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The Best Tall Buildings - Worldwide Regional awards winners from the Center on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Profile: Merriman Anderson/Architects Virtual Reality – Seeing Before Believing.

Show Me The Story!

INK’s founder Todd Henderson looks at the importance of branding for real estate companies.

Profile: Thank You for Your Service, John Urby Roxana Tofan chats with an Army hero transitioning back to civilian life.

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Why is the Commercial Real Estate Industry Slow to Adapt to New Technology?

Tyler Carlson of SiteZeus offers an explanation.

Homeless at Christmas On Your Property Dennis Box provides valuable (and kind) advice on what you can do.

Profile: 5G Collaborative Studio The Dallas-based firm is expanding the parameters of design.

Profile: Cuddle Clones An unforgettable gift for yourself or someone you care about!

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Metrocon16 Event manager Laura McDonald Stewart recaps the annual ASID/IIDA tradeshow.

Book Reviews – Worthy of Note!

Saving Capitalism by Robert Reich and The Intelligent REIT Investor by Stephanie Krewson-Kelly and R. Brad Thomas

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An Uncommon Destination.

Amazing Buildings – Shocking Growth Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne examines Tesla’s Nevada gamble.

Legal View: Transgender Rights Movement Attorney and Contributing Editor Anthony Barbieri examines the impact on commercial real estate owners, managers and others.

Election Years to Remember

Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley looks at the presidential elections of 1840, 1844 and 1848.

The History Page Point Roberts, WA – You have to go through Canada to get there.

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The Geography Page (New!) The Slash – The 5,525-mile border between the U.S. and Canada.

Artchitecture: Thomas Kinkade - Painter of Light A look at some of the famous Christmas paintings one of the most beloved American artists of the 20th century.

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Nothing matches a child’s excitement like finding a Lionel Train under the tree on Christmas morning. In this nostalgic painting, set in Lionel’s Prewar Tin Plate Era, we find Santa Claus leaving a family with a special package. His rosy cheeks glow as he pulls a brand new Lionel Electric Train Set out of his bag – a prized gift that every collector young and old wishes for. Behind him the fireplace burns warm and bright, and outside the town rests peacefully, as children (and adults) dream of what may be under their tree at dawn. Above the mantle sits Thomas Kinkade’s Home for the Holidays – one of the artist’s popular Christmas paintings. (This is the second painting created in partnership with the toy train company, Lionel, LLC.) See more of his work on pages 56-57.

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ANGELA O’BYRNE, AIA Amazing Buildings ROBYN GRIGGS LAWRENCE Editor-at-Large ROSE-MARY RUMBLEY Herstory

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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 spending time with their extended families, getting involved in their church and supporting the community through various programs – including raising awareness of muscular dystrophy, education and exercise to fight heart disease, providing care and treatment for autism, and counseling domestic-violence victims. He is also a Contributing Editor of the network.

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TYLER CARLSON (P. 43) is a serial entrepreneur who was involved in the acquisition of a company during college. He has hired over 120 employees, is part owner of a patented trash bag, and is an avid adapter of technology. He is the head of sales for SiteZeus, a technology company with clients in the commercial real estate industry as well as some of the world’s largest brands. He enjoys playing golf, spontaneous traveling, and learning from people. His goal is to touch a million lives.

JOHN CARRUTH (P. 30) is the director of 3-D visualization of Merriman Anderson/Architects, a Dallasbased architecture and planning firm. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma he became an integral part of the maa team in his roles as designer, director, and leader.

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A Parafable (or 4) for Management #1

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A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day long. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, “Can I also sit, like you, and doing nothing all day long?”

The crow answered, “Sure. Why not?”

So the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow and rested.

All of a sudden, a fox appeared and jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold that the bird fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He laid there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Management Lesson: 1) Not everyone who drops s#%t on you is your enemy. 2) Not everyone who gets you out of s#%t is your friend. 3)And when you’re in deep s#%t, keep your mouth shut!

#2 A turkey was chatting with a bull. “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree, “ sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.”

“Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.”

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally, after a fourth night, there he was, proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon, he was spotted by a farmer who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Lesson: Bulls#%t might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.

#4 The boy rode on the donkey and the old man walked. As they went along, some people remarked, “It’s a shame that the old man is walking and the boy is riding.”

The man and the boy thought that perhaps the critics were right, so they changed positions. Later, they passed some people who said, “What a shame. He makes that little boy walk.”

They decided they would both walk.

Soon they passed some more people who thought they were stupid to walk when they had an able donkey to ride. So they both got on and rode the donkey.

Now they passed some people that shamed them saying, “How awful to put such a load on a poor donkey!”

The man and the boy decided that the people were probably right so they decided to carry the donkey. As they crossed a bridge, they lost their grip on the animal and it fell into the river and drowned.

Management Lesson: If you try to please everyone, you will eventually lose your ass.

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Having just returned from a trip to London, it was fun to see pictures of the strange-named buildings which I’d just seen in real life. I didn’t know the names of them until I read this. Very cool!

- Tanya Raymond (Sandy Springs, GA) I don’t think I’ve ever seen another magazine where the editor’s note is worth reading, no less SO enjoyable. I loved Andy Rooney and your tribute reminds me of why. Thank you!

- Patti Marcella (Olmos Park, TX) As an avid movie goer and TV watcher, I particularly enjoyed the contest in the September issue. Win or lose, they’re always fun – like another ‘diversion’. (Of course, winning would be better. :-)) - Ron DeSantis (Delray Beach, FL) 8

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The Carbuncle Cup pictorial was interesting. I don’t think all of those buildings were ugly compared to some I’ve seen. Do you know if there’s a similar award program like that in the U.S.?

- Cade Carlson (Plano, TX) Ed. We don’t know for sure, but check out this interesting site: (http://weburbanist. com/2015/11/02/ugly- architecture-15- of-theworlds-most-hideous-buildings/) It features some other interestingly ugly buildings from around the world.

Please address your comments, criticisms and suggestions to editor@crestpublicationsgroup.com

My short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be.

A parable is a succinct story which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. Both are types of analogies. A parafable (which is not a real word…yet) has elements of each.

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ISILAY CIVAN isilay.civan@gmail.com Isilay Civan, BArch, MSc, PhD2, LEED® AP O+M is the Senior Vice President and Global Real Estate and Planning Manager for a large financial institution. She is also a Contributing Editor of the network.

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ost developing and transitional economies lack the capital, technology and human resources to meet internationally agreed quality standards. Because compliance with those standards is widely used by importing countries as a condition for granting access to developed-economy markets, developing and transitional economies stand at a competitive disadvantage. The application of internationally agreed standards by developing countries, and especially by least developed countries, would facilitate the export of their products and services, stimulate the development of their sectors and raise average incomes of the overall population.

UNIDO, WTO and Developing Countries

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) actively works to maximize developing countries’ productive capacity to benefit from global and regional trading opportunities, and to set up and upgrade countries’ standards and conformity assessment infrastructures, it includes a significant component aiming at overcoming technical barriers to trade (TBT) addressing sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and fostering market access.

The World Trade Organization (WTO), established in 1995, is an international organization that effectively lays down legal ground rules for international trade.

They are contained in multilateral trade agreements, which are essentially contracts that bind governments to operate their trade policies in accordance with what was agreed in the multilateral negotiations.

Of particular interest and importance to standardizers are the WTO agreements on Technical Barriers to Trade (WTO/TBT) and on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (WTO/SPS). The WTO/ TBT Agreement recognizes that access to markets can be impeded through the use of technical regulations and standards, which can vary from country to country and, if set arbitrarily, can be used or perceived as disguised protection in the form of non-tariff barriers to trade.

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For this very reason, the second Triennial Review of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement made clear the increasing interest to have effective participation of the developing countries in the international standardization activities. In Annex 4 of the Second Triennial Review Report it is stated that "Constraints on developing countries, in particular, to effectively participate in standards development, should be taken into consideration in the standards development process. Tangible ways of facilitating developing country participation in international standards development should be sought. The impartiality and openness of any international standardization process requires that developing countries are not excluded de facto from the process.”

Within the ambit of the WTO Multilateral Trade Agreements, there are also special provisions for developing countries that include: - provisions that require WTO members to safeguard the interests of developing countries when adopting their own trade measures; - provisions that grant longer transition periods for the implementation of commitments on the part of developing countries; and - provisions for technical assistance in the implementation of commitments undertaken by the developing countries and to ensure that developing countries benefit from the outcome of negotiations.

National Standards Bodies in Developing Countries

A national standards body exists to meet the standardization needs of the country concerned. While the needs of the population for consumer protection and fitfor-purpose goods and services are essentially the same as those of people in more industrialized countries, there are constraints to the implementation of standards in a developing country: - the industrial infrastructure might be insufficient to produce local goods of the required quality; - governmental technical regulations are often insufficient to adequately protect the environment or to prevent the importation or dumping of lower quality or unsafe products; and - consumer awareness and passion for good quality may be absent or exist only at a low level.

For governments, the means of rectifying this situation involves the creation of an efficient infrastructure, where a conformity assessment can demonstrate that specified requirements relating to a product, process, system, person or body are fulfilled. Conformity assessment of a product or system to a given standard often involves inspection, testing and certification. While an NSB plays an important part in this infrastructure, it cannot exist and be efficient in isolation.

Pillars of Sustainable Development

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Not only do standards assist in the creation of a domestic market and increase competitiveness, they also provide tools to manufacturers and exporters in developing countries for strategic planning, improving the quality of products and services and improving access to export markets. The implementation of international standards and conformity assessment practices provide an excellent means of technology transfer to developing countries, assisting them to overcome technology gaps and to become better integrated in the world economy.

International standards are key to improving developing countries' access to international markets and to strengthening their ability to implement international trade obligations. Services also play an increasing role in international trade, hence in the development of economies.

86% of national standards bodies (NSB) in developing countries surveyed are governmental bodies and about 61% of countries have 50% or more of their mandatory technical regulations not based on international standards.

on developing country matters) titled “Fast Forward: National Standard Bodies in Developing Countries”, three separate but interdependent and interlinked “pillars” of knowledge are stated as essential for developing a quality infrastructure that enables sustainable development, which can lead to full participation in international trade, and satisfies the technical requirements of the multilateral trading system. These are metrology, standardization and conformity assessment.

- The metrology pillar: It can be argued that the most basic necessity of a trading system is metrology – the provision of reliable and accurate measurements.

Without the ability to determine length, mass, volume, time and temperature, even the simplest of transactions would be open to abuse, fair trade would be impossible, and legislation aimed at protecting the health and welfare of citizens would be of no effect. No technical standards could exist for products, because there would be no reliable means of measurement of their performance against requirements. A national measurement or metrology system is therefore the first step in facilitating trade.

- The standardization pillar: International standards and their use in technical regulations on products, production methods and services play a vital role in sustainable development and trade facilitation – through the promotion of safety, quality and compatibility. The benefits derived are significant. Standardization contributes not only to international trade but also to the basic infrastructure that underpins society, including health and environment, while promoting sustainability and good regulatory practice.

The leading organizations that produce International Standards are ISO, IEC and ITU. ISO covers standardization in all fields except electrical and electronic engineering, which are the responsibility of the IEC, and telecommunications covered by the ITU. The three organizations together form the World Standards Cooperation (WSC) and cooperate on cross-cutting areas of work, for example, information technology and new converging technologies such as nanotechnology. International standards, or national or regional adoptions of international standards, help domestic markets to operate effectively, increase competitiveness and provide an excellent source of technology transfer to developing countries. They play an integral role in the protection of consumers and the environment.

Developing countries face many trade-related standardization challenges. They require access to standardization infrastructure to engage in the global trading system. With the increasing globalization of markets, international standards (as opposed to regional or national standards) have become critical to the trading process, ensuring a level playing field for exports, and ensuring imports meet internationally recognized levels of performance and safety.

Standards can be broadly sub-divided into three categories: product, process and management systems. Product refers to the quality and safety of goods or services. Process refers to the conditions under which products and services are to be produced, packaged or refined. Management system standards help organizations to manage their operations.

- The conformity assessment pillar: International Standard ISO/IEC 17000 defines conformity assessment as a “demonstration that specified requirements relating to a product, process, system, person or body are fulfilled.” It involves sampling, inspection, testing and certification as a means of giving assurance to the parties to a transaction that the product, process, system, body or person does in fact conform to the requirements of a standard. The parties to transaction can be defined as: - first party – the supplier or manufacturer of the product or service, etc. (the party that “claims conformity”); - second party – the purchaser, or the party receiving the product or service (the party that “requires conformity”); - third party – an unbiased party, unrelated to the transaction, who may be called upon to provide assurance to both the above parties regarding the conformity, or otherwise, of the product or service.

The three pillars described above are interdependent. Metrology and physical standards provide the basis for accurate measurements, the accepted performance of which can then be written in international standards, which can in turn be used as the basis for conformity assessment. But it is recognized that for many countries the cost of providing all these activities at their most advanced level is prohibitive. Even in the case of developed countries there are variations in the sophistication of each part of the technical infrastructure. In many cases some parts of the infrastructure may be jointly owned or shared by one or more countries. Sometimes, the services of another country are relied upon altogether.

It is important for sustainable development and trade to ensure that societies and industries in developing countries have access to a technical infrastructure that reflects specific needs and those set by the multilateral trading system.

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USGBC Texas’ 6th Annual Energy Summit:

Energy Efficiency for Tomorrow

Accelerating the drive for the smart, efficient and financially sensible use of energy!

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n October 13th, the USGBC Texas Chapter’s Gulf Coast Region hosted the sixth annual Energy Summit in Houston. More than 160 participants and stakeholders from the existing commercial office property sector came together to share ideas, technologies and services that improve the energy-efficiency and energy-related decision making for commercial office properties. The summit provided an opportunity for education and a forum to share expertise and best practices amongst building and facility managers and engineers.

Webber focused on the vital interconnections between energy and water - the world’s two most critical re­sources. He offered a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and

Combining anecdotes and person­al stories with insights into the latest science of energy and water, he identified a hopeful path toward wise long-range waterenergy decisions and a more reliable and abundant future for humanity. On a more building specific-level, Daniel Huard borrowed from current health trends to bring energy management to a more personal level – a Fitbit for Your Building.

Huard is an engineer, architectural designer, urban planner, LEED-ILFI and Project Management Accredited Professional specializing in high-performance building and sustainable and restorative development.

He related examples from his extensive project experience including commercial properties, educational institutions, and sustainability improvements to historic landmark rehabilitations. Using technology to deliver the real-time pulse of a building’s system performance is part of the quest for Net Positive Energy Buildings. Available technologies can provide instant data streams and tools that reframe the traditional retro-commissioning process into ongoing optimization and commissioning with real, actionable data.

The day-long event also included a tradeshow and breakout tracks focused on best practices and programs, technology and front-line training in efficiency strategies and case studies.

Planning is under way for the 7th annual event in October 2017!

USGBC Texas Executive Director Jonathan Kraatz welcomes the Summit Participants and introduces keynote speaker Daniel Huard.

Daniel Huard presented technologies that help buildings use a “Fitbitphilosophy” to reach Net Positive energy usage

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The opening keynote was delivered by Michael Webber - Deputy Director of the En­ergy Institute, Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources, CoDirector of the Clean Energy In­cubator at the Austin Technology Incubator, and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin - where he trains a new generation of energy leaders through re­ search and education at the intersection of engi­ neering, policy, and commercialization.

water—a big picture approach revealing the interdependence of the two resources, identifying the seriousness of the challenges, and laying out an optimistic approach with an array of solutions to ensure the continuing sustainability of both. He showed that current population growth, economic growth, climate change, and short-sighted policies are likely to make things worse.

Yet, more integrated planning with long-term sustainability in mind can avert such a daunt­i ng future.

Industry Must Address

Climate Change to Maintain

Competitiveness

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s world leaders gathered at the United Nations in September to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change, a new paper by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) argues that many real estate organizations are not adequately prepared for the implications of the agreement, which was made at last year’s 21st annual Conference of the Parties in Paris (COP-21).

Entitled L’Accord de Paris: A Potential Game Changer for the Global Real Estate Industry, the paper provides an overview of the key issues that arose from the COP-21 agreement and outlines steps that the real estate industry can take in response. Since buildings account for nearly one-third of global climate-changing carbon emissions, the agreement could trigger significant changes in requirements for building design, development, operations and management. In order to remain competitive, the industry must proactively limit and respond to the effects of climate change, the paper says.

It notes that from a business perspective, taking action to address climate change can help real estate organizations manage risks and capitalize on new opportunities. Investors and developers who proactively respond to impacts of the Paris agreement can ensure that their buildings remain competitive within changing policy, market, and climate conditions. They are also likely to see bottom-line benefits, as improving energy efficiency to reduce the carbon impact of buildings is one of the most cost-effective solutions to mitigating climate change.

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he Halifax Central Library in Nova Scotia (designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and local studio Fowler Bauld & Mitchell) has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for its outstanding new civic building design. The Governor General’s Medal in Architecture [awarded by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts] celebrates outstanding architectural design in Canada.

It opened in December 2014 and is the most significant public building to be built in Halifax in a generation.

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“As leaders in the responsible use of land, ULI’s global members have a pivotal role to play in addressing some of the greatest challenges facing our rapidly urbanizing world, including the pressing threat of climate change,” said Patrick Phillips, ULI’s Global Chief Executive Officer. “The Paris Agreement on climate change will have important implications for both developed and emerging real estate markets, including new business and investment opportunities. ULI has published this paper Patrick Phillips to support our members in navigating the implications of this agreement, and charting strategies for success.”

ULI leader Jon Lovell, cofounder of Hillbreak and principal author of the report, said, “The Paris Agreement was undoubtedly a landmark diplomatic success, but was only possible because of the groundswell of demand, action and support from business leaders, investors, mayors and industry bodies from across the world.”

He added, “Given the value at stake and the weight of evidence collated by this paper, it would be naive to think that investors, tenants and regulators won’t all begin Jon Lovell to turn the screws on real estate companies and asset owners. The message is clear -- act now to address the implications of the Paris Agreement or face irrelevance in the market."

Halifax is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The metropolitan area had a population of 414,400 in 2014, with 297,943 in the urban area centered on Halifax Harbor.

According to the paper, the Paris Agreement has catalyzed a change in attitudes and expectations surrounding the real estate market. Organizations are under increasing pressure to divest from carbon-intensive companies and assets, and to engage with policymakers and stakeholders on sustainability issues. Furthermore, they are expected to demonstrate a heightened disclosure of carbon performance and the risk posed by climate change to their assets, and to retrofit development standards through new technologies and financing models. Assets that do not conform to these new standards risk low demand and suppressed value.

The first priority for real estate organizations, says the report, should be to audit their resilience against post-COP-21 impacts. The audit should include a review of the risk exposure of their assets and the capabilities and expectations of their stakeholders. The paper suggests a list of specific questions on the topics of climate risk, client and stakeholder expectations, competitor approaches, policy change, asset performance, value chain, people and processes.

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A General Services Administration LEED Platinum Development

The buildings maximize daylight and views while minimizing energy consumption. Two office buildings, one six stories and the other seven stories, are connected by a bridge and supplemented to the north by a lower-scaled annex and parking garage that supports an extensive photovoltaic array, providing 20 percent of the complex’s energy needs. The concrete-framed buildings are designed to LEED Platinum core-and-shell standards through material use and smart siting.

Developed through the U.S. General Services Administration’s Design Excellence program at a cost of $194,000,000, the 383,000-square-foot complex consolidates nearly 1,000 FBI employees who had previously worked in several locations throughout the Miami area. Open offices receive ample natural light deep into the core due to the slim 60-foot width of the buildings - a dimension more typical in Europe.

The all-glass building skin is designed to withstand blast and hurricane impacts, while various glass coatings in combination with exterior perforated metal sunscreens are fine-tuned to maximize interior illumination while controlling excessive perimeter glare and significantly reducing solar gains. Both the office building and its site offer a user and visitor experience unlike any other federal facility.

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ocated about 20 miles northwest of downtown Miami, the Benjamin P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Building in Miramar, Fla., provides an integrated hub for FBI activities in South Florida. The Chicago-based Krueck + Sexton– designed complex comprises three structures that form east–west bars with courtyards in between. The 20-acre site lies less than 6 miles east of the Everglades, on “improved” land that was actually part of the immense natural wetland less than a century ago. The architects recognized the potential for restoring much of the site to its natural condition, an ecologically correct decision that also helps secure the facility through the simplest of means: Why shouldn’t alligators be enlisted to protect those who protect us?

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President David Bryant, CPM hosted a luncheon for the chapter’s past presidents in September at Maggiano’s in North Park.

Back Row: Rick Shaw, CPM, Joe Dobbs, Scott Stovall, CPM, Rich Elam, CPM, Duane Rettig, CPM, Jim Seal, CPM, Jack Gardner, CPM, Susan Heath, CPM, Bill Lawley, CPM, Joe Summers, CPM, Greg Wingate, CPM. Middle Row: Ed Boudreau, CPM, Neal Sleeper, CPM, linda, Jackson, CPM, Jessica Warrior, CPM, President David Bryant, CPM. Front Row: Sam Kincaid, CPM, Al Horstmann, Diana Smith, CPM, Helen Moise, CPM, Susan Nash, Executive Director Kristin Hiett, CAE

Congratulations to the chapter’s newest credentialed members!

(L-R) President David Bryant, CPM, Monica Green, CPM, Michael Wald, CPM and Roberta Kelley, CPM

(L-R) Heather Spawn, ARM, Allison Luce, ARM, Allyson Caldwell, ARM and Kathleen Jackson, ARM

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Keeley Wise and Kacie Griffith (both of Blackmon Mooring) attended the Friends of IREM happy hour at the Blue Mesa Grill

Guest speaker Doug Harman discussed the stockyard revitalization with members at the September luncheon at Rhett Caroway (Fort Worth Window Cleaning) and Cattleman’s Steakhouse.

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estled in the thick jungles of Chile’s Huilo Natural Reserve, the Montaña Mágica Lodge is a fantastical waterfall/hotel/volcano that looks like it was built by ambitious hobbits.

The otherworldly hotel looks as though it was dug into a natural stone spire, but it was actually man-made. Using locally sourced lumber and stone, the creators of the lodging built up a tall cone. Water pours from the top down the sides in-between the guest windows, running under rich layers of jungle foliage growing on the exterior. Adding to the magic of the site is the rope bridge that leads to the entrance near the top of the volcano-like structure.

Inside, each of the 13 cozy suites is named after a local species of bird, and all feature a selection of modern amenities. And if the strangeness and beauty of the hotel itself fails to impress, it offers a number of other attractions – for example, hot tubs made out of trunks of trees, dug out, and filled with hot water perched on a deck overlooking the forest. There is also a mini golf course built into the forest itself, using the natural world as the obstacles, and outdoor activities such as horseback riding, rafting, and hiking.

Of course, getting to such a magical place takes a bit of doing. The ride to the lodge is over two hours from the nearest airfield – perhaps a small price to pay to experience a location that looks like it belongs in Middle-Earth.

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YOU NEED TO KNOW The United States Supreme Court

The Justices

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Seated (L-R): Clarence Thomas, age 68 (nominated

by Pres. George H.W. Bush in 1991); ghosted image of Antonin Scalia who died at age 79 in February, 2016 (nominated by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1986); Chief Justice John G. Roberts, age 61 (nominated by Pres.

George W. Bush in 2005); Anthony M. Kennedy, age 80 (nominated by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1988); Ruth Bader Ginsburg, age 83 (nominated by Pres. Bill Clinton in 1993); Standing (L-R): Sonia Sotomayor, age 62 (nominated by Pres. Barack Obama in 2009); Stephen G. Breyer, age 78 (nominated by Pres. Bill Clinton in 1994); Samuel A. Alito Jr., age 66 (nominated by Pres. George W. Bush in 2006); Elena Kagan, age 56 (nominated by Pres. Barack Obama in 2010)

Random Facts:

Approximately 10,000 cases are appealed to the Supreme Court every year. Of these, the Court actually hears approximately 75 – 80…. Each attorney has a maximum of 30 minutes to argue his/her case…. There are 100-150 public seats available on a first-come, first-served basis…. There are no cameras in the courtroom allowed…. Justices hold their position for life (or for as long as they choose)….The Constitution cites only two requirements to be a Supreme Court justice: 1) They must be appointed by the president and 2) they must be approved by the Senate; they don’t have to be lawyers, judges, citizens or even 21. (In reality, every justice who has ever served was a lawyer first.)….The longest serving justice was William O. Douglas, who retired in November, 1975 after 36 years and six months on the bench…. George Washington appointed the most Supreme Court justices (11). Only Franklin D. Roosevelt came close, with 9 appointments…. William H. Taft was the only president to also serve as a Supreme Court justice…. John Marshall is the only justice to have ever been Secretary of State…. Justice Byron (“Whizzer”) White is the only justice in the College Football Hall of Fame…. Of all one-term presidents, Taft appointed the most Supreme Court justices (6)…. Jimmy Carter is the only president to serve a full term without nominating a Supreme Court justice…. The Constitution does not establish the number of Supreme Court justices. Instead, it gives Congress the power to determine the number of justices…. In 1789, the Chief Justice’s salary was $4,000, while associate justices made $3,500; in 2016, the chief justice's salary is $260,700 and associate justices receive $249,300.

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Born in November 1952 in Chicago, Merrick Brian Garland is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A summa cum laude graduate (and valedictorian) of Harvard Law School, he has served on that court since 1997. On March 16, 2016, President Obama nominated Garland to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Antonin Scalia on February 13th. The Constitution says that unless the Senate gives advice and consent Garland cannot be appointed, but it does not require the Senate to do anything in response to the nomination. Garland is, by all accounts, eminently qualified and a fine judge; the Senate’s failure to take formal action may be regrettable, but that is a decision the Constitution entrusts to the political process. It would be somewhat easier for the Court to operate with nine justices than eight. But the Constitution does not require nine justices at all; at various times in history, Congress has provided for six, eight, or ten. Like lower federal courts and executive offices, the ninth seat Merrick Brian Garland is entirely Congress’ creation and could be abolished if Congress chooses. While there may be a constitutional obligation to maintain a Supreme Court, there is no constitutional obligation to maintain nine justices nor to assure that the Court operates at maximum efficiency.

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The Best Tall Buildings - Worldwide

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from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat began recognizing the team achievement in tall building projects by issuing Best Tall Building awards in 2007. CTBUH issues four regional awards each year (Americas, Asia & Australasia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa), and from these regional awards, one project is awarded the honor of overall Best Tall Building Worldwide, which is announced at the Awards Ceremony in early November (as we go to press) at the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago. The gala dinner is attended by 300 of the tall building industry’s leaders from around the world.

This year’s finalists are pictured below. The Winner was to be announced on November 3rd.

Best Tall Building Americas 2016 1 VIA 57 WEST • New York City, USA Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia 2015 2 CapitaGreen • Singapore Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia 2016 3 Shanghai Tower (the world’s second tallest building) • Shanghai, China Best Tall Building Europe 2016 4 The White Walls • Nicosia, Cyprus Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa 2016 5 The Cube • Beirut, Lebanon

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he CTBUH Awards recognize projects and individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, and that achieve sustainability at the highest and broadest level. Tall buildings can be polarizing presences in their cities, admired for their sheer height or skyline silhouettes, and criticized for their poor environmental performance and street-level experience. The objective of this awards program is to deliver a comprehensive and sophisticated view of these important buildings, while advocating for improvements in every aspect of their performance, especially those that have the greatest effect on the people who use these buildings each day. This often means that the buildings highlighted are often not the tallest in a given year, but represent the best qualities and innovations in the typology.

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Blake Mauritzen (Transwestern), Jenny Phillips (Fujitec), Steve Broom (Fujitec) and Jonathan Jones (Holt Lunsford)

Awards Banquet & Ceremony

Cary Betts (Oncor), Tia Chambers (Allied Universal), Martin Cramer (Downtown Dallas Inc) and Grace Sanders (Allied Universal)

Save the Date! The BOMA Dallas Annual Awards Banquet & Ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, January 21, 2017 at The Highland Dallas. Go to the chapter’s website for details on the annual Lone Star Awards and The Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) Award.

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Innovation Districts

idely believed to be an effective way to promote the formation and growth of knowledge-intensive businesses, they can take a variety of forms and emerge in a host of different settings. Innovation Districts are a growing trend in commercial real estate – an economic development tool based on the notion that entrepreneurship and innovation can be stimulated in environments where employees are encouraged to interact and exchange ideas in a mix of settings.

A new study by the NAIOP Research Foundation offers insight into the development and growth of these districts, detailing best practices that make them successful, as well as the challenges they must frequently overcome. This report provides those interested in innovation district development with a better understanding of the factors contributing to the success of these projects, as well as the challenges they must frequently overcome.

It presents case studies of four projects in different phases of development and offers suggested “best practices” for real estate practitioners and policymakers. It also examines the structure of these transactions in terms of their design features, financing structures, partnership arrangements, leasing strategies and policy objectives. Access the full study here: www.naiop.org/ innovationdistricts

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Katina Comeaux (Woods Capital), Julie Young (CBRE), Ben Manna (Schneider Electric) and Sonya York (Schneider Electric)

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ARCHITECTS RECOGNIZED AT BUILT DESIGN AWARDS

FOUR PROJECTS LAUDED FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE

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he Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects selected architecture of the space – all intended to generate and showcase a pride in the four projects to receive 2016 Built Design Honor Awards, the highest product and the people who design, create, and market it. Photo courtesy of Ryan recognition of works that exemplify excellence in built projects by Gobuty.

Dallas architects. Two additional projects were awarded Juror Citations, both for their respective design and creative response toward program and site conditions.

This year’s recipients were selected by a jury composed of internationallyrenowned architects, Matthew Kreilich, AIA, design principal and partner at Snow Kreilich Architects in Minneapolis, MN; David Lewis, AIA, founding principal at LTL Architects in New York, NY; and Sebastian Schmaling, AIA, founding principal at Johnsen Schmaling Architects in Milwaukee, WI. The jury deliberated over 46 entries and selected the final recipients based on each project’s unique response to its cultural, social, environmental, programmatic, and contextual challenges.

“The 46 entries submitted for Design Awards this year were commended for their quality and representation by the jury,” said Michael Friebele, Assoc.

AIA, 2016 AIA Design Awards chair and associate at CallisonRTKL. “The six awarded projects were recognized as not only the best in design, but also for their unique range of program and context, a direct reflection of the expertise behind our jury this year.

Houndstooth Coffee and Jettison Cocktail Bar Houndstooth Coffee and Jettison Cocktail Bar, OFFICIAL (Dallas): The 2,100 square foot design was driven by their duality of function and shared connection. The design centers around an elemental concept of day to night, with Houndstooth filling the larger, sunlit space, and Jettison occupying the intimate back corner. High ceilings create openness in the coffee shop and the cloud serves as the central focal point, drawing the eye up while balancing the space and concealing the mechanical system. Jettison inverts the cloud design with a lowered ceiling and a central void looking into the painted gold trusses that has the character of a chandelier. Photo courtesy of Mark Leveno.

Fire State No. 27 Fire Station No. 27, Perkins+Will (Dallas): It was designed to re-establish a proper civic presence and foster a strong connection to the surrounding community that is often lacking in this building type. Responding to a compact site, it was the City of Dallas’ first multi-story station in over one-hundred years, and consists of 23,600 square feet with two levels above grade and one level of parking below grade with capacity for fifteen personnel per shift. Photo © 2016 James Steinkamp Photography.

Hilti North America Headquarters, Gensler (Plano): In this 50,000 square feet structure, the client’s top priority was celebrating the culmination of Hilti’s people and products. Not only was the entire office built exclusively with Hilti construction tools, over 26,000 modified Hilti products were woven into the Prospect House Prospect House, Max Levy Architect (Dripping Springs, TX): At this 6,800 square feet rural wedding and event center, celebrations are accommodated inside, outside, and on a big screened-in breezeway. Above the main hall is a huge wind vane whose mast extends down into the room and supports a 12-foot diameter ring that turns with the breezes, connecting festivities inside with the world outside.

Photo courtesy of Charles Davis Smith, AIA.

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The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) installed Connie Leipard, CIT, as its 62nd National President their Annual Meeting and Education Conference in San Antonio. Leipard, owner of Quality Drywall Construction, has been a member of NAWIC's Central Missouri Chapter since 1995.

The 2016-2017 NAWIC Board of Directors

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Twin Gables

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Juror’s Citation Winners

Twin Gables, FAR + DANG (Dallas): Set within a transitioning East Dallas neighborhood, this project bridges the traditional forms of the existing surrounding homes with a modern, high-density prototype. These duplex (2,150 square feet) units embrace the length of the property and are designed around visual connections to a series of carefully composed outdoor spaces.

Photo courtesy of Daniel Martinez.

Officers: President-Elect Catherine D. Schoenenberger, Granite State Chapter, N.H. Vice President Dove Sifers-Putman, CBT, Charlotte, N.C. Chapter Treasurer Anne Pfleger, CIT, Lima Ohio Area Chapter Secretary Diane I. Mike, CBT, Fort Worth, Texas Chapter Immediate Past President Riki F. Lovejoy, CBT, CIT, Greater Orlando, Fla. Chapter.

In addition to the officers, the NAWIC board is comprised of a director from each of the association’s eight regions. Each director serves a two-year term and is elected by her peers to bring the wishes and needs of the chapters to the attention of the association.

House at Rainbo Lake House at Rainbo Lake, Max Levy Architect (Henderson County, TX): Located in a swampy forest along a lake, this 3,500 square foot weekend retreat houses an extended family of sportsmen and nature enthusiasts. Each room is a separate building, and each building is connected by a screen porch. Color is instrumental to this design, and coloration of exterior materials merges with the site. Photo courtesy of Charles Davis Smith, AIA.

New Directors: Midwest Region Director Vickie Nickel, CIT, Greater Kansas City, Mo. Chapter North Central Region Director Jenny Mangas, Cincinnati, Ohio Chapter Northeast Region Director Doreen Bartoldus, P.E., CCM, Lower Hudson, N.Y. Chapter Pacific Southwest Region Director Elizabeth M. Teramoto, CIT, Las Vegas, Nev. Chapter

Excerpts from Actual Letters to Residential Landlords • The toilet is blocked and we cannot bathe the children until it is cleared.

• This is to let you know that there is a smell coming from the man next door.

• The toilet seat is cracked; where do I stand?

• I am writing on behalf of my sink which is running away from the wall.

• I request your permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.

• Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.

Region Directors serving the second year of their terms: Pacific Northwest Region Director Ruth Fritts, Boise, Idaho Chapter South Atlantic Region Director Lorie Lythgoe, Richmond, Va. Chapter South Central Region Director Dena Rowland, Fort Worth, Texas Chapter Southeast Region Director Angelia McElroy, CIT, Tampa, Fla. Chapter

• Will you please send someone to mend our cracked sidewalk? Yesterday my wife tripped on it and is now pregnant.

• Our kitchen floor is very damp, we have two children and would like a third, so will you please send someone to do something about it.

• Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny color and not fit to drink.

• Could you please send someone to fix our bath tap? My wife got her toe stuck in it and it is very comfortable for us.

• The person next door has a large erection in his back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.

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he Computing and Information Sciences Building at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (a/k/a Bill and Melinda Gates Hall) was designed by architect Ung-Joo Scott Lee, a principal of Morphosis in New York. The pattern, geometry and details of the skin “speak to the impact computing has had on today’s world’” said Lee. The innovative façade (the building’s signature louver system) has 450 panels – with 90 different panel types – each of which was predesigned and numbered – acts like a jacket over the building. The louvers change and are at different angles throughout the day, “so the building looks different all the time,” said Lee. Compiled by network sources

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he Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in the heart of Portland, OR is an 18-story, 525,000 square foot facility that is home to more than 16 federal agencies and 1,200 federal employees. Itwas originally constructed in 1974 and underwent a major ($139 million) renovation between 2009 and 2013. Today it is a cornerstone of the General Service Administration’s green building portfolio with all new mechanical, electrical, plumbing and data systems designed to make it one of the most energy efficient office buildings in the country.

• Modernized elevators that generate power as they descend; • Unique shading devices on the south, west and east facades designed to respond to the sun conditions, maximize daylight and minimize solar heat gain during the summer; • Energy efficient electric lighting systems with advanced controls that will reduce light energy usage by 40% compared to Oregon code; • A 165,000 gallon cistern used to flush low-flow toilets and irrigate native landscaping; • Energy efficient water fixtures, which in addition to rainwater reuse, will reduce overall water consumption by 60% compared to typical office buildings; • A dedicated outside air system that provides 100% fresh air.

It includes a number of efficient, sustainable and innovative technologies including: • Solar thermal panels that will provide for 30% of the building's domestic hot water; • A 13,000 square foot solar roof that will produce 3% of the West Façade Before and After building's electrical energy requirements annually;

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The operationally and economically efficient high-performance building is expected to achieve a 50% reduction in energy use compared to the old building and a 60% water reduction compared to Oregon code. The facility is designed to meet the Federal Guiding Principles for High Performing Green Buildings and the Obama Administration’s directives for agencies to lead by example in environmental, energy, and economic performance. Through these directives agencies are required to meet a range of energy, water, pollution, and waste reduction targets.

Additionally, the facility is expected to achieve LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its use of cutting-edge sustainable design and technology.

The building is named after Congresswoman Edith Green, who represented Oregon's Third Congressional District from 19551974, and Congressman Wendell Wyatt, who represented Oregon's 1st congressional district from 1964-1975. It is home to several unique artworks including the exterior sculpture River Legend by Dimitri Hadzi commissioned for $65,000 in 1976.

The modernization was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the goals of which included creating jobs, spurring the economy, and constructing energy efficient federal facilities that deliver lasting progress toward building a more sustainable national infrastructure while reducing the federal government's consumption of energy and water, and increasing the use of clean and renewable sources of energy. GSA was appropriated more than $5.5 billion under the Act to convert federal facilities into high-performance green buildings and construct energy-efficient federal buildings, courthouses, and land ports of entry.

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Alliance, TX

HILLWOOD COMMONS I An Uncommon Destination

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n uncommon destination over the past quarter century, AllianceTexas has attracted a wide range of business opportunities. Its customers include nearly every real estate asset class, including industrial, corporate campus, retail, medical, residential and multifamily, among others. As it matures, AllianceTexas is doing much more than thriving. The development is achieving its original vision for becoming a model of sustainable development by offering amenities and facilities that enable community members to live longer, healthier, happier lives.

a game changer for companies looking to locate in north Fort Worth.

It is the first of several million square feet of office space planned for the 900acre Alliance Town Center. “There simply is no comparable office park between downtown Fort Worth and (here),” said Bill Burton, executive vice president of Hillwood Properties. “With the enormous population growth along the Alliance Corridor, 2015 became the year we made a concerted effort to expand office space at Town Center. The location of Hillwood Commons I sets the office building apart as a true recruiting and retention advantage for employers.

This progression is most apparent at Alliance Town Center. In recent years, the development has enhanced its retail mix with residential, multifamily and medical offerings. With the launch of Hillwood Commons, this unmatched real estate mix now extends to fully amenitized office space for businesses, large and small. AllianceTexas has provided office space for more than a decade; however, there has been no luxury office space available along the highly desirable I-35W Alliance Corridor north of downtown Fort Worth, which has been identified as the fastest-growing sector of the fastestgrowing large U.S. city.

Companies may initially be attracted to the building for its expanses of square footage designed with 10-foot-high ceilings, an elegant three-story atrium trimmed with distinctive wood and stone accents, and energy-efficient construction.

Ample parking space is another big factor in favor of Hillwood Commons I and it is designed to accommodate a wide range of office configuration requirements.

Just 10% of the space is devoted to hard-walled offices; the rest is open for breakout or huddle rooms that foster the collaborative working situations preferred by many businesses today.

Offering 155,000 square feet, divided between three flexible spaces, Hillwood Commons I (the first planned o f f i c e building in the program) is

Practical, cost-saving resource conservation is integral to Hillwood Commons I’s design. Windows are floor-to-ceiling with double-pane 1-inch insulated glazing and SOLARBAN 60 Low E coating. There is a bicycle storage area; charging stations for electric vehicles can be provided; and designated parking spaces for low-emitting and fuel-efficient vehicles. Low-flow water fixtures throughout the structure help reduce water consumption, as does the water-efficient landscaping using drought-tolerant native plants. The building is designed with the capability to harvest runoff water from building rooftops, parking lots and surrounding property for non-potable uses.

Hillwood Commons is a part of Alliance Town Center North, which is attracting a wide range of new dining and retail options, such as Chipotle and Pei Wei, to directly serve the office community, in addition to the continually growing business and residential community in the corridor. For a lunch break or after-office-hours meals, Alliance Town Center boasts dozens of dining options, with more opening all the time. Shopping options include a strong mix of national retail chains and independent boutiques. And throughout the year, there are many events on site, in addition to larger

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community events like the annual Fort Worth Alliance Air Show.

Most urban office buildings are surrounded by concrete and highways, not green meadows and peaceful waters. In sharp contrast, Hillwood Commons overlooks a 14-acre prairie grassland reserve called Bluestem Park.

A calming community centerpiece developed in partnership with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the park has a restored stream flowing through it, benches, and paved pathways that connect it to two major trail systems winding throughout the residential areas of Town Center. The park is one of only three Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center collaborations in North Texas.

Another goal for the design is to provide lifestyle options that make it easier for residents and employees to make healthier choices. Hillwood is working with the anchors of the burgeoning medical district through various health and wellness programs, to create facilities and amenities that help people live longer, healthier and happier lives. This includes the creation of walkable communities, the inclusion of trails and recreational green space throughout the development, the availability of healthy eating options and close proximity to a wide range of medical services. Serving the healthcare needs of the residents are Medical Center Alliance, Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance, Cook Children’s Medical Center Alliance, and Wise Regional Health System, which operates a cardiovascular clinic.

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The culmination of a 25year effort, Alliance Town Center is a valuable asset for AllianceTexas, and a model of sustainable development that offers desirable amenities, connected living, and activated environments for the community. “The total package provides customers and residents alike with every lifestyle amenity, service and work option that one could imagine,” added Burton. “Coupled with a natural environment that emphasizes health and wellness, it’s a destination that brings out the very best in Texas living.” n

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Fiction • I Never Promised You by A. Rose Garten • Unsolved Mysteries by N. Igma • Too Rough by Soren Redd • A Matter of Chemistry by Farrah Mone • En Garde! by Drew Blood

General Interest • How To Prevent Leaks by Titus A. Drum • Oh Snap! by Joe Mamma • I Hate the Sun by Gladys Knight • Not Bogged Down by Reality by Jason Rainbows • Exploring Other Galaxies by Anne Dromeda

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REW Dallas hosted “An Evening of Outstanding Achievement” on September 29th to celebrate and recognize individual members who have demonstrated excellence in commercial real estate and the community. (left) Michelle Hudson of Hudson Peters Commercial was selected as the 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award recipient (below) (L-R) Brenda Blake (B&J Financial Services), Kathy Mulgrew (Spencer Consulting), Coni Hennersdorf (CODA Consulting Group LLC), Michelle Hudson (Hudson Peters Commercial)

A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.

(below) (L-R) Cindy Cohn (Springboard Consulting, LLC), Suzanne Brasuell (Entos Design), Kennis Ketchum (Portfolio Development, LLC)

(right) (L-R) Tracie Frazier (KDC), Karen Pierre (Bisnow Dallas), Megan DeLeon (Bright & Co. Marketing) (left) (L-R) Kennis Ketchum (Portfolio Development, LLC), Elissa Plotsky (Chicago Title), Eugenia Robbins (RER Solutions), Kaye McCallum (RER Solutions), Cindy Cohn (Springboard Consulting, LLC), Suzanne Brasuell (Entos Design), Teresa Giltner (Dykema Cox Smith), Leigh Richter (Bradford Commercial Real Estate) 28

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2017 CREW Dallas Board of Directors Pete, is that you?!

Suzanne Brasuell (Entos Design) 2017 President

Tracie Frazier (KDC) Director

Paula Beasley (McTaggart & Beasley) President-Elect

Lindsay Jones (Amegy Bank) Director

Teresa Ereon Giltner (Dykema Cox Smith) Past President

Cathy Kuebler (Billingsley Company) Director

Shea Kracheck Sally Longroy (Lane, Gorman &Trubitt) (Guida, Slavich & Flores) Secretary/Treasurer Strategic Advisor

Karen Pierre (BisNow) Director

Kari Walker Higgins (walker+miranda design studio) Director

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JOHN CARRUTH johnc@merriman-maa.com John Carruth is Director of 3-D Visualization of Merriman Anderson/Architects.

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hrough 30 years of business, acclaimed Merriman Anderson/Architects (maa) has had countless successful commissions. Their stamp can be seen on master planned developments, urban housing, office buildings, corporate facilities, hotels, hospitals, schools and retail projects, including interiors and signage, throughout the U.S. and internationally.

Headquartered in Dallas with additional offices in Austin and Charlotte, maa offers customized project solutions to a varied portfolio of clients. With more than 90 employees, the firm is large enough to address broad and complex real estate developments, yet small enough to offer personalized service and accountability. MAA’s associates have a reputation for design excellence as well as technical detailing.

General contractors will benefit from VR by being able to better understand the space and materials within a project. A member of the construction team has occasionally recommended the use of another material or offered a new solution for a design after “visualizing the space” through the VR goggles. An additional benefit of the virtual reality service is the cost savings to owners and developers from the construction team’s input prior to stepping onto the job site.

Virtual Reality (VR) is the next step in the company’s vision, Though VR is being used in many fields, from art to media, entertainment and sports, the application for architecture and interior design is unique in its own. VR allows owners and developers the opportunity ‘envision’ before construction has begun in a more enveloping manner than ever before. Though still in its infancy as a technology, it has paid dividends in allowing the design team to feel comfortable with the project’s scope and overall vision before construction costs are incurred.

VR is not only changing the way the client sees what the end product will be, it is giving designers another tool to make informed decisions based on clients’ needs and wants. The process is more cost efficient and effective than the technologies of the past and has become the must-have tool on many projects.

A virtual reality image of the lobby of The Drever, a 1.5 million square-foot mid-century mixed-use renovation maa is designing in downtown Dallas.

“The virtual reality application that the Merriman Anderson team uses allows us, as a client, to have a clear understanding of not only how the space looks, but how it feels,” said Bryan Dorsey, president of BDRC Partners. “You are able to have a true vision of what you have been planning. That helps describe the aesthetics and functionality of a space to investors and prospective users. Not only do you see what is being built within your space, but you also get to see what occupants will see out their windows throughout the building. That can become a big selling point.”

Many businesses have an opportunity to benefit from VR software. It is useful for new builds and renovations ranging from high-rise mixed-use projects to multifamily buildings to mid-rise office and even one-story retail projects.

Owners, architects and contractors get to see not only a realistic vision of the building before construction begins, but also its future placement within the block, neighborhood and city. VR allows tests of different structure and design options without having to build or draw several versions, which is time consuming and costly.

A virtual reality image of the lobby at the Oklahoma City First National Bank building, a 33-story art deco building built in 1931 that is being converted to hotel and apartments.

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When wearing the VR goggles, you truly feel immersed in the space, unlike other applications where you are looking at images or videos from an outside perspective. There is something surreal and exciting for clients in seeing their spaces and their designs as they will be when built. It is not unusual for them (when wearing the goggles) to reach out and feel for the bannister as they step down stairs or physically step back because they see that they are too close to a window ledge.

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“It is important for Merriman Anderson/Architects that we stay ahead of the technology curve and always offer excellence to our clients,” said Jerry Merriman, president of maa. “Virtual reality is part of that effort; 3D renderings and fly-by videos are still part of our final package. However, virtual reality adds another element to give the client an even deeper understanding of what the final product will look like and the experience we are attempting to build within the space.”

Founded in 1987 based on the principles of integrity, ingenuity, respect and customer service, maa has garnered many awards and accolades through the years. MAA is responsible for notable urban planning projects such as Entrada Town Center in Westlake, multiple components of the Southlake Town Center, and the River Walk Town Center in Flower Mound; hospitality projects include Dallas’ Hilton Curio at the Statler Hotel and Residences and the Marriott Autograph at the Sinclair Building in Fort Worth; popular urban housing projects such as 21 Rio in Austin as well as mixed-use projects like Lone Star Gas Lofts and The Drever in Dallas all boast maa’s design and production expertise. The firm is also credited with being at the forefront of green and sustainable design (LEED) long before it was fashionable.

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As part of the firm’s goals to meet and exceed client expectations through all phases of the architectural design process that solution, the 3D Visualization Team has become increasingly key in allowing clients to visually understand what is being designed and developed. For years they have offered clients 3D still images, as well as video fly-bys from concept to construction, to aid in the understating of the vision of the project.

San Antonio AGC The chapter held its 23rd Annual Safety Fair and BBQ CookOff on October 8th at Helotes Fairgrounds with 28 teams competing.

Category I – Chicken: 1st Place – Kezar’s Pest Control A 2nd Place –Comfort-Air Air Engineering, Inc. 3rd Place – Crownhill Builders, Inc. Category II – Ribs: 1st Place – M & M Metals, Inc. B 2nd Place – Crownhill Builders, Inc. 3rd Place – Allbrite Construction, Inc.

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his 27-story building is the first cylindrical shaped building in Monterrey, Mexico and will house numerous medical services organizations. The 438 curved (60-foot radius) panels employ white concrete with an acid wash finish for a total cladding area of nearly 70,000 sf. The tower has a parking garage that utilizes traditional architectural panels (88 panels). Both panel types were manufactured concurrently with building construction to shorten the project schedule. The thermal benefits will reduce the environmental operating costs of the project. Additional cost savings where achieved in both the foundation and superstructure design.

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he Distinguished Building Awards embody the skill, commitment and passion that TEXO members have for construction.

Congratulations to the 2016 winners!

Building 1 ($0-2M) Vertiex Bank Oak Lawn Branch Spring Valley Construction Company

Building 5 ($30 - 75 M)

Cook Children's Medical Center South Utility Plant Linbeck Group, LLC

Design Build 3 (Over $30 M) Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex Byrne Construction Services & Ridgemont Commercial Construction, Joint Venture

Building 6 (Over $75 M)

AT&T Center Renovations

Hunt Construction Group, An AECOM Company

Electrical 1 ($0 - 5 M) White's Chapel United Methodist Church - New Fellowship Hall Addition • Walker Engineering, Inc.

Building 3 ($5 - 10 M) Greenhill School Dining Hall Andres Construction Services

Design Build 1 ($0 - 10 M) Hommel Elementary School Addition and Renovations SEDALCO, INC.

Electrical 2 ($5 - 10 M) Texas Center for Proton Therapy Walker Engineering, Inc.

Building 4 ($10 - 30 M) DBU Jim and Sally Nation Hall Austin Commercial LP

Design Build 2 ($10 - 30 M) TCU Frog Alley Parking Garage The Beck Group

Electrical 3 (Over $10 M) State Farm Regional Campus The Brandt Companies, LLC

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Building 2 ($2 - 5 M) UT Southwestern Medical Center E3 Team Based Learning LEMCO Construction Services, L.P.

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Industrial/Warehouse*2 (Over $5 M) JJ Lemmon Industrial Center Jordan Foster Construction

Mechanical 2 ($5 - 10 M) HALL Arts Center Polk Mechanical Company

Health Care 1 ($0 -10 M) Surgery Center of Plano Skiles Group, Inc.

Interior Finish-Out 2 ($500 K - 2 M) Prestonwood Country Club "The Creek” T&G Constructors

Mechanical 3 (Over $10 M) Methodist Mansfield Medical Center TDIndustries

Health Care 2 ($10 - 30 M) Complex 53 Bed ICU Renovation- Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas • MEDCO Construction L.L.C.

Interior Finish-Out 3 ($2 - 5 M) FROST TOWER FROST UPTOWN Levels 1, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 James R. Thompson, Inc.

Other Specialty (All Contract Amounts) Love Field Modernization Program Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing

Health Care 3 (Over $30 M) Methodist Mansfield Medical Center The Beck Group

Interior Finish-Out 4 (Over $5 M) University of North Texas - Marquis Hall Joeris General Contractors, Ltd.

Residential Multi-Family 3700M Rogers-O'Brien Construction Company

Industrial/Warehouse*1 (Up to $5 M) Dynaten Annex Skiles Group, Inc.

Interiors (All Contract Amounts) Crossroads Children's Building BakerTriangle

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Merit Award Winners: University of Texas at Tyler Cowan Center for the Musical Arts - Jacobe Brothers Construction, LTD • UT Tyler College of Pharmacy - J. T. Vaughn Construction, LLC The Church of The Incarnation - Lee Lewis Construction, Inc. • Tarrant County Tom Vandergriff Civil Courts Building - Yates Construction

Exteriors (All Contract Amounts) Preston Hollow Estate Southern Botanical, Inc.

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Happenings S A N A N TO N I O

IREM 2016 Fish Bowl Event

Ginger Miller with District 1 City Councilman Trevino, guest speaker

Impact Fire Services – 1st Place Richard Alexander (PJS Janitorial) - Toilet Bowl Trophy for Lillibridge Team

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank and ISS Facility Services PM/FM students tour a UTSA roof as part of course

Insite Architects won best Team Costume

The Best Individual – Shark - Insite Architects

Chapter President Ginger Miller, front left and PresidentElect Lyndsay Walbran, rear left, with UTSA students at the October Luncheon

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Ginger Miller with Mike Noll, chapter member and Ethics Instructor

IREM San Antonio puts their Body into ETHICS Awareness Month

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long Fort Worth’s Trinity River just three miles west of downtown, is the start of a new neighborhood development for residential, retail, and entertainment. Fort Capital CEO Chris Powers spoke with the Society of Commercial REALTORS® and Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS® members at an SCR Breakfast to provide an update on this new development.

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According to the River District website, “It’s not just another development. It’s a distinctively Fort Worth neighborhood, designed to connect you to everything you love about this city.” This new district will be situated on 276 acres along the Trinity River. Fort Capital is working on its new 16,500 square foot office building, which was already 97 percent leased at the time of the SCR Breakfast.

This building should be completed by the beginning of 2017. Apartments are currently under construction, with plans to begin leasing by spring 2017. There are two luxury housing communities planned as well as luxury townhomes.

Powers talked with attendees about Elan at the River District, a luxury apartment building owned by apartment management company Greystar. This will be a fourstory building with 328 Class-A units including 16 townhomes. The goal of the River District is to be Fort Worth’s central destination for dining, entertainment, and living.

The area is still a work in progress, but there has been a lot of buzz throughout the community. Work will continue on the River District for the next five to ten years.

See which businesses and restaurants are coming to the area www.RiverDistrictFW. com.

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ANGELA O’BYRNE aobyrne@e-perez.com Angela O’Byrne, AIA, is President of Perez, APC, a 70+ yearold architecture, planning, interior design, and construction firm. She is also a Contributing Editor of the network

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or decades, the title of largest building in the world by volume has belonged to the same owner: Boeing. Their factory in Everett, Washington employs more than 30,000 skilled workers, producing airliners from start to finish on vast assembly lines that buzz around the clock. That Boeing’s manufacturing colossus has remained the world’s largest for so long should come as no surprise; building airplanes is literally big business. But if all goes to plan, Everett will have a challenger in the [incredibly] appropriately named city of Sparks, Nevada—where one of the world’s most notorious billionaires is making a historic bet on the future.

To say that Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 will produce lithium batteries is an understatement. CEO Elon Musk’s plan for the massive plant is to produce three times the current global output of lithium batteries. By bringing battery production inhouse, Tesla is looking to leverage economies of scale to reduce cost, spark giant growth in the electric vehicle market, and potentially change how we think about cars.

Until recently, Tesla’s focus has been on producing high-end, luxury sports cars, playing on techie cachet and an early-adopter mindset to move product. While Tesla’s offerings have been critical darlings, they have not yet challenged the core of the car manufacturing market—until now.

Tesla’s next step is to go very big and broad, increasing overall production by more than fifteen-fold. At the heart of this strategy is the introduction of Tesla’s Model 3. Priced significantly lower than its predecessors [at 36

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$35,000] the car of the future has already been pre-ordered by more than 370,000 people [who have all paid $1,000 for the privilege]—even though the Model 3 won’t start shipping until late 2017. But the Model 3 cannot be feasible unless Tesla can reduce the cost of batteries and increase their availability dramatically—which is where the Gigafactory comes in.

Gigafactory 1 is still in its first phase—currently representing about 14% of its planned footprint. It stands stark in the middle of the red Nevada desert, on a giant section of leveled earth. Today, the factory is geared toward producing Tesla’s Powerwalls and Powerpacks, massive batteries produced for residential and commercial applications.

However, everything about the Gigafactory is geared for future growth. Its exterior walls are temporary in anticipation of expansion, and Musk has purchased 3,000 acres of land in total so that the Gigafactory can continue to grow in an incremental, modular fashion over the next decade.

When completed [predicted to be in 2020], the 13.6 million square-foot building will be shaped like a diamond. From above, it will resemble a shiny, clean computer chip, covered entirely with solar panels and oriented toward true North.

Unsurprisingly, one of the project’s key goals [and indeed central to all of Musk’s projects] is to be net-zero, using 100% renewable energy to drive production and recycling all industrial waste as effectively as possible.

The Gigafactory will be home to 6,500 employees and a massive fleet of robots, including automated guided vehicle—which roam the factory

using digital maps and sensors. Raw materials will be transported into the factory on rail cars, making the transition from mine to finished product virtually seamless. At full force, the Gigafactory will produce enough batteries to support 1.5 million cars each year, both in the form of onboard vehicular batteries and in the form of stationary power storage, which will become more ubiquitous as the electric revolution takes over the country.

At least that’s the plan. Overall, the Gigafactory will cost upwards of $9 billion— which explains the building’s four earthquakeproof foundations protecting Tesla’s massive investment. With such a large investment, a lot is riding on the next few years of Model 3 sales.

If it succeeds, we may see more Gigafactories in the future—and the biggest change in automobiles since Ford rolled out the Model T in 1908.

As atmospheric carbon continues to climb, Musk is focused full-throttle on transitioning our energy sources toward sustainable alternatives, both with Tesla and SolarCity, where he serves as Chairman. While we’ve seen incremental growth in alternative energy sources with the slow adoption of wind and solar power, a massive and sudden paradigm shift hasn’t yet occurred. If it does, it may be ignited in a town called Sparks. n

The Gigafactory is critical to Elon Musk’s plan to build 500,000 cars a year by 2018

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TODD HENDERSON

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Todd Henderson is the President and Co-Founder of INK, a leading branding agency with a specialty in commercial real estate.

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Branding 101 for Real Estate Companies

ommercial real estate is driven by two simple rules: find the land and find the money. Once you have identified the former, the latter is equal parts commerce and creativity. While market factors and deal structure are critical, the art of the story can sometimes make or break your chances of getting funded. The question is…”Are you telling a compelling story?”

Yesterday, developers followed a pragmatically utilitarian model that has existed for decades: develop a site plan, renderings and a market study followed by some solid due diligence, a pro forma and land plan and present the data to potential investors. If the numbers told a compelling story, the deal would get funded. However, the industry has progressed far beyond the complex logistical aspects of positioning a property into a holistic model of strategic storytelling and visioning.

Today, the pitch is more important than ever. Savvy investors are looking for a project’s reason for being – the story behind the deal. As a result, brands are being created and stories are being told earlier in the development process so that an emotional connection can be made, creating an opportunity for investors to get invested both financially as well as emotionally.

To build a great brand in real estate and attract investors requires an authentic story that will shine a bright and colorful spotlight on the themes that are interesting, relevant and unique to core audiences. Weaving these themes into a tapestry of words, images and expressions will paint a vivid picture of what it will be like to interact with that brand–or in this case, building–every day.

As an industry, commercial developers are beginning to realize that they are not merely in the construction business. They are beginning to understand that building bland boxes in which to place our gray, lifeless cubicles isn’t a compelling reason to exist. Those that get it are rising head and shoulders above the competition, embracing the concept of building places for dreams that enable companies to grow and succeed beyond their wildest expectations.

Spectrum Group is another example. This small, but powerful player in the industry is launching a mixed-use development at the University of Southern California, just steps away from the iconic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the USC campus.

These brand stories position the project and the development company in its best and most impressionable light. The process elevates the credibility of the deal, reinforces the commitment and investment of the developer and creates an impeccable first impression–all of which increase the odds of getting funded.

It’s ‘Branding 101’ and the industry as a whole is sitting up and taking notice.

For example, developers like Trammell Crow, the firm behind Southern California’s most innovative new commercial development, The Boardwalk (www.theboardwalkoc.com).

“Our goal has been to break the mold of what has been done across traditional office product. By creating a unique brand early on, we have been able to bring the project to life, allowing us to establish the major points of differentiation, clearly articulate the value proposition, and generate anticipation among the community and prospective tenants.” describes Tom Bak, Senior Managing Director at Trammell Crow.

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A mix of student housing, a hotel, restaurants and retail shops, ‘The Fig’ has been positioned as more than a mere mixed-use development. Its positioning sets the tone for not only the 4.42-acre development but paints an emotional picture of what it will be like to live, work and stay in this unique and inspiring environment. “As we set out to gain alignment with city officials, investors, partners and lobbyists, having a well-defined and credible brand helped us accomplish our goals and move this project forward on a timetable few achieve for a development of this magnitude.” cites Scott Gale, President of Spectrum Group.

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Progressive companies realize that while location and features remain an important aspect of differentiation and therefore valuation, the strategic brand positioning of these development firms, and the structures they represent, need to stand for something far more significant than merely the building itself. They need to understand their role in helping their tenants’ companies thrive and take a very direct hand in serving as a critical partner for future growth. They are in fact advisors to these firms, helping them acquire and retain their most valuable assets – their employees and in turn growing their businesses along the way.

Here’s the formula for success: Know your audience’s real needs.

It all starts with a clear understanding of your audience and what motivates them to do their best every day. We call this user-centered design and it’s the cornerstone of ensuring what you build will serve the needs of your core audience. Start with focus groups and online surveys separated by varying perspectives– brokers, business owners, operations managers and the employees themselves.

Listen to these “users”. Respect their opinions and then simply give them more of what they want in both story and experience.

Craft a compelling story centered around emotion.

Like their companies themselves, CEOs and employees need a vision to rally behind and support.

Once a clear understanding of their unspoken needs has been identified, show how the unique features of your development serve these needs. Focus less on square footage, amenities and location; instead, weave a memorable story that places your audience squarely at center stage painting a vivid picture of what it will be like to eagerly walk through their doors every single day – a building that will enable them to succeed based on their unique definitions of success.

Sweat the details.

The days of controlling a brand through limited channels are long gone, and therefore, a keen understanding of the organic nature of decisionmaking is critical as you set out to launch and promote a brand. Tell your brand story carefully and consistently across all mediums–web, mobile, social and experiential. Using the channels that are

culturally relevant is critical to your success. Using older techniques, including simple newspaper ads and tired direct mail pieces, will make your job infinitely more difficult.

Be open to new means of storytelling.

Every day new and exciting technologies emerge that enable us to better connect the emotional dots for our audiences. From beacon technology and social engagement to augmented and virtual reality, our storytelling tools are constantly evolving to shortening the divide between vision and reality.

The use of these technologies needs to be seen more as an investment than an expense. They can have a measurable impact on your business.

Operationalize your story.

If this creative process begins early enough in the development cycle, it will help shape external perceptions and could have a positive impact on the physical structure and the property overall. Armed with valuable audience insights and a memorable story, the very structure, amenities and features of the development should evolve to physically express these brand values through everyday interactions.

Operationalizing your story and ensuring the smallest details consistently reflect the values of your brand is essential to developing a property that lives up to tenant expectations through everyday interactions.

Great strides are being made not only architecturally but philosophically as developers begin to realize that they are not simply constructing buildings, but launching lifestyle brands. So, as you walk into your office building tomorrow, stop and think about the emotions you feel about that space. Are you inspired? Comfortable? Challenged? Ignored?

These emotional reactions subconsciously influence our mood throughout the day and over time can legitimately impact the success of your businesses.

Commercial real estate industry companies that value and invest in branding their projects and themselves outperform their nonbranded peers and serve as true partners to the companies who call these office buildings home. So while finding land and money will always to be top priorities, finding your story can not only make that job easier, it will help make the end product something of which you can be proud.

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ROXANA TOFAN

roxana@clearintegritygroup.com Roxana Tofan, CPM® is the Owner/Broker at Clear Integrity Group LLC in San Antonio

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ntroduced to the USO in 2009 by a great friend in Dallas, I continue to volunteer for our military and the USO and now serve on the advisory board for the San Antonio USO. The Military City USO has three operating centers - at the San Antonio airport, downtown, and at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) on base at Fort Sam. As we go to print, this recently past Veterans’ Day, the USO is scheduled to open its fourth center in San Antonio - a state of the art fitness facility on Fort Sam. In addition to their operating centers, the San Antonio USO provides many programs and events for the military and their families.

Roxana: What does your civilian life looks like?

John: I work as a project manager for CenCore, LLC, a government contractor that specializes in security, Intel, and IT. The army really helped set me up for success.

It gave me the opportunity to learn, to grow, to take care of soldiers/people, to be in charge and accountable for my own development and for those around me. The army has phenomenal leadership training and programs that teach us how to be better leaders, as well as how to adapt to any situations and be successful in our missions/work. These were valuable skills that have helped in my civilian work. I have also been privileged to work with great mentors and leaders throughout my time in the army, and many of my mentors on the civilian side are veterans as well.

Roxana: What surprised you about the civilian life compared to your military life?

John: I had to adapt to differences of what I can and cannot do at my civilian job like “corrective action.” In the military, I could keep soldiers late if a mission needed to be completed. In the civilian job, I have to consider overtime costs and peoples’ perspectives about working extra hours. I had to adapt, but I’ve been able to use the same leadership approach - if you take care of your soldiers/employees, they will take care of you.

Roxana: Who inspired you to join the military?

John: My dad owns his own company in health services and my mom was a CFO for a government contracting company. They are people who have worked hard and always encouraged me to follow my own thing. At a young age I was watching the news and there was a story about soldiers serving in our military. Something about seeing these men and women serving our country drew me in and as soon as I turned 18, I went to a recruiter and, with the help of my assistant wrestling coach, who was a E-7 in the army reserves, I joined the U.S. Army on January 22, 2010.

I did my basic training in Fort Jackson, SC and then went to Advanced Individual Training (AIT) as an intelligence analyst. I later retrained to be a Psychological Operations Specialist (PSYOP) in the army reserves.

Roxana: What followed in your military career?

John: In 2011, I went into a PSYOP reserve unit and became a junior noncommissioned officer as a corporal by the age of 20. In 2013, as part of the Army South and the Beyond the Horizon mission, I was sent to support a humanitarian mission in Panama and later the Dominican Republic that aimed to train foreign militaries, provide medical support to the local populations, and to build schools and clinics. In the Dominican Republic mission, I was the PSYOP NCOIC, and I was responsible for training PSYOP soldiers that were cycling in and out every two to three weeks.

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Roxana: How did you get involved with the USO and the RP/6 program?

John: My mom volunteers with the USO. She shared information about the RP/6

Daffynition: Khakis – what you need to start the car in Boston.

I met John-Matthew Urby, 25, through the San Antonio USO and their new RP/6 program that helps the U.S. military personnel and their families successfully transition into civilian life after their service ends. The program seeks to connect with military families during the 18 months before transition and the 18 months after - a time that many veterans fall through the cracks as they hit the reality of life outside the military. John is a USO San Antonio RP/6 alumni and mentor, one of the many who have separated from the military and now volunteer to mentor transitioning service men and women. I spent some time with John to learn more about his military and civilian life.

program - a movement I truly believe in. I still serve in the Army Reserves, and I thought it was a great way as a veteran to help other veterans and become an alumnus/mentor. It is my way of paying it forward and keeping the movement going.

The USO and RP/6 guides military personnel looking to separate from service and rejoin the civilian work with housing, education and jobs tips and preparation. The networking the San Antonio USO offers our military is invaluable.

Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula”

Roxana: What specific things are important for civilians to remember to support a military person rejoining the civilian world?

John: The most important thing to understand is the incredible value a military person brings to any civilian company - strong leadership, job experience, years on the job training, great ability to adapt and multi task. Military people are mission oriented; their mentality is to get the job done and not focus on how many hours it will take. Explaining the military experience is hard; for example, translating the military experiences into civilian terminology - interviews versus promotion boards, acronyms versus specific tasks in a job. And, military people sometimes have to take a step down in the civilian job because their jobs were so specific in the military that it is difficult to equate in a civilian job.

Roxana: What are your civilian life goals?

John: I started my own company recently g - Com6, LLC. In the military COM usually stands for Command but it is also the basis for some powerful words, like Competence and Communication. The ‘6’ means “got your back” in military terminology. My vision is to create a company to feel good about, stimulate the economy and create jobs. I want to have a comfortable living, keep it a small business and work with some of the same people I’ve served with, who bring crucial skills and loyalty to the company. This way I can create a strong company, help them and other veterans and also provide value by utilizing veterans’ experiences.

At 25 years old, John is an incredible young man who continues to give to his country by assisting veterans and giving back to the local community. He credits most of his success to the mentors and people he has been associated with in the army. He doesn’t want to lose touch with the veteran community and wants to continue to support the active military community. “The military brings together people with different backgrounds, lifestyles and experiences and never stops bettering you as an individual or service member”, he says. What an incredible 25-year-old young man and veteran!

For 75 years now, the USO has been the nation’s leading non-profit organization serving the men and women in the U.S. Military and their families. While most of you remember Bob Hope and the USO providing the military with entertainment across the world, the USO today supports the military from the moment they join service at the local MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Center), through their assignments and deployments, and as the transition back to their communities, through the new RP/6 transition program.

“USO-RP/6 transition program is a complimentary service to the transition services on Joint Base San Antonio(JBSA). The key ingredients to this program is the personalized buddy system approach and development of the transition alumni network. The unwavering support of our community has helped generate a community movement. “Thecommitment of our community and its involvement has allowed our transition alumni to develop invaluable relationships that provide vital transition insight and mentorship; ultimately fostering a successful reintegration and cultivating future leaders in our community,” said Chuck Bunch, USAF (Ret), USO-RP/6 Site Manager in San Antonio.

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Los Angeles, California

quint your eyes, and it looks like a gleaming clipper ship with its sails filled with wind!

The Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles opened in 2003. It seats 2,265 people and serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. It was designed by Frank Gehry. Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, donated $50 million in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney’s devotion to the arts and to the city.

The stainless steel exterior forms were in fact inspired by Gehry’s love of sailing. The innovative forms were a new and unfamiliar challenge for contractors. Eventually, Gehry’s solution was to employ software used in the design and construction of French fighter jets. Called CATIA (computer-sided three-dimensional interactive application), the software translated Gehry’s organic forms, panel by panel, into buildable construction plans.

Upon completion in 2003, the project cost an estimated $274 million. (The parking garage alone cost $110 million.) The remainder of the total cost was paid by private donations, of which the Disney family’s contribution was estimated to $84.5 million with another $25 million from The Walt Disney Company.

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The interior is an accomplishment in its own right. Gehry designed the auditorium to provide both impeccable acoustics and a sense of intimacy, wrapping the audience around the orchestra.

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TYLER CARLSON

TCarlson@sitezeus.com

Tyler Carlson is the Vice President of Sales at SiteZeus.com

Why is it that…

the commercial real estate industry is slow to adapt to new technologies?

With the information age in full effect, the internet has equipped every buyer with more information than ever. When buying a home, a homebuyer can pull up the price per square foot, houses in similar shape/size prices, and a thousand other potential homes in seconds. Previously, it was completely left to the real estate broker to educate their clients. What happens is profit margins are decreased as the newly educated buyer will inevitably get a better deal. This change is going to chip away profits for the real estate industry as a whole.

In commercial real estate, there has always been a direct correlation between value and hard assets, but this is becoming an outdated mindset due to the landscape of technology today. What is surprising is that other industries have picked up on this, yet commercial real estate has been stagnant. For example, Uber, the largest taxi firm in the market, owns no vehicles; Facebook, the largest media company on the planet, creates no content; and Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, carries absolutely no stock. These companies are not outliers, they are the new norm.

There is an alarming lack of interest and attention given to the gold mine of value that firms are sitting on besides hard assets. In other words, commercial real estate companies are blind to the immensely valuable assets that they own. It may not be long before one of the world’s largest commercial real estate companies will adopt these strategies. As mentioned above, this has already been proven in the residential space by Zillow.

Considering that the real estate industry is the largest single asset class in the United States valued around $50 Trillion (according to the FED), it’s not surprising that a major disruption is steadily brewing around the corner. This has already played out in the residential segment with companies like Zillow, which wholeheartedly understands that hard assets are not the only way to grow wealth.

Another reason for this snail’s paced evolution is that this is the only industry left where wealth has been created without the direct “need” for technology . There are plenty of people that have created wealth in CRE with zero to no technology – just a Rolodex and some map markers. It is safe to say that this won’t hold true for much longer. With the increase of property values and wages, companies are more careful and selective when it comes to selecting commercial spaces.

So why should the commercial real estate industry adapt to new technology? What’s really in it? It boils down to making better decisions in a fraction of the time.

What is going to be the catalyst that sparks this adaptation? In my opinion, it’s going to be the inclusion of younger individuals into decision making roles in organizations. Those who embrace the change and run with it, versus those who prefer to wait on the sidelines. The companies on the sidelines are murmuring to themselves, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The breaking news is: it may not be broken, but it is undeniably breaking.

Last month, when I met with one of the largest restaurant companies on the globe, one thing surprised me more than anything: The incredibly low average age of the people with whom we were interacting. The majority were within just a couple years of graduating college! I have also met with brands that you could be sure are being run by ‘dinosaurs’ To them, “This is the way we have always done things. Why would we change?” The answer is simple: The world is changing faster than ever. If you don’t change with it, you will become extinct.

5-Question Christmas Quiz 1. What do you call people who are afraid of Santa?

2. What do they call Santa's helpers?

3. What do you have in December that you don't have in any other month?

4. What do you call a bunch of grandmasters of chess bragging about their games in a hotel lobby?

5. What are the names of Santa’s reindeer?

Answers: 1. Claus-trophobic; 2. Subordinate Clauses; 3. The letter "D"; 4. Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer ; 5. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph* (*"Dunder and Blixem" (a Dutch expression for "thunder and lightning.") were the original names of Donner and Blitzen. Blitzen is the German word for lightning and Donner is the German word for thunder. The change occurred more than a hundred years before Rudolph joined the group.)

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

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ndeniable - the commercial real estate industry is painfully slow to adapt to new technology! I have witnessed hundreds of companies refer to an excel document as a sophisticated piece of “technology.”

The major drivers for this lag in innovation revolve around an outdated rationale and a general lack of forward thinking. The idea that value can only be extracted from hard assets or tangible assets is being challenged now more than ever.

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2016 North Texas Recycling Awards The NTCRA has been a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth recycling landscape for more than 20 years. It exists to promote recycling and the use of recycled goods through leadership, advocacy and education, and it provides forums for members of the business community and local governments to become more environmentally aware, exchange information, coordinate special programs, and provide mentoring. The North Texas Recycling Awards recognizes the efforts of North Texas businesses, governments and individuals for outstanding contributions and forward thinking impacting meaningful waste reduction.

Excellence in Environmental Education and Outreach

Winner: City of Denton Solid Waste & Recycling Department Honorable Mention: City of Keller

Elected Official award winner: Donna Kliewer (Waste Services Manager for the City of Allen) and the Honorable Mayor Steve Terrell The gR3een Media

Colleen Coyle, WFAA

Superior Waste Minimization

Winner: Town of Little Elm

Honorable Mention: City of Dallas Office of Environmental Quality Excellence in Material Recovery

The gR3een Elected Official

Honorable Mayor Steve Terrell (City of Allen)

City of Denton employees (L-R) Tyler Hurd, Scott Lebsack, Alana Taylor, Stuart Birdseye, Randall Morris, Steve Hartman, Vanessa Ellison, and Wendy Chance

Honorable Mention: City of Stephenville gR3een Thumb

City of Frisco Environmental Services

Best Recycling Partnership

Winners: Balcones Recycling and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Honorable Mention: City of Denton & Pratt Recycling

(L-R) NTCRA President Lora Hinchcliff, Media Award Winner Colleen Coyle (WFAA), and Russell Luker, GM Balcones Recycling

Recycler of the Year

Brandon Giannasi The gR3een Achievement

Award Winner: City of Cedar Hill

Honorable Mention: Crossmark Café Plano Innovative Recycling Special Event

Frisco - (L-R) Molly Kinson, Jeremy Starritt, Council Member Bill Woodward, and Julianah Marie

Winners: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano and UTA Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact (ISGI)

Planning Committee members (L-R) Jason Keller, Heather Douglas, Kevin Lefebvre, Lora Hinchcliff, Cheryl Brock, Jeremy Starritt, Steve Kassen

Goldwynisms Samuel Goldwyn was one of Hollywood’s great movie producers. (Think MGM.) He was also well-known for murdering the English language, sort of Yogi Berra in the world of films.

“All this criticism – it’s like ducks off my back.”

“Too caustic? To hell with the cost – we’ll make the movie anyway.”

“We’ve all passed a lot of water since then.”

(Asked about the message of one of his films) “I’m not interested in messages. Messages are for Western Union.”

“I’m willing to admit that I may not always be right… but I’m never wrong.”

“I want a movie that starts with an earthquake and works up to a climax.”

“I’ll believe color television when I see it in black and white.”

“Don’t let your opinions sway your judgment.”

“Let’s have some new clichés.”

“These days, every director bites the hand that laid the golden egg.”

“In two words: im possible.”

“This music won’t do. There’s not enough sarcasm in it.”

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“Let’s bring it up-to-date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.”

“If you can’t give me your word of honor, will you give me your promise?”

“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.”

“Anyone who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.”

“The most important thing in acting is honesty. Once you’ve learned to fake that, you’re in.”

“If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man.”

“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.”

“When I want your opinion, I will give it to you.”

Does the name ‘Pavlov’ ring a bell?

Winner: Champion Waste and Recycling

DENNIS BOX

dennis@dboxinc.com Dennis Box is the president of DBox, Inc. (a maintenance and repair services provider in north Texas and Houston) and the owner of DBox Property Products (a manufacturer and distributor of unique commercial products sold nationally).

O No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

n any given day in Texas, it is estimated there are over 79,000 people experiencing the misery of homelessness. And of these 79,000+ souls, a third are living out of their cars, under bridges -- or at properties you manage.

While homelessness is not a crime, many types of public behavior it causes are illegal, and confronting this behavior can sometimes quickly lead to levels of threat or danger. While only 6% of the general population suffer from severe mental illness, government studies indicate that between 20% and 25% of the homeless do. This can be scary.

It should certainly not be surprising, then, that homelessness has become a high priority issue for politicians, property owners, and the general public due to the safety and health concerns associated with it.

This places a tremendous burden on real estate professionals to provide greater protection for the sites they manage. But how do you balance your responsibility to protect visitors, customers, and tenants as well as the physical property itself, while also recognizing the human element of this sad situation?

We should empathize with the plight of homelessness so many of our fellow Texans suffer. In Bob Dylan’s classic Like a Rolling Stone, he sang of a girl that took for granted all she had, and then wound up on the street when all she had was lost – “How does it feel, how does it feel?

To be without a home To be on your own Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone” However, there are some measures you can take to help prevent loitering on your properties and to discourage homeless “camping”.

Enlist the help of the community liaison office within the local police department. Create a relationship here and get advice in combating particular issues you may experience. They can also introduce you to homeless advocates and agencies that may assist with your particular situation. Developing a good relationship with these valuable public servants is in the interest of doing a good job for your property.

Keep the property clean. A clean property discourages loitering and petty crimes, and serves to prevent larger crimes from occurring. A trashy property invites trouble; if ownership or management doesn’t care how their property looks, certainly no one else will be bothered by further trashing it. Money invested in quality sweeping, porter, and/or landscaping services can keep trash picked up and maintain a positive aesthetic for the property. If your property is attractive and looks well maintained, it is less inviting to the transient population.

Eliminate sleeping spots. A real concern with the homeless population is their using your property to camp out and sleep at. If this is an issue, take measures to remove potential sleeping spots, which can be virtually any flat surface ideal for spreading out. Plant hostile or thorny bushes in low plant beds. Keep other bushes trimmed properly so they don’t conceal a potential sleep area. Install dividers / arm rests on benches. Lock

public restrooms at night. If there are any hidden alcove-type areas, consider placing a trash receptacle there so less space available for lounging. Products are being introduced in a new category called “Defensive Architecture”. A recent one is “sidewalk studs”. For use in hidden nooks and alcoves, these 1” high steel conical shaped spikes are mounted on concrete surfaces and can understandably discourage one from laying down on them. Be aware, though, that some advocates consider certain products in the Defensive Architecture category as inhumane. You have to make your own decision on that.

Prevent litter. Of course, this is an impossible standard, but litter can be discouraged by providing waste receptacles for customers and visitors to use.

There are a myriad of choices available to match the décor and theme of any property. Take advantage of all the options and styles these manufacturers offer to provide attractive and usable waste receptacles for guests.

Security. If your budget allows, a proper and proactive security team can quickly address the congregation of transients. A 24-hour security service can be of immense help in managing many issues related to homelessness on a property.

Remove graffiti. As quickly as you can. It looks terrible, encourages troublemakers, and draws loiterers and trespassers.

Install security cameras. It shows that the property is being monitored and provides proof of criminal activity (presuming, of course, that they are operational and monitored). Security cameras can help police in catching “the bad guy” and they can discourage loiterers and the homeless. Some properties even install fake security cameras to get the “benefit without the cost”. I do not encourage this though. Doing so could provide the innocent citizen visiting your site with a false sense of security.

Homeless At Christmas On Your Property

Homelessness can certainly be a nuisance – but we should remember that the homeless are people and not pigeons. A good example of this is a request my company received last December to clean up a homeless encampment within a dumpster enclosure at one of their Dallas properties.

Besides general trash, there were a lot of items in obviously good and usable condition – clothes, blankets, tarps, toys, etc. We loaded up all the trash to dispose of; but the good items were bagged/stacked and left with a note that they would be removed the next day if still on site. Upon returning the following morning, all the items were gone and a piece of cardboard with a note written in red lipstick was left behind (see photo). The note said: “To Whom It May Concern, please accept our sincere apology for any and all inconvenience our stay here has caused. Thank you for your tolerance of us. God bless you and yours, and Happy Holidays” A response like this from a family living in a dumpster was humbling. It is so easy to forget that our greatest gifts are not things, but kindness and love.

May God bless you and your family this season, and remember to give thanks for the roof over your head. So many of our fellow citizens cannot!

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5G studio collaborative, llc was founded in May 2005 to expand the parameters of design beyond traditional architectural practice.

Expanding the Parameters of Design with Impact in Dallas and Beyond

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artners Scott Lowe, Yen Ong, Huang Dang, Jacob Tindall and Mike Voegtle founded a diverse company that has grown strong in a foundational commitment to delivering precise excellence in design, in definitively accurate service to clients. 5G is a dynamic, aggressive, vibrant and award-winning design firm that has rapidly gained world-wide recognition and respect among local and international peers. The firm exhibits consistent productive innovation and freshness in their design approach. They take on every assignment with the mindset of an owner and the know-how of a builder, and their clients benefit exponentially from their work with the achievement of an always-premier-quality, more marketable product, delivered on-time and on-budget.

5G’s reputation for design excellence has built a successful firm which continues solid growth and expansion. The work from teams in offices in Dallas, Atlanta, Miami and in Indonesia is furthering progress in the growth of cities around the world, with current projects and pursuits in 10 countries.

LANGHAM HOTELS AND RESORTS, FRISCO

5G is the design architect for this luxury hotel in the $1.6 billion, 175-acre Wade Park mixed-use development. It is a highly anticipated project of Thomas Land & Development within Frisco’s $5 Billion Mile along the Dallas North Tollway. The hotel will be the premier brand’s first location in the southern and southwestern United States.

The building will be sleek and modern with up to 35 floors, including as many as 25 hotel floors and 10 floors of residential. The development will open in 2017.

Langham Place, Wade Park is slated to open in summer 2018.

team of 5G Studio Collaborative (Hoang Dang, Laurel Stone, Tiffany Woodson, Yen Ong and Christine Robbins-Elrod) and FKP Architects (John Dubard, Mary Butler, and Shayan Baradaran) used evidence-based design principles on the interior architectural design, beginning with priority consideration of the gender-specific patient experiences of this healthcare environment - especially the wide range of experiences unique to a female patient. The team also gathered and insights from clinical, security, food service and operational management and staff and factored them into the design concept.

The design sought to nourish the female psyche while supporting the medical care provided in the facility. Specific design features included a secure, warm, caring, and healing environment for women - using hospitable, durable and sustainable materials. Soft, curvilinear forms define the ceiling and suggest a sensible clarity to the spatial organization, directing patients to places of waiting, areas of transaction and paths to treatment rooms. The lyrical ceiling lines, simply rendered in white, set in motion a dynamic interplay with a backdrop of well-appointed translucent colors on orthogonal rigid walls. The spaces feel empowering and balanced to the broad range of women’s experiences in receiving specialized care.

DALLAS COWBOYS CLUB, DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

A new and entertaining airport destination for travelers welcomes fans from around the globe with an exciting new Big D experience of the spirit of “America’s Team” - the iconic Dallas Cowboys. Designed to bring guests into a place of relaxation and fun, featured design elements that combine for the game day immersion include: custom football-shaped lights, a statement steel Star teamemblem in the floor, and the sliding glass façade. Jumbo-sized images of many of the Dallas Cowboys alumni players create a high-energy homage to showcase the cherished heritage of the team. It was important for the design team to integrate brand elements and imagery for fan connection and reminiscence with the legacy of the Dallas Cowboys, evoking spirited conversation and memories of recordsetting plays, games and championships.

WOMEN & INFANTS SPECIALTY HEALTH (WISH) CLINIC ON THE NEW PARKLAND CAMPUS, DALLAS

The new 135,000 square-foot healthcare facility (serving patients across Dallas County) is located on the new campus of Parkland Health & Hospital System.

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A pessimist’s blood type is always b-negative.

The company has won 50-plus awards and industry accolades in its relatively short existence in diverse business sectors - from health care, to residential, to commercial office, to hospitality - and for achievement in sustainability. What follows are highlights of some of the firms’ award winning assignments.

SUMMIT PARQUE, DALLAS

“These are my values. And if you don’t like them, I have others.” (Groucho Marx)

This seven story, mixed-income family-oriented residential community (with 100 units) was designed with energy-efficiency and gracious urban living in mind, and offers outstanding amenities and state-of-the-art features. The façade matches its urban surroundings and terrace and deck areas (with synthetic turf lawn, a play area and an oversized chess board) are accessible from the top of the parking garage.

design integrated the elements of sustainable and evidencebased design to offer a soothing environment for patients seeking care under distressed conditions. 5G honors for this project include the 2013 AIA Unbuilt Design Award, the 2014 AIA/AAH (American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Health) Healthcare Design Award, the 2014 IIDA Healthcare Design Award | Ambulatory Care Centers | Best of Category and the 2014 1st Place | Metal Architecture | Design Awards competition | Metal Roofing.

GRAHA TOWER, SURABAYA, INDONESIA ANTIOCH CHURCH

Relocated to a historic building in the heart the historic West End district of downtown Dallas, this urban location was chosen because of its proximity to DART and promotes a diverse congregation from surrounding areas. The design respects and highlights the original features of the building by restoring original wood deck ceilings, wood beams and columns, and original flooring. Many of the existing elements have been re-purposed (e.g., the original large metal barn doors have been relocated to become a feature in the sanctuary and provide a surface for projection).

SOLANA BUSINESS PARK, SOUTHLAKE AND WESTLAKE

5G’s designs have guided a successful renovation that has transformed the iconic business campus, with buildings and spaces updated and modernized, wayfinding of the expansive acreage refined, and landscape surrounding the buildings improved to further articulate the natural rural beauty of the campus.

Three stellar and stunning towers will completely innovate this 12-acre development. One will feature a luxury brand hotel on the upper level stories (12 floors), with 19 floors of prime office space below. High-efficiency parking designs will feature underground parking with 1,500 spaces for the development. Luxury condominium residential properties are also a major component, as well as highenergy, upscale retail and restaurants on the street level.

A unique sky deck, an ‘elevated urban space’ connects the office amenities with the deck and condominium pool level. The sky deck provides a modern, peaceful pathway to traverse the many retail and amenity features; the terraced levels will be for dining, pop-up shops, and views into the surrounding retail. The greater city of Surabaya population has doubled from 2 to 4 million since 1995.

The tower will be completed in 36 months.

LEGACY ER, ALLEN

A state-licensed 7,632 SF freestanding emergency medical care facility, this design concept built upon the success of their first facility in Frisco where the distinctive architecture and interior design of the facility bring as much brand recognition as the exceptional medical service.

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THE TEXAS TRIANGLE OFFICE MARKETS 60 Degrees of Separation

Texas has achieved almost legendary status as an engine of economic growth and has one of the country’s most recognizable state cultures where everything is BIG. Its commercial office sector is no different. The Texas Triangle office market—comprised of Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston—totals nearly a half billion sq. ft. yet the inventory cycles are vastly different, driven by a wide and diverse set of influences.

Texas was not spared by the Great Recession. Employment growth in the major metros stalled in 2009 but quickly rebounded.

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Diversification in Dallas leads to stability.

Employment growth in the major Texas metros follows national employment trends. Technology keeps Austin’s employment growth elevated.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2016. Note: Data are not seasonally adjusted.

TENANTS IN THE MARKET: INDUSTRY SIZE REQUIREMENTS

METRO CONSTRUCTION PIPELINE

865,000 SF

TOTAL DELIVERIES UNDER 2010 - 2016 (SF) CONSTRUCTION (SF)

CITY

TOP DEVELOPMENT SUBMARKETS

AUSTIN

3,774,771

1,590,601

CBD, Northwest, East

DFW

12,970,369

7,495,842

Far North Dallas, Uptown/Turtle Creek, Las Colinas

HOUSTON

25,791,778

4,233,363

Energy Corridor, North, The Woodlands

1.6 MSF

DALLAS/ FORT WORTH

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ANTHONY BARBIERI

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Anthony J. Barbieri is a shareholder of Kessler Collins, PC in Dallas, Texas. He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and a member of the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is also a Contributing Editor of the network.

Transgender Rights Movement

And Its Impact on Commercial Real Estate

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iscrimination and harassment has no place in society. Not only should we strive to eradicate discrimination in the context of race, religion, national origin, age, disabilities, and the like, we must also be mindful of discrimination against transgender people. Lately, many advocates of transgender rights have been successfully changing laws and raising awareness.

But the transgender movement is not new. Champions of the movement have been fighting transgender discrimination in employment, child care, sports, housing, and public places - including restrooms – for years. Only recently, however, has the issue become front and center in real estate. This article will take a brief look at the history of the transgender movement and its impact on your commercial properties.

In 1952, Christine Jorgensen, a former U.S. Army private from the Bronx, New York, became the first documented American to undergo a sex-change operation. At that time, Jorgensen had to travel to Denmark for her operation and related hormone treatments. When Jorgensen returned to New York, she publicly announced her transition, and became a huge advocate for the transgender movement until her death in 1989.

In 2015, Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner, an Olympic gold medalist, author, actor and television star, discussed her transition from a man to a woman in a well-publicized Vanity Fair article. Jenner also appeared, clad in lingerie, on the cover of that month’s Vanity Fair magazine. While some critics claim that Jenner’s transition was relatively easy due her existing celebrity status and financial wherewithal, Jenner has raised public awareness about transgender issues across the world.

Jorgensen and Jenner were not the only advocates for transgender rights. Transgender men and women have been increasingly creating awareness and garnering legal rights and protections over the years.

For example, in 1977, Renée Richards, a transgender tennis player, was initially denied the right to play in United States Open tennis tournament. However, Richards took the case to the New York State Supreme Court and successfully won the right to play in the tournament as a woman. In 1993, after a convincing public campaign, transgender advocates were successful in their quest for Minnesota to be the first state to extend existing laws protecting transgender people from discrimination.

Other examples, such as in 2003 when George W. Bush became the first president to officially welcome an openly transgender person, Petra Leilani Akwai, into the White House, may not have been a victory in the court of law, but greatly advanced the transgender movement in the court of public opinion. Numerous other prosperous transgender judges, athletes, and entertainers have also publically advocated for the transgender cause, and have steadily chipped away at the legal restraints and discrimination experienced by transgender people.

However, two legal decisions in the past few years have set the stage for the current state of transgender laws.

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Transgender legal issues are clearly not new. Even though the law has been clarified over the years with respect to treatment of transgender workers, there are many aspects of the law that are still developing. For example, in the spring of 2016, the Department of Education imposed new guidelines requiring schools to allow transgender students to use the restroom and locker rooms that correspond to their chosen gender – not necessarily their “birth gender”. This was a significant rule change because any school that violated the rules were subject to federal enforcement — including a loss of federal education funds. President Obama was very vocal in his support for these new rules. However, about three months after the Department of Education’s rules were enacted, a federal judge in Texas blocked the directive just before kids across the country went back to school for the 2016-17 academic year. Nevertheless, the President’s advocacy catapulted the transgender movement into the public spotlight and set off a firestorm of lawsuits, as well as multiple states’ introducing legislation on the subject.

The transgender movement clearly has had an impact on our legal landscape. To date, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia have all passed laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender people. However, these laws are not all uniform – for example, Nevada bans transgender discrimination in employment, housing, restaurants, hospitals, and retail stores. California covers those same categories, but also prohibits against transgender discrimination in health care. In addition to these state laws, at least 200 cities and counties have banned gender identity discrimination.

Transgender Issues in Real Estate:

In the intervening sixty-three years between Jorgensen’s and Jenner’s respective transitions from men to women, the transgender movement has transcended the political, business, sports, popculture and legal worlds. Now it is transcending the real-estate world. So how does all of this apply to your commercial properties?

First and foremost, keep in mind that there are currently no one-size-fits all laws about transgender discrimination. Like many other laws affecting real estate, transgender discrimination laws vary greatly from state to state and city to city.

Each property manager and owner must rely on their legal counsel for proper advice and guidance to determine whether or not they must comply with any applicable transgender discrimination laws.

Even though the media discusses this issue in the context of “restrooms”, most of the laws on this subject speak to “public accommodations”, and not just restrooms. Not all commercial properties fit into the category of “public accommodations”.

In general, a public accommodation is a private entity that owns or leases space that is generally open to the public, such

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Some Major Milestones In the Transgender Movement:

Commission ruled that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which made it illegal to discriminate based on sex, also protected transgender employees who were discriminated against after they changed sexes. Then, in December, 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice extend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to discrimination claims based on an individual’s gender identity, including transgender status.

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as restaurants, hotels, theaters, doctors’ offices, pharmacies, retail stores, museums, libraries, parks, private schools, and daycare centers . Certain types of properties, such as warehouses, some office buildings, private clubs and religious organizations are not “public accommodations”. If your jurisdiction makes it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in public accommodations, you must first determine if your property is a public accommodation, and then you must decide which part of your property could reasonably be considered discriminatory against transgender people. The most obvious hot buttons are bathrooms, locker rooms, fitting rooms, dressing rooms and any other part of your property that could attempt to segregate men from women. Even if your property is not in a jurisdiction that makes it illegal to deny transgender use of certain portions of your property, some owners and managers are trying to be proactive about this issue – either in anticipation of a change in the law in their jurisdiction, or in an effort to openly welcome transgender people. Whether you are legally prohibited from discriminating against transgender people, or desire to help the cause out of pure altruism or openness, the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) has recently suggested the following ideas for addressing transgender bathroom issues: •Add a third gender-neutral bathroom option alongside male and female restrooms. These genderneutral bathrooms are typically single occupancy facilities available for anyone to use. However, it’s not always cost-effective because it could require building new bathrooms or retrofitting existing ones.

•Modify the signage of existing bathrooms to include language welcoming transgender individuals, for example: “Male, transgender people welcome” and “Female, transgender people welcome.”

•For smaller commercial properties like restaurants or bars that already have single-use bathrooms, a simple option is to replace male and female signage with a generic “restrooms” sign that has no gender identification.

Placing signs by your bathrooms and fitting rooms is a relatively straight-forward measure. However, hanging a sign isn’t the end of the story. For example, in a jurisdiction that makes it illegal to discriminate against transgender people, how is a landlord or tenant supposed to confirm an invitee’s sexual orientation? Many of us have had our age questioned when buying alcohol, or have been asked by a stork clerk for “another form of ID” when using a credit card, but that approach won’t work for landlords. The current laws do not require a landlord to verify someone’s sexuality, just like a landlord isn’t required to verify if someone is eligible to utilize a guide dog or a certain parking space. But this writer surmises that this “verification” scenario will eventually lead to a controversy that plays out in courtrooms and our living rooms during the nightly news.

Opponents to the transgender “bathroom” initiative often express concern that allowing transgender women to use the women’s restroom would allow sexual predators or Peeping Toms to use those protections as a dangerous ruse to get into female spaces. This raises all sorts of issues for a landlord or tenant. For example, if you are in a jurisdiction that prohibits transgender discrimination at your premises, and a sexual predator enters the ladies’ restroom or locker room under the guise of being transgender, then commits a sexual crime in the female space, can the landlord be liable for failing to provide adequate security? As of the date of this article, there have not been any reported cases on this issue, but as a general rule, landlords are not responsible for criminal conduct of third parties.

There are some exceptions to this general rule, for example, if the landlord has reason to suspect that the criminal conduct might occur, then the landlord can be liable (e.g., if the landlord is aware of other criminal conduct in the neighborhood, or repeated criminal conduct at the premises or building).

Presuming this general rule applies to this scenario, the landlord would not be liable for the criminal conduct unless it had reason to suspect the Peeping Tom would commit the crime.

Given the uncertainty on current legal requirements for landlords and property managers, it is hard to truly identify best practices in this area and give advice on potential legal outcomes. One thing is for sure: transgender issues will continue to be a topic of interest for many years to come in real estate and nearly every other aspect of our lives. It is important to monitor the movement and keep up with changes in trends and the law.

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ROSE-MARY RUMBLEY

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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..

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lection years... Ah! They can be trying and troublesome with lots of jeers, tears, and fears. This year has certainly been that way. But look at history – it has often been that way. Case in point: the election years of 1840, 1844, and 1848. They were turbulent to say the least.

Harrison’s party had a clever slogan during the campaign- Tippecanoe and Tyler Too. Harrison, an Indian fighter, had been the victor in the battle of Tippecanoe. He was also known as ‘Old Tip’, because he was 68 years old - the oldest Martin Van Buren person elected president we ever had until Ronald Reagan (and the last president born as a British subject).

Old Tip, afraid that those attending his inauguration would consider him too old, gave the longest inaugural address ever given. It was a freezing day in Washington, so in order to look younger, he didn’t wear an overcoat, but “good old Tip” contracted pneumonia and died just thirty-two days into his presidency.

The nation was in shock. No president had ever died. What do we do? Get the Vice President, of course - John Tyler. Tyler’s enemies called him, ‘His William Henry Harrison Accidentalcy!’

He got the office by default. Tyler is the U.S. president who had the most children - 15 kids!

His first wife, Letitia, bore 8 children and then suffered a heart attack. Any wonder?

John Tyler

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Soon after, he met Julia Gardiner, a beautiful young woman, 30 years younger than he was. She told her father she was going to marry John Tyler, and I’m supposing her father said, Letitia Tyler “I don’t care if he is the President of the United States of America, he’s too old for you!” John, in order to impress the father, invited father and daughter on a moonlight cruise down the Potomac. Dashing John would be at the helm. As the ship slipped through the waters, John decided to go even further for proof of his youthful dexterity. He would fire the cannon aboard the ship. The cannon was fired… but it backfired and instantly killed the father.

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In 1844, Henry Clay ran for the presidency against James K. Polk.

Polk was jeered because he was an unknown. But in spite of his obscurity, he won. Henry then made his famous statement, “I’d rather be right than President.”

Even though he was a mild mannered man, he Julia Gardiner-Tyler was disappointed that he was not the winner.

In 1848, Clay, with health issues ran against the stalwart General Zackary Taylor. Of course, Zack won. Zack was a Southerner that the Yankees liked, and he was a hero of the Mexican War. Our nation has always loved war heroes, and he was perfect for the job of keeping the nation together. War clouds were looming.

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He was doing a pretty good job of keeping the peace during his first two years as president.

On July 4, 1850, there was a celebration. He laid the corner stone of the Washington Monument.

Dolly Madison, 80 years old was there with Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, 94 years old. Zack was Henry Clay having a great time, but he over ate on ice cream, and died the next day of indigestion! Disaster struck, because a weak Vice President came into office - Millard Fillmore.

In 1991, a distant relative of Zackary Taylor, demanded that the body of the president be exhumed. There was always a feeling that Zack could have been poisoned, because he rode the fence between the north and the south, so he did have some enemies. So the body was exhumed and tested for poison. But no! It was ice cream, so he was put back into his magnificent tomb at the Zackary Taylor National Cemetery, near Louisville, Kentucky.

Zachary Taylor

My karma ran over my dogma.

Martin Van Buren, a New York native who had served as Andy Jackson’s Vice President, was elected president in 1836; in 1840, he was running for a second term. But he was defeated by a military hero - William Henry Harrison.

Depression was raging and Martin’s enemies during the campaign called him ‘Martin Van Ruin’.

Julia was rushed to the White House to be comforted by John, and soon they were married.

She bore seven children! John didn’t run again.

He decided to stay home and help rear all those kids! Oh, by the way, Texas came into the union during Tyler’s administration. Thus, there is Tyler,Texas, in his honor.

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Point Roberts

he Convention of 1818 between Britain and America following the War of 1812 had a tough job to take on: determining the border between Canada and the United States. In an effort to avoid controversy and confusion caused by drawing the boundary based on watershed, the two countries agreed on a simpler solution: the 49th parallel.

There were, of course, multiple problems that arose with this solution, including the fact that Vancouver Island was split in two by the imaginary line. The debate over whether the line of latitude should split the island in two or if it should be ignored, giving the full island to Canada, was known as The Oregon Boundary Dispute. In 1846 President James Polk proposed making Vancouver Island an island of two countries, therein designating more land to America, but this was immediately rejected by the British. In the end, the British and Americans agreed to give the entire Vancouver Island to Canada, while giving the San Juan Islands to the United States.

Problem solved. Right?

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Not exactly. Due to limited knowledge of the region's geography at the time, there was one land area that both the Americans and the British failed to notice: The Tsawwassen Peninsula.

Point Roberts, Washington considering that it took two years to install a single streetlight. Business is slow, except for in the summer, when the residency quintuples due to Canadian tourism. There's no shoe store, no veterinarian, and no dentist. There also isn't a single school that serves students from grades 4-12. To access these things, it's necessary to cross the Canadian border to Tsawwassen, circle to White Rock, Canada, and finally cross the American border to Blaine, Washington. This trip is 40 minutes there, 40 minutes back, and it requires four borders to be crossed.

For students who live in Point Roberts, the bus to Blaine High School leaves as early as 6:25am, which is before sunrise on most schooldays.

The Tsawwassen Peninsula This peninsula was unknown at the time, but once discovered, it was too late.

The agreement had accidently cut off a tiny piece of Canada and given it to the United States.

Nowadays, at the end of this peninsula, there is a little American town called Point Roberts, Washington. The only land route out of Point Roberts is through Canada. This town of over 1,000 people has a clinic, a police station, a fire department, a marina, and a primary school.

As a result of this geographic peculiarity the town has some strange habits.

Every day, a large portion of the Canadians living just north travel across the border to buy groceries and gas, which are about a third cheaper in the U.S. It is said that Canadians will also travel over for the medium rare burgers, which are unheard of in Vancouver because of the strict Canadian health code. Point Roberts is also an unusually safe city: because of the border security, the crime rate of Point Roberts is over three times lower than that of Washington as a whole.

Despite all of these intriguing qualities, it seems that keeping this geographically isolated town in working order is remarkably difficult. The county that this town belongs to has been slow in providing it with adequate infrastructure,

Regardless of the pros and cons, it is quite spectacular that places like these exist.

It's a place that's almost as Canadian as it is American, where maple leaf flags fly high (the vast majority of boats in the marina are owned by Canadians). It's a place that is here by accident, by foolishness, a mistake that went unfixed. It also shows the ability of people to adapt, and to make this strange geographical exclave a livable home for over a thousand people. n

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Coincidences?

The U.S. emergency phone number is 911 which was the date of the attack on the World Trade Center • The date of the attack – 9/11. 9+1+1=11.

• ‘New York City’ has 11 letters.

• Sept. 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2+5+4 = 11.

• Afghanistan has 11 letters.

• After Sept. 11th, there are 111 days left in the year.

• Ramzi Yousef (who was convicted of orchestrating • The first plane to hit the towers was Flight #11. the 1993 attack on the WTC) has 11 letters.

• The State of New York (where the towers were • Flight 11 had 92 on board: 9 +2 = 11. located) was the 11th state to join the union, • Flight 77 had 65 on board: 6 + 5 = 11 DEC2016 | THE NET WORK

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The Slash The U.S.-Canadian Border The US-Canada border is the longest in the world. Stretching 5,525 miles from Maine to Alaska, traversing land, sea, and untouched wilderness, you’d assume that this colossal border would be left untouched by mankind, merely an invisible line on a map. You’d be wrong.

Thanks to the ongoing work of the International Boundary Commission (a cooperative project composed of both Canadian and U.S. personnel with two commissioners, one appointed by Canada’s Order-in-Council and one by the American president), a visible line runs through 1349 miles of forested land along the 5525-mile border between the two amicable countries. It’s a narrow, clear-cut vista informally known as the “Slash.” In Vermont and New York, this northern border is based on another invisible line: the 45th Parallel. Every year, the average American taxpayer pays half of a cent to the International Boundary Commission (IBC) for the sole purpose of deforesting every inch of the US-Canada border. With an annual budget of $1,400,000, the IBC ensures that the boundary will never be just an imaginary line.

The Slash is a treeless zone that is 20 feet wide and covers everything from narrow isolated islands to steep hillsides. Spanning national forests and towering mountains, the vast majority of The Slash is so remote that it will never receive any visitors (aside from a handful of bears), yet it is still painstakingly maintained every six years with countless hours of exhausting manual labor. It was initially deforested (according to the IBC) for the sole purpose of making sure that the “average person... knows they are on the border.”

It all started in the 1800s, when the US-Canada border line was set at the 49th parallel. The Slash was cut and over 8,000 original border markers were laid down, most of which are still standing along The Slash to this day. Unfortunately, there was no GPS system at the time, so the border markers were inadvertently placed in a zig-zag fashion, straying north or south of the official 49th parallel border by an average of 295 feet. The lack of sufficient cartography also led to irregular border cutoffs such as Point Roberts (see story on page 53) and the Northwest Angle.

Despite its errors, witnessing the Slash is still on the bucket list of hundreds of geography nerds worldwide. Seeing the Slash can be as simple as going to Google Maps, zooming towards the US-Canada border, and switching to satellite view. Those looking for a more up close view can travel to Newport, Vermont and hop aboard Northern Star Cruises, which will take you right alongside the Slash.

That border, he noted, dates back to the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which established British Canada as separate from the colonies of the future United States. Later, a survey conducted from 1872 to 1874 laid out a definitive border. Over the years, about 20 other agreements, conventions and treaties have parceled out the property of Canada and the U.S. The IBC was established in 1908, when the 1874 boundary was so overgrown and its markers (called “monuments”) so decimated that it had to be carved out all over again. The IBC has placed 8000 monuments and reference points along it indicating the international border.

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astened to protruding metal wall brackets, 22 LED modular bars with elliptical optics have been installed onto the perimeter of the flat roof of the two lining towers in order to create an even color-changing effect on the vertical stripes made up of slate slabs that decorate the walls.

The luminaire is available in a choice of five light distributions with several electronic control options, allowing designers to produce dramatic lighting effects for a wide range of applications. Adjustable brackets allow the luminaire to be ground mounted, or installed in any vertical position and orientation on building surfaces for maximum versatility. The result is amazing, the patterns standing out as if they were made of light, glimmering in the night.

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n the very beginning of his artistic career, Thomas Kinkade put his entire life savings into the printing of his first lithograph. Though at the time he was already an acclaimed illustrator, Thom found that he was inspired not by fame and fortune, but by the simple act of painting straight from the heart, putting on canvas the natural wonders and images that moved him most. It was this dedication and singular-minded focus on the ultimate goal of Sharing the Light™ that made Thomas Kinkade, a simple boy with a brush from the small country town of Placerville, California the most-collected living artist of his time.

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Known as the Painter of Light, he became famous for his luministic landscape paintings but also enjoyed painting in plein air and impressionist styles. He was so prolific that over 500 paintings were published as reproductions through the Thomas Kinkade Company, representing only a fraction of work he created before his death in 2012 at the age of 54.

“In more than twenty years as a professional painter, my consistent goal has been to create inviting worlds that draw people into their depths and encourage them to seek a better, brighter, more hopeful existence.”

The Thomas Kinkade Gallery in Fort Worth Texas was established in 1996 as one of the first Signature Galleries in the country devoted to carrying Kinkade’s work exclusively. Managed by his family for over twenty years, the gallery carries and has access to one of the largest collections of Kinkade work in the world. n

“I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination.

If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I’ve done my job.

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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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n a quiet office in downtown Louisville, Kentucky overlooking the hustle and bustle of Main St., Jennifer Williams is sitting at her desk with her fur-baby Izzy cozied in her lap researching pet-related non-profits for her company Cuddle Clones to gift a monthly donation.

From its earliest days, Cuddle Clones has donated regularly to pet-related charities and causes, including Dogs on Deployment, a foster agency that cares for canines owned by soldiers in the field, and the Petfinder Foundation, an American non-profit dedicated to preventing homeless animals from being euthanized. They also give to Indiegogo campaigns for individual animals in need.

“We gave a portion of revenue even when we weren’t profitable; those first couple of years our investors even questioned, ‘Well, maybe you should wait until you turn a profit.’”, says Williams.

Many of you might be wondering what exactly Cuddle Clones does? Well, Cuddle Clones creates custom-made, one-of-a-kind custom plush stuffed animals that look just like your precious pet!

It all started years ago when company founder Jennifer Williams was cuddling Rufus, her Great Dane. It was then that the thought first occurred to her how nice it would be to have a stuffed animal just like him, not just another mass-produced toy. She didn't act on the thought, but it wouldn't let her go either. Rufus eventually got sick and passed

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away. The depth of her grief awakened that desire in her and since then she has poured her time, money, and dreams into creating Cuddle Clones.

Cuddle Clones is far from limited to just dogs and cats (they will make a plush replica of any kind of special pet; lizards, snakes, cows, even a kangaroo) and their product line extends far beyond custom plush stuffed animals. It seems that the sky is the limit really, as Cuddle Clones offers a lot more than just custom stuffed animals including custom 3D printed figurines; they even recently announced the addition of custom slippers made to look just like people’s pets!

The mission of Cuddle Clones is: "To capture the emotional connection between people and their pets through our customized products."

And that is exactly what Jennifer and her team are doing.

If you want to get someone an absolutely unforgettable gift or help someone you love who is grieving the loss of their beloved fur-baby, Cuddle Clones and their products are the way to go!! Pricing varies depending on the type of animal you're looking for. The service costs $249 US for dogs, cats, horses and other large pets, and $179 for small pets like guinea pigs and rabbits. You can expect to add $20 for shipping in the US (international shipping charges vary), and it takes Cuddle Clones about 8 weeks to deliver your Cuddle Clone to you – although you can rush the delivery on their website. You can learn more about their custom pet products by visiting them at www.cuddleclones.com/ products.html.

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Laura McDonald Stewart, RID, FASID, IIDA, LEED AP is Founder and Editor of PLiNTHandCHiNTZ.com, The Online Interior Design Magazine, and manages and promotes METROCON Expo & Conference.

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ETROCON16 brought together more interior designers, architects, facility managers, real estate professionals, design students and other essential industry members catering to the built environment than ever when it took place at Dallas Market Hall on August 11 & 12.

The event, which is the largest not-for-profit, self-produced, volunteer-driven, interior designfocused regional expo and conference in the USA, attracted 2,750 people – a 13% increase from the previous year – from Texas, Oklahoma, and 30 other states.

The Committee of volunteers credits the many changes made to the event for the strong turnout. “Not only did we overhaul our website, registration processes, and mobile app, but we also eliminated the tradeshow fee and offered enhanced programming for both design practitioners and those on the management, sales, and manufacturer sides,” said Presiding Chair Allen Hart, RID, ASID, of SJL Design Group.

Besides 50 CEUs with topical subjects like creating healthy healthcare environments, managing acoustics in the workplace, harnessing the full potential of LED lighting, and making places age friendly, METROCON16 also featured industry icon Holly Hunt as Keynote Speaker, as well as a preparatory course for the EDAC Exam, a seminar by HKS about their mindful MATERIALS initiative, and the session “How Investing in Other People’s Success Can Maximize Yours” presented by Christopher Plumlee, the President of Elevate Strategy Group.

in by Armstrong World Industries that not only displayed their ceiling and flooring solutions, but also served as a supplemental classroom.

sponsoring, and exhibiting at METROCON17, back at Dallas Market Hall on August 10 & 11, 2017.

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2016 Pegasus Exhibitor Awards!

• Best Overall Exhibit: Hawa Americas Inc. [hawa.ch] • Most Informative Exhibit: ENSO Fabrication [ensofab.com] • Best New Product: Tech Product Specialties [techproductspecialties.com] The Committee heartily thanks Landmark Sponsor STAPLES Business Advantage [staplesadvantage. com], Media Sponsor Modern Luxury Interiors Texas [modernluxury.com/interiors-texas], and the 49 other 2016 Sponsors for their incredible support of this valuable industry networking, learning, business-building event.

Visit www.metrocon.info to find links to view photos and to sign up to receive notifications to stay informed about attending, presenting,

This year’s trade show was the largest in the show’s history. Exhibitors catering to the corporate, education, healthcare, hospitality, institutional, multifamily, residential, and retail design fields showed in 41,500 SF under 344 vendor names, 96 of which were not on last year’s list. One tradeshow highlight was the mobile training center brought

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Daffynition: Pasteurize – too far to see.

1 Ryan Smith joined Venture Commercial as Vice President • 2 Michael Austry joined CBRE’s Retail Investment Sales group in Dallas • 3 Brandon Harris is transitioning to the CBRE’s Retail Investment Sales group in Dallas • 4 Mary Anne Castles joined CBRE as Associate Director of Asset Services to lead its industrial property management team in Austin • 5 Andrew Calderwood joined Capview Partners as Managing Director • 6 Travis Sapaugh was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE in Dallas • 7 Danny Baker was promoted to Vice President at CBRE in Dallas • 8 Clay Gilbert was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE in Dallas • 9 Josh Cohn joined The Weitzman Group as an Associate in its retail division • 10 Whit Jordan joined CBRE as Vice President of Retail Services in San Antonio • 11 Darryl Dadon was promoted to Senior Associate at CBRE promoted in Austin • 12 David Thibodeaux transferred to CBRE Capital Markets from the valuation division • 13 Gene Williams was promoted to First Vice President of Retail Services in CBRE’s San Antonio office • 14 Holt Browning joined the Weitzman Group as an Associate • 15 Maggie Hansen joined the Weitzman Group as an Associate • 16 Mike Allen joined the Weitzman Group as an Associate • 17 Barry Haden joined JLL as Senior Vice President • 18 Allison Holland joined JLL as Managing Director • 19 Tom Salanty joined JLL as Managing Director • 20 John M. Erspamer joined Greenway Investment Company as Senior Controller • 21 Leigh Anne Rathbun joins Greenway Investment Company as Senior Controller • 22Jessica Donnelli joined Hollis Bloom as a VP and Broker • 23 Hayden Lunsford joined Quadrant Investment Properties, LLC

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Julie Lynch is the principal of LYNOUS, a talent management firm that provides recruiting, interim staffing and training to the real estate industry. She is also a contributing editor of the network.

in the news The merger between AlliedBarton and Universal Services of America closed on August 1st. The $4.5 billion-dollar deal created the largest guard company in the U.S. with 140,000 employees. Bill Whitmore, former CEO of AlliedBarton, is now the company’s chairman and Steve Jones of Universal is its CEO. The company is now turning to the task of offering security technology in every market in which it has a presence. : : : : : Virgin Hotels, the lifestyle hotel brand by Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, broke ground with Dunhill Partners and Gatehouse Capital on its new hotel in the up-and-coming Design District on Hi Line Dr. and Turtle Creek Blvd in Dallas. Dallas’s own 5G Studio is the design architect and architect of record on the project (see article on p. 46) scheduled to be completed at the end of 2018.

One Uptown First-Class Living for Those Who Want It All Grand Opening – January 2017

Without geometry, life is pointless.

Located on McKinney Avenue in the heart of Uptown Dallas, the distinguishing curved glass architecture (created by famous Dallas architect, Phil Shepard) was artfully crafted to embody the vivacious spirit of the neighborhood. Residents will enjoy an all-in-one, first-class living experience in a premier location that includes luxury amenities, modern floor plans and easy access to all the best parks, restaurants, nightlife and shopping Uptown has to offer.

One Uptown also has the highest walkability score in the city, making it the perfect location for anyone seeking an active urban lifestyle. It is conveniently located next to Klyde Warren Park, the Katy Trail, Whole Foods, the newly expanded McKinney Trolley, and a high concentration of fine dining and nightlife hot spots in Dallas.

“One Uptown offers comfortability, convenience and luxurious homes in one of Dallas’s most soughtafter neighborhoods,” said CEO Rick Cavenaugh of Stoneleigh Companies, a national multi-family investor and development company.

Bulls**t Bingo Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What about those long and boring conference call? Here’s a way to change all of that!

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gadgetry that’s hot and cool at the same time

Satechi: Type-C 7-Port USB Charging Station Dock

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PEAR Sports: Mobile Training Intelligence System

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Brinno TLC120 Wi-Fi Enabled Time-Lapse Camera

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• Used on projects from kitchen renovations to mammoth 4-year construction sites, Brinno time-lapse and security cameras have documented thousands of jobs worldwide including commercial, non-commercial and federal government projects • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled. Compact and weather resistant - making it perfect to create HDR time-lapse easy in any environment. Its portable waterproof design lets users capture everything happening around their life and converting it instantly into a timelapse video. With Bluetooth app control and Wi-Fi transfer, capturing and sharing time-lapse videos has never been easier • Can be used free-standing (with Brinno’s ART200 rotating camera stand) or secured to any camera mount to create HDR time-lapse videos of anything from the progress of a construction project to garden growth or variations in the weather to guests enjoying a social event to the highlights of a sporting event • The new Brinno App which is available for Apple and Android smartphones also makes it stress-free to frame the scene, set the capture interval, playback rate, white balance, exposure value, custom colors, and timer as well convert from AVI to MP4 videos and share them via social networks.

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Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of finance and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals the cycles of power and influence that have perpetuated a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the "free market" is, and how it has masked the power of the moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit. He exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by big corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street-- that all workers are paid what they're "worth," a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, corporations must serve shareholders before employees. Ever the pragmatist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity by shoring up the countervailing power of everyone else. Here is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that no one appreciates how difficult it was.

Robert Bernard Reich is an American political commentator, professor, and author. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Now he is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.

Between 2001 and 2015, real estate investment trusts (REITs) delivered average annual total returns of 11 percent—significantly outperforming the five percent average annual total returns achieved by the S&P 500 and NASDAQ indexes. In September, ‘Real Estate’ became the eleventh investment sector tracked by Standard & Poor’s—a watershed event that is already attracting new investors and greater fund flows into REITs. Investors need to learn how to invest wisely in this unique, new investment class. The Intelligent REIT Investor is the ultimate, clear, and concise guide for achieving investment success.

Using easy-to-understand language and simple examples to illustrate industry-specific concepts, The Intelligent REIT Investor enables even novice investors to quickly gain fluency in REIT industry terminology and valuation techniques. Moreover, because it focuses on the most pertinent risks and rewards of REIT investing, The Intelligent REIT Investor can be read cover-to-cover in a few hours.

Whether a reader’s goal is to intelligently discuss adding REITs to a well-diversified portfolio or to offer expertise in REIT strategies to clients, this brilliantly constructed resource contains all the information and tools required. The Intelligent REIT Investor is the go-to primer and practical road map to understanding essential aspects of REIT investing, including how to: • Apply easy-to-use equations to assess the strength of a REIT’s balance sheet and dividend safety • Understand research reports and public information on REITs across the spectrum of different commercial property types • Weigh the risks and benefits of each property type to optimally balance investment portfolios with specific goals Filled with illustrative charts, useful summary tables, and historical anecdotes that explain how different property types have performed in various market conditions, no other resource on the market more fully prepares readers for making informed, successful REIT investments than The Intelligent REIT Investor.

‘Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood burning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose folkloric appellations is the honorific title of St. Nicholas.

The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective accommodations of repose, were experiencing subconscious visual hallucinations of variegated fruit confections moving rhythmically through their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof.

Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing this fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar brilliance without, reflected as it was on the surface of a recent crystalline precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself – thus permitting my incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a miniature airbornerunnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our anticipated caller. With his ungulate motive power travelling at what may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled breath musically through contracted labia, and addressed each of the octet by his or her respective cognomen – “Now Dasher, now Dancer…” et al. – guiding them to the uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of each of the 32 cloven pedal extremities.

As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and was performing a 180-degree pivot, our distinguished visitant achieved – with utmost celerity and via a downward leap – entry by way of the smoke passage. He was clad entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony residue from oxidations of carboniferous

fuels which had accumulated on the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I attributed largely to the plethora of assorted playthings which he bore dorsally in a commodious cloth receptacle.

His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging amiability. The capillaries of his malar regions and nasal appurtenance were engorged with blood which suffused the subcutaneous layers, the former approximating the coloration of Albion’s floral emblem, the latter that of the Prunus avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and supralabials resembled nothing so much as a common loop knot, and their ambient hirsute facial adornment appeared like small, tabular and columnar crystals of frozen water.

Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly. His visage was wider than it was high, and when he waxed audibly mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region undulated in the manner of impectinated fruit syrup in a hemispherical container. He was, in short, neither more nor less than an obese, jocund, multigenarian gnome, the optical perception of whom rendered me visibly frolicsome despite every effort to refrain from so being. By rapidly lowering and then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head slightly to one side, he indicated that trepidation on my part was groundless.

Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced filling the aforementioned appended hosiery with various of the aforementioned articles of merchandise extracted from his aforementioned previously dorsally transported cloth receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he executed an abrupt about- face, placed a single manual digit in lateral juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith effected his egress by renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage. He then propelled himself in a short vector onto his conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of air through his contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds of burden, and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto observable chiefly among the seed-bearing portions of a common weed. But I overheard his parting exclamation, audible immediately prior to his vehiculation beyond the limits of visibility: “Ecstatic Yuletide to the planetary constituency, and to that self-same assemblage, my sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn.”\ DEC2016 | THE NET WORK

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Twenty Questions (answers on back page)

1.Roland Garros is

14. Frida Kahlo is/was

a) a Brazilian soccer star b) a resort on the Mediterranean coast of Spain c) a French tennis stadium d) a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times

a) the capital of Uzbekistan until 1991 b) a variety of Cuban appetizer (tapa) c) a famous Mexican painter d) a terrorist organization in Sudan

15. The Chrysanthemum Throne is

a) the throne of the Emperor of Japan b) a San Francisco based musical group from the late 1960s c) the name for a colony where the queen bee lives d) a crescent-shaped floral arrangement

2. Stonehenge is

a) a prehistoric monument in England b) an America grunge band from the 1990s c) a city on the border of Belgium and Luxembourg d) a German cheese

7. A hologram is

a) a handwritten document b) a photographic recording of a light field c) the use of two words that sound alike but ae spelled differently d) a graph intermixing data and visual information.

8. Semper Fi, the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps means

9. A doppelganger is

a) a strap for standing riders on a subway b) a German hunting dog c) the ghost of a departed relative d) a look-alike of a living person

10. Which major city is partly in Europe and partly in Asia?

3. The Arc de Triomphe in Paris was built

a) in honor of Joan of Arc b) in honor of the French Foreign Legion c) in honor of those who fought for France d) in honor of the French Renaissance artists

4. The Acropolis is

a) the central marketplace of Constantinople b) the historical remains of ancient buildings in Greece c) a method of sustainable replantation in Thailand d) an amusement park in Hong Kong

a) Istanbul b) Moscow c) Kiev d) Bucharest

11. Which geographical area has no southern coast?

16. Vitas Gerulaitis is/was

a) the plant species of geraniums b) a Latin phrase meaning ‘Life is Good’ c) a former U.S. tennis star d) the fourth album by The Grateful Dead

17. The Baldomeric Code is the code of ethics for a) meteorologists b) locksmiths c) proctologists d) beauticians

a) Chile b) Antarctica c) Norway d) Australia

5. The Sistine Chapel in Rome takes its name from a) sister (Saint) Mary Magdalene b) Architect Alberto Sistini c) the Italian city of Siena d) Pope Sixtus IV

18. Adrian II was

a) Michelangelo’s protégé in the 16th century b) a Holy Roman Emperor in the 11th century c) a grunge band in the 1990s d) an 11th century Pope who was married and had a daughter

12. Burkina Faso is

19. A fortnight is

13. Sneezewort Yarrow is

20. The name ‘7-Eleven’ began in 1946 to reflect the new store hours (and also it’s birthdate – July 11).

Before that it was known as:

a) a specialty coffee at Starbuck’s b) a General Mills breakfast cereal c) a country in West Africa d) the star Indian actress from Bollywood

6.Alfred Nobel was

a) Swedish armaments manufacturer b) an American philanthropist c) a Polish writer d) the Wayne family butler in Batman 64

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a) the nickname of a member of the singing group Peter, Paul and Mary b) a cry for help in Swahili c) the fictional street on which Gomer Pyle lived d) a pant with a flower that causes sneezing and repels insects

a) a unit of illuminance equal to 1000 lumens b) a unit of time equal to two weeks c) a unit of distance equal to 6 furlongs d) the night watch at a military installation

a) Slurpee’s b) Tote’m Store c) Grab and Go d) EZ Shoppe

I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.

a) forever strong b) always on the alert c) always faithful d) constantly ready

Shout-Outs!

I want to die while asleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Expressions of praise given in the presence of many people.

1 Kudos to Arlington, TX on being named one of the six best cities to live in by Money magazine – “at a price you can afford.” No buses, no trains, no public transportation – no problem! Arlington won “Best City in the South” (sharing the honor with other regional winners – Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Columbus, OH; Colorado Springs, CO; and Portland, OR).

Money identified metropolitan areas where residents can enjoy the benefits of big city living and experience strong job growth, affordable housing, low crime, good schools and access to transportation and green space. Arlington’s population has more than doubled since 1980!

: : : : : 2 Chazaam, Texas! With the economy steadily rebounding since the Great Recession, the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2016’s Fastest Growing Cities, comparing 515 U.S. cities across 14 key metrics, ranging from “population growth rate” to “college-educated population growth” to “unemployment rate decrease.” They produced separate rankings for large, midsize and small cities. 1) Frisco, TX; 2) League City, TX; 3) Lehigh Acres, FL; 4) Kent, WA; 5) Surprise, AZ; 6) Meridian, IN; 7) Midland, TX; 8) McKinney, TX; 9) Concord, NC; 10) Bryan, TX College Station, Texas, experienced the highest household income increase, at 9.07 percent. Frisco, Texas, experienced the highest job growth, at 5.32 percent. McKinney, Texas, experienced the highest poverty rate decrease, at 9.63 percent. Midland, Texas, experienced the highest growth in GDP per capita, at 11.81 percent.

3 Highest praise to HKS’s Dallas Office!

Uganda has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world, with 61 in 1,000 children dying before their first birthday. In March, HKS launched Citizen HKS, the firm’s public interest design initiative. It began partnering with Engineers for Overseas Development (EFOD) on a new maternity ward in Kachumbala. In October, the firm’s Dallas staff helped deliver crucial supplies to the ward, assembling 1,000 clean birthing kits including soap, single-edged razor blade in cardboard, disposable gloves, alcohol wipes, receiving blankets, etc. These critical kits – which reduce infection and increase birthing mortality – were shipped to Global Health Charities, who will deliver them to Uganda for use in the maternity ward. : : : : :

5 Niche neighborhoods and economic diversity are driving forces behind the strong showing of this year’s top 10 US cities, according to Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2017, released on October 26th

by PwC US and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Congratulations Austin on winning “Top City,” thanks to its authentic, niche neighborhoods and depth of economic diversity, from manufacturing to education, health care and technology. Now in its 38th year, Emerging Trends in Real Estate® is a highly regarded annual industry outlooks for the real estate and land use industry. It includes interviews and survey responses from more than 1,800 leading real estate experts, including investors, fund managers, developers, property companies, lenders, brokers, advisers and consultants. “Viewed as a fluke when it hit the study’s top ten list 5 years ago, Austin’s rise to the top of the list signals the durability of the city’s long-term appeal to investors,” says Mitch Roschelle, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) Partner and Real Estate Research Leader. “Austin, along with many of this year’s top 10 cities, boasts attractive, niche neighborhoods and a vibrant, diverse economy.”

Congratulations, too, to Dallas/Fort Worth on being 2nd on this prestigious list. “Austin’s rise to the top this year, with Dallas/Ft Worth right behind, is a testament to the region’s diverse economy and its attractiveness to business owners and millennials looking to find just the right balance between hard work and a hip lifestyle,” says Scott Moore, PwC North Texas Managing Partner. Finishing out the top ten were: 3) Portland, OR; 4) Seattle, WA; 5) Los Angeles, CA; 6) Nashville, TN; 7) Raleigh/Durham, NC; 8) Orange County, CA; 9) Charlotte, NC; and 10) San Francisco, CA. San Antonio came in at a respectable 32nd.

4 To help winter travelers plan their getaways, WalletHub’s analysts compared 69 of the largest metro areas to find the best cold and warm winter holiday destinations, looking at each destination across 26 key metrics, ranging from “cost of the cheapest flight” to “number of attractions in each winter vacation spot.” Woohoo! Dallas-Fort WorthArlington came in 1st in terms of (the lack of) Travel Costs & Hassles. It also came in 8th in terms of Activities, 10th in terms of Local Costs, 17th in terms of Attractions, and 24th in terms of Weather Conditions. See the full report at: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-winterholiday-destinations/7930/ : : : : :

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24 ICSC | Texas Retail Forecast 24 ICSC | Asset management & Property Operations Symposium 26 ASA | Membership Luncheon 28-31 BOMA International | Winter Business Meeting in San Diego 31 AGC Austin | Outstanding Construction Awards Banquet

1 ASID Austin | Design Community Holiday Party 2 TEXO | Holiday & Awards Gala 2 ASA | Holiday Open House & Blanket/Coat Drive 3 NTAFE | Christmas Party at La Hacienda Ranch in Colleyville 6 BOMA Fort Worth | Luncheon 6 CREW Fort Worth |Fort Worth Real Estate Council | Holiday Party 7 IREM Fort Worth | Holiday Luncheon at Joe T. Garcia’s 7 ULI North Texas | Holiday Celebration 8 NTCRA | Holiday Party 8 IREM San Antonio | Holiday Party 8 AIA Dallas | Holiday Party and Chapter Awards 8 AGC San Antonio | Holiday Open House 8 ASID Fort Worth | Holiday Party 9 CREW Dallas | Holiday Awards Luncheon 11 AGC Austin | Holiday Party 13 IREM Austin | Holiday Party 13 NAWIC Dallas | Holiday Dinner 14 AIA Fort Worth | USGBC | Festivus 14 RECA | Awards Luncheon 15 BOMA Austin | Holiday Luncheon 15 NAWIC Fort Worth |Chapter Business Meeting 16 SIOR North Texas | Holiday Party 17 AIA Fort Worth | Urban Sketchers

February

2-6 AIA San Antonio | Ski Tour 7 BOMA Fort Worth | Luncheon 8-10 IFMA | Facilities Management Workshop in San Antonio 9 RECA | KnockOut Night 10 ASA | TEXO | Top Golf 16 NAWIC Fort Worth |Chapter Business Meeting 18 DCFA | Form Follows Fitness 5K 18 AIA Fort Worth | Awards Banquet 20 TEXO | ASC Region IV Student Competition 23 ASA | Membership Luncheon 27 – March 1 | IAVM | Performing Arts Managers Conference in Chicago

March

7 TAID | Legislative Day at the Capitol – Austin 7 BOMA Fort Worth | Luncheon 14-16 IAVM | Guest Experience & Crowd Management Conference in Dallas 17-21 IAVM | Academy for Venue Safety & Security in Dallas 15-18 ASA | National Convention 16 NAWIC Fort Worth |Chapter Business Meeting 18 AIA Fort Worth | Urban Sketchers 23 BOMA Fort Worth | Bowling Tournament 30 ASA | Membership Luncheon 30 – April 1 BOMA | Southwest Regional Conference in Dallas

January

12 AIA | TEXO Economic Forum 17 ULI North Texas | Emerging Trends Event 19 BOMA Fort Worth |Winter Extravaganza 19 NAWIC Fort Worth |Chapter Business Meeting 21 BOMA Dallas | Annual Awards Banquet at The Highlands Dallas 21 AIA Fort Worth | Urban Sketchers

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ANSWER FROM PAGE 66: YOU’RE GOING TO CALL ME WHAT? 1. Arguably the most recognizable board game icon in the world, Mr. Monopoly (originally known as

Rich Uncle Pennybags) is the longstanding mascot of Parker Brothers’ (later Hasbro’s) classic Monopoly game.

Added to Monopoly boards in 1936.

Mr. Monopoly is seen on the actual game board as well as on the Chance and Community Chest Cards.

2. Mr. T (born Lawrence Tureaud in 1952) is an

American actor and retired professional wrestler known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team and as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III. Known for his trademark African Mandinka warrior hairstyle, his gold jewelry, and his tough-guy image, in 2006 he starred in the reality show I Pity the Fool (on TV Land), the title of which comes from the catchphrase of his Lang character.

3. Mr. Potato Head is an American toy consisting

of a plastic model of a potato which can be decorated with a variety of plastic parts that can attach to the main body. These parts include ears, eyes, shoes, a hat, a nose, and a mouth. The toy was invented and developed by George Lerner in 1949, and first manufactured and distributed by Hasbro in 1952. Mr. Potato Head was the first toy advertised on television and has remained in production since its debut. It was originally produced as separate plastic parts with pushpins that could be stuck into a real potato or other vegetable. However, due to complaints regarding rotting vegetables and new government safety regulations, Hasbro began including a plastic potato body within the toy set in 1964.

4. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (often shortened

to simply Mister Rogers) was a half-hour children’s television series created and hosted by namesake Fred Rogers. It originated in 1963 as Mister Rogers on CBC Television, re-branded in 1966 as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on the regional Eastern Educational Network, had its U.S. network debut in February 1968, and aired on NET and its successor, PBS, until August, 2001. The series was aimed primarily at preschool ages 2 to 5, and continued in reruns on most PBS stations until August 2007, when it began to be removed.

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The series follows the exploits of Mr. Bean, described by Atkinson as “a child in a grown man’s body”, in solving various problems presented by everyday tasks and often causing disruption in the process. Influenced by physical performers from silent films, Bean rarely speaks, and the largely physical humor of the series is derived from his interactions with other people and his unusual solutions to situations. During its five-year run, the series received a number of international awards.

It has been sold in 245 territories worldwide and has inspired an animated cartoon spin-off, and two feature films.

6. Created by Marvel Comics writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)

first appeared in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961).

The four individuals traditionally associated with the Fantastic Four, who gained superpowers after exposure to cosmic rays during a scientific mission to outer space, are Mister Fantastic (a scientific genius and the leader of the group), who can stretch his body into incredible lengths and shapes; the Invisible Woman (Susan “Sue” Storm, who eventually married Reed), who can render herself invisible and later project powerful force fields; the Human Torch (Johnny Storm, Sue’s younger brother), who can generate flames, surround himself with them and fly; and the monstrous Thing (Ben Grimm), their grumpy but benevolent friend, a former college football star and Reed’s college roommate as well as a good pilot, who possesses tremendous superhuman strength, durability, and endurance due to the nature of his stone-like flesh.

Mr. Fantastic’s stretch powers were inspired by DC’s Plastic Man.

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Contributing Editor Tony Barbieri examines what means for you. Alexander Hamilton, the founding father and Secretary of the Treasury who created the U.S. Mint now rules Broadway… in rap, and Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley brings her unique perspective to the long running, ridiculously expensive show. Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne (Amazing Buildings) will profile of One Vanderbilt Tower in NYC. Almost certainly a future icon, it will be the second-tallest building in Manhattan when it’s completed in 2020. GomezVazquez, a San Antonio-based international architectural firm presents its Global Village in Panama City. And Contributing Editor Isilay Civan’s next installment in her series on Standards, our affiliates’ news and events, Unreal Estate/The Wow Factor, Diversions, You’re Going to Call Me What?, In The Loop, our quarterly Contest and much MUCH more.

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Peter Marshall

Bob Barker

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