) are in North America, and half of them will eventually eclipse the height of One World Trade Center. (This list is based on data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

1.Jeddah Tower (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: 3,281 feet, estimated completion 2021)

This skyscraper likely will become the first to break the one-kilometer mark (3,280 ft); it’s already under construction and is supported by billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. It was designed by Adrian Smith, whose work includes the Burj Khalifa,- - currently the tallest building in the world. The skyscraper will offer sightseers a perch on the 157th story (site of a proposed helipad) and showcase a new type of elevator - speedy doubledecker cabins swept between floors by a new carbon fiber cord.

2.Merdeka PNB118 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 2,113 feet, estimated completion 2021)

Developers are hoping this crystalline tower becomes as much of a catalyst for the city as César Pelli’s Petronas Towers, still the tallest twin structures in the world. This is a huge project for Australian firm Fender Katsalidis Architects, which has been involved with a series of tall towers in Melbourne.

3.Wuhan Greenland Center (Wuhan, China: 2,087 feet, estimated completion 2019)

Another project being overseen by the firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, this tower in central China offers a unique, curved profile, a tripod shape that tapers and forms a dome to reduce wind resistance. The entire structure presents a fluid profile, reducing the building’s footprint. The summit of this multi-use building will include a private member’s club.

4. Grand Rama 9 Tower (Bangkok, Thailand: 2,018 feet, estimated completion 2021)

A symbol of recent developments in the Thai capital, this building will be an exclamation point on Bangkok’s continued growth as a regional hub. Named after a famous Thai king, this future landmark (which will be southeast Asia’s tallest building) will include a sixstar hotel and become a highlight of the

city center, which features a master plan by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

5.Baoneng Shenyang Global Financial Center Tower 1 (Shenyeng, China: 1,864 feet, estimated completion 2020)

Nicknamed the Pearl of the North, this 111-story, mixed-use skyscraper will feature a circular inset towards the apex and a smaller sister tower, both designed by Atkins. Set in the Golden Corridor in the city’s central business district, the tower’s canopies were designed to resemble the tents of the Qing Dynasty –the last imperial dynasty of China (1644 – 1912)

6.Tianjin CTF Finance Centre (Tianjin, China: 1,739 feet, estimated completion 2020)

Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to meet LEED Gold standards, this gently sloping tower features a crystallized facade that accentuates the curves of the building’s frame. Along with strategically placed vents, the shape reduces vortex shedding, which sharply decreases the wind forces impacting the tower.

7. China Zun Tower (Beijing, China: 1,732 feet, estimated completion 2019)

Modeled after a ceremonial “zun” vessel (a bronze or ceramic design meant to hold wine) this gently curving tower will soon rise over the new extension of Beijing’s central business district. Designed by the international architecture firm Farrells, with engineering help by Arup and KPF serving as design and executive architect, the concave tower, split between office space, private club and an observation deck will (for the moment) claim the title of China’s tallest building.

9.Evergrande International (Hefei, China: 1,699 feet, estimated completion 2021)

Originally designed by Atkins, with Thornton Tomasetti working as structural engineers, this unique tower mimics the contours of bamboo, with seven vertical sections set to utilize a “core-outrigger system.” The mixed-use structure will be the centerpiece of the central business district in Hefei, a city in east-central China.

10.Central Park Tower (New York City, USA: 1,550 feet, estimated completion 2020)

This forthcoming addition to Billionaire’s Row in Manhattan, another Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill design, has been the subject of speculation, especially over the highly anticipated additions to the city’s highend residential market. According to a report in Curbed New York, the developer will price 20 of the condos at $60 million or more.

The 2019 Pritzker Prize Is Awarded to Arata Isozaki

In the world of architecture, there’s no bigger award than the annual Pritzker Prize. This works of this year’s winnerJapanese-born architect Arata Isozaki - can be seen across the globe, from the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles to the Nishiwakishi Okanoyama Museum in central Japan. Isozaki’s use of solid geometric forms to create buildings that command our attention is what makes his work stand out.

Certain principles must not just be realized but mastered in order for an architect to win the Pritzker Prize: firmness, commodity, and delight—three rules favored by the ancient Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. Vitruvius’s thought that buildings should enhance the quality of life for those who come in contact with them. Since opening his firm in Tokyo in 1963 at the age of 32, Isozaki has designed many buildings that stand as a testament to Vitruvius’s creed - museums, towers, bridges, libraries, furniture, corporate offices, pavilions, sports complexes, concert halls, and college buildings, among other structures. He finds inspiration not in not the grandness of the edifices he designs but the void of them. “Extravagance is, for me, complete silence,” said Isozaki. “Nothingness, that is extravagant.”

Japan is now tied with the United States for the most Pritzker prizes (eight).

(See the network feature 40 Years of Pritzker Awards in the March and June issues of 2018.)

Arata Isozaki

Art Tower Mito, located north of Tokyo

Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain

The exterior of a shopping district in Milan designed by Isozaki and Zaha Hadid

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles

The Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, designed in partnership with RHWL Architects

The Thessaloniki Concert Hall in Thessaloniki, Greece

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It took almost 10 years and 2 billion yuan ($287.9 million) to build, but the 289-footdeep hotel (built vertically along the precipice of an underground, water-filled quarry) is now open. The Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland, also known as Shimao Quarry Hotel, has cliffview rooms that allow guests to stare into the abyss. Prices for the suites range $489 - $546 per night.

Two of the hotel’s 18 floors are aboveground, while the two lowest are completely submerged by a lake that occupies the remainder of the vast quarry pit. The 336-room building has a restaurant and sports and recreation facilities including rock climbing and bungee jumping.

British architect Martin Jochman who designed the hotel, commented: “This is such a unique opportunity that gives me some really interesting ideas of reshaping the relationship between city and nature.” Jochman, who also designed Dubai’s Burj Al Arab, said the new property was designed to blend in with its natural surroundings. Alongside the hotel, at ground level, there’s a glitzy amusement park. The lake below will be used for watersports and other adventure activities.

Shanghai’s Earthscraper

The World’s First Underground Hotel

The developer (Shimao Group) also plans to build a shopping center on the site next year. According to its chairman Xu Rongmao, he first came across the abandoned quarry in 2006, which he describes as a “wound of nature that was inconsistent with the green hills and blue water of Sheshan.” He then came up with the idea to build the unusual property. Exploited during World War II, the quarry has been closed since 2000.

The hotel’s owners say the facility is able to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake. The design incorporates two fireman’s lifts if needed for fighting fires, and six pumping machines should the huge pit flood during Shanghai’s wet rainy season.

Shanghai claimed the “home to the world’s second-tallest building” title in 2016 with the opening of Shanghai Tower, a 632-meter, 128-story skyscraper in the city’s financial district.

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San Antonio Sister Cities & Other Official Relationships

In the last two issues, we’ve introduced the Sister-City relationships of Fort Worth and Houston. Part III of the Houston coverage (of its 18 sity-relationships will appear in the next issue.

In 1956, President Eisenhower established Sister Cities International (SCI), a non-profit and non-partisan organization which he intended to use as an instrument to promote international cooperation, mutual understanding and respect between people of different nations. By encouraging everyday citizens to learn, to appreciate and to see other cultures for their differences and common links of humanity, he saw a chance to foster bonds that could bring peace and prosperity for future generations. Now, SCI comprises 1,200 US cities, counties and states and their 2,100 partners in over 140 countries worldwide. San Antonio’s Mayor is currently serving as the Chairman of Sister Cities International. Since his engagement on the board of directors five years ago, San Antonio has expanded its global reach and intensified its engagement with maintaining its exisiting relationships and cultivating new relationships.

In its three hundred years of history, San Antonio, Texas has benefitted from a variety of influences, including those of the native American populations and from overseas populations which have shaped the cultural landscape of the city into what it is today. The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) designated World Heritage Missions including the world famous Alamo are important monuments of history that hearken back to the Spanish colonial period later followed by the Mexican republic. The City’s recent designation as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy highlights the unique cuisine of our region – a fusion of cultures, flavors, influences, and traditions. In the 1800s, a new wave of immigrants from Europe, namely Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Poland, further infused the diverse population of our city with their own cultures, languages, and customs. In 1850, San Antonio’s population was evenly divided into those who spoke English, Spanish, and German. In celebration of HemisFair ‘68, the official 1968 World’s Fair was held in San Antonio with the designated theme “The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas”, celebrating this diversity.

Today, the City of San Antonio proudly maintains many official relationships across the globe that include eleven Sister Cities and two Friendship Cities and four special relationships that feature a wide range of exchanges, highlighting economic development, culture and education, youth engagement, technical exchange and humanitarian assistance.

The San Antonio International Relations Office oversees these official relationships through partnerships with community entitites – from local chambers of commerce to colleges and universities, to diaspora and ethnic organizations, as well as other cultural organizations. This wide variety of activities, organized for and with the San Antonio community, serve to enrich the lives of local residents and increase their global fluency. San Antonio prioritizes the importance of international bridges to communities around the world. In recent years, it has adopted a data-driven approach to our global relationship building efforts by focusing on metros identified through the lens of the Brookings Institute metro market prioritization process in which San Antonio was featured. This innovative approach to establishing international relationships has been successful in emphasizing the overlap between key industries that San Antonio and its Sister Cities share as well as providing a framework for targeted and strategic outreach to other global markets.

Additionally, the role of culture and heritage continues to be an important factor in San Antonio’s innovative exchanges with its international relationships . Seven of San Antonio’s Sister and Friendship Cities feature a UNESCO designation for either a World Heritage Site or have been inducted into the prestigious Creative Cities network, further increasing the opportunities for dynamic engagement.

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

(Established 1953)

Established in 1953, Monterrey is San Antonio’s oldest Sister City and is the first Mexican City to establish a relationship with the United States. Situated just 300 miles from San Antonio, our two cities have shared a number of exchanges with one another over the years. From 1992 –2010, San Antonio had a trade office in Monterrey, promoting mutually beneficial trade and investment as well as promoting cultural, civic, educational and other initiatives,. Today, the City of San Antonio to continues to promote economic and cultural exchanges with our first Sister City.

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (Established 1974)

San Antonio’s second Sister City in Mexico, Guadalajara, is Mexico’s third largest city. Although known for its beautiful scenery and historic monuments, Guadalajara is also referred to as the “Silicon Valley” of Mexico. The city has been able to establish significant impact in information technology and innovation. Like San Antonio, Guadalajara is also a member of the UNESCO Creative City network in the category of Media Arts. In 2017, Sister Cities International, in collaboration with the City of San Antonio, organized the first ever All Mexico – U.S. Sister Cities Mayors Summit hosted by the City of Guadalajara.

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Established 1975)

In 1731, settlers from the Canary Islands were brought to the region by the Spanish Crown to establish the first municipal government that subsequently grew into present day San Antonio. Las Palmas , which shares the seat of government

with San Antonio’s other Sister City of Tenerife, is a very modern and cosmopolitan city located on the island of Gran Canaria. It is home to one of the most important commercial ports in the world: “El Puerto de la Luz” which is often tied to exporting machinery, motor vehicles, pharmaceuticals, and medicines. The island of Gran Canaria is famous for its wonderful climate and magnificent beaches as well as for breathtaking scenery. While snow-covered mountain peaks dot the landscape to the North, people bask in the sun on the beaches a few kilometers away. Large reservoirs and artificial lakes make fishing, camping, and boating popular pasttimes on the island.

Gwangju, South Korea (Established 1981)

The capital city of the Chollanam-do Province, Gwangju is an important governmental, cultural, and artistic center. As the site of the Gwangju Uprising incident in the 1980s, Gwangju played an important role in national movements that eventually brought democracy to South Korea. The city also hosts a world-famous Bienale Arts Festival, a bi-annual festival that runs for three months and showcases the best in international contemporary art. Gwangju is a UNESCO-designated Creative City of Media Arts and has sent artists to participate in Luminaria, San Antonio’s own contemporary arts festival. In 2010, the City of Gwangju gifted San Antonio with a beautiful Korean pavilion that sits in the serene Denman Estate Park.

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC (Established 1982) With over 2 million residents, the city of Kaohsiung is the third most populous administrative district in Taiwan and is also its largest and busiest port. The city is a major center for manufacturing, refining, and transportation. San Antonio has maintained ties with Kaohsiung with a focus on cultural and educational exchanges and has recently participated in a “post card” project initiated by Kaohsiung featuring postcard sets of their sister cities.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Established 1983)

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which shares the seat of government in the Canary Islands with Las Palmas, is San Antonio’s second Sister City in the Canary Islands and enjoys one of the mildest climates in the world. Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital of this tourist’s paradise, as well as the capital of the Province of Santa Cruz. The island features two UNESCO World Heritage Sites – Teide National Park, which features an active volcano, and San Cristóbal de La Laguna, an

historic town that has been named “a living example of the exchange of influences between the European culture and the American culture, with which it has been maintaining constant links”. Previously, the Government of the Canary Islands had maintained an office for ten years in San Antonio to further promote economic and educational exchanges between the cities. In 2018, the Canary Islands Trade Office was reopened to continue this mission.

Kumamoto, Japan (Established 1987)

Situated on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan, the city of Kumamoto has maintained an active Sister City relationship with San Antonio for over three decades. In the 1990s, Kumamoto sent a team of gardeners - living national treasures - to build an authentic Japanese garden, the Kumamoto En at the San Antonio Botanical Center. In exchange, San Antonio sent an authentic 19th century prairie cabin to Kumamoto’s Botanical Center. In the spring of 2016, tragedy struck the city in the form of devastating back-toback earthquakes and much of the city sustained heavy damage and loss of life. San Antonio held a successful fundraising initiative for itsJapanese Sister City and raised over USD 170,000 to assist with recovery and humanitarian aide. Additionally, the Sister City relationship contributed extensively to the numerous Japanese investments in San Antonio, namely Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX). In 2015, Kumamoto’s world-famous mascot Kumamon visited San Antonio for a cultural exchange where he visited the local Japan-America Society’s Fall Festival, participated in a skit during a San Antonio Spurs NBA game, and even became an honorary citizen of the City.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Established 2008)

Located in the state of Tamil Nadu, Chennai is home to auto manufacturers like Ford and Hyundai as well as several tech, bio medical and software companies. In 2015, massive flooding in the region caused widespread damage and several buildings were badly damaged or destroyed. In response to this, Anuja San Antonio – the local San AntonioChennai Alliance – initiated a fundraiser that raised approximately USD 140,000 for the construction of a new school in Chennai to be opened in August of 2019. Each year, San Antonio celebrates Diwali SA – an annual event to recognize the triumph of light over dark and good over evil. This free festival brings over 20,000 attendees to downtown San Antonio and is the largest city-sponsored event of its kind in the nation. Chennai is also a UNESCO-designated Creative City of Music.

this, Anuja San Antonio – the local San Antonio-Chennai Alliance – initiated a fundraiser that raised approximately USD 140,000 for the construction of a new school in Chennai to be opened in August of 2019. Each year, San Antonio celebrates Diwali SA – an annual event to recognize the triumph of light over dark and good over evil. This free festival brings over 20,000 attendees to downtown San Antonio and is the largest city-sponsored event of its kind in the nation. Chennai is also a UNESCO-designated Creative City of Music.

Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China(Established 2012)

A 3,000 year-old city on the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province due northwest of Shanghai, Wuxi is split by Lake Taihu and is bordered by Suzhou to the east. Sometimes called “Little Shanghai” and “Pearl of Lake Tai”, Wuxi is crisscrossed with older canals, making it an attractive tourist and residential draw where many private gardens or parks were built by learned scholars. San Antonio and Wuxi share a number of exchanges related to river and water management – including an exchange between the Liangxi District and the San Antonio River Authority to promote best practices. Additionally, a group of high school students from Wuxi visits annually during the summer months to participate in a youth basketball camp hosted by the San Antonio Spurs. Currently, the two cities are collaborating on a museum exchange including the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Windhoek, Namibia

(Established 2016)

Windhoek is the Capital of the Republic of Namibia , one of Africa’s most vibrant and successful sovereign states. Nestled in a basin surrounded by scenic mountains, Windhoek is a thriving active, administrative, commercial and industrial center, serving as the melting pot and hub of most economic and technological developments and activities in the country. It is also the only city on the African continent that recycles water through an innovative purification process. Officials from the San Antonio Water System (SAWS) have traveled to Windhoek to discuss water management and to share best practices. Additionally, there has been engagement with The Alamo Colleges District and UT Health San Antonio on various cultural exchanges.

Darmstadt, Germany

(Established 2017)

San Antonio’s newest Sister City is located in the German state of Hesse, in west-central Germany and holds the title of ‘Wissenschaftstadt’, or ‘City of Science’. It is known as Europe’s Silicon Valley, featuring a thriving startup industry, and is Germany’s number one city for cybersecurity. Darmstadt is a high-tech center in the vicinity of the Frankfurt Airport, with important activities in spacecraft operations, chemistry, pharmacy, IT, biotech, telecommunications, and engineering. San Antonio and Darmstadt have laid the foundation for several exchanges to take place in the realms of cybersecurity, education, tech startups, and educational exchange. Darmstadt’s Artist Colony, The Malthildenhöe, is on the prospective list for UNESCO World Heritage status.

Friendship Cities

Friendship City Agreements are usually the first step on the road to becoming a Sister City. Some have described Friendship City relationships are ‘the engagement before the marriage’. Whereas Sister City relationships require approval from both cities’ respective city councils, Friendship City Agreements can be made between Mayors.

Suzhou, China (Established 2010)

Originally founded in 514 B.C., Suzhou has over 2,500 years of rich history, and relics of the past are abundant to this day. The city’s canals, stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously-designed gardens have contributed to its status as one of the top tourist attractions in China. Like San Antonio, Suzhou shares a dual UNESCO designation – the city’s Classical Chinese Gardens are a designated World Heritage Site and Suzhou is a member of the Creative Cities network for the category of Folk Art. In October of 2018, a San Antonio delegation visited Suzhou (along with Wuxi) as part of a multi-city civic mission to Jiangsu Province, China. Exchanges between the San Antoniou Museum of Art and the Suzhou Museum of Art are planned for the fall of 2019, laying the foundation for future collaborations.

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel (Established 2011)

The second most populous city in Israel, Tel Aviv is a hub of culture, innovation, and history. Like San Antonio, Tel Aviv features a dual UNESCO designation, receiving World Heritage status in 2003 and being inducted into the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for the category of Media Arts in 2014. San Antonio and Tel Aviv have seen cultural and economic engagements during the duration of the relationship. In 2017, Mayor Ron Nirenberg led a trade and civic mission to Tel Aviv with a focus on Cybersecurity. Tel Aviv joins San Antonio in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a designated city of Media Arts.

Other Relationships

Beyond its Sister and Friendship City relationships, the City maintain a number of special relationships with cities and states around the world.

Yanghzou, China (Established 2009)

With a population of over four million, Yangzhou has historically been considered one of the wealthiest cities in China at various times for its influential merchant families and wealth of poets, artists, and scholars. The city was one of the first in China to benefit from the earliest bank loans in Chinese history, using the funds to construct a thermal power station in 1994. San Antonio and Yangzhou, China (located in Jiangsu Province along with Wuxi and Suzhou) began communicating in 2009 and have since established a special relationship focused on river management. Delegates from San Antonio – in particular the San Antonio River Authority – continue to attend the annual China Yangzhou World Canal Cities Conference and remain in communication with Yangzhou waterway officials to share best practices on river management.

Mexico City, Mexico (Established 2015)

The most populous city in North America, and the largest metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere, the capital of Mexico, Mexico City, is located high in the Valley of Mexico and is one of the most important centers of cultural and finance in the Americas. San Antonio has maintained a foreign trade office in Mexico City since 1995, better known as Casa San Antonio and signed an MOU with Mexico City in 2015 with a focus on job growth and economic development opportunities for both cities. Additionally, given San Antonio’s proximity both physically and culturally with Mexico, a number of artistic and cultural exchanges have taken place. Recently, a bronze statue titled ‘Alas de la Ciudad’created by renowed Mexican artist Jorge Marín, was gifted to the residents of San Antonio in honor of San Antonio’s Tricentennial celebration in 2018.

Mie Prefecture, Japan (Established 2016)

The Mie Prefecture is a located in the Kansai Region of Japan, close to the economic hub of Osaka. It is home to the ancient Ise Jingu shrine –a structure that is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu. In 2016, San Antonio signed a Letter of Intent with Mie prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan to promote economic and cultural exchange. The work since then has served as a framework for collaboration in the field of aerospace between Mie Industrial Enterprise Support in Japan and the San Antonio Free Trade Alliance, now integrated into the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation.

Nanjing, China (Established 2016)

Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province and the second largest city in the East China region. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing holds a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as capital city during different historical periods. It has served as a major center of culture, education, economy and tourism. San Antonio and Nanjing signed a letter of Intent for cultural and educational exchange and another LOI for economic development. This year a San Antonio delegation visited Nanjing as part of a broader visit to the Jiangsu province with a focus on exchange on canal and rivers. Nanjing is a home to UNESCO world heritage designated site of the Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.

Plan to be at Dallas Market Hall on August 8 & 9 to connect with, learn from, and do business with interior designers, architects, facility managers, real estate professionals, students and other essential industry members catering to the built environment.

Event offerings include a 25,000+ SF trade show, collaborative design charrette, Thursday evening “Design Crawl” through the showrooms of large commercial furniture manufacturers, and 40+ continuing education courses. Many of this year’s sessions cannot be found anywhere else as they will be presented by design professionals from companies like Corgan, Gensler, HKS, JLL, PDR Corp, SmithGroup, and VAI Architects. Topics include “Community Action for Healthier Materials,” “Designing Student-Centric Ecosystems,” “Autism in Public Spaces,” and “Communicating Your Way Through Green Organizational Change.”

You will not want to miss our two inspiring and informative Keynote Addresses delivered by thought leaders who have each had a sizable influence on our industry:

Thursday Keynote Speaker, Paul is one of the world’s most sought after visionaries, strategists and integrators of process, technology and business. An awardwinning architect, author, educator, and analyst, Paul advises Fortune 500 organizations, global government agencies, prominent institutions and the most prestigious architectural, engineering and contracting firms in the world. A pioneer in Building Information Modeling (BIM), his past successful ventures include Revit Technologies (sold to Autodesk 2002), Buzzsaw (sold to Autodesk 2001) and TRIRIGA

(sold to IBM 2011). Paul’s current work is focused on Smart Cities real estate developments operating in China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Ireland, Canada and throughout the USA.

In November 2016 global environmental business leader Rick Fedrizzi became chairman and CEO of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public benefit corporation advancing buildings that put human health and wellness at the center of their design and operation. IWBI administers the WELL Building Standard, an evidence-based system for measuring, certifying and monitoring the performance of building features that impact health and well-being. Rick is also founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and former CEO of both USGBC and of Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), nonprofit organizations that promote high-performing buildings and communities. During his tenure, LEED became the world’s most widely used green building rating system.

Visit metroconexpo.org for full event details. Exhibitor Registration opened April 1, and Attendee Registration opened June 3.

ABOUT METROCON: Started in 2003, METROCON is the largest not-for-profit [501(c)6], self-produced, volunteer-driven, design specification-focused regional expo and conference in the USA. Volunteers from five associations – ASID Texas, ASID Texas Gulf Coast, CSI Dallas, NEWH Dallas & USGBC Texas – collaborate to offer an expansive event for their members and beyond.

Many people have probably wondered what life would be like living in a sea shell under the sea. That was the inspiration behind the beautifully crafted ‘Nautilus House’ near Mexico City – designed and built by Arquitectura Organica’s Javier Senosiain who calls it ‘Bio-Architecture’ and says that it makes the home’s dwellers feel “like a mollusk moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister.”

Inspired by the works of architects such as Antoni Gaudi - whose fantastical buildings dominate Barcelona - and American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (who coined the term ‘organic architecture in 1867), natural plantings and spiral staircases are located throughout the dwelling. Its smooth front facade meets a giant wall of colored mosaics, lighting up the living space in a stunning rainbow effect.

Paul Doherty, AIA, CDT, IFMA Fellow, President & CEO of TDG – the digit group, inc.

Rick Fedrizzi, Chairman & CEO of the International WELL Building Institute

Nautilus House

Sister Cities of Gaveslton

Niigata, Japan

Niigata is a port city in Honshu, Japan’s main island. It has a population of 810,157. On March relationship. They continue to exchange communitywide contacts overseas for the purpose of exchanging ideas in the pursuit of peace and they are both coastal resort cities.

proclaimed Stavanger, Norway as its Sister City, through the Houston/Stavanger Sister City Program of affiliations among twin towns. Stavanger and Galveston have many similar characteristics, both being tourist and seaport towns.

Veracruz, Mexico

Veracruz is a Mexican port city on the Gulf of Mexico coast in the state of Veracruz; it has a population of 428,323 and is one of the country’s oldest and largest ports, founded in the 16th century by Spanish settlers. On March 10, 1983 Galveston

Stavanger, Norway

Stavanger is a city in southwestern Norway with a population of 130,754. The city’s rapid population growth in the late 20th century was primarily the result of Norway’s booming offshore oil industry. Today the city is widely referred to as the Oil Capital of Norway. On August 25, 1988 Galveston

and Vera Cruz became Sister Cities pursuant through the United Towns Organization’s program of affiliations among twin towns. Vera Cruz and Galveston are similar in that they are seaport and tourist towns.

Armavir, Armenia

Armavir is a town and urban municipal community located in the west of Armenia serving as the administrative center of Armavir Province. It was founded in 1931 by the government of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. On March 8, 2001

Galveston and Armavir became Sister Cities. Galveston and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have a partnership with the Armavir Region of Armenia, which was formed to help countries of the former Soviet Union and its satellite countries make the transition to a free society. This partnership was created with a specific task of developing primary health care in the region. The Armavir region of Armenia is notable in that it contains a nuclear power plant within an active earthquake area and the partnership between the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Armavir Region also focuses on disaster preparedness.

Trivandrum, India

Trivandrum is the capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala. It’s distinguished by its British colonial architecture and many art galleries. Trivandrum is a major metropolitan city. On August 25, 1994 Galveston and Trivandrum became Sister Cities. The people of the city of Trivandrum share many of the same interests and commonalities with the people of the City of Galveston, including world famous beaches, many tourist attractions, a major medical university, similar climate, an important port, and historical buildings.

Golden State, Gold Standard: California Redefines the Sporting Venue

At some point in our nation’s history, a ballpark was just a ballpark. Whether idiosyncratic urban jewels defined by their contexts and boundaries or massive suburban concrete shrines with plenty of parking, sporting venues were relatively simple affairs. You found some land, built a stadium or an arena, and then waited for an ecosystem—bars, restaurants, parking lots, and souvenir stores—to organically sprout around it. Owners were responsible for their enterprise, not necessarily their cities.

But today, a sports stadium often represents just one component of a multi-phase urban renewal scheme, serving as a prominent and exciting anchor for an ambitious mixed-use master plan. They come with pre-signed retail tenants and integrated transportation solutions. They can even be pitched as solutions to housing crises, promising to create not just venues but entire thriving neighborhoods.

Perhaps nowhere is this trend more visible than California, where—if all goes to plan—two major (and privately funded)

developments will create new homes for Los Angeles’s football teams and Oakland’s beloved baseball franchise—along with thousands of other homes for the cities’ residents.

Slated to complete its initial construction in 2020 in Inglewood, Los Angeles Stadium will have quite the legacy to follow. The Coliseum, its Art Moderne predecessor, looms large in sports history as the host of the first-ever Super Bowl and of two Olympic games. In its bid to solidify football’s return to Los Angeles, the new stadium is going big. When it’s completed, Los Angeles Stadium will be the country’s most expensive, totaling $4.9 billion in construction, development, and infrastructure improvements. When it’s complete, Los Angeles Stadium will regularly house 70,240 spectators,

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and will be able to accommodate more than 100,000 for major events.

Neither an open-air stadium nor an enclosed dome, LA Stadium will be an open-air environment, crowned by a permeable metal canopy-style roof that lets in plenty of natural light and cooling Southern California breezes. In the middle of the stadium will hang a 70,000 square-foot, dual-sided screen made by Oculus, ensuring fans are able to see every second—and every angle— of the action. The dramatic teardrop-shaped form of the structure, designed by HKS Architects, feels ready to make a strong first impression both from the ground and the air, with millions of passengers landing annually at the neighboring Los Angeles International Airport.

However, Los Angeles Stadium is just a part of a 300-acre complex that will also offer a 6,000-seat performing arts venue, a hotel, 2,500 residential units, publicly accessible parks, and a lake. Taken together, the complex will constitute an entire district unto itself—more than three times the size of Disneyland—and its many-phase development is scheduled to wrap up in time for the 2028 Olympics. -----------------

While Los Angeles Stadium is a done deal, the Oakland A’s planned Howard Terminal stadium is still a moonshot, as the team is still attempting to acquire the land. Proposed to take up a section of Oakland’s bustling port waterfront, the stadium has run into opposition from the city’s maritime industrial community. But if the stadium succeeds, it could create a charming heart for the city’s rapidly developing downtown—along with thousands of residential units in a metropolitan era hurting for housing.

In scale, Oakland’s stadium would be a far cry from the Los Angeles project. At 34,000 seats, it would be the smallest in the Major League—perhaps fitting for the Bay Area’s “other” baseball team. The intimate stadium would be surrounded by a continuous sloping rooftop park, open to both fans and to the Oakland community at large on non-game days.

The most striking feature of the Howard Terminal development, though, would surely be its unique transportation system: an aerial gondola that would transport fans from nearby Jack London Square above the adjacent interstate to the stadium. Also included in the package would be anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 residential units, including a significant percentage of affordable housing.

In an era of increased urbanization, it makes sense that sports

complexes are also making a return to the cities. And if Oakland and Los Angeles’s efforts succeed, they could set a template for how we build stadiums in the future: informed by careful urban planning, creating housing, and even providing public green spaces. It’s high time that we put the “park” back in “ballpark.”

OCEANIX CITY

BJARKE INGELS’ AMBITIOUS PLAN FOR FLOATING CITIES

B y 2050, 90% of the world’s largest cities will be exposed to rising seas. The vast majority of coastal cities will be impacted by coastal erosion and flooding, displacing millions of people, while destroying homes and infrastructure. As part of UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda, BIG proposes a vision for the world’s first resilient and sustainable floating community for 10,000 residents. Designed as a man-made ecosystem, Oceanix City is anchored in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, channeling flows of energy, water, food and waste

borhoods of 2 hectares create thriving selfsustaining communities of up to 300 residents with mixed-use space for living, working and gathering during day and night time. All built structures in the neighborhood are kept below 7 stories to create a low center of gravity and resist wind. Every building fans out to self-shade internal spaces and public realm, providing comfort and lower cooling costs while maximizing roof area for solar capture. Communal farming is the heart of every platform, allowing residents to embrace sharing culture

to create a blueprint for a modular maritime metropolis.

According to Ingels and Oceanix CEO Marc Collins, the floating city was developed to be affordable, safe, and ultra-sustainable, in keeping with development goals set forth by the U.N. General Assembly. These speculative settlements would be entirely self-reliant, subsisting off of water collected, desalinized, and stored on-site, with food grown through aquaponics and vertical farming. Oceanix City would produce zero waste (everything would be designed for disassembly and reuse) and rely almost entirely on human-powered transport, such as bicycles.

It is designed to grow, transform and adapt organically over time, evolving from neighborhoods to cities with the possibility of scaling indefinitely. Modular neigh-

A rendering shows a woman and child near the greenhouse. A few of the wind-powered generators can be seen as well.

city of 10,000 residents with a strong sense of community and identity. A larger protected harbor is formed in the heart of the city. Floating destinations and art, including

including fast-growing bamboo that has six times the tensile strength of steel, a negative carbon footprint, and can be grown on the neighborhoods themselves.

Floating cities can be prefabricated on shore and towed to their final site, reducing construction costs. This paired with the low cost of leasing space on the ocean creates

and zero waste systems. Below sea level, beneath the platforms, biorock floating reefs, seaweed, oysters, mussel, scallop and clam farming clean the water and accelerate ecosystem regeneration.

six specialized landmark neighborhoods with a public square, market

place and centers for spirituality, learning, health, sport and culture create destinations drawing residents from across the city and anchoring each neighborhood in a unique identity.

All communities regardless of size will prioritize locally sourced materials for building construction,

an affordable model of living. These factors mean that affordable housing can be rapidly deployed to coastal megacities in dire need. The first Oceanix Cities are calibrated for the most vulnerable tropical and sub-tropical regions around the globe.

The plan may sound futuristic— and idealistic—but it’s not science fiction, Ingels insisted, in front of an audience of U.N. delegates, scientists, and Nobel Laureates, “It won’t be Waterworld,” Ingels said, referencing the dystopian 1995 Kevin Costner flick. However, inevitably, the round table’s organizers acknowledged ,it will require time, strategic partnerships, and investment to get such a project afloat.

By clustering six neighborhoods around a protected central harbor, larger villages of 12 hectares can accommodate up to 1,650 residents. Social, recreational and commercial functions are placed around the sheltered inner ring to encourage citizens to gather and move around the village. Residents can easily walk or boat through the city using electric vehicles. Aggregating to reach a critical density, six villages connect to form a

The plan would allow settlements to grow food through aquaponics and vertical farming.

1 hectare = 107,639.1 square feet

Snøhetta

Beautifully Finnish(ed) Structures

For 30 years, Snøhetta has designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects. It started in 1989 with the competition-winning entry for the new library of Alexandria, Egypt (see #1 below). This was later followed by the commission for the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo (see #2 below), and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City (see #3 below), among many others. Recently completed works include Calgary’s new Central Library in Canada (see #4 below), the Lascaux IV Caves Museum in Montignac, France, the expansion to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (see # 6 below), and the design for Norway’s new banknotes.

Since its inception, the practice has maintained its original trans-disciplinary approach, integrating architectural, landscape, interior, graphic design and product design its projects. (Their sensational underwater restaurantUnder - was the network’s Amazing Building feature in our January-February issue this year. [See #7 below)

Snøhetta is currently working on a number of projects internationally including the Le Monde Headquarters in Paris (see # 8 below) and the Cornell University Executive Education Center and Hotel on Roosevelt Island in New York City (see #9 below). In 2018, Harvard HouseZero, the most ambitious net-zero energy retrofit to date, was completed for the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities in Cambridge, Massachusetts (see #10 below).

Among its many recognitions, Snøhetta received the World Architecture Award for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the Aga Kahn Prize for Architecture for the Alexandria Library. Since its completion in 2008, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet has also garnered the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Architecture and the EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association) Great Places Award, as well as the European Prize for Urban Public Space, The International Architecture Award and The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2010. In 2016, Snøhetta was named the Wall Street Journal’s Architecture Innovator of the Year.

1 The 915,000 square foot Bibliotheca is built on a magnificent site alongside Alexandria’s ancient harbor in the historic center of the city. The 11-story library can contain up to 4 million volumes of books, a figure that can be expanded up to 8 million in the future by the use of compact storage.

developed a highly complex program into a simple general plan that integrated both a practical and intuitive sculptural approach to modeling the exterior form. The building is as much landscape as architecture and thus fosters public awareness and engagement with the arts.

3 In 2004, Snøhetta designed the only building on the memorial plaza of the September 11 Museum Pavillion in New York; it is dedicated to the comfort and orientation of visitors. The design embodies a careful reaction to the horizontal character of the memorial plaza’s design. According to founding partner Craig Dykers, “Our desire (was) to allow visitors to find a place that is a naturally occurring threshold between the everyday life of the city and the uniquely spiritual quality of the Memorial.”

4 With aims to welcome over twice as many annual visitors to its 240,000 SF of expanded facilities, the Calgary Central Library (which open in November of 2018) will fill a vital role for the rapidly expanding city. As Calgary’s largest public investment since the 1988 Olympics, the library signals the beginning of a new chapter in the life of the city, one centered on the creation and innovation of knowledge and culture. Calgary Public Library is one of the largest library systems in North America, where more than half of its residents are active cardholders, and accordingly, the new main branch was created for and inspired by its diverse inhabitants.

5 The International Centre for Cave Art (Centre International d’Art Parietal) in Montignac, France was completed in 2016. It welcomes visitors to an immersive educational experience of the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings. Known by archaeologists as the ‘Sistine Chapel of Prehistory’ due to their spiritual and historical significance, the 20,000-year-old paintings are among the finest known examples of art from the Paleolithic period.

6 The transformed and expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) opens to the public in May 2016. Purpose-built to showcase the museum’s celebrated collection, it seamlessly integrates a 10-story expansion with the original Mario Botta– designed building, creating nearly three times more gallery space than before.

7 The “Under” restaurant is 16 feet under water at Spangereid on Norway’s southern tip. “Under” also means “wonder” in Norwegian. (See Amazing Buildings in our JanuaryFebruary 2019 issue for more pictures and information.)

2 The Norwegian National Opera

8 French media company Le Monde Group’s new headquarters in Paris will be clad with a pixelated matrix of glass that offers varying degrees of transparency. The building’s distinct facade will be embedded with clusters of LEDs that project “abstracted levels of data,” symbolically representing the group’s continuous “flow of information.”

“The intention is that the façade gives the building a homogenous character when viewed from distance, but at the same time reveals a greater level of complexity as the view approaches – like headlines and detailed content in a news story,” says Snøhetta.

9 “The Graduate” Roosevelt Island will contain 196 rooms targeted at housing visiting families, academics and those visiting for campus conventions and events. In addition, the plan includes a full-service restaurant, rooftop bar, and 5,200 square feet of flexible event space.

The hotel design will “reference the history of Roosevelt Island,” and provide a “comfortable residential aesthetic” with a full suite of amenities. While the campus’ complete threephase masterplan won’t be completed until 2043, the first few buildings on campus are scheduled to open this September.

When fully completed, the campus will include two million square feet of state-of-theart buildings, over two acres of open space, and will be home to more than 2,000 graduate students and hundreds of faculty and staff.

10 The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) completed HouseZero in December of last year, the retrofitting of its headquarters in a pre-1940s building in Cambridge into an ambitious living-laboratory and an energypositive prototype for ultra-efficiency that will help us to understand buildings in new ways.

The design has been driven by radically ambitious performance targets from the outset, including nearly zero energy for heating and cooling, zero electric lighting during the day, operating with 100% natural ventilation, and producing zero carbon emissions. The building is intended to produce more energy over its lifetime than was used to renovate it and throughout its subsequent operation.

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IN 1963, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PITCHER GAYLORD PERRY REMARKED, “THEY’LL PUT A MAN ON THE MOON BEFORE I HIT A HOME RUN.” ON JULY 20, 1969, AN HOUR AFTER NEIL ARMSTRONG SET FOOT ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON, PERRY HIT HIS FIRST, AND ONLY, HOME RUN WHILE PLAYING FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS.

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Retired basketball superstar Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

THIRTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHER JOHN DUNS SCOTUS BELIEVED THAT A POINTED CAP WOULD HELP SPREAD KNOWLEDGE FROM THE TIP TO THE BRAIN, AND HIS “DUNSMEN” FOLLOWERS WORE THEM AS A BADGE OF HONOR. IN THE 1500S, THOUGH, HIS IDEAS BECAME LESS POPULAR AND THE MEANING OF THE DUNS CAP WAS TURNED ON ITS HEAD, BECOMING SOMETHING OF A JOKE.

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As more and more of Gen Z are choosing to rent over owning their own homes, the need for apartment communities to stay competitive is greater than ever. Gen Z is comprised of over 60 million members and represents the next large wave of renters. In order to satisfy this new demographic, multifamily communities need to understand that cutting edge tech amenities are no longer “nice to haves”, but essential to their way of life. This generation has literally never existed in a world without these technologies, and for many of them the idea of a home that cannot plug into the smart devices that manage the rest of their lives is not ideal. Tech amenities such as package lockers, smart doors, paperless leasing, and online rent payments are approaching the point of necessity.

And it’s not only this latest generation, as you really only need to think about how most people are living their lives today. Self-service, speed, and the ability to multi-task are the core of every innovation that dominates our lives today. Today’s consumers are savvy when it comes to what they want, and providing them with simple ways to get from point A to B is the common characteristic of most successful tech innovations. The apartment industry has done a good job trying to catch up these last few years, but they’re not there yet!

Here are a few things communities should consider when thinking about how to attract Gen Z renters.

Start at the Beginning

Property tech is not just something you should have to make your resident’s lives

THE TICKET

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easier, but also your prospective residents as well. Tour24 is a self-guided apartment tour that allows potential renters to visit a community and tour the property on their own, during a time that is most convenient for them. For a generation that craves self-service, this innovation in the apartment industry is as simple as making online dinner reservations but adopts the same secure identify verification as travel sites and banking apps. These are everyday tools to Gen Z and having such a simple and familiar way to bring them in the front door is going to eventually become the standard in the multifamily industry.

Streamlined Living

Everything should be easier, and where life needs to be easiest is in your home. Smart doors and thermostats you can control from your phone, as well as 1-click maintenance requests and rent payment platforms, are huge draws for today’s renter. Package Concierge®, for example, is a hightech package locker solution that helps combat the rise of e-commerce and creates a secure way for residents to manage their online orders. The knowledge that apartment dwellers’ online orders are as safe and secure at their apartments as they were at their parent’s homes is a huge draw.

Social Everything

Gen Z has grown up in a world where communication on social platforms is a way of everyday life. Having dedicated social spaces, that are connected to the platforms they already use, creates a larger sense of community for residents. Knowing that a community has these “smart-spaces” where residents can work or just socialize with like-minded friends makes where they live that much more of a home.

Everyone Wins

For Gen Z Renters Self-Service and Smart Amenities are Must Haves diversi ns

The adoption of tech amenities vastly increases the value of a specific property, not just for prospective renters, but for property owners and managers as well! The efficiencies these amenities create can have a drastic impact on the bottom line. High-tech package lockers help property managers save hundreds of hours a month by not having to deal with the management and distribution of packages for their residents. An application like Tour24 can free up time a leasing agent may need to deal with any of the other dozens of things they have to do for their residents. Knowing that they can turn on a selfguided tour, and give prospective renters the same high-quality experience that a live agent could, also creates valuable time for other activities as well as peace of mind.

Property tech is here to stay, and those communities that adopt and adapt will always be more appealing to this next generation of renters.

A young woman was pulled over for speeding. As the motorcycle officer walked to her car window, flipping open his ticket book, she said, “I bet you’re going to sell me a ticket to the Highway Patrolmen’s Ball.”

He replied, “Highway patrolmen don’t have balls.”

There was a moment of silence while she smiled, and he realized what he’d just said. He then closed his book, got back on his motorcycle and left. She was laughing too hard to start her car for several minutes.

2010: Printed Listings 2020 Printed Homes

Austin’s booming population and skyrocketing home prices have made affordable housing and homelessness two of the most pressing issues in Texas’s most expensive city. Now two hometown companies — ICON and Cielo Property Group — are teaming up to harness technological innovation and real estate know-how to create affordable housing faster and cheaper through 3D printing.

One year after it made headlines during the 2018 SXSW festival with its first 3-D printed home, construction technologies company ICON rolled out its second generation Vulcan II printer during this year’s festival in March.

more permanent housing for people living on Austin’s streets or in shelters.

At the same time we could see the incredible technological advances ICON was making to print homes faster and much cheaper than they could be built by traditional methods. It just seemed like a great opportunity to commission a printer dedicated to creating affordable housing here in our community.”

The sleek 3,800-pound, tablet-controlled, gantry-style machine on rails can print homes for 30 to 50 percent cheaper compared to traditional construction. The Vulcan II can print small homes in under 24 hours and larger homes up to 2,000 square feet in less than three days, while also achieving nearly net zero construction waste.

“Austin and other fast-growing cities around the world are experiencing an affordable housing crisis,” said ICON co-founder and CEO Jason Ballard.

“Technology has transformed the way we all do so many things just in the last five to 10 years, but homebuilding hasn’t changed much in more than a century. It’s our mission at ICON to radically change how we build homes in order to make affordable, dignified housing available to everyone throughout the world.”

Cielo Property Group, a commercial real estate developer and ICON investor, commissioned one of the first Vulcan II printers to roll off the assembly line exclusively to print affordable homes in Austin. “Cielo uses real estate as a force for good,” said Cielo Co-Founder Bobby Dillard. “Last year we made a big commitment to help provide

Cielo has long charted its own path in commercial real estate, building a diverse portfolio that ranges from award-winning restorations of historic buildings to the 29-story Third + Shoal office tower in downtown Austin where Facebook will move in this summer.

Cielo and ICON plan to begin printing affordable homes in Austin with the Vulcan II printer this year. As to where the homes will be built, Cielo is exploring a wide range of possibilities including existing affordable housing communities, city-owned land and private land that someone makes available.

ICON, which received $9 million in seed funding led by Oakhouse Partners last fall, has begun shipping the Vulcan II to customers and will break ground on projects both domestically and internationally this year.

San Francisco-based non-profit New Story partnered with ICON on its first 3-D printed home, a 350-square foot structure printed in less than 48 hours at a cost of approximately $10,000.

New Story plans to begin printing an affordable community for 400 people in Latin America using the Vulcan II this year.

Jason Ballard

Bobby Dillard

The latest printer is not limited to low-cost micro homes. In addition to printing 2.5 faster than the original printer, the new machines can also cover up

to four times as much floor area enabling it to be used to print larger, more mainstream houses as well.

The Vulcan II can print curves and slopes as easily as straight lines and the company’s highly resilient “Lavacrete” proprietary mixture can accommodate a variety of finishes.

“Vulcan II is the first printer of its kind in that it has the capability of printing homes on site in which people actually want to live,” Ballard said. “The construction industry needs a complete paradigm

shift. It’s our mession to use this technology to make affordable, dignified housing attainable for everyone.”

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The Restoration and Redevelopment

Fort Worth, TX has seen a recent surge of commercial and residential development – most notably within the Stockyards Historic District. The company behind it all is Stockyards Heritage Development Company, a joint venture from Fort Worth’s Hickman Investments and nationallyrecognized, Majestic Realty. The company first announced plans for a $175 million re-development back in the Fall of 2018. The project includes the restoration and renovation of the districts’ historic horse & mule barns to become a street of curated shops, restaurants, office spaces and more to be known as Mule Alley, slated to open in Fall 2019.

The second phase will include the building of a four-star, Marriott Autograph Collection boutique hotel,

We sat down with Craig Cavileer, Executive Vice President of Stockyards Heritage Development Company and Majestic Realty, to discuss what’s been happening with the project recently, what’s next and how he sees the real estate climate in the area.

How did you get involved in commercial real estate?

Growing up, my dad was an architect and my family was involved in small apartment ownership and the like. I was always working on weekends painting and taking care of the lawn and other tasks. I wanted to be engaged in creating things for people to enjoy and I chose real estate development as the path while in college. First as a broker and then as a developer.

What inspired the current project in the Stockyards?

while preserving its history. If we did it right, we would create some magic.

Hotel Drover. The hotel will anchor Mule Alley and include 200 rooms and suites, 15,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, an elegant event barn (pictured below) and a backyard social area on the banks of Marine Creek. Within the hotel will be 97 West Kitchen & Bar, a curated concept from local darling, Jenna Kinard.

Being from Austin I knew of Billy Bob’s Texas and the Stockyards and I am a big fan of country music. I forged a lifetime relationship with the managing partner of Billy Bobs in the late ‘90s through work we were doing at our casino project in Vegas. The legacy families in the ownership of not only Billy Bob’s Texas, but other land and buildings asked us to work with them on master planning and development in 2012, which ultimately led to a partnership with the Hickman family, the largest property owner in the Stockyards. The inspiration came from recognizing the deep history and attractiveness of the Stockyards to everyone in the as-is state. I began to imagine if we had the time and a good partner in the city we would be able to elevate the Stockyards experience

How did Stockyards Heritage Development Co. come together?

The partnership between the Hickman family and Majestic Realty was forged in 2014 when we were able to have our third partner, the City of Fort Worth, engage in a public private partnership with us to begin the process of adaptive reuse and development of the Stockyards. We created Stockyards Heritage Development Co. as our brand to operate under, as I felt it best described our mission as a steward of the Stockyards.

What all does the project entail?

Historic District including approx. 300,000 square feet of buildings. The first phase includes $175 million of investment with 180,000 square

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restaurants and entertainment brands in existence.

The Stockyards Heritage Development Co. is a partnership between California-based Majestic Realty Co. and Fort Worth-based The Hickman Cos. Their plans for the $175 million development include the Hotel Drover and new retail, restaurant and office space plans, including such marquee tenants such as Shake Shack, Second Rodeo Brewing, MB Mercantile & Supply, REF-TV’s headquarters and studios and the American Paint Horse Association headquarters. Also in the mix is a Fort Worth company that will add the new world luster of Silicon Valley to the old world feel of the area. (Simpli.fi., a programmatic advertising platform that provides localization and personalization services that had sales of $79.9 million in 2016 and a growth rate of 301 percent according to Inc. Magazine, has signed a lease for 77,000 square feet of office space in the Horse and Mule Barns on Mule Alley in the Fort Worth Stockyards.)

How have you been able to secure tenants for the project? Any notable challenges/obstacles you have faced?

Five years of obstacles including two re-zoning initiatives, historic overlay districts and a lot of interaction with the City and the local historic folks.

place such as the Stockyards requires an incredible amount of patience, open mindedness, courage, capital and a persistence. You have to wake up every day and dive in headfirst to pull one of these off.

What are some trends you are currently seeing in the DFW/Texas market? Any trends you predict happening in the future?

The tenanting has been carefully curated with our broker team, M2G Ventures, working to hand pick each brand or operator including How has it been balancing the historic aspects of the space and the new developments?

It has been challenging but rewarding. We are constantly balancing the history with the current and future in design and programming.

What has been the most exciting part of this project for you?

Breaking ground on the project in October 2018 was monumental but, more rewarding is seeing how the brand leaders of the tenant partners we select react to the story and what we are creating.

Have you learned any lessons so far worth sharing?

Working on adaptive reuse and new buildings in a treasured

Traditional shopping is not fun, it’s not engaging and it’s not on anyone’s list. Open spaces, outdoor experiences, engaging with local operators and creators of art, music, fashion, food and entertainment is where shopping intersects with basic human nature. Creating these places is a challenge

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An accountant, a lawyer and a cowboy were standing side-by-side using urinals. The accountant finished first, zipped up his pants and walked over to the sink. He started washing and literally scrubbing his hands...clear up to his elbows and then used about 20 paper towels before he finished. He turned to the other two men who were looking at him and said, “I graduated from the University of Michigan and they taught us to be clean.”

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The cowboy went right past the sink and, as he was walking out the door said, “I graduated from Texas A&M and they taught us not to piss on our hands.”

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Failing to Appoint State Officers, Gov. Abbott Is Making an Unconstitutional Power Grab

In June of 2016, the Texas Tribune reported that there were 336 State Officers who were serving in their offices and exercising their statutory powers even though their terms had expired, some up to 5 years, and they had not been reappointed by the Governor. The Governor’s office stated they were working on the backlog and it would soon be taken care of.

Pursuant to a PIA document request of the Governor’s office last week, it was established that there are now 418 State Officers who are serving in their offices and exercising their statutory powers even though their terms have expired, some up to 9 years, and they have not been reappointed by the Governor. Clearly, the number of State Officers, commonly called “Holdover Officers,” is growing every year in the Abbott administration and their “terms” are lasting longer and longer. This situation is clearly unconstitutional and these officers should be removed immediately.

The Texas Constitution creates a weak governor state. All of the major executive officers are directly elected by the people: the Attorney General, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House, and the Comptroller. State Officers are appointed by the governor, but they must be confirmed by 2/3s of the Senate, they serve a 2 or 6 year term, and they may currently, only be removed by 2/3s of the Senate.

Thus, they are called “independent officers” for the governor has no direct control over their actions.

However, “Holdover Officers” serve at the governor’s pleasure, are not confirmed by the Senate, have no set term, and may be removed by the governor at any time. Therefore, the governor may directly control their actions and the agencies that they have power to direct. That makes the governor very powerful and in essence, allows him/her to create a fiefdom of Officers that do what he/she says and they act pursuant to his/her wishes.

It appears that Governor Abbott believes he has the legal authority to allow these officers to remain in office and to exercise their powers due to Article XVI, Section 17(a) of the Constitution that allows an existing, appointed officer to serve beyond his/her term until one’s successor is qualified. We do not know his exact interpretation for despite repeated requests, he has remained silent. If this is his interpretation, it is grossly wrong and could not withstand judicial review. This interpretation simply guts the meaning of the Constitution.

After several appeals to the Attorney General, the Lieutenant Governor, and the Senate Nominating Committee, nothing has been

done. They appear to not have the wherewithal to stand up to Governor Abbott and declare his acts unconstitutional and demand that he remove these Officers immediately.

Governor Abbott has recently sworn to uphold the Texas Constitution and to do what is best for the citizens of the State of Texas. It is now time for Governor Abbott to stand up and do what is right, to stop acting in an unconstitutional manner and to remove these Officers and the illegal authority he has over them. His concern for his own power and his ability to control the Executive Branch Officers in the way he desires, should not be at a cost of violating the Texas Constitution.

Send comments to Ron.Beal@baylor. edu .

Professor Ron Beal of Baylor Law School is an expert in administrative law. He has written the definitive treatise, Texas Administrative Practice and Procedure, which is in its 22nd year of publication and routinely cited by the Texas Supreme Court. In his 36 years of practice, he deals with officers of state agencies appointed by the governor who obtain “holdover status” as discussed herein.

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This originally appeared in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author.

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The ‘Fixer Uppers’, Chip and Joanna Gaines, are lauded and applauded as the two that put Waco on the map. Currently, they are fixing up the Cottonland Castle which was built from 1890 to 1930. It’s been vacant for 20 years, so it leaves Chip and Jo a big challenge. They will make it like new and gain new fame.

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Rose-Mary Rumbley has written three books about her native city – Dallas. She has also written “WHAT! NO CHILI!” and a book about the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano. She has appeared on the stage at the Dallas Summer Musicals and at Casa Mañana and was head of the drama department at Dallas Baptist University for 12 years. Today she is on the speaking circuit and teaches drama classes at Providence Christian School. Her loving views of Texas history appear in every issue of the network

first made and how it got its name. Wade Morrison owned the Old Corner Drug Store in Waco. A pharmacist there, Charles Alterton, created this great drink.

Morrison came to Waco from Virginia, where he was in love with Dr. Charles T. Pepper’s daughter. The doctor didn’t approve of Wade, so the young man left Virginia and came to Waco. When the drink was first served in 1885, Wade named it ‘Dr. Pepper’, after the one who had thrown him out of Virginia. This veracity of this legend can’t be proved, but it is a good story. As I have always said, “Never let the truth interfere with a good story!”

True, visitors flock to the city to visit their Magnolia scene, but actually, city since its beginning in 1841, Waco has always been unique. That was when George Erath laid out lots on the ancient Waco Indian agricultural village on the shores of the Brazos River that had flourished for many, many years. Waco was a trading post and a Ranger Station before it became a city.

The city of Waco derives its name from the agrarian Indian tribe that originally resided in the area. The Hueco, or Waco Indians were a band of the Wichita tribe that arrived in Central Texas in the 1700s. (As of 2017, it had estimated population of 136, 436 making it the 193rd largest city in the U.S.)

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C. Burleson was the first president of Baylor when it moved to Waco from Independence. He was well known as the pastor who led Sam Houston to the Lord. Sam was baptized by Burleson, who said, as he dipped Sam into the river waters, “Sam, your sins are washed away!” Sam replied, “God help the fish!”

Many people visit the Dr. Pepper museum which was established in Waco in 1904 to celebrate the super drink that was first made in this Central Texas city. There are several stories about how the drink was

In the fine Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum established in Waco in 1968, there are some rare relics on display, one being the Walker Colt gun. Samuel Walker was the greatest Texas Ranger ever to serve. That is why that TV series was named WALKER TEXAS RANGER! He and Samuel Colt created a gun for the Rangers -the Walker Colt – today, a very, very rare gun.

Unfortunately, the gun didn’t do well for Walker. He was shot and killed in the Mexican War. His last words were, “Boys, bury me by the river in San Antone!” There he lies, but his gun is in the museum for all to see.

Another unusual scene in Waco is the Madison Cooper Mansion, which is open to the public. It was here that Madison Cooper, after inheriting the mansion from his parents in 1939, started writing the “Great American Novel.” Madison graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in English, served in World

War I, came home to work in the family business, and then (after the death of his parents) began his novel. He wrote for many years and in 1952 he finished his 900,000-word masterpiece.

The novel is the longest novel ever written, longer than the Old and New Testaments combined. Houghton-Mifflin published SIRONIA, TEXAS in 1952 a two volume, boxed set priced at $10 - very expensive at the time. Reviews of the book were mixed. “Something of a masterpiece,” said the NY Times.

All of these sites are great, but I think the jewel of the city is the Armstrong Browning Library on the Baylor Campus. The story of the Brownings is true romance. Elizabeth was a recluse who spent most of her time in her bedroom with her dog writing poetry (e.g., How Do I Love Thee). Many people said she was with her spaniel dog so much that she had a “spaniel look.” Handsome Robert Browning fell in love with her poetry and wanted to meet her. His friends thought he was out of his mind. He was a 30-yearold handsome man. She was a 40-yearold woman who looked like a spaniel. Nevertheless, he managed to meet her and persuade her to elope to Italy where they had a son and a glorious life.

Dr. A. J. Armstrong, English Professor at Baylor, was vacationing in Italy in 1925, the year that Robert and Elizabeth Browning’s son died, and all of their possessions were for sale. Dr. Armstrong was able to persuade some “tightfisted Baptists” to purchase all of the estate which was shipped to Waco. Armstrong later built the library to house the priceless furniture, relics, and manuscripts. By the way, Dr. Armstrong had the finest Italian marble shipped to Waco for the building. The art glass windows are magnificent.

And all of this is in Waco, Texas!

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Originally, the Vice President was the person who got the second most electoral votes in the presidential election. (Thomas Jefferson - of the Democratic-Republican Partyran for president against John Adams - of the Federalist Party. Jefferson got the second highest number of votes and, as was the law at the time, became Adams’ vicepresident.) This system worked only a few more years - until Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in election of 1800. (Each got 73 electoral votes, and the election was decided by the House of Representatives.)

After that the 12th Amendment (1804) to the U.S. Constitution said that the President and Vice President are to be elected separately, and if they tie the winners are to be chosen by the Congress. (In order to win in the Electoral College, a candidate needs 270 votes. If there is no winner in the Electoral College, the House of Representatives elects the President and the Senate elects the Vice President.)

Soon after that, political parties began running the President and Vice President on one platform. As such, the Vice Presidential candidates are usually chosen by the leadership of a political party, with a strong influence by that party’s presidential candidate. The Vice President and President are usually from the same political party.

Duties

The Vice President only has one official duty - to preside over the Senate and to cast a vote if there is a tie. However, recently the duties have been seen to include being a member of the President’s Cabinet, or a top advisor to the President. The Vice President is a member of the National

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Security Council and serves on the board of the Smithsonian. Also, the 25th Amendment says that the Vice President can act as President if the President is incapacitated (cannot do the job of President). For example, Vice President George H.W. Bush acted as President when Ronald Reagan was having an operation.

If the vice president dies or becomes president

Prior to 1967, if the President died, it was unclear whether the Vice President was President or merely Acting President (though John Tyler and others who took over the office said they were not merely Acting President). Also, if the Vice President died, nobody was Vice President until a new one was elected. This was changed after the assassination of John F. Kennedy with the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. If the President died, the Vice President was clearly the President.

Also, if the Vice President dies, resigns, or becomes President, the President can appoint a Vice President if he is confirmed by a majority vote of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This has happened twice: first, when Gerald Ford became Vice President after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, and second, when Nelson Rockefeller became Vice President after Gerald Ford became President when Richard Nixon resigned. receive 73 electoral votes. The election would be decided by the House of Representatives. receive 73 electoral votes. The election would be decided by the House of Representatives.

Vice Presidents who became President

The following Vice Presidents either became President after the death or resignation of the President, or were elected in their own right:

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Martin Van Buren

• John Tyler

• Millard Fillmore

• Andrew Johnson

• Chester Arthur

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

• Harry S. Truman

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• George H. W. Bush

The 12th Amendment

The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice- President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; -- the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; -- The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. [And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.

[* The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the VicePresident, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Ronald Reagan and George Bush

Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon

Nelson Rockefeller and Gerald Ford

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Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed Then one day he was shooting for some food, And up through the ground come a bubbling crude (Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea).

T hose are the opening lyrics to the Ballad of Jed Clampett, the theme song to the popular 1960’s television series, The Beverly Hillbillies. This was a popular sitcom about a poor family from the Ozarks who discover oil on their land and sell out for $25 million. Then they pack up, hillbilly charm in tow, and move to posh Beverly Hills. Despite the show’s outlandish double entendres and oft improper cultural misconceptions, it’s impossible to watch an episode and not daydream about what wonderful things would befall us if we could just “strike it rich” by discovering oil, gas or some other precious minerals on or under our property. If that day should every come, you must know your legal rights.

Terminology

Minerals are surface or subsurface materials that are neither plants nor animals. The most commonly known minerals (to us nongeologists) are copper, silver, gold, platinum and iron ore. Oil and natural gas are not technically “minerals”, but they are considered a “mineral resource” because they are economically valuable materials extracted from the earth. Hence, for the purposes of this article, references to “minerals” and “minerals rights” includes minerals, as well as oil, gas, uranium coal, and the like. The term “mineral rights” means a bundle of laws that govern the ownership and use of minerals.

The Basics

Generally speaking, the United States is one of the few countries in the world where private citizens can acquire mineral rights. In most other countries, the sovereign government retains all mineral rights, and, in turn, many other countries have state-run exploration and extraction companies that monetize minerals for the government’s benefit.

From a highlevel perspective, mineral-rights’ owners typically possess the right to explore, develop, extract and market various minerals on or under the surface of particular land. Mineral rights are a form of property rights. Similar to “regular” property rights, mineral rights can be bought, sold, leased, and mortgaged.

Surface Rights vs. Mineral Rights

Normally when buying a house, commercial property, or vacant land, the buyer focuses its due-diligence efforts on the surface (ground) and any improvements. But sometimes when you acquire real estate, you also acquire the mineral rights associated with that property. Texas recognizes two different types of property ownerships: a “surface estate” and a “mineral estate”. The surface estate is the right to own and use the surface and everything above the surface. The mineral estate is the right to use and enjoy the minerals. Initially, these two estates are owned by the same person and they may continue to be owned by the same person forever. However, in Texas it is common for the mineral estate and surface estate to be “severed” (bifurcated), so that they are each owned by different parties. The severance of the mineral estate and surface estate occurs when an owner sells the surface to Party A and sells the mineral rights to Party B (or the owner may sell the surface to Party A but retain the mineral estate for themselves). When you sell property to a third party, if you do not expressly state that you are keeping the mineral rights, the purchaser will automatically acquire whatever mineral rights you have. This is an important distinction, because if you have mineral rights, you have to expressly exclude the mineral rights from the sale of the property. If you fail to do so, then you will lose your mineral rights. Of course, if you never had any mineral rights, then you don’t have anything to sell.

Which Rights Are More Powerful?

In some states, if the mineral estate and the surface estate are severed, the surface-estate owner has superior rights. But not in Texas. In the Lone Star State, the mineral-estate owner’s rights are superior to the surface-estate’s owner’s rights. Even if the mineral estate and surface estate have not been severed, in Texas the mineral estate is dominant to the surface estate. “superiority” means that the owner of the mineral estate has the reasonable right to use the surface estate to explore for minerals, drill for minerals, extract and sell minerals. Keep in mind, however, that most Texas’ municipalities have enacted laws to regulate the exploration and development of minerals. So, just because you own the mineral rights, you might not have the legal right to drill for oil in your backyard if

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your city or county prohibits or restricts such activities. But you can still sell or lease your mineral rights, as discussed below.

What Do Mineral Rights Allow Me To Do?

Ownership of the mineral estate gives the owner an implied right to use the surface as is “reasonably necessary” to explore, develop, drill, produce, market, transport, and store the minerals. There is no specific definition of “reasonably necessary”, but over the years, Texas courts have fairly consistently ruled that the mineral-estate owner has the right to enter the surface with their equipment and vehicles, explore for minerals, take subsurface tests, dig pits for waste water, construct storage and production facilities, remove and store soil and dirt on the surface, use the groundwater for drilling and fracking, and dispose of saltwater via subsurface injection or disposal wells. Therefore, as a surface owner, if you do not have the mineral rights, then you may find the mineral owner knocking on your door to tell you that they are going to start drilling on your property. However, as stated above, this is only an “implied right”, which means that these rights may be limited or prohibited pursuant to a contract or deed, or pursuant to some law enacted by applicable governmental authority.

Texas courts have traditionally been very kind to mineralrights owners. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone considering Texas’ long tradition of oil and gas production –and considering all the powerful, multinational corporations that have well-funded lobbying campaigns in Austin and are often found cozying up to members of our judiciary (but I digress). However, Texas law essentially imposes four limitations on mineral-rights owners. First, the uses must be “reasonable,” meaning the mineral owner must not cause any unnecessary damage or make an unreasonable use of surface substances. For example, if an oil and gas company only needs 1 million gallons of groundwater, they cannot withdraw 2 million gallons and use the excess water for other projects. Second, the mineral owner cannot be negligent.

Over the years, Texas’ courts have not enforced this rule very tightly, however, the courts tend to be strict when it comes to oil and gas companies’ negligent acts that cause pollution or kills wildlife. Third, Texas recognizes the “accommodation doctrine”, an old legal rule that protects the surface-estate owner’s use of the surface if the surface owner can prove that: (1) the mineral owner’s operations substantially impair the existing surface; (2) there is no reasonable alternative method available to the surface owner that would permit the surface use to continue; and (3) the mineral owner has other, reasonable, alternative ways of producing that would allow the surface use to continue. Fourth, Texas has a “Common Courtesy” statute, which require the mineral owner to inform surface owners in writing of their intent to enter the property to drill a new well or to re-enter a plugged or abandoned well at least 15 days prior to entering the property.

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

How does a surface owner protect him or herself from the mineral-right’s owners “dominant” legal position? The best – and frankly only – way to protect herself is to read and understand what rights she is getting when acquiring property. If, upon acquisition of any property, you discover that the surface estate has been severed from the mineral estate, you need to find out who currently owns the mineral estate, and whether or not there is a lease or operating agreement that allows any third parties to use your surface or take your minerals. These documents are legal in nature and it is advisable to engage an experienced attorney to explain what rights, duties and obligations you have.

Alternatively, if you own the mineral rights and want to lease them to a third party, you need to understand your rights. Many mineral leases are extremely one-sided in favor of the operator or production company. These mineral leases are often heavily negotiated, and you need to engage a legal professional who understands this area of law. The author also advises you to engage a mineral-expert that understands the current market trends and valuation to ensure that you are being paid at least fair-market value for the mineral rights you are leasing or selling.

Let’s Dive Right into the Pool

Texas recognizes the “rule of capture” - a legal theory dates back to old English law. Generally, the “rule of capture” means that the first person to “capture” a mineral owns it. For example, if a landowner drills a well under her property and sucks out natural gas or oil from underneath the surface of her neighbor’s land, then she acquires (captures) absolute ownership of the substance. The landowner that captures the substance owes nothing to other landowner(s). A corollary of this rule is that a person who drills or digs for minerals may not extract the substance from a well that bottoms within the subsurface estate of another by drilling “on a slant”.

Some mineral experts and legislatures believe that the rule of capture promotes wasting natural resources and over-drilling. So, over the years, Texas regulatory agencies constructed a way to curb the inefficiencies and waste through spacing and density requirements by enacting laws stating that you cannot drill a well unless the area attributable to that well is a specified minimum size, and the surface location of the well is a specified minimum distance from the boundary of a neighboring tract and from other existing wells. This sets the stage for the concepts of pooling and utilization to take hold.

The term “pooling” refers to the concept of lumping together multiple tracts of land to form a single area around an oil or gas well for exploration and/or production. The area is called a pool or a unit. Pooling has the benefit to the production company of uniting all landowners’ leases into a common pool under one drilling production company and utilizing one common underground geological reservoir. The term “unitization” is the joint operation of part or all of a producing oil or gas reservoir without regard to surface boundary lines. Usually, pooling occurs during the primary stage of production or recovery, while unitization occurs during secondary recovery to produce oil and gas that is more difficult to recover. There are several types of pooled units. There are voluntary pooled units, forced pooled units, drilling units, proration units, field wide/enhanced recovery units, and specially defined units in lease agreements. Of all these named units, the reality is there are only two real types of pooling that the landowner will experience: voluntary and involuntary pooling.

Voluntary pooling is when a mineral owner signs a lease for an operator to take minerals from their mineral estate. A prudent mineral owner will set the acreage to be pooled to only the minimum acreage necessary for the drilling permit, or the maximum required by law. If there is no set limitation to the number of acres to be included in the pool, then the production company could extend the coverage area to without any limitation, thus watering down the mineral owner’s profit. Involuntary pooling occurs when the mineral owner is required by law to pool their minerals with other owners’ minerals. Most states have this such laws to compel mineral owners to enter into a pooling arrangement. Both types of pooling can change your rights and your compensation.

Don’t Be a Hillbilly

When it comes to mineral rights, don’t be a hillbilly. Especially here in mineral-rich Texas, you must be cognizant your mineral rights – regardless of whether you discover “black gold” on your property like the Clampetts, or whether you are buying or selling real estate. If you don’t have any mineral rights, you must discover who has them and what rights they have, because those rights are probably superior to yours. Understanding your mineral rights can be the difference between keeping the bubbling crude, or letting someone else capture your precious Texas tea.

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Michael Godard martini art features olives, grapes and other frisky characters busily expressing Godard’s slightly off-kilter point of view. With plenty of talent to challenge the ‘serious’ artists, Michael Godard took his own path instead, and chose to “learn all the rules, and then break them”.

Born in Southern California, Godard was a precocious kid with a multitude of talents and a dark home life filled with hidden abuse. He excelled in math, music and art—quite an achievement, considering that his family moved around so much that he attended a total of sixteen different schools. Humor was always his defense and his weapon. As a young man he attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and studied fine art at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

The decision to become a full-time painter came later in his life, after stints as a mechanical engineer, commercial illustrator, caricature artist and successful entrepreneur. Nothing came easy—-he fought his way into an art career, inventing his own one-of-a-kind style.

Olives entered the picture when Godard was struggling through his daughter Paige’s illness, spending long hours in the hospital when she was in a coma. Desperate for some cheerful element to keep him afloat emotionally, he started a new series of paintings-bringing olives to life in humorous scenarios, rendering them in bright colors against a dramatic black background.

“Three Amigos”, “Olive Party” and “Seven Deadly Zins” were all breakthrough pieces for the young artist, launching him to national recognition. His wild marketing stunts brought more notoriety. “I don’t mind criticism from the art world or the public,” says the artist. “Without it, I’d know I’m playing it way too safe.”

Great art is among the most sublime, meaningful, and redeeming creations of all civilization. Few endeavors can equal the power of great artwork to capture aesthetic beauty, to move and inspire, to change perceptions, and to communicate the nature of human experience. Great art is also complex, mysterious, and challenging. Filled with symbolism, cultural and historical references, and often visionary imagery, great artworks oblige us to reckon with their many meanings.

Architects and designers (many of our readers) have a lot of influence on the way we perceive the world. A structure often plays a significant part in how we experience a place. (Think of a restaurant, a museum, an arena, a stadium…even an office building – virtually anywhere!) The interior design impacts our sensory perception, our comfort, and our physical connection and there is also artistry in the exterior design. (That’s why we call it artchitecture.)

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Now the country’s biggest selling artist, the “Rock Star of the Art World” creates his famous martini-themed artwork for a huge collector base of celebrities, musicians and regular folks who love his irreverent subjects and vibrant style. There’s a long waiting list for Godard original paintings and his sold-out giclees bring big bucks on the resale market.

You might spot Godard on television on HBO’s “Cat House”, A&E’s “Mind Freak”, “American Casino” and “Inked”, among other places. A documentary on his life won awards when it was shown on the independent film festival circuit and his recent book “Don’t Drink and Draw” won the Art Book of the Year award.

He looks like a tattooed outlaw and runs with the bad boys, but Godard has a soft streak a mile wide. He’s a great dad, contributes to many charitable causes, (including the Paige Godard Foundation, established to help fund research to cure the illness that ultimately took his daughter’s life in 2006) and has learned in the school of experience to value the things that really matter in life. “Put good in, get good out,” is one of the artist’s favorite sayings.

See more of/purchase Michael Godard’s art at www. michaelgoard.com

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Fort Worth ranks #11 for positive net growth (+20.00%) in the US, according to HireAHelper.com’s recent 2019 Hybrid moving migration study. HireAHelper is an online marketplace for hiring hourly mover labor anywhere in the United States. They have over 1,000 service providers in all 50 states and conducts more than 65,000 moving jobs each year. They analyzed all the moves booked through their database over the past year along with US Census data to gain a better understanding of: where people are moving to and from, why people are moving, and the numbers behind a typical move in the United States. You may view the full report here: https://www. hireahelper.com/moving-statistics/migrationreport/

Singapore and Hong Kong in the top ten. The Japanese city has moved up six places since last year, and now shares fifth place with Geneva in Switzerland. In Europe, the usual suspects—Geneva and Zurich, both in Switzerland, as well as Copenhagen in Denmark—join Paris as the world’s most expensive cities to visit and live in out of the 133 cities surveyed.

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A recent survey of commercial real estate investors ranked Austin as a top target among Americas metros for property investment in CBRE’s 2019 Americas Investor Intentions Survey. Dallas ranked #2 and Houston #8. The survey, which covers all asset types, found that, in 2019, more investors are prioritizing secondary markets that can offer greater potential for both equity and income growth. Investor interest in secondary assets increased for the fifth consecutive year (33%) to gain significant ground on value-add (37%) as the most preferred strategy.

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The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) is the research and analysis division of The Economist Group, the sister company to The Economist newspaper. Created in 1946, they have over 70 years’ experience in helping businesses, financial firms and governments to understand how the world is changing and how that creates opportunities to be seized and risks to be managed. Given that many of the issues facing the world have an international (if not global) dimension, The EIU is ideally positioned to be commentator, interpreter and forecaster on the phenomenon of globalization as it gathers pace and impact. For the first time in the survey’s history, three cities share the title of the world’s most expensive city: Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. The top ten is largely split between Asia and Europe, with Singapore representing the only city in the top ten that has maintained its ranking from the previous year. In the rest of Asia, Osaka in Japan and Seoul in South Korea join

Along with the U.S. economy as a whole, most metro economies expanded at a healthy clip from 2016 to 2017. Among the 100 largest metro areas, 95 posted gains in output, 94 grew jobs, and 83 increased jobs at young firms. The fastest-growing metro economies included established tech hubs such as Austin, Texas, San Jose, Calif., and Seattle, as well as emerging hubs like Boise, Idaho, and Provo, Utah. The slowestgrowing places included not only familiar metro areas in the Great Lakes region, such as Akron and Toledo in Ohio and Buffalo, N.Y., but also energy industry hubs whose economies suffered from lowered oil prices in 2017, such as Houston, New Orleans, and Tulsa, Okla. In Metro Monitor 2019, the Brookings Institute provides a new interactive report which explores how America’s largest 100 metro areas are faring in growth, prosperity, and inclusion, and analyzes how these trends are narrowing or widening racial disparities. https://www.brookings. edu/research/metro-monitor-2019-inclusionremains-elusive-amid-widespread-metrogrowth-and-rising-prosperity/?utm_ campaign=Metropolitan%20Policy%20 Program&utm_source=hs_email&utm_

shortage of more than 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes, extremely lowincome households account for nearly 73% of the nation’s severely cost-burdened renters, who spend more than half of their income on housing. Founded in 1974 by Cushing N. Dolbeare, the NLIHC (based in Washington D.C.) educates, organizes and advocates to ensure decent, affordable housing for everyone. Its goals are to preserve existing federally assisted homes and housing resources, expand the supply of low-income housing, and establish housing stability as the primary purpose of federal low income housing policy. Its research team studies trends and analyzes data to create a picture of the need for low income housing across the country; its policy team educates lawmakers about housing need and analyzes and shapes public policy; its field team mobilizes members and supporters across the country to advocate for good housing policy; its communications team shapes public opinion of low income housing issues; and its administration team works to ensure NLIHC remains a sustainable, high-capacity organization. A detailed report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition can be found at: https:// nlihc.org/housing-needs-by-state/texasalo.

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WalletHub released an in-depth report 2018’s Most Pet-Friendly Cities. Kudos to that came in 4th, behind Scottsdale, AZ, Orlando, FL and San Diego, CA. See the whole report at https://wallethub.com/edu/most-petfriendly-cities/5562/

WalletHub released an in-depth report on 2018’s Most Pet-Friendly Cities. Kudos to Austin that came in 4th, behind Scottsdale, AZ, Orlando, FL and San Diego, CA. See the whole report at https://wallethub.com/edu/most-petfriendly-cities/5562/

1 March 20th was the International Day of Happiness. To find out whether money really does buy happiness, the personalfinance website WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities across 31 key indicators of happiness. The data set ranged from depression rate to income-growth rate to average leisure time spent per day. The highest honors went to Plano! (2019’s Happiest Cities in America as well as accompanying videos)

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To determine the most attractive real-estate markets in the U.S., WalletHub compared 300 cities across 22 key metrics. The data set ranges from median home-price appreciation to home sales turnover rate to job growth. Texas cities claimed 5 of the top 10 spots including the top 3! Frisco was # 1; McKinney was #2, Allen was #3; Richardson was # 7; and Denton was #10. Read more at: https://wallethub.com/ edu/best-real-estate-markets/14889/

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To determine the most attractive real-estate markets in the U.S., WalletHub compared 300 cities across 22 key metrics. The data set ranges from median home-price appreciation to home sales turnover rate to job growth. Texas cities claimed 5 of the top 10 spots including the top 3! Frisco was # 1; McKinney was #2, Allen was #3; Richardson was # 7; and Denton was #10. Read more at: https://wallethub.com/ edu/best-real-estate-markets/14889/

2 The McKenzie, a luxury high-rise apartment community developed by StreetLights Residential was recently recognized as the first certified Fitwel® multifamily development in Texas according to the Center for Active Design. It was recognized for its focus on sustainability with an emphasis on health and wellness. StreetLights is known for its boutique hotel-inspired communities that deliver a long-lasting positive impact on the neighborhood, and this certification demonstrates StreetLights’ commitment to prioritizing wellness within the design, development and operation of one of its newest projects. (Learn more about Fitwel® in the next issue of the network.)

(the local unemployment rate, historical job growth, projected job growth and the level of employment opportunities available, and other factors, the cost of living (based on tax burden, insurance costs, commuting costs, medical spending, utility and home expenses) its diversity (racial makeup, racial integration, and economic diversity within the population, education (based on math and reading test scores and local and county level high school graduation rates) and income (based on historical median household income, projected household income, a comparison between local and state median household income and change between current and historical household income, Money Magazine chose as #1 In its annual review The Ten Best Places to Live in America Right Now. Wow! Congratulations! Read more: http://time. com/money/5387468/best-places-to-live-2018-methodology/

3 Texas Cultural Trust’s Texas Medal of Arts Award is Texas’ most respected arts recognition. The 10th biennial awards (on February 26-27) honored 11 Texas luminaries and organizations for their contributions to the arts. The awards were attended by more than 1,000 people and raised nearly $1.8 million in support of increased access to the arts and arts education in Texas.

Based upon its economy (the local unemployment rate, historical job growth, projected job growth and the level of employment opportunities available, and other factors, the cost of living (based on tax burden, insurance costs, commuting costs, medical spending, utility and home expenses) its diversity (racial makeup, racial integration, and economic diversity within the population, education (based on math and reading test scores and local and county level high school graduation rates) and income (based on historical median household income, projected household income, a comparison between local and state median household income and change between current and historical household income, Money Magazine chose the City of Frisco as #1 In its annual review The Ten Best Places to Live in America Right Now. Wow! Congratulations! Read more: com/money/5387468/best-places-to-live-2018-methodology/

To determine where the most rapid local economic growth occurred over a period of seven years, WalletHub compared 515 U.S. cities across 15 key metrics. The data set ranges from population growth to college-educated population growth to unemployment rate decrease. In addition, they produced a separate ranking by city size.

To determine where the most rapid local economic growth occurred over a period of seven years, WalletHub compared 515 U.S. cities across 15 key metrics. The data set ranges from population growth to college-educated population growth to unemployment rate decrease. In addition, they produced a separate ranking by city size.

The 2019 Texas Medal of Arts honorees: Conspirare, Music Ensemble, Austin

Craig Dykers and Elaine Molinar, Architecture, San Antonio and El Paso

Trenton Doyle Hancock, Visual Arts, Houston

Stephen Harrigan, Literary Arts, Austin

Jennifer Holliday, Theatre, Houston

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Hats off to Lancaster, PA which has earned gold certi cation under the new LEED for Cities program, (https://new.usgbc.org/leed-forcities) recognizing leadership in sustainability. It is among the rst communities in the United States and the world to earn the rating, which also recognized Washington, D.C.; Phoenix; Arlington County, Va.; Songdo, South Korea; Savona, Italy; and Surat, India. LEED is administered by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and is the most widely used green building rating system in the world. The certification system grew to include cities in 2017.

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Hats off to Lancaster, PA which has earned gold certification under the new LEED for Cities program, (https://new.usgbc.org/leed-forcities) recognizing leadership in sustainability. It is among the first communities in the United States and the world to earn the rating, which also recognized Washington, D.C.; Phoenix; Arlington County, Va.; Songdo, South Korea; Savona, Italy; and Surat, India. LEED is administered by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and is the most widely used green building rating system in the world. The certi cation system grew to include cities in 2017.

4 Congratulatins to Damian Rivera who was recently honored by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) for ranking #1 in its “Top 50 Office Transactions” and “Top 10 Office Lease Transactions” for 2018. The 1,252,908 sf NTT Data office and data center campuses in Plano, TX and Quincy, WA closed at $110,000,000. Rivera and Steve Jarvie, both of esrp, represented the tenant.

5 Kudos to Ashton Woods, one of the nation’s largest private homebuilders, for taking home six awards at the 40th annual McSam Awards ceremony, held on April 13, 2019 at the Sheraton hotel in Dallas. The McSam Awards honor builders, developers and associates who have made a significant and creative contribution in residential marketing.

recently won a 2018 Preservation Dallas Achievement Award, which honors Dallas’ outstanding residential and commercial historic preservation projects and the individuals who are committed to making Dallas a better place to live by protecting its architectural heritage. The 102,000-square foot, fourstory building was built in 1907 and sat empty for nearly two decades before being purchased by Matthews Southwest and redeveloped into 78,000-square feet of historically converted office space, along with 10,000-square feet of restaurant, retail and outdoor patio space. Kudos to Aimee Sanborn, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal and Team Leader at Merriman Anderson/Architects (the design architect, historic architect and architect of record for the building shell and interior restoration, including the LEED Gold certification process).

Pictured here are the Ashton Woods Dallas team members: Front (L-R): Bret Bailey (Division Manager for Starlight Homes in Dallas); Kristy Van Hoose (Community Sales Manager); Lauren Groh (Sales & Marketing Coordinator); Tom Houser (Division President); Nikki James (Dallas Studio Manager).

Kara Dederick,(Vice President of Sales). Back Row: Ray Maher (General Sales Manager); Brandon Mulenburg (Community Sales Manager for Starlight Homes);

Michael Bulin (General Sales Manager for Starlight Homes in Dallas); Nathaniel Lord (New Home Advisor); Ross Stalcup (General Sales Manager).

5 Dallas High School recently won a 2018 Preservation Dallas Achievement Award, which honors Dallas’ outstanding residential and commercial historic preservation projects and the individuals who are committed to making Dallas a better place to live by protecting its architectural heritage. The 102,000-square foot, fourstory building was built in 1907 and sat empty for nearly two decades before being purchased by Matthews Southwest and redeveloped into 78,000-square feet of historically converted office space, along with 10,000-square feet of restaurant, retail and outdoor patio space. Kudos to Aimee Sanborn, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal and Team Leader at Merriman Anderson/Architects (the design architect, historic architect and architect of record for the building shell and interior restoration, including the LEED Gold certification process).

6 A respectful bow to Cambria Dallas Downtown’s historic Tower Petroleum Building which received the 2019 Honor Award at Preservation Texas’ 2019 Honor Awards Ceremony and Reception held in Austin on February 27th. The 87-year-old Art Deco Tower Petroleum Building once belonged to the group of buildings of Theater Row, the vibrant entertainment district on Elm Street in downtown Dallas and housed the Tower Theater on the ground floor. After two decades of vacancy, the 23-story Dallas landmark was restored and converted into the 177room Cambria Dallas Hotel.

2018’s Fastest https://wallethub. com/edu/fastest-growing-cities/7010/ ). Also view accompanying videos.

About 45% of all U.S. adults are single, so it seems only fitting that the personal-finance website WalletHub released a report on 2019’s Best & Worst States for Singles as well as accompanying videos. To help unattached Americans improve their chances of finding love, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 28 key indicators of dating-friendliness. The data set ranges from share of single adults to movie costs to nightlife options per capita. Dating in Texas (1=Best; 25=Avg.): 30th – % of Single Adults; 13th – Mobile-Dating Opportunities; 14th – Median Annual Household Income (Adjusted for Cost of Living); 1st – Restaurants

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For more information, go to 2018’s Fastest Growing Cities in America (https://wallethub. com/edu/fastest-growing-cities/7010/ ). Also view accompanying videos.

Elaine Molinar (El Paso) and Craig Dykers (San Antonio) of Snøhetta (See page 36 for more on Snøhetta.)

1 David Munn, PE, has joined Freese and Nichols as Group Manager for the firm’s Southeast Texas Treatment Group in Houston

2 Cambria Dallas Downtown has appointed Zach Lybbert as Director of Sales and Marketing

3 Janette Bridgewater joined Freese and Nichols as Human Resources Director

4 Reagan Smith joined CBRE as a Senior Vice President in its Capital Markets team in Austin

5 Ron Gilbreath joined Westmount Realty Capital in Dallas as Man aging Director of Asset and Property Management

6 Jim Batjer joined CBRE Capital Markets as an Executive Vice President in Dallas

7 Alex Lopez was promoted to Senior Chief Engineer at Cushman & Wakefield

8 Ashley Watson was promoted to Senior Assistant Property Manager at Cushman & Wakefield

9 Jessica Beltran was promoted to Senior Assistant Property Manag er at Cushman & Wakefield

10 Jennifer Jordan was promoted to Assistant Property Manager at Cushman & Wakefield

11 Karla Mach joined Whitebox Real Estate as the Director of Client Relations 12 David Harris was promoted to Associate Vice President at Whitebox Real Estate

13 Jessica Gullette joined Camelot Facility & Property Management as a Property Assistant 14 Jim Batjer joined CBRE in Dallas as Executive Vice President 15 Zach Lybbert joined Cambria Dallas Hotel in Dallas as Director of Sales and Marketing

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A man has four daughters who all live at home. One Friday night the doorbell rings. The guy answers it and a kid standing there says, “Hi, I’m Freddy. I’m here to pick up Betty. We’re gonna go eat spaghetti. Is she ready?”

The man, mildly amused calls down his daughter and the two leave.

A few minutes later the doorbell rings again and he answers. A kid standing there says, “Hi, I’m Jim. I’m here to see Kim. We’re gonna go for a swim. Can I come in?” The guy, now perplexed, says yes and the two take off.

A few minutes later the doorbell rings and again the father answers. A kid standing there says, “Hi, I’m Joe. I’m here to pick up Flo. We’re gonna go to the show. Can she go?” The man, now kind of annoyed says yes and the two depart.

Sure enough, a few minutes later the door rings and the father answers. A kid standing there says “Hi, I’m Chuck.” The father shot him.

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Arlington, Texas is more than the home to the Dallas Cowboys and Rangers or Six Flags Over Texas. “Natural Fun” is the catchphrase of the Arlington Parks and Recreation Agency and the city offers plenty of opportunities to engage with their outdoor spaces in entertaining ways. The River Legacy Parks provide hiking trails and bike paths, and the West Fork Trinity River offers leisure and recreation, all of which are sure to provide natural fun for everyone.

Heroes Park pays tribute to the city’s police and fire departments.

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it’s kissing the convey-or belt.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the major League All-Star Game.

Founded in 1972 with the goal of protecting land in and around cities and pioneering new land conservation techniques, its work has expanded to include projects from the inner city to the wilderness. In cities, they’re turning vacant lots into community-designed parks and playgrounds. And we’re addressing the looming climate crisis with strategies to help reduce greenhouse gasses, promote climate adaptation, and create park-rich, climate-smart cities.

The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore® index is the most comprehensive tool available for evaluating park access and quality in the 100 largest U.S. cities. Over the next several issues of the network, with permission from and thanks to The Trust for Public Land, we will publish the results of that study for 13 Texas cities: Arlington, Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Garland, Houston, Irving, Laredo, Lubbock, Plano and San Antonio. (If you can’t wait to see all of the results – or want to see where your or another city rates, go to https://www.tpl.org/node/101406#sm.00003gq1ziduqf 88tf827jl72ypmc

PARTNERSHIPS Total Acres of fields 454 Basketball hoops 66 Community garden plots 78 Dog parks 2 Miles of trails 64 Playgrounds 64 Recreation/senior centers 6 Splashpads/spraygrounds 3

Oldest park Meadowbrook Park,1924

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number of parks

ANSWERS FROM MARCH-APRIL CONTEST WHO’S COUNTYING (OR NO RECOGNITION AT ALL)

Congratulations to all of our prize winners!

Isabel Rogales of El Paso, Kaleb Constantine of San Angelo and Liz Wagner of Beaumont each won a Charge HubV2. Jason Malcolm of Amarillo won a copy of How the 2017 Tax Reform Bill Impacts Small Business. And Jessica Hart-Pierce of Denton won a Charge HubV4.

ANSWERS FROM PAGE 57: YOU’RE GOING TO CALL ME WHAT?

1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film. It was nominated for Best Musical Score at the Academy Awards in 1938, and the next year, producer Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar for the film. This award was unique, consisting of one normal-sized, plus seven miniature Oscar statuettes. They were presented to Disney by Shirley Temple.

2 Belle is a fictional character in Beauty and the Beast (1991). Belle is the non-conforming daughter of an inventor who yearns to abandon her predictable village life in return for adventure. When her father Maurice is imprisoned by a coldhearted beast, Belle offers him her own freedom in exchange for her father’s, and eventually learns to love the Beast despite his unsightly outward appearance

3 Ariel is the title character of The Little Mermaid (1989). The character is based on the title character of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” but was developed into a different personality for the film. She is the first nonhuman princess - the seventh born daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena of the underwater kingdom of Merfolk called Atlantica , and the only princess to become a mother to her own child. (She marries Prince Eric, whom she rescued from a shipwreck, and together they have a daughter, Melody.)

4 Cinderella (The Little Glass Slipper) is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances, that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between around 7 BC and 23 AD, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story. We know it best as 1950 American animated musical fantasy film based on the fairy tale Cinderella by Charles Perrault, It received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Music, Original Song for “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”.

5 Rapunzel is a fictional character who appears Tangled, its sequel Tangled Ever After, and its television spin-off Tangled: The Series. She was officially inducted into the line-up (of Disney princesses) in October, 2011, becoming the franchise’s first computer-animated member. Her physical appearance and personality have drawn much comparison between her and preceding Disney Princess Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989), by whom she was inspired.

She is loosely based upon a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812.

6 Merida of DunBroch is the main character from the 2012 Disney Pixar film Brave. Merida was added to the Disney Princess line-up as the 11th princess and the first Pixar character to receive the honor in May, 2013. She is also the main character of the games Brave and Temple Run: Brave.

7 Fa Mulan is a character, inspired by an actual historic figure, who appears in the film Mulan (1998), as well as its sequel Mulan II (2004). Mulan is based on the legendary Chinese warrior Hua Mulan from the poem the Ballad of Mulan. The only child of an aging war veteran, Mulan disregards both

tradition and the law by disguising herself as a man in order to enlist herself in the army in lieu of her feeble father.

8 Moana is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure film which tells the story of the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a Polynesian village, who is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with a goddess. When a blight strikes her island, Moana sets sail in search of Maui, a legendary demigod, in the hope of returning the heart of Te Fiti and saving her people.

9 Jasmine appears in the film Aladdin (1992). She is the spirited Princess of Agrabah, who has grown weary of her life of palace confinement. Despite an age-old law stipulating that the princess must marry a prince in time for her 18th birthday, Jasmine is instead determined to marry someone she loves for who he is as opposed to what he owns.

10 Queen Elsa of Arendelle appears in Frozen and its sequel Frozen II. Elsa is loosely based on the title character of “The Snow Queen”, a Danish fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen. In the Disney film adaptation, she is introduced as a princess in the fictional Scandinavian kingdom of Arendelle, heiress to the throne and the elder sister of Princess Anna. She has the magical ability to create and manipulate ice and snow.

11 Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty (1959). Seeking revenge for not being invited to Aurora’s christening, an evil fairy named Maleficent curses the newborn princess, foretelling that she will die on her 16th birthday by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel’s spindle. Determined to prevent this, three good fairies raise Aurora as a peasant in order to protect her, patiently awaiting her 16th birthday – the day the spell is to be broken by a kiss from her true love, Prince Phillip. Aurora is based on the princess in Charles Perrault’s fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”, as well as the heroine who appears in the Brothers Grimm’s retelling of the story, “Little Briar Rose”.

12 Pocahontas is the title character of Pocahontas (1995). The character and the events she goes through are loosely based on the actual historical figure Pocahontas. She is the daughter of a Native American paramount chief of the Powhatan paramountcy.

13 Anna of Arendelle appears in Frozen. She is depicted as the princess of Arendelle, a fictional Scandinavian kingdom, and the younger sister of Princess Elsa who is the heiress to the throne and possesses the elemental ability to create and control ice and snow. When Elsa exiles herself from the kingdom after inadvertently sending Arendelle into an eternal winter on the evening of her coronation, fearless and faithful Anna is determined to set out on a dangerous adventure to bring her sister back and save both her kingdom and her family.

14 Tiana is a main character who appears of The Princess and the Frog (2009). She is loosely based on two princesses: Princess Emma, the heroine of E. D. Baker’s novel The Frog Princess, and the princess from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Frog Prince”, which inspired Baker’s novel. A hardworking waitress who dreams of opening her own restaurant, Tiana finds her progress stalled when she transforms into a frog after desperately kissing a prince who has been turned into one by an evil witch doctor.

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In Herstory, Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley looks at Terell and the story of Hetty Green, the Witch of Wall Street. She sent her son to Terrell to buy railroads; he brought his car – the first automobile in Texas. He drove off the road in Forney, also becoming the first car wreck in Texas. In her Amazing Buildings, Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne examines the ascent of cork as a highly sustainable building material and its growing uses for residential projects. Contributing Editor Tony Barbieri’s Legal View focuses on construction liens, an important topic here in Texas.

We will introduce Fitwell, a building (health-related) rating system that presents a new spin on things, and we will profile Perkins + Will, the architectural giant that has been amongst the leaders to implement the Fitwell system. We will continue our look at Sister Cities, presenting Dallas and part 3 of Houston

Beginning in this issue (on page 58) and over the next several issues of the network, with permission from and thanks to The Trust for Public Land, we will publish the results of that study for 13 Texas cities: Arlington, Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Garland, Houston, Irving, Laredo, Lubbock, Plano and San Antonio.

Of course, we will have our affiliates’ news and events, the Wow Factor, Diversions, By the Numbers, True Dat, You Need to Know, Political Corner, Professionals on the Move, ShoutOuts, In the Loop, Real Estate of the Future, our quarterly contest and much MUCH more.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Forget the Lyrics (You Don’t Have to Know Anything!)

Remember Mad Libs? Well, these are real (but incomplete) song titles. This time, it doesn’t matter who sang them or when they were from. Your task (should you choose to accept it, Mr./Ms. Phelps) is to complete the titles, not with the real song title, but with something funny. Fill in one, some or all. If any one of your answers makes out top 5 list, you’ll win a prize. (We will publish a lot more than five in the next issue, but only the best of the best will win prizes.) Some of the answers we receive we may not be able to publish all of the winning entries but that won’t impact upon your eligibility for the prize. :)

HINT: The parts of speech shown tell you the part of speech of the word(s) missing. You can use any number of words and any parts of speech you want. There are no right answers. The only criterion is to be funny.

Scan or copy this page and send your entry to editor@crestnetwork.com or fax it to 817.924.7116 on or before June 1st for a chance to win a valuable prize. (The answers will appear in our July-August issue.)

I Wanna Hold Your _________________________ (noun)

I’ll Be __________________________Without You (adverb)

(noun) (adverb) (verb)

My ___ ______________________________Angel (verb)

If It Hadn’t Been For ________________________ (noun)

Kiss My ________________________________Ass (adjective)

I Don’t Want to __________________Without You (verb)

Can’t Take My _____________________ Off of You (plural noun)

Can’t Help ___________________________In Love (participle)

Someone To ________________________ Over Me (verb)

The _________________________________of You (noun)

_____________________________________ Alive (participle)

I Love You For _______________________ Reasons (adjective)

Shake Your ________________________________ (noun)

With a Little Help From My ___________________ (plural noun)

________________________________ With Myself (participle)

Dancin’ Away With My _______________________ (noun)

My Life Would ____________________ Without You (verb)

__________________________________ In The Dark (participle)

Let’s _______________________________For Today (verb)

One ____________________________ Over the Line (noun)

Oops, I _______________________________It Again (verb – past tense)

Take Good Care Of My ________________________ (noun)

I’ve Been ___________________________About You (participle)

Don’t Let Me Be ________________________Tonight (adverb)

Shake, Rattle And _____________________________ (verb)

You Make Me Feel Like A ______________ __Woman (adjective)

When The ___________________________ Go Down (plural noun)

You Can _______________________ On My Shoulder (verb)

It’s Gonna Get ________________________________ (adverb)

Killing Me Softly With His _______________________ (noun)

Don’t Be _____________________________________ (adjective)

__________________________________In The Wind (noun)

I Don’t Want to _______________________Any More (verb)

She Works _______________________ For the Money (adverb)

I Heard It Through the __________________________ (noun)

Nobody Wants to Be ___________________________ (adverb)

Can’t Help Falling In ____________________________ (noun)

I Want You, I Need You, I _____________________ You (verb)

Everything’s Gonna Be __________________________ (adverb)

Ain’t No ____________________________ High Enough (noun)

Signed, Sealed, ________________________, I’m Yours (verb, past tense)

I Got My _____________________________Set On You (noun)

(noun) (adjective) (verb) (plural noun) (participle) (verb) (noun) (participle) (adjective) (noun) (plural noun) (participle) (noun) (verb) (participle) (verb) (noun) (verb – past tense) (noun) (participle) (adverb) (verb) (adjective) (plural noun) (verb) (adverb) (noun) (adjective) (noun) (verb) (adverb) (noun) (adverb) (noun) (verb) (adverb) (noun) (verb, past tense) (noun) (verb) (noun) (noun) (verb) (movie name)

You Always _____________________ The One You Love (verb)

Have You Ever Seen The _________________________? (noun)

(your choice, multiple words (verb, adverb, verb)

Give ___________________________________A Chance (noun)

It Only _______________________________ For A While (verb)

(Make up your own)

Love Theme From _______________________________ (movie name)

Your Body Is A __________________________________ (your choice, multiple words OK)

I _________You So _________ Much I Could _________ (verb, adverb, verb)

BONUS: ______________________________________ (Make up your own)