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You know their sound, and maybe the names of their hits. You may even remember their look. But do you remember their names? Each of these recording artists initially became famous with a back-up group. See how many you remember (and look up the rest). Send your entry (by email to editor@crestnetwork.com or fax to 817.924.7116) on or before September 22nd for a chance to win one of the prizes shown on page 62 or another valuable prize.

Joan Jett & ____________

Bruce Springsteen & ________________

Gladys Knight & ________

Lionel Richie and _______

KC and _______

Frankie Lymon and ___________

Paul Revere and _____________

Tom Petty and _____________

Martha Reeves and ____________

Bill Haley and _____________

Sly and __________________

Dion and ________________

Tommy James and ______________

Kool and _______________

Huey Lewis and __________

Elvis Costello and _____________

Sting and ______________

(Answers will appear in our December, 2018 issue.)

Hootie and ______________

Prince and _____________

Bruce Hornsby and ____________

Bob Seeger and ______________

Booker T and _____________

Smokey Robinson and ___________

Little Antony and _____________

Stevie Ray Vaughn and ________________

Bruce Springsteen and ______________

Iggy Pop and _______________

Florence and ____________

Buddy Holly and ______________

Junior Walker and ____________

Wayne Fontana and _____________

Jerry and _______________

Gary Lewis and ____________

Frankie Valli and _____________

september contest

51 Backup Groups

Dina Ross and _____________

Sam the Sham and ____________

Archie Bell and _______________

Bob Marley and ____________

Cannibal and _______________

Dr. Hook and ________________

Eric Burdon and ______________

Frank Zappa and _____________

Freddie and ______________

Gary Puckett and ____________

Gloria Estefan and ______________

Jay and ________________

Ronny and ______________

Mike and _______________

Patti Labelle and _____________

James Brown and _____________

Linda Ronstadt and _____________

Bob Seger

Diana Ross

Bruce Springstein

Dion DiMucci

Joan Jett

KC

Frank Zappa Sly

Huey Lewis

Gladys Knight

Florence

Lionel Richie

Gloria Estefan

Gary Puckett

Elvis Costello

Prince

Buddy Holly

Bob Marley

Frankie Valli

Tom Petty

ANSWERS FROM JUNE CONTEST I’LL NEVER FORGET OLD WHAT’S HIS NAME

1) F 2) H 3) P 4) K 5) G

6) N 7) L 8) O 9) Q 10) I

11) M 12) C 13) D 14) S 15) T

16) B 17) A 18) E 19) J 20) R

Congratulations to all of our prize winners! Heather Arlens of Sugar Land won Beem United earbuds; Kevin Camino of Laredo won an Omnicharge Power bank; Candace Hughes of Austin won a Wisenet Video Doorbell; Victoria Roush of Farmers Branch won a Martian mVIP smartwatch; Debbie Archer of Round Rock won a Satechi Organization Station; and Seth Allen Wright of San Marcos won Urban Ears headphones.

ANSWER FROM PAGE 49: YOU’RE GOING TO CALL ME WHAT?

1 Rosie the maid is a humanoid robot ctional character in The Jetsons animated television series of the 1960s and 80s. She is the family’s maid and housekeeper depicted as wearing a frilly apron, and was often seen using a separate vacuum cleaner. Her torso is mounted atop a single leg and she rolls about on wheels. She frequently calls George Jetson “Mr. J”. Rosie was an old demonstrator model hired by the Jetson family from U-Rent a Maid. She was in fact outdated when introduced, and her obsolescence was the basis of several episodes focused on her.

2 R2-D2 is a ctional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. A small astromech droid (a versatile utility robot used for the maintenance and repair of starships and related technology), R2-D2 is a major character and appears in nine out of the ten Star Wars lms to date. Throughout the course of the lms, R2 is a friend to Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi in various points in the saga. The name derives from when Lucas was making one of his earlier lms, American Gra ti. Sound editor Walter Murch asked for “Reel 2, Dialog Track 2,” in the abbreviated form “R-2-D-2,” and Lucas, thought it was a great name. R2-D2 stands for Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2, according to a Star Wars encyclopedia published after the release of the Star Wars.

3 The mascot of General Mills cereal Lucky Charms, created in 1963, is Lucky the Leprechaun, also known as Sir Charms, and originally called L.C. Leprechaun. General Mills found that sales were better if the composition of the marshmallow bits (marbits) changed periodically. Over the years, over 40 limited edition features such as Winter Lucky Charms, Olympicthemed Lucky Charms, and Lucky Charms featuring marshmallow landmarks from around the world were created. In market research, more brightly colored charms resulted in better sales than did dull or pastel colors. The marshmallows are meant to represent Lucky’s magical charms, each with their own special meaning or “power.” The following are explanations of the permanent marshmallows: Hearts - power to bring things to life; Shooting Stars - power to y; Horseshoes - power to speed things up; Green Clovers - luck, but you will never know what kind of luck you will get; Blue Moons - power of invisibility; Rainbows - instantaneous travel from place to place; Balloons - power to make things oat; Hourglass - power to control time.

4 The California Raisins were a ctional rhythm and blues animated musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins. They experienced high

popularity in the mid-to-late 1980s principally through claymation TV commercials and animated specials, winning an Emmy Award and one nomination., The commercial with dancing raisins singing I Heard It Through the Grapevine (the 1968 song popularized by Marvin Gaye) became wildly popular, paving the way for several future commercials, one of which featured Ray Charles and another with a raisin caricature of Michael Jackson. The California Raisins released four studio albums between 1987 and 1988, and their signature song, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, landed on the Billboard Hot 100. The Raisins were the o cial mascots of Post Raisin Bran, appearing in commercials and on packaging.

5 The Lone Ranger was a western drama television series that aired from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role. Jay Silverheels, a member of the Mohawk Aboriginal people in Canada, played The Lone Ranger’s Native American companion Tonto. The ctional story line was that a patrol of Texas Rangers was massacred, with only one surviving. The “lone” survivor thereafter disguises himself with a black mask and travels with Tonto throughout Texas and the American West to assist those challenged by the lawless elements. A silver mine supplies The Lone Ranger with the name of his horse (Silver) as well as the funds required to nance his wandering life-style and the raw material for his signature bullets. At the end of most episodes, after the Lone Ranger and Tonto leave, someone asks the sheri or other person of authority who the masked man was. The person then responds that it was the Lone Ranger, who is then heard yelling “Hi-Yo Silver, away!” as he and Tonto ride away on their horses.

6 Lassie was a ctional character created in a short story that was later expanded to a full-length novel by Eric Knight; she is a female Rough Collie. Published in 1940, Knight’s novel was lmed by MGM in 1943, as Lassie Come Home with a dog named Pal playing Lassie. Pal then appeared with the stage name “Lassie” in six other MGM feature lms through 1951. In 1954, the long-running, Emmy winning television series Lassie debuted, and, over the next 19 years, a succession of Pal’s descendants appeared on the series. The “Lassie” character has appeared in radio, television, lm, toys, comic books, animated series, juvenile novels, and other media. Pal’s descendants continue to play Lassie today. The series was the recipient of two Emmy Awards. A second series followed in the 1980s and in 2005, a remake of the original Lassie Come Home movie was released. (The picture is from the 1954 TV series with Tommy Rettig.)

General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV was the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. He survived the death march of Bataan and received the Medal of Honor for his courageous leadership during the fall of the Philippines. His grandfather was killed at Sabine Pass. Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley attended his funeral in 1953 and has a story about the general that has never before been told. Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne’s Amazing Buildings looks at the rise of “vertical villages” in Singapore and Vancouver. (Vertical villages are meant to solve the problems of density and isolation in areas where demand for space is high, and create communal spaces, even adding shared green spaces on balconies.) Contributing Editor Tony Barbieri’s Legal View examines asset seizure after winning a court judgment. The Texas Historical Commission preserves and operates 22 state historic sites across the state (recently welcoming French Legation in Austin). From American Indian sites to frontier forts to common and elegant homes and the leaders and statesmen who lived in them, these sites enrich people’s lives through history. Through pictures, we look at These unique places honor in Texas history which inspire an understanding of what We’ll also look at sister cities in Texas - a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties. Of course, we will have our a liates’ news and events, UnReal Estate, the Wow Factor, Diversions, You Need to Know, Political Corner, You’re Going to Call Me What, In the Loop, Real Estate of the Future, our quarterly Contest and much MUCH more.

I met my wife at a dance. It was so embarrassing!

I thought she was home with the kids.

The Names of MLB

Los Angeles Dodgers: Formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1890. Brooklyn had hundreds of trolleys zig-zagging through its streets, and pedestrians were constantly scurrying out of their way. at’s why their baseball team was called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (later shortened to Dodgers). e team moves to L.A. in 1958.

Houston Astros: Formed in 1961, they were originally called the Colt .45s a er the famous gun. But by 1965, when their new stadium opened, Houston had become famous as the home of NASA’s mission control. Both the stadium (Astrodome) and the team were named in honor of America’s astronauts.

Pittsburgh Pirates: In 1876, they were known as the Alleghenies (a er the neighboring Allegheny River). But in the 1890s, they earned a new nickname – the Pirates – when they stole a few players from a rival Philadelphia baseball club.

San Francisco Giants: e New York Gothams baseball club was ghting for a National League championship in 1886. A er one particularly stunning victory, their manager proudly addressed them as “My big fellows, my giants.” e name stuck. e New York Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958.

Cleveland Indians: From 1869 to 1912, the Cleveland baseball team had ve di erent names including the Forest Citys, the Naps and the Spiders. en in 1913, a popular player named Luis Francis Sockalexis died. He had been the rst American Indian ever to play pro baseball and the team was renamed in his honor.

Chicago Cubs: ey had no o cial name at the turn-of-the-19th-century (although they were informally called the Colts and the Orphans). en, in 1902, a sports writer dubbed them “the Cubs” because it was short enough to t into a newspaper headline. e name caught on and 5 years later the team o cially adopted it.

Cincinnati Reds: Formed in 1869, the team was originally called the Red Stockings. Later, they were known as the Reds (until the early ‘50s when McCarthyism was rampant). No one wanted to be called a ‘Red’; it sounded too much like a ‘Commie ‘. So, the team actually made an o cial name change to the ‘Redlegs’. When the patriotic panic died down, they quietly switched back to ‘Reds’.

Detroit Tigers: Legend says that the Detroit Creams (the cream of the baseball crop) became the Tigers in 1896, when the manager decided their black and brown striped socks reminded him of tiger stripes.

Montreal Expos: e Canadian city was awarded a baseball franchise in 1968, partly because its 1967 World’s Fair (Expo ’67) had been successful. e team was named in honor of the event.

New York Yankees: ey were rst called the Highlanders or Hilltoppers, because their ball eld was located at the highest point in the city. Like in Chicago (above), sports writers got fed up trying to t the name into the headlines. So, in 1909, a newsman arbitrarily called them Yankees (patriotic slang for ‘Americans’). A er World War I, when jingoistic fever was rampant (“ e Yanks are coming”), the team o cially became the Yankees.

Baltimore Orioles: Named for the Maryland state bird in the early 1900s.

Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays: All ve were expansion teams and each got its name in public “name our new team” contests. e Padres, although formed in 1969, got their name in 1935. e original contest was held to name a minor league team; 34 years later, San Diego was awarded a major-league franchise, and the new team adopted the old name.

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” (John Gotti)

In this feature of the December 2014 issue of the network, we explained the derivation of the names of 32 teams of the NFL. Here, we explain some of the more interesting origins of the names of NBA and MLB franchises.

The Names of the NBA

Seattle Supersonics: Named a er the supersonic jet proposed by Seattle-based Boeing in the late 1960s. ( e jet was never built.)

Washington Bullets: Originally the Baltimore Bullets, they were named in honor of a nearby ammunition factory that had supplied American troops during World War II.

Los Angeles Lakers: ere are no lakes in LA. e team was originally the Minneapolis Lakers. Minnesota is the “Land of 1000 Lakes.”

Detroit Pistons: Not named for the auto industry. e team’s founder, Fred’s Zollner, owned a piston factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1957, the Zollner Pistons move to Detroit.

Brooklyn Nets: Originally called the New York Nets to rhyme with New York Mets (baseball) and New York Jets (football) teams. In 1981, the team moved to the Meadowlands and became the New Jersey Nets; in 2012, they moved to Brooklyn and…you know.

Houston Rockets: It actually has nothing to do with NASA. ey began (in 1967) as the San Diego Rockets – a name inspired by the theme of a “City in Motion” and its “space age industries.” ey moved to Houston in 1971.

Orlando Magic: Inspired by Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

New York Knicks: Short for knickerbockers, the pants that Dutch settlers in New York wore in the 1600s.

Indiana Pacers: e owners wanted to “set the pace” in the NBA.

Los Angeles Clippers: e franchise was founded in 1970 as the Bu alo Braves, one of three expansion teams to join the NBA that year. e Braves moved from Bu alo, New York to San Diego, California in 1978 and became known as the San Diego Clippers (where great sailing boats known as Clipper Ships used to land a hundred years ago). In 1984, they moved to Los Angeles.

Sacramento Kings: When the Cincinnati Royals moved to the Kansas City - Omaha area in 1972, they realized both cities already had Royals baseball teams. ey became the K.C. Kings, then the Sacramento Kings when they relocated there in 1985.

Atlanta Hawks: Started in 1948 as the Tri-City Blackhawks (Moline and Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa), they were named a er Sauk Indian chief Black Hawk, who fought settlers of the area in the 1831 Black Hawk Wars. In 1951, the team moved to Milwaukee and shortened the name to Hawks.

In this feature of the December 2014 issue of the network, we explained the derivation of the names of 32 teams of the NFL. Here, we explain some of the more interesting origins of the names of NBA and MLB franchises.

The Names of the NBA

Seattle Supersonics: Named a er the supersonic jet proposed by Seattle-based Boeing in the late 1960s. ( e jet was never built.)

Washington Bullets: Originally the Baltimore Bullets, they were named in honor of a nearby ammunition factory that had supplied American troops during World War II.

Los Angeles Lakers: ere are no lakes in LA. e team was originally the Minneapolis Lakers. Minnesota is the “Land of 1000 Lakes.”

Detroit Pistons: Not named for the auto industry. e team’s founder, Fred’s Zollner, owned a piston factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1957, the Zollner Pistons move to Detroit.

Brooklyn Nets: Originally called the New York Nets to rhyme with New York Mets (baseball) and New York Jets (football) teams. In 1981, the team moved to the Meadowlands and became the New Jersey Nets; in 2012, they moved to Brooklyn and…you know.

Houston Rockets: It actually has nothing to do with NASA. ey began (in 1967) as the San Diego Rockets – a name inspired by the theme of a “City in Motion” and its “space age industries.” ey moved to Houston in 1971.

Orlando Magic: Inspired by Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

New York Knicks: Short for knickerbockers, the pants that Dutch settlers in New York wore in the 1600s.

Indiana Pacers: e owners wanted to “set the pace” in the NBA.

Los Angeles Clippers: e franchise was founded in 1970 as the Bu alo Braves, one of three expansion teams to join the NBA that year. e Braves moved from Bu alo, New York to San Diego, California in 1978 and became known as the San Diego Clippers (where great sailing boats known as Clipper Ships used to land a hundred years ago). In 1984, they moved to Los Angeles.

Sacramento Kings: When the Cincinnati Royals moved to the Kansas City - Omaha area in 1972, they realized both cities already had Royals baseball teams. ey became the K.C. Kings, then the Sacramento Kings when they relocated there in 1985.

Atlanta Hawks: Started in 1948 as the Tri-City Blackhawks (Moline and Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa), they were named a er Sauk Indian chief Black Hawk, who fought settlers of the area in the 1831 Black Hawk Wars. In 1951, the team moved to Milwaukee and shortened the name to Hawks.

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” (John Gotti) Wicked chickens lay deviled eggs.

The Names of MLB

Los Angeles Dodgers: Formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1890. Brooklyn had hundreds of trolleys zig-zagging through its streets, and pedestrians were constantly scurrying out of their way. at’s why their baseball team was called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (later shortened to Dodgers). e team moves to L.A. in 1958.

Houston Astros: Formed in 1961, they were originally called the Colt .45s a er the famous gun. But by 1965, when their new stadium opened, Houston had become famous as the home of NASA’s mission control. Both the stadium (Astrodome) and the team were named in honor of America’s astronauts.

Pittsburgh Pirates: In 1876, they were known as the Alleghenies (a er the neighboring Allegheny River). But in the 1890s, they earned a new nickname – the Pirates – when they stole a few players from a rival Philadelphia baseball club.

San Francisco Giants: e New York Gothams baseball club was ghting for a National League championship in 1886. A er one particularly stunning victory, their manager proudly addressed them as “My big fellows, my giants.” e name stuck. e New York Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958.

Cleveland Indians: From 1869 to 1912, the Cleveland baseball team had ve di erent names including the Forest Citys, the Naps and the Spiders. en in 1913, a popular player named Luis Francis Sockalexis died. He had been the rst American Indian ever to play pro baseball and the team was renamed in his honor.

Chicago Cubs: ey had no o cial name at the turn-of-the-19th-century (although they were informally called the Colts and the Orphans). en, in 1902, a sports writer dubbed them “the Cubs” because it was short enough to t into a newspaper headline. e name caught on and 5 years later the team o cially adopted it.

Cincinnati Reds: Formed in 1869, the team was originally called the Red Stockings. Later, they were known as the Reds (until the early ‘50s when McCarthyism was rampant). No one wanted to be called a ‘Red’; it sounded too much like a ‘Commie ‘. So, the team actually made an o cial name change to the ‘Redlegs’. When the patriotic panic died down, they quietly switched back to ‘Reds’.

Detroit Tigers: Legend says that the Detroit Creams (the cream of the baseball crop) became the Tigers in 1896, when the manager decided their black and brown striped socks reminded him of tiger stripes.

Montreal Expos: e Canadian city was awarded a baseball franchise in 1968, partly because its 1967 World’s Fair (Expo ’67) had been successful. e team was named in honor of the event.

New York Yankees: ey were rst called the Highlanders or Hilltoppers, because their ball eld was located at the highest point in the city. Like in Chicago (above), sports writers got fed up trying to t the name into the headlines. So, in 1909, a newsman arbitrarily called them Yankees (patriotic slang for ‘Americans’). A er World War I, when jingoistic fever was rampant (“ e Yanks are coming”), the team o cially became the Yankees.

Baltimore Orioles: Named for the Maryland state bird in the early 1900s.

Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays: All ve were expansion teams and each got its name in public “name our new team” contests. e Padres, although formed in 1969, got their name in 1935. e original contest was held to name a minor league team; 34 years later, San Diego was awarded a major-league franchise, and the new team adopted the old name.

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” (John Gotti)

Wicked chickens lay deviled eggs.

went to a restaurant that said, “Breakfast Any Time,” so I ordered eggs during the Renaissance.

ANSWERS FROM JUNE CONTEST I’LL NEVER FORGET OLD WHAT’S HIS NAME

Congratulations to all of our prize winners! Heather Arlens of Sugar Land won Beem United earbuds; Kevin Camino of Laredo won an Omnicharge Power bank; Candace Hughes of Austin won a Wisenet Video Doorbell; Victoria Roush of Farmers Branch won a Martian mVIP smartwatch; Debbie Archer of Round Rock won a Satechi Organization Station; and Seth Allen Wright of San Marcos won Urban Ears headphones.

ANSWER FROM PAGE 49: YOU’RE GOING TO CALL ME WHAT?

1 Rosie the maid is a humanoid robot ctional character in The Jetsons animated television series of the 1960s and 80s. She is the family’s maid and housekeeper depicted as wearing a frilly apron, and was often seen using a separate vacuum cleaner. Her torso is mounted atop a single leg and she rolls about on wheels. She frequently calls George Jetson “Mr. J”. Rosie was an old demonstrator model hired by the Jetson family from U-Rent a Maid. She was in fact outdated when introduced, and her obsolescence was the basis of several episodes focused on her.

2 R2-D2 is a ctional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. A small astromech droid (a versatile utility robot used for the maintenance and repair of starships and related technology), R2-D2 is a major character and appears in nine out of the ten Star Wars lms to date. Throughout the course of the lms, R2 is a friend to Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi in various points in the saga. The name derives from when Lucas was making one of his earlier lms, American Gra ti. Sound editor Walter Murch asked for “Reel 2, Dialog Track 2,” in the abbreviated form “R-2-D-2,” and Lucas, thought it was a great name. R2-D2 stands for Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2, according to a Star Wars encyclopedia published after the release of the Star Wars.

3 The mascot of General Mills cereal Lucky Charms, created in 1963, is Lucky the Leprechaun, also known as Sir Charms, and originally called L.C. Leprechaun. General Mills found that sales were better if the composition of the marshmallow bits (marbits) changed periodically. Over the years, over 40 limited edition features such as Winter Lucky Charms, Olympicthemed Lucky Charms, and Lucky Charms featuring marshmallow landmarks from around the world were created. In market research, more brightly colored charms resulted in better sales than did dull or pastel colors. The marshmallows are meant to represent Lucky’s magical charms, each with their own special meaning or “power.” The following are explanations of the permanent marshmallows: Hearts - power to bring things to life; Shooting Stars - power to y; Horseshoes - power to speed things up; Green Clovers - luck, but you will never know what kind of luck you will get; Blue Moons - power of invisibility; Rainbows - instantaneous travel from place to place; Balloons - power to make things oat; Hourglass - power to control time.

4 The California Raisins were a ctional rhythm and blues animated musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins. They experienced high

popularity in the mid-to-late 1980s principally through claymation TV commercials and animated specials, winning an Emmy Award and one nomination., The commercial with dancing raisins singing I Heard It Through the Grapevine (the 1968 song popularized by Marvin Gaye) became wildly popular, paving the way for several future commercials, one of which featured Ray Charles and another with a raisin caricature of Michael Jackson. The California Raisins released four studio albums between 1987 and 1988, and their signature song, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, landed on the Billboard Hot 100. The Raisins were the o cial mascots of Post Raisin Bran, appearing in commercials and on packaging.

5 The Lone Ranger was a western drama television series that aired from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role. Jay Silverheels, a member of the Mohawk Aboriginal people in Canada, played The Lone Ranger’s Native American companion Tonto. The ctional story line was that a patrol of Texas Rangers was massacred, with only one surviving. The “lone” survivor thereafter disguises himself with a black mask and travels with Tonto throughout Texas and the American West to assist those challenged by the lawless elements. A silver mine supplies The Lone Ranger with the name of his horse (Silver) as well as the funds required to nance his wandering life-style and the raw material for his signature bullets. At the end of most episodes, after the Lone Ranger and Tonto leave, someone asks the sheri or other person of authority who the masked man was. The person then responds that it was the Lone Ranger, who is then heard yelling “Hi-Yo Silver, away!” as he and Tonto ride away on their horses.

6 Lassie was a ctional character created in a short story that was later expanded to a full-length novel by Eric Knight; she is a female Rough Collie. Published in 1940, Knight’s novel was lmed by MGM in 1943, as Lassie Come Home with a dog named Pal playing Lassie. Pal then appeared with the stage name “Lassie” in six other MGM feature lms through 1951. In 1954, the long-running, Emmy winning television series Lassie debuted, and, over the next 19 years, a succession of Pal’s descendants appeared on the series. The “Lassie” character has appeared in radio, television, lm, toys, comic books, animated series, juvenile novels, and other media. Pal’s descendants continue to play Lassie today. The series was the recipient of two Emmy Awards. A second series followed in the 1980s and in 2005, a remake of the original Lassie Come Home movie was released. (The picture is from the 1954 TV series with Tommy Rettig.)

General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV was the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. He survived the death march of Bataan and received the Medal of Honor for his courageous leadership during the fall of the Philippines. His grandfather was killed at Sabine Pass. Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley attended his funeral in 1953 and has a story about the general that has never before been told. Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne’s Amazing Buildings looks at the rise of “vertical villages” in Singapore and Vancouver. (Vertical villages are meant to solve the problems of density and isolation in areas where demand for space is high, and create communal spaces, even adding shared green spaces on balconies.) Contributing Editor Tony Barbieri’s Legal View examines asset seizure after winning a court judgment. The Texas Historical Commission preserves and operates 22 state historic sites across the state (recently welcoming French Legation in Austin). From American Indian sites to frontier forts to common and elegant homes and the leaders and statesmen who lived in them, these sites enrich people’s lives through history. Through pictures, we look at These unique places honor in Texas history which inspire an understanding of what We’ll also look at sister cities in Texas - a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties. Of course, we will have our a liates’ news and events, UnReal Estate, the Wow Factor, Diversions, You Need to Know, Political Corner, You’re Going to Call Me What, In the Loop, Real Estate of the Future, our quarterly Contest and much MUCH more.

I met my wife at a dance. It was so embarrassing!

I thought she was home with the kids.

I met my wife at a dance. It was so embarrassing!

I thought she was home with the kids.

You know their sound, and maybe the names of their hits. You may even remember their look. But do you remember their names? Each of these recording artists initially became famous with a back-up group. See how many you remember (and look up the rest). Send your entry (by email to editor@crestnetwork.com or fax to 817.924.7116) on or before September 22nd for a chance to win one of the prizes shown on page 62 or another valuable prize.

Joan Jett & ____________

Bruce Springsteen & ________________

Gladys Knight & ________

Lionel Richie and _______

KC and _______

Frankie Lymon and ___________

Paul Revere and _____________

Tom Petty and _____________

Martha Reeves and ____________

Bill Haley and _____________

Sly and __________________

Dion and ________________

Tommy James and ______________

Kool and _______________

Huey Lewis and __________

Elvis Costello and _____________

Sting and ______________

(Answers will appear in our December, 2018 issue.)

Hootie and ______________

Prince and _____________

Bruce Hornsby and ____________

Bob Seeger and ______________

Booker T and _____________

Smokey Robinson and ___________

Little Antony and _____________

Stevie Ray Vaughn and ________________

Bruce Springsteen and ______________

Iggy Pop and _______________

Florence and ____________

Buddy Holly and ______________

Junior Walker and ____________

Wayne Fontana and _____________

Jerry and _______________

Gary Lewis and ____________

Frankie Valli and _____________

september contest

51 Backup Groups

Dina Ross and _____________

Sam the Sham and ____________

Archie Bell and _______________

Bob Marley and ____________

Cannibal and _______________

Dr. Hook and ________________

Eric Burdon and ______________

Frank Zappa and _____________

Freddie and ______________

Gary Puckett and ____________

Gloria Estefan and ______________

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“I fear that one day I’ll meet God, He’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.” (Ronnie Shakes)

JULIE BRAND LYNCH

julie@LYNOUS.com

JulieLynchistheprincipalofLYNOUS,atalentmanagement rm that provides recruiting, interim sta ng and training to the real estate industry. Sheisalsoacontributingeditorof the network

Did you recently take a step in your career? We want to know! editor@crestnetwork.com

1 Ian Sinnett, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, CDT was promoted to Principal at Perkins+Will in Dallas • 2 Julie Frazier, AIA, ACHA, RELi AP, LEED AP was promoted to Associate Principal at Perkins+Will in Dallas • 3 Jordan Thompson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C was promoted to Associate Principal at Perkins+Will in Dallas •

4 Angela Whitaker-Williams, AIA, LEED AP was promoted to Principal at Perkins+Will in Austin • 5 Thomas Newsom, AIA, CDT, LEED AP was promoted to Associate Principal at Perkins+Will in Houston • 6 Gerald van Benschop was promoted to Associate Principal at Perkins+Will in Houston • 7 Ryan Matthew Littman was hired as Director of Food and Beverage for the Sheraton Dallas Hotel • 8 Michele Stout-Smith was promoted to Director of Catering Sales for the Sheraton Dallas Hotel • 9 Grant Hu was promoted to Vice President of Transwestern in Fort Worth • 10 Steve Wolf joined Westmount Realty Capital, LLC as Senior Director – Industrial Acquisitions in Dallas • 11 Chris Bone was promoted to Senior Managing Director of Project Management at CBRE • 12 Sharon Walhood joined CBRE as Managing Director of Asset Services for North Texas • 13 Nathan Lawrence was promoted to Executive Vice President at CBRE in Dallas

• 14 Danny Baker was promoted to Senior Vice President at CBRE in Dallas • 15 Wilson Brown was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE in Dallas

• 16 Neal Puckett was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE in Dallas • 17 Brian Gilchrist was promoted to Vice President at CBRE in Dallas • 18 Christine Seay joined CBRE’s Americas Local Project Management team as a Director • 19 Joe Brown joined Churchill Mortgage serving the Austin and San Antonio branches

• 20 Sarah Kimes was promoted to Vice President at CallisonRTKL in Dallas • 21 Richard Huang was promoted to Vice President at CallisonRTKL in Dallas

• 22 Brent Landfried joined Transwestern as a Vice President in Fort Worth • 23 Casey Tounget joined Transwestern as an Associate in Fort Worth • 24 Theron Bryant joined Transwestern as a Principal in Fort Worth

• 25 Kimberly Hickson joined Perkins+Will in Houston as a Principal

• 26 Jim Keith, P.E., CFM rejoined Freese and Nichols as storm water manager in Dallas

• 27 Robert P. Carl joined PAH Management as the Senior Director of Construction and Project Management • 28 Diane Dillard, a Houston commercial real estate attorney was appointed to the board of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

To determine the most driver-friendly places in the U.S., WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 29 key metrics (ranging from average gas prices to annual hours in tra c congestion per auto commuter to auto-repair shops per capita. Among the best were Corpus Christi, coming in 2nd (behind Raleigh, NC) and El Paso at

Ebby Halliday Realtors, the largest independently owned residential real estate company in Texas (and the 10th largest in the U.S.) has been sold to HomeServices of America, Inc., which is owned by Warren Bu et’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The deal includes Dallas-based Ebby Halliday’s three real estate brands — Ebby Halliday Realtors, Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate and Williams Trew Real Estate (and their a liated mortgage and title companies). In announcing the news at The Star in Frisco, CEO Ron Peltier assured the over 1700 agents in attendance that nothing would be changing. Ebby Halliday (a native of Kansas) died in 2015 at the age of 104. The company she started in 1945, according to a statement announcing the sale, now has about 1,850 agents and sta in 35 o ces, with sales volume in 2017 of over $8 billion.

#8. See the whole report at: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worstcities-to-drive-in/13964/

Congrats to HPM Construction Management’s TCU team who won Best in Category for Project Management Greater Than $50 Million at the 4th Annual Construction Management Project Achievement from the Construction Management Association of America’s North Texas Chapter for their work on the Worth Hills Greek Village Phase 5 Residence Halls. HPM combines comprehensive construction-related experience with design, build and move resources to o er clients a one-stop approach to complete program management.

A bow of respect for Eric DeJernett’s skill in artfully injecting the ideal retail uses into urban, mixed-use projects earned him this year’s Bruce Kaplan Honorary Award, a national CBRE award given to those who demonstrate creativity, courage and conviction in real estate while fostering and transforming retail within mixed-use environments. The honor commemorates the late Mr. Kaplan, known as an eager collaborator and mixed-use expert who tirelessly coached his clients through complex projects and freely mentored colleagues. The Austin resident’s emblematic work for this award can be seen in the skillful way he has found tenants for Fareground One Eleven and 2ndStreet District.

Starting a business is never easy. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about a fth of all startups don’t survive past year one of operation, and nearly half never make it to their fth anniversary. Of course, they fail for di erent reasons, a “bad location” being among the most common. Choosing the right state for a business is crucial to its success. A state that provides the ideal conditions for business creation — access to cash, skilled workers and a ordable o ce space, for instance — can help new ventures not only take o but also thrive. WalletHub compared the 50 states across 25 key indicators of startup success to determine the most fertile grounds in which to launch and grow an enterprise – and what they found is that Texas is the best state in which to start a new business. Some of the individual stats: (1=Best; 25=Avg.): 4th – Avg. Growth in Number of Small Businesses; 12th – O ce-Space A ordability; 29th – Labor Costs; 4th – Avg. Length of Work Week (in Hours); 11th – Cost of Living. See for yourself at: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-statesto-start-a-business/36934/

Newmark Knight Frank, a leading global commercial real estate advisory rm, will acquire nationally known corporate tenant representation real estate agency Jackson Cooksey. James C. Cooksey, who will join NKF’s Texas o ce as Vice Chairman and President of Tenant Representation Texas, founded the Dallas-based Jackson Cooksey Company in 1982. Jackson Cooksey was named one of the Nation’s “Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in 2018,” and its brokers have consistently been named as “Heavy Hitters” and top industry professionals. The rm is ranked among the largest commercial real estate brokerages in the Dallas and Houston areas; there are also o ces in Austin and Denver.

Congratulations to Connie Ackermann! The Hillwood Assistant Property Manager and member of the Fort Worth chapter of IREM was named one of the Institute’s “30 Under 30, a group of exceptional next-generation leaders committed to the real estate industry and already making a name for themselves.”

Alfred Vidaurri Jr., FAIA, NCARB, AICP, vice president of Freese and Nichols in Fort Worth, was elected treasurer of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) at the group’s 99th Annual Business Meeting.

I have kleptomania. When it gets bad, I take something for it.

shout outs!

Expressions of praise given in the presence of many peo ple.

Bravo Merriman Anderson/Architects (MAA) - the design architect and architect of record for seven projects that were presented awards at the 19th annual Preservation Dallas Achievement Awards ceremony. The projects were The Statler, Old Dallas Central Library, Dallas High School, Tower Petroleum, Corrigan Tower, Allen Building, and Mercantile Commerce Building. Combined, these projects represent 740 residential units, 700 hotel rooms, 15 retail/restaurants venues and 300,000 square-feet of o ce space for the urban core of Downtown Dallas.

The Department of Energy’s O ce of Energy E ciency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) honored 23 organizations as recognized as Green Lease Leaders this year. The nine Silver level honorees (pictured here) have implemented foundational policies and business practices, while the 14 Gold level organizations have built on the requirements for Silver by executing the sustainable leases and t-outs they’ve negotiated.

Preservation Dallas focuses on protecting the history and culture of Dallas neighborhoods and historic buildings throughout the city. Each year Preservation Dallas hosts an Achievement Awards ceremony honoring Dallas’ outstanding residential and commercial historic preservation projects and the individuals who are committed to making Dallas a better place to live by promoting its architectural heritage.

MAA has won a total of 16 Preservation Dallas awards over the years including the seven awarded this year.

Congratulations to the 2018 class of BOMA Fellows who were celebrated at BOMA International’s in June. The group includes Mark Dukes, Physicians Realty Trust; Donald J. Fairgrieve-Park, QuadReal Property Group; Brian M. Harnetiaux, McCarthy Cook & Co.; Richard H. Kenwood, Madison Marquette; Peter Merrett, The House of Wonderful; Sheldon S. Oppermann, Compass Properties LLC; Laura T. Ragans, MBRE Healthcare; Andrew J. Romerdahl, Providence St. Joseph Health; Coleen M. Spratt, Colliers International; and Geo rey M. Wardle, Spink Butler LLP.

Green Lease Leaders™ recognizes forward-thinking companies and real estate practitioners who break down barriers to highperformance buildings by revolutionizing leases to incorporate energy e ciency and sustainability. Green leases, also known as “high-performance” or “energy-aligned” leases, create win-win agreements for building owners and tenants by equitably aligning the costs and bene ts of energy and water e ciency investments for both parties. Kudos to all!

In July, CNBC unveiled the results of its twelfth annual list of America’s Top States for Business with Texas taking the number one position. The Lone Star state scored 1,651 out of 2,500 points. Since the study was introduced in 2007, Texas has placed in the top ve every year and is the only state to be named a fourtime winner. Yeah! This year, the state had top ten nishes in ve of the ten categories of competitiveness, including two number one spots. Texas added more than 350,000 jobs in the past year and had solid economic growth—including a 5.2% state GDP increase in the fourth quarter— putting the state in rst place for the Economy category, up from number 25 last year. However, the state had some of the same weaknesses it had the last time it nished on top—taking the number 31 spot for Quality of Life and number 37 for education this year. The top 5: 1) Texas (Highest Rank - #1 in Infrastructure and Economy; Lowest Rank - #37 in Education);

2) Washington (Highest Rank - #2 in Workforce; Lowest Rank - #37 in Cost of Living);

3) Utah (Highest Rank - #2 in Economy; Lowest Rank#34 in Education);

4) Virginia (Highest Rank - #3 in Workforce; Lowest Rank - #34 in Cost of Doing Business);

5) Colorado (Highest Rank - #5 in Workforce; Lowest Rank - #37 in Cost of Doing Business).

“Paris is one of those cities we all dream to live in. Beyond times, borders and cultures it gathers a collection of images coming out of our collective unconscious”

- Fabienne Delacroix

La Joie de Vivre

From her earliest childhood, the artist Fabienne Delacroix has been steeped in literature, poetry, and music. She is the youngest child of the master naif painter Michel Delacroix, and at the age of ten, she began to paint alongside him in his studio. is early artistic engagement and cultural education awakened her talent as a painter and enabled her to transmit deeply felt aesthetic impressions. At the age of twelve, with an evident natural talent, her paintings were exhibited in a gallery in Carmel, California.

In 2004, Fabienne began exhibiting on her own, and while her work can be linked stylistically to her father’s, she is very much an artist in her own right with unique sources of inspiration. Her mastery of light and color can be traced back to French Impressionism, and her scenes of the French countryside, seaside, and cozy interiors appear to have come straight out of the novels of Balzac. Her aesthetic language has also found inspiration from works like the Japanese prints of Hokusai, the post-impressionist paintings by Henri Rivière, or the oldfashioned photographs by Robert Doisneau. Until recently, Fabienne was known mainly for her seascapes and pastoral landscapes while her father was renowned for his Parisian landscapes. However, now, Fabienne has expanded her list of subjects to include the streets of Paris. With an all-encompassing representation of life in France, her work invites the viewer on a charmed voyage, re ecting on the joy and simplicity of a bygone age.

Fabienne continues to paint the French countryside, seaside, and sometimes even Boston with her signature air. She currently lives and works in Paris, France.

M Fine Galerie in Boston will exhibit over 25 new paintings by Fabienne Delacroix

September 1 - 30th at 460 C Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118 Tel: 617-450-0700

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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 in uence on the way we perceive the world. A structure often plays a signi cant part in how we experience a place. (Think of a restaurant, a museum, an arena, a stadium…even an o ce 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.)

La Joie de Vivre

From her earliest childhood, the artist Fabienne Delacroix has been steeped in literature, poetry, and music. She is the youngest child of the master naif painter Michel Delacroix, and at the age of ten, she began to paint alongside him in his studio. is early artistic engagement and cultural education awakened her talent as a painter and enabled her to transmit deeply felt aesthetic impressions. At the age of twelve, with an evident natural talent, her paintings were exhibited in a gallery in Carmel, California.

In 2004, Fabienne began exhibiting on her own, and while her work can be linked stylistically to her father’s, she is very much an artist in her own right with unique sources of inspiration. Her mastery of light and color can be traced back to French Impressionism, and her scenes of the French countryside, seaside, and cozy interiors appear to have come straight out of the novels of Balzac. Her aesthetic language has also found inspiration from works like the Japanese prints of Hokusai, the post-impressionist paintings by Henri Rivière, or the oldfashioned photographs by Robert Doisneau. Until recently, Fabienne was known mainly for her seascapes and pastoral landscapes while her father was renowned for his Parisian landscapes. However, now, Fabienne has expanded her list of subjects to include the streets of Paris. With an all-encompassing representation of life in France, her work invites the viewer on a charmed voyage, re ecting on the joy and simplicity of a bygone age.

Fabienne continues to paint the French countryside, seaside, and sometimes even Boston with her signature air. She currently lives and works in Paris, France.

M Fine Galerie in Boston will exhibit over 25 new paintings by Fabienne Delacroix

September 1 - 30th at 460 C Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118

Tel: 617-450-0700

www.axelle.com

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 in uence on the way we perceive the world. A structure often plays a signi cant part in how we experience a place. (Think of a restaurant, a museum, an arena, a stadium…even an o ce 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.)

“Paris is one of those cities we all dream to live in. Beyond times, borders and cultures it gathers a collection of images coming out of our collective unconscious”

- Fabienne Delacroix

shout outs!

Expressions of praise given in the presence of many peo ple.

Bravo Merriman Anderson/Architects (MAA) - the design architect and architect of record for seven projects that were presented awards at the 19th annual Preservation Dallas Achievement Awards ceremony. The projects were The Statler, Old Dallas Central Library, Dallas High School, Tower Petroleum, Corrigan Tower, Allen Building, and Mercantile Commerce Building. Combined, these projects represent 740 residential units, 700 hotel rooms, 15 retail/restaurants venues and 300,000 square-feet of o ce space for the urban core of Downtown Dallas.

The Department of Energy’s O ce of Energy E ciency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) honored 23 organizations as recognized as Green Lease Leaders this year. The nine Silver level honorees (pictured here) have implemented foundational policies and business practices, while the 14 Gold level organizations have built on the requirements for Silver by executing the sustainable leases and t-outs they’ve negotiated.

Preservation Dallas focuses on protecting the history and culture of Dallas neighborhoods and historic buildings throughout the city. Each year Preservation Dallas hosts an Achievement Awards ceremony honoring Dallas’ outstanding residential and commercial historic preservation projects and the individuals who are committed to making Dallas a better place to live by promoting its architectural heritage.

MAA has won a total of 16 Preservation Dallas awards over the years including the seven awarded this year.

Congratulations to the 2018 class of BOMA Fellows who were celebrated at BOMA International’s in June. The group includes Mark Dukes, Physicians Realty Trust; Donald J. Fairgrieve-Park, QuadReal Property Group; Brian M. Harnetiaux, McCarthy Cook & Co.; Richard H. Kenwood, Madison Marquette; Peter Merrett, The House of Wonderful; Sheldon S. Oppermann, Compass Properties LLC; Laura T. Ragans, MBRE Healthcare; Andrew J. Romerdahl, Providence St. Joseph Health; Coleen M. Spratt, Colliers International; and Geo rey M. Wardle, Spink Butler LLP.

Green Lease Leaders™ recognizes forward-thinking companies and real estate practitioners who break down barriers to highperformance buildings by revolutionizing leases to incorporate energy e ciency and sustainability. Green leases, also known as “high-performance” or “energy-aligned” leases, create win-win agreements for building owners and tenants by equitably aligning the costs and bene ts of energy and water e ciency investments for both parties. Kudos to all!

In July, CNBC unveiled the results of its twelfth annual list of America’s Top States for Business with Texas taking the number one position. The Lone Star state scored 1,651 out of 2,500 points. Since the study was introduced in 2007, Texas has placed in the top ve every year and is the only state to be named a fourtime winner. Yeah! This year, the state had top ten nishes in ve of the ten categories of competitiveness, including two number one spots. Texas added more than 350,000 jobs in the past year and had solid economic growth—including a 5.2% state GDP increase in the fourth quarter— putting the state in rst place for the Economy category, up from number 25 last year. However, the state had some of the same weaknesses it had the last time it nished on top—taking the number 31 spot for Quality of Life and number 37 for education this year. The top 5: 1) Texas (Highest Rank - #1 in Infrastructure and Economy; Lowest Rank - #37 in Education);

2) Washington (Highest Rank - #2 in Workforce; Lowest Rank - #37 in Cost of Living);

3) Utah (Highest Rank - #2 in Economy; Lowest Rank#34 in Education);

4) Virginia (Highest Rank - #3 in Workforce; Lowest Rank - #34 in Cost of Doing Business);

5) Colorado (Highest Rank - #5 in Workforce; Lowest Rank - #37 in Cost of Doing Business).

I have kleptomania. When it gets bad, I take something for it.

To determine the most driver-friendly places in the U.S., WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 29 key metrics (ranging from average gas prices to annual hours in tra c congestion per auto commuter to auto-repair shops per capita. Among the best were Corpus Christi, coming in 2nd (behind Raleigh, NC) and El Paso at

Ebby Halliday Realtors, the largest independently owned residential real estate company in Texas (and the 10th largest in the U.S.) has been sold to HomeServices of America, Inc., which is owned by Warren Bu et’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The deal includes Dallas-based Ebby Halliday’s three real estate brands — Ebby Halliday Realtors, Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate and Williams Trew Real Estate (and their a liated mortgage and title companies). In announcing the news at The Star in Frisco, CEO Ron Peltier assured the over 1700 agents in attendance that nothing would be changing. Ebby Halliday (a native of Kansas) died in 2015 at the age of 104. The company she started in 1945, according to a statement announcing the sale, now has about 1,850 agents and sta in 35 o ces, with sales volume in 2017 of over $8 billion.

#8. See the whole report at: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worstcities-to-drive-in/13964/

Congrats to HPM Construction Management’s TCU team who won Best in Category for Project Management Greater Than $50 Million at the 4th Annual Construction Management Project Achievement from the Construction Management Association of America’s North Texas Chapter for their work on the Worth Hills Greek Village Phase 5 Residence Halls. HPM combines comprehensive construction-related experience with design, build and move resources to o er clients a one-stop approach to complete program management.

A bow of respect for Eric DeJernett’s skill in artfully injecting the ideal retail uses into urban, mixed-use projects earned him this year’s Bruce Kaplan Honorary Award, a national CBRE award given to those who demonstrate creativity, courage and conviction in real estate while fostering and transforming retail within mixed-use environments. The honor commemorates the late Mr. Kaplan, known as an eager collaborator and mixed-use expert who tirelessly coached his clients through complex projects and freely mentored colleagues. The Austin resident’s emblematic work for this award can be seen in the skillful way he has found tenants for Fareground One Eleven and 2ndStreet District.

Congratulations to Connie Ackermann! The Hillwood Assistant Property Manager and member of the Fort Worth chapter of IREM was named one of the Institute’s “30 Under 30, a group of exceptional next-generation leaders committed to the real estate industry and already making a name for themselves.”

Starting a business is never easy. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about a fth of all startups don’t survive past year one of operation, and nearly half never make it to their fth anniversary. Of course, they fail for di erent reasons, a “bad location” being among the most common. Choosing the right state for a business is crucial to its success. A state that provides the ideal conditions for business creation — access to cash, skilled workers and a ordable o ce space, for instance — can help new ventures not only take o but also thrive. WalletHub compared the 50 states across 25 key indicators of startup success to determine the most fertile grounds in which to launch and grow an enterprise – and what they found is that Texas is the best state in which to start a new business. Some of the individual stats: (1=Best; 25=Avg.): 4th – Avg. Growth in Number of Small Businesses; 12th – O ce-Space A ordability; 29th – Labor Costs; 4th – Avg. Length of Work Week (in Hours); 11th – Cost of Living. See for yourself at: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-statesto-start-a-business/36934/

Newmark Knight Frank, a leading global commercial real estate advisory rm, will acquire nationally known corporate tenant representation real estate agency Jackson Cooksey. James C. Cooksey, who will join NKF’s Texas o ce as Vice Chairman and President of Tenant Representation Texas, founded the Dallas-based Jackson Cooksey Company in 1982. Jackson Cooksey was named one of the Nation’s “Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in 2018,” and its brokers have consistently been named as “Heavy Hitters” and top industry professionals. The rm is ranked among the largest commercial real estate brokerages in the Dallas and Houston areas; there are also o ces in Austin and Denver.

Alfred Vidaurri Jr., FAIA, NCARB, AICP, vice president of Freese and Nichols in Fort Worth, was elected treasurer of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) at the group’s 99th Annual Business Meeting.

JULIE BRAND LYNCH

julie@LYNOUS.com

JulieLynchistheprincipalofLYNOUS,atalentmanagement rm that provides recruiting, interim sta ng and training to the real estate industry. Sheisalsoacontributingeditorof the network

Did you recently take a step in your career? We want to know! editor@crestnetwork.com

“Familiarity breeds contempt –and children.” (Mark Twain) “I fear that one day I’ll meet God, He’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.” (Ronnie Shakes)

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Perkins+Will in Austin

• 15 Wilson Brown was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE in Dallas

• 5 Thomas Newsom, AIA, CDT, LEED AP was promoted to Associate Principal at Perkins+Will in Houston • 6 Gerald van Benschop was promoted to Associate Principal at Perkins+Will in Houston • 7 Ryan Matthew Littman was hired as Director of Food and Beverage for the Sheraton Dallas Hotel • 8 Michele Stout-Smith was promoted to Director of Catering Sales for the Sheraton Dallas Hotel • 9 Grant Hu was promoted to Vice President of Transwestern in Fort Worth • 10 Steve Wolf joined Westmount Realty Capital, LLC as Senior Director – Industrial Acquisitions in Dallas • 11 Chris Bone was promoted to Senior Managing Director of Project Management at CBRE • 12 Sharon Walhood joined CBRE as Managing Director of Asset Services for North Texas • 13 Nathan Lawrence was promoted to Executive Vice President at CBRE in Dallas • 14 Danny Baker was promoted to Senior Vice President at CBRE in Dallas

• 16 Neal Puckett was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE in Dallas

• 17 Brian Gilchrist was promoted to Vice President at CBRE in Dallas

• 18 Christine Seay joined CBRE’s Americas Local Project Management team as a Director

• 19 Joe Brown joined Churchill Mortgage serving the Austin and San Antonio branches

• 20 Sarah Kimes was promoted to Vice President at CallisonRTKL in Dallas • 21 Richard Huang was promoted to Vice President at CallisonRTKL in Dallas • 22 Brent Landfried joined Transwestern as a Vice President in Fort Worth • 23 Casey Tounget joined Transwestern as an Associate in Fort Worth • 24 Theron Bryant joined Transwestern as a Principal in Fort Worth • 25 Kimberly Hickson joined Perkins+Will in Houston as a Principal • 26 Jim Keith, P.E., CFM rejoined Freese and Nichols as storm water manager in Dallas • 27 Robert P. Carl joined PAH Management as the Senior Director of Construction and Project Management • 28 Diane Dillard, a Houston commercial real estate attorney was appointed to the board of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

1 Ian Sinnett, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, CDT was promoted to Principal at Perkins+Will in Dallas • 2 Julie Frazier, AIA, ACHA, RELi AP, LEED AP was promoted to Associate Principal at Perkins+Will in Dallas • 3 Jordan Thompson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C was promoted to Associate Principal at Perkins+Will in Dallas

4 Angela Whitaker-Williams, AIA, LEED AP was promoted to Principal at

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• Abnormal sound detection, triggering alerts for sounds such as sirens, glass breaking and screaming

• High-resolution video quality and 4:3 optimal viewing for a wide range of sight

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• Integrated night vision up to 16 ft. in complete darkness

• Weather-resistant casing protects from harsh weather conditions

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©2018 Rob Rogers. Reprinted with permission.

“Familiarity breeds contempt –and children.” (Mark Twain)

“I fear that one day I’ll meet God, He’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.” (Ronnie Shakes)

Constitutional Lien for General Contractors

In addition to the speci c procedure outlined above in the Texas Property Code for claiming a lien against the 10% retainage and “trapped funds”, the Texas Constitution provides an automatic lien for improvements to property made by an original contractor who signs a construction contract with an owner or tenant. A constitutional lien exists without the contractor having to le a lien a davit, however, the constitutional lien is limited and sometimes the original contractor might want to also le a statutory lien. For example, a constitutional lien cannot be enforced against a “good faith” purchaser of the property who had no knowledge of the constitutional lien claim. Accordingly, contractors should le the lien a davit anyway to put prospective purchasers of the property on notice of the lien. e constitutional lien is a “last ditch e ort” for contractors that forget to timely le their liens or who le an invalid lien.

Certain types of construction work which may be covered by the statutory lien are not covered by a constitutional lien. e constitutional lien is only valid for articles or buildings and the land necessary to its enjoyment. Suppliers of certain materials or equipment that are not “incorporated” into the construction job may not acquire a constitutional lien, even if they are ordered directly by the owner.

Liens on Homestead

ere are additional requirements to obtain a lien on a homestead. ese additional requirements must be met prior to performing work on the homestead. A person who performs work or provides material to the homestead owner must sign a written contract with the owner(s). e contract must be executed before the work starts, it must be signed by all owners, and the contract must be led with the clerk of the county where the homestead is located. ere is no deadline to le the contract, but it should be led before commencing work. To properly le a contract, it will have to satisfy the county’s recording requirements – similar to ling a lien. Further, the a davit of lien must contain the following notice, in a size equal to at least 10-point boldface or the computer equivalent, at the top of the page: “NOTICE: THIS IS NOT A LIEN. THIS IS ONLY AN AFFIDAVIT CLAIMING A LIEN.”

Texas Property Code Section 53.254 contains additional language that must also be in the lien a davit, which is above and beyond the required provisions for a commercial (or non-homestead property). is information is too lengthy to list here.

Terminating Invalid or Fraudulent Liens

Property Code Section 53.157 lists six ways to terminate a lien. The best method is to le a release, which must be signed by the lien claimant Most of the methods in the Code require the property owner to le a bond. e bond must be issued by a bonding company, in an amount no less than the amount of the lien. Note that most bond companies will require the owner to supply collateral to back up the lien or sign a guaranty (or both). Also, if the lien claimant does not foreclose on the lien within two years (one for a residential construction project), then the lien can also be removed.

Subchapter J of the Texas Government Code provides three options for the property owner to remove a fraudulent lien. e rst is if the court clerk or county clerk is provided with information (usually in the form of an a davit with supporting documentation) showing a “reasonable basis” for believing that a led document is fraudulent. In that case, Section 51.901(f) of the Government Code requires the clerk to take steps to try and get the lien removed, including requesting assistance from the district attorney and obtaining additional documentation from the claimant. Second, the property owner may le a veri ed motion with the district clerk asking for removal of the lien. Section 51.902 of the Texas Government Code contains a form of the veri ed motion. If the motion is successful, a district judge will rule that the lien a davit at issue is not a lien. Likewise, Section 51.903 of the Government Code permits the ling of a veri ed motion to removal a fraudulent lien. is section also applies to fraudulent deeds, and it contains a form of the motion to be led with the district court.

Once you have removed a fraudulent lien, you can then seek penalties against the person who led it. Chapter 12 of the Civil Practice & Remedies Code states that a person who knowingly and intentionally les a fraudulent lien may be held liable in civil district court for the greater of $10,000 or your damages and attorney’s fees. It is also a crime per Texas Penal Code § 37.01. Additionally, the Deceptive Trade Practices Act may give the property owner the legal ability to seek further damages against someone who les a fraudulent lien.

Whether you are a property owner or a vendor, the Texas lien laws are complex – anyone involved in this process needs to proceed with caution to protect your interests.

Vincent Callebaut

Vincent Callebaut (1977 - ) is a Belgian ecological architect. He designs futuristic-like ecodistrict projects which take account of several aspects of sustainability (renewable energies, biodiversity, urban agriculture). (An ecodistrict or eco-district designates urban planning aiming to integrate objectives of sustainable development and reduce the ecological footprint of the project. It considers all environmental issues by attributing them very ambitious levels of requirements.)

We reached out to Mr. Callebaut because the images we wanted to show here are all copyright protected. Unfortunately, we did not receive a response. His work, however, is truly astounding, and deserves your taking a look. From the completed projects to those currently under construction and those than are planned or purely conceptual, step into the world and mind of Vincent Callebaut at http://vincent.callebaut.org/category/projects/user.

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“According to a new study reported in USA Today, three out of four people make up 75% of the population.” (David Letterman)

When it comes to construction, real-estate professionals know that there are three axioms we can always count on: it will cost too much, take too long, and never quite turn out the way you wanted. If you’ve ever had to deal with mechanic’s or materialmen’s liens on your commercial properties, I am sure you will acknowledge that these axioms are true and correct. Construction-lien claims can arise out of work initiated by the owner of the real property and from work your tenants perform. If either the property owner or the tenant fails to pay the general contractor, or the general contractor fails to pay its subcontractors or suppliers, then liens can be led against the property and the tenant’s leasehold interest.

Background:

Texas construction-lien laws are some of the most complex (and confusing) lien laws in the county. In Texas, liens for work performed, materials or equipment (known as “mechanic’s and materialmen’s” liens) are governed by both the Texas Property Code and the Texas Constitution. Speci cally, Texas Property Code Section 53 creates statutory mechanic’s liens that must be properly and timely perfected. To perfect a lien, a contractor or supplier must timely send written notice and record a lien a davit. An original contractor (i.e., one who has a direct contract with the owner or its agent) may secure a constitutional lien without satisfying the notice or recording requirements.

e lien statute in the Property Code tries to accomplish two things. First, it requires property owners and tenants to take reasonable steps to ensure that its contractors are paying their subcontractors and vendors. Second, it provides subcontractors and vendors who have an oral or written contract with the general contractor protection for the work or materials provided. However, if the subcontractor fails to timely comply with the procedures in the Property Code, their lien may be invalid.

your tenant’s general contractor, they should only be allowed to le a lien against the tenant’s leasehold interest (and their leasehold improvements). However, o entimes a tenant’s subcontractor attempts to create leverage by ling a lien against the owner’s property.

Liens Against “Trapped Funds”:

In addition to the statutory retainage, the owner or tenant can have additional liability depending upon whether funds were “trapped” by proper fund trapping notices. is is in addition to the statutory retainage discussed above. If, during a construction project, a subcontractor or supplier is not paid, they can send written notice to the owner, and upon timely receipt of a proper notice, the owner must “trap” any funds from being paid to the contractor. A subcontractor or supplier can obtain a lien on the property or the tenant’s leasehold improvements (as the case may be), and the property owner or tenant will have personal liability to the extent they received the notice and failed to withhold any further payments.

Deadlines to File Notices for Retainage and Fund Trapping Liens:

For subcontractors and suppliers to take advantage of their lien rights, they must timely and properly send written notice to the contractor and the owner, as well as timely le a proper lien a davit. e Texas Property Code has strict guidelines for when to send notices and le the a davits, as well as the content thereof.

Before ling a lien a davit, a subcontractor must send timely written notice of its unpaid claim to the original contractor not later than the eenth (15th) day of the second (2nd) month following each month in which all or part of the claimant’s labor was performed or its material delivered. In addition, the subcontractor must also send timely notice of its unpaid claim to both the original contractor and the owner (or tenant) not later than the eenth (15th) day of the third (3rd) month following each month in which all or part of the labor was performed or material delivered. e notices must be sent by registered or certi ed mail and must be addressed to the owner (or tenant) or the original contractor, as applicable, at their last known business or residence address.

The deadline for a subcontractor or supplier to le a lien a davit is the fteenth (15th) day of the fourth (4th) calendar month following the day the indebtedness accrues. e lien a davit must be led with the county clerk of the county where the project is located.

Liens for Retainage:

Section 53.101 of the Property Code requires the owner or tenant to withhold 10% of the contract price of the work or 10% of the value of the work as a “statutory retainage”. is retainage must occur for each payment during the project and for thirty (30) days a er completion. e retained funds are to secure payment for subcontractors and suppliers. If you fail to hold the 10% retainage, a subcontractor or supplier can have a lien against the property, at least to the extent of the amount that should have been retained. If a subcontractor or supplier was engaged by

e lien a davit must be signed by the person claiming the lien and contain several facts required by the Property Code, including the amount of the claim. e lien a davit must be sworn to and notarized. Among the other facts that must be listed in the a davit, subcontractors must list each month the work was performed and materials furnished. e claimant must send a copy of the lien a davit by registered or certi ed mail to the owner (or tenant) not later than the h (5th) day a er the date the lien a davit is led with the county clerk. If a claimant has properly led his claim, he has two years (one for a residential construction project) to le suit to foreclose his lien.

Failure to adhere to these requirements may invalidated the liens. To that end, if you receive any lien notices or a davits, you should check with legal counsel to ensure that they are properly prepared and timely sent.

ANTHONY BARBIERI ajb@kesslercollins.com

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

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- Suze Orman

The History Page Battle of Thermopylae

The Battle of ermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek citystates, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place simultaneously with the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September 480 BC, at the narrow coastal pass of ermopylae (“ e Hot Gates”). e Persian invasion was a delayed response to the defeat of the rst Persian invasion of Greece, which had been ended by the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. By 480 BC Xerxes had amassed a huge army and navy and set out to conquer all of Greece. e Athenian politician and general emistocles had proposed that the allied Greeks block the advance of the Persian army at the pass of ermopylae, and simultaneously block the Persian navy at the Straits of Artemisium.

A Greek force of approximately 7,000 men marched north to block the pass in the middle of 480 BC. e Persian army, alleged by the ancient sources to have numbered over one million, but today considered to have been much smaller (various gures are given by scholars, ranging between 100,000 and 150,000), arrived at the pass in late August or early September. The vastly outnumbered Greeks held o the Persians for seven days (including three of battle) before the rear-guard was annihilated in one of history’s most famous last stands.

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During two full days of battle, the small force led by Leonidas blocked the only road by which the massive Persian army could pass. A er the second day, a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a small path that led behind the Greek lines. Leonidas, aware that his force was being out anked, dismissed the bulk of the Greek army and remained to guard their retreat with 300 Spartans and 700 espians, ghting to the death.

emistocles was in command of the Greek Navy at Artemisium when he received news that the Persians had taken the pass at ermopylae. Since the Greek strategy required both ermopylae and Artemisium to be held, given their losses, it was decided to withdraw to Salamis. e Persians overran Boeotia and then captured the evacuated Athens. e Greek eet - seeking a decisive victory over the Persian armada - attacked and defeated the invaders at the Battle of Salamis in late 480 BC. Wary of being trapped in Europe, Xerxes withdrew with much of his army to Asia (losing most to starvation and disease), leaving Mardonius to attempt to complete the conquest of Greece. However, the following year saw a Greek army decisively defeat the Persians at the Battle of Plataea, thereby ending the Persian invasion.

Both ancient and modern writers have used the Battle of Thermopylae as an example of the power of a patriotic army defending its native soil. e performance of the defenders is also used as an example of the advantages of training, equipment, and good use of terrain as force multipliers and has become a symbol of courage against overwhelming odds.

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ROSE - MARY RUMBLEY rosetalksdallas@aol.com

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

Kiss Me Quick, Dick Dowling

There is a statue of Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass, Texas that hopefully will not ever be disturbed. It's well cared for (and a state historic site) because every St. Patrick's Day, it is washed and shined by caring people at Sabine Pass. Why? Because St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, and Dick Dowling drove the federal troops - the Yankeesout of Texas. Great story! Actually, it's an unbelievable story!

It all begins in Ireland with the birth of Dick Dowling in 1837. His family was able to send him to school until disaster struck the country - the Great Irish Potato Famine - in 1846. e Dowling family managed to come to the United States and then moved on south to Houston. Dick grew up and, like a typical Irishman, opened not one, but three saloons in Houston.

He became famous for a drink called ‘Kiss Me Quick and Go’. Was it ever a smooth slurp!  e customers told of the taste of Irish Whiskey that lingered on the palate for a very long time!

Kiss Me Quick Drink Recipe

In an Old Fashioned glass, mix

1 tsp. Triple Sec (Cointreau)

2 oz. Pernod

3 dashes Bitters, Angostura

Fill with Carbonated Water/Club Soda

All was well, until the Civil War erupted. Now, Texas was not destroyed in the war as much of the deep South was. Most Texas farmers were able to bring in the crops and send a goodly amount of cotton to England, where the British weaving looms awaited the ne cotton thread. Nevertheless, Dick Dowling with his Irish-born buddies did join the Confederate army. A er all, the Irish were known to be rebels, and these Irishmen were part of what was called the Davis Guards (a Confederate Army unit named for Je erson Davis).

Confederate Lt. Richard “Dick” Dowling and his men (composed of forty- ve enlisted men, one engineer, and one surgeon, all Irish and all in their twenties or younger, part of Company F, Texas Heavy Artillery) thwarted an attempted Union attack on Sabine Pass, a primary Texas port for Confederate shipments of supplies and vital to the war e ort. In a battle lasting less than an hour, Dowling and his men constructed an earthen-work fort large enough to hold their six guns, and in the space of forty minutes, they red 137 shots without stopping to swab the guns. Although they destroyed two gunboats, captured 350 prisoners and killed 50 Union soldiers, the Davis Guards sustained no losses. (The recruits were hand-picked from the docks at Houston and Galveston and were known as the Fighting Irishmen.) Thanks to their e orts, area ports escaped capture and Union forces never penetrated the Texas interior in the Civil War.

On January 1, 1863, the Union Navy attempted to blockade all shipping out of Galveston. But General John Bankhead Magruder held the forces o Bales of cotton were stacked on the ships for protection from the Yankee cannon re. e Battle of Galveston was considered a victory for Magruder. In fact, he killed Jonathan Wainwright, the captain of the federal ship, the Lane, who later became the grandfather of General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of the Death March of Bataan in World War II.

president of the Confederacy, claimed the battle at Sabine Pass was "more remarkable than the Battle of ermopylae." is was the battle where a few Greeks held o the mighty Persian forces in 480 BC. Both ancient and modern writers have used the Battle of ermopylae as an example of the power of a patriotic army defending its native soil. (See companion piece on next page)

Francis Richard Lubbock (1815 – 1905) was the ninth Governor of Texas (from 18611863). He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom Lubbock County, Texas and the City of Lubbock are named.

The Solution Was 94.8% Proof

e Yankee Navy moved out of the Gulf, and the Union leaders decided to attack Texas on the Red River. But their plans drastically changed. At 6:30 AM on September 8, 1863, the federal Armada27 warships and 5,000 troops - headed for Sabine Pass where they planned to invade Texas on the southeastern side of the gulf. Well, this was where a part of the Davis Guards (46 Irish-born men under the leadership of Dick Dowling) were stationed.  ey were hunkered down in a mud fort there at the pass, posted with 6 pieces of patched up artillery.

Je erson Davis kept asking, "How did they do it?" e answer came, " ey had a sudden attack of homesickness."  is could be interpreted as, " ey were enjoying some Irish whiskey before the attack!" Nevertheless, they did it!  e Houston Telegram ran stories for days about their bravery and the Southern Dramatic Association, presented plays with all the proceeds from the productions going to the Irishmen.

Dowling ordered his men to wait to re until the ships came very close to the shore. "Aim for the boilers!" was the command. ey waited, they red, and they captured two of the ships. e rest of the eet fearfully sailed out to sea in the dark! Fi y Union navy men were killed and were buried with great respect by the Dowling group. ree hundred and y prisoners were taken to Houston.

Francis Lubbock, the Governor of Texas, claimed those Irishmen were as "brave as those in the Alamo." Je erson Davis, the

Dowling returned to Houston a decorated war hero and reopened his saloons, but – like a typical Texan - he also went into the oil and gas business. By the spring of 1866, he was head of the Houston Gas Company. Sadly, he died just two years later at the age of thirty. He contracted yellow fever while caring for others who had contracted the disease.

To learn more about the battle of Sabine Pass in Civil War context, click here: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GimmB1eMmfE&feature=youtu.be

(Much of this information came from a book, DICK DOWLING AT SABINE PASS, by Frank X. Tolbert, 1962. Writer Frank X. Tolbert was responsible for the Chili Cooko s we all enjoy in Texas today.)

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of the city,” said John Schoettler, Amazon Vice President of Global Real Estate and Facilities.

The Spheres feature treehouse meeting rooms, river and waterfall features, paludariums, a four-story living wall, and epiphytic trees. They are home to more than 400 species spanning ve continents and 50 countries, and many of the plants have journeyed from botanical gardens, tree nurseries, and conservation programs from around the globe. Many of the plants inside e Spheres are from cloud forest ecosystems, where plants thrive on mountainsides at an altitude ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 feet. Plants in these ecosystems have adapted to cooler temperatures, which makes their climate needs comfortable for people, too.

Amazon is committed to sharing the beauty and biodiversity inside e Spheres with the public and will provide educational opportunities to the Seattle community through tours, eld trips and partnerships with local schools and universities. e Spheres also include a visitor center – called e Understory – that is open to the public year-round. e Understory provides a fully immersive, 360-degree experience where visitors can get up close and personal with the science, engineering, and plants behind e Spheres.

Governor Jay Inslee said, “ ese unique buildings are so much more than a beautiful creative space for Amazon employees. ey will help conserve a number of rare plant species from around the world and provide countless educational opportunities for local students – and that’s something Washington can take pride in.” “ is unique landscape will bring together students, visitors, and residents in the heart of our City,” added Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. According to Toby Bradshaw, Professor and Chair at the University of Washington Department of Biology, “ e use of plant biodiversity — including the ‘weird’ and ‘ugly’ specimens — to tell the story of interconnections among living things will be an inspiration to all who visit and work at e Spheres.”

Learn about e Spheres, e Understory, and how to visit on www.seattlespheres.com. For regular updates about the plant life inside e Spheres, follow @SeattleSpheres on Instagram.

About The Spheres

e Spheres were built to create a wide variety of ways to communicate, work and dine on ve di erent levels in the backdrop of dramatic plant installations including living walls, paludariums and treehouse gathering spaces. Below are a few facts about e Spheres, as well as what visitors will nd within and around them:

• More than 600 full-time jobs created through the design, build and construction of e Spheres.

• More than 620 tons of steel, or enough steel to build the Space Needle three times

• 12 million pounds of concrete used in the construction, or enough concrete to build a highway from Seattle to Sacramento, CA.

• e exterior façade features a naturally occurring shape in nature called a “Catalan,” which is derived from the face of a pentagonal hexecontahedron Catalan solid – the shape repeats throughout e Spheres with 60 faces per Sphere and 180 total

• e Spheres’ façade contains 2,643 panes of glass that are ultra-clear and energy-e cient, with a lm interlayer to keep out infrared wavelengths that produce unwanted heat

• Structural engineers tested e Spheres for all kinds of environmental factors, including 91 di erent scenarios. At the base of e Spheres, a 400,000-pound ring beam transfers heavy loads of gravity, wind and seismic forces from the glass-and-steel façade to columns in the parking garage below

• e largest Sphere is more than 90 feet tall and 130 feet in diameter

• All three Spheres share a single indoor environment, which makes air ow critical between the buildings. Radiant oor heating and cooling is an e cient way to balance indoor temperature, and also ensures that less hot and dry air circulates through the HVAC system.

• More than 40,000 plants and over 400 species will call e Spheres home at any given time

• e Spheres’ plant collection spans ve continents, and includes specimens from e University of Washington and Atlanta Botanical Garden

• Many of the plants inside e Spheres are found in cloud forests, a remarkably diverse type of highelevation tropical forest that receives much of its moisture from direct contact with clouds rather than from rain

• Cloud forest ecosystems are typically located at high altitudes (3,000 to 10,000 feet), and they are found in tropical and subtropical mountainous regions of the world, where cooler temperatures on mountain slopes cause clouds to form

• Cloud forest plants depend on cool, humid conditions. To ensure that both people and plants can thrive, e Spheres operate on a diurnal cycle – the daytime temperature inside will average 72 degrees with humidity around 60 percent, and the nighttime temperature will average 55 degrees with humidity around 85 percent.

• e space can seat about 800 people.

e Spheres largest inhabitant – a Ficus rubiginosa dubbed “Rubi” – was planted at a tree farm in California in 1969. Today, Rubi is 55-feet tall, 22-feet wide and weighs nearly 36,000 lbs. Caption: Rubi traveled more than 1,200 miles on the back of a atbed truck, arriving in Seattle a er a 3-day journey through California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Because of her size, Rubi had to be craned into e Spheres through a small opening at the top. (A video of how Rubi came to e Spheres is at https://youtu.be/bQmJOiuUM6A .)

The Spheres—the newest buildings on Amazon’s campus in downtown Seattle—have no enclosed o ces, conference spaces, or desks, and employees can meet in treehouses suspended under 40+ foot trees or in sitting areas and walking paths alongside cascading waterfalls. Plants, trees, sunlight, soil, and water take center stage – the sound of running water and the scent of owering plants create an instant botanical immersion that takes visitors far away from the urban landscape. e project is part of Amazon’s more than $4 billion investment in the design, development, and construction of its Seattle HQ.

e Spheres, designed by the architecture rm NBBJ, are meant for internal use by Amazon employees, providing a contemplative break from the boxy shapes and right angles of the surrounding urban neighborhood. ey are home to more than 40,000 plants from around the world. ere’s no place else in the world quite like it – a spot where Amazon employees can work in an environment that’s more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an o ce. Plants, trees, sunlight, soil, and water take center stage – the sound of running water and the scent of owering plants create an instant botanical immersion that takes visitors far away from the urban landscape. e Spheres are a result of innovative thinking about the character of the workplace and an extended conversation about what is typically missing from urban o ces – a direct link to nature. Studies suggest that spaces that embrace biophilic design can inspire creativity and even improve brain function.

“Our goal with e Spheres was to create a unique gathering place where employees could collaborate and innovate together, and where the Seattle community could gather to experience biodiversity in the center

The Design Process

Many business leaders misjudge how complex an o ce renovation can be. Unlike other projects, o ce improvements are o en delegated to employees who lack the time and experience to tackle them properly. At the beginning of the design process, you create goals for the budget, schedule, quality, and functionality. At the end, if those goals are not met, your company stands to lose time, money, and productivity. You could fail to deliver for your clients and damage your company’s reputation. is common-sense guide presents 13 common problems along with tips on how to avoid them.

IWBI

e WELL Building Standard® is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and wellbeing, through air, water, nourishment, light, tness, comfort, and mind. WELL is managed and administered by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public bene t corporation whose mission is to improve human health and wellbeing through the built environment. WELL is grounded in a body of medical research that explores the connection between the buildings where we spend more than 90 percent of our time, and the health and wellness of its occupants. WELL Certi ed™ spaces and WELL Compliant™ core and shell developments can help create a built environment that improves the nutrition, tness, mood, and sleep patterns.

e WELL Building Standard® is third-party certi ed by the Green Business Certi cation Incorporation (GBCI), which administers the LEED certi cation program and the LEED professional credentialing program. (See companion articles on Pages 14 and 16.)

World Green Building Council is report explores the dual opportunity to do right by the planet and its people by showcasing pioneering green building projects that are leading the way in being resource e cient and providing healthy, productive spaces for their occupants and signi cant returns for their owners and investors. It presents fresh global evidence from around the world that building green with features that people love – from improved air quality and comfort indoors, to access to nature and amenities outdoors – provides tangible environmental, health and economic bene ts. Among the key ndings: Companies can save money by occupying a green building with features that bene t people. Employees prefer green buildings that make them feel healthier and more productive. A building’s asset value increases the greener and healthier it is.

This is NOT the kind of building you probably think of when you think of the capital city of Lebanon. Beirut was settled over 5,000 years ago and has a very long history, and, once upon a time not all that long ago, the “Paris of the Middle East” was a thriving city. In the last 20-30 years, however, while the city has made attempts to rebuild and to bring together its divided population, continuous wars and bombings have been a threat. (In fact, a formal census or population count has not been taken since the 1930s, and because of that, the population numbers are estimated. e most recent estimates of the city put it at 361,000. e population of the metro area have been estimated from just under 1 million to over 2 million – a rather large gap.)

Basel-based Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (who were featured in our June 2018 issue) designed Beirut Terraces as part of a new masterplan in a part of the capital that is gradually being regenerated following a devastating car bomb attack that killed prime minister Ra k Hariri in 2005. e residential tower is made up of irregularly and staggered oor plates sized oor slabs that give it an inde nite outline. " e moderate climate of Beirut is undoubtedly one of the city's greatest assets it makes outdoor living an integral part of Beirut's urban culture," said the architects. "Indoor and outdoor spaces merge into each other so that the generous terraces truly become living spaces."

ASCE

Geographically, Texas is the largest state in the continental United States. It is an economic powerhouse, leading the way in wind power energy production, population growth, and some of the largest infrastructure that has an ever-increasing need for improvement. is is the main theme of the 2017 Report Card for Texas’s Infrastructure develop by the Texas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE Texas Section). In this update, though several of the infrastructure categories reviewed show areas of satisfactory performance, the clear majority indicate that Texas’s infrastructure lacks funding, proper maintenance, is poorly equipped to deal with environmental change as Texas continues to grow.

Brookings

Since the mid-1990s, demographic and economic shi s have fundamentally changed markets and locations for real estate development. ese changes are largely powered by growth of the knowledge economy, which, since the turn of the 21st century, has begun moving out of suburban o ce parks and into more walkable mixed-use places in an e ort to attract and retain highly educated young workers and support creative collaboration among them.

is paper by e Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program takes an in-depth look at six case studies to describe the process of catalytic development, a new model of investment that over the past decade has had remarkable success in creating such walkable communities. Catalytic development focuses on areas abandoned as a result of deindustrialization and auto-oriented development, in some cases recycling the very properties cleared or le vacant by mid-20th century urban “renewal” programs. Catalytic development incorporates many urban design best practices—granularity, incrementalism, and mixing of uses, scales, and people—and can address di cult urban challenges while delivering long-term economic returns to both the public and private sectors.

CBRE

CBRE’s annual survey detailing and analyzing the impactful strategies real estate executives are putting in place for their various lines of business and their employees. To learn more about CBRE Research or to access additional research reports, go to: https://www.cbre.com/ research-and-reports .

WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY & CHOICE BY THE NUMBERS

Today’s Workforce

With lower unemployment rates across the US, the race for talent is getting more and more competitive. e US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts the unemployment rate will continue to decline, and that the fastest growing job segments will be: healthcare (5.7 million jobs) and professional and technical occupations (2.1 million jobs). Continental O ce (www.continentalo ce.com) recently conducted research to better understand what today’s workforce wants and what will attract them to and keep them at organizations    e results are based on 262 currently employed respondents and includes all levels of the workforce from associate to C-Level. Some of the key ndings include:

1. Nearly 25% of today’s workforce said their physical workplace a ects their decision to stay at or leave an organization.

2. 87% want exible settings like workshops, meeting rooms, private spaces, social areas, and more.

3. When asked how the physical workspace a ected their overall happiness, people ranked it an 8 out of 10 with 10 being the most important.

4. ere are many discrepancies between how associates and the C-Level perceive what’s important in the workplace.

Read the report here or online at: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/476162/Reports/ Workplace_Flexibility_and_Choice_by_the_Numbers.pdf?t=1530197604397

Family Friendly State

Texas – A Great Place to Call Home! Homes.com ranked the top 25 metropolitan areas in the U.S. based on their overall “family-friendliness.” At the top of the list is Dallas (#1), and not far behind are Houston (#3) and San Antonio (#5). Cities were chosen based on crime rate, cost of living, availability of child care services, average commute times, school (K-12) quality, and park acreage per capita.  ese key considerations were chosen for the ways they contribute to both a child’s development and a family's quality of life. e methodology and a map of America’s Most Family-Friendly Cities can be viewed at Homes.com

Forbes

USAA (San Antonio), Southwest Airlines (Dallas) and MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston) were Texas’s top companies in Forbes’ America’s Best Employers list coming in at #11, #13 and #27 respectively. See the whole list here: https://www.forbes.com/best-employers/list/#tab:rank

Homebuyers

e Best Cities for First-Time Homebuyers in 2018

SmartAsset compared data in 7 categories to determine and rank the 25 best places for rst-time homebuyers. Speci cally, they looked at the number of HUDapproved lenders, loan funding ratio, average price per square foot, a ordability ratio, stability score, price variance and the number of negative quarters in the last 6 years. Texas cities fared very well, with 8 of the top 25: Houston #4, San Antonio #7, Dallas #10, Fort Worth #11, Arlington #14, Corpus Christi #16, El Paso #20 and Austin #24. See the data and methodology at https://smartasset.com/mortgage/ best-cities-for- rst-time-homebuyers-2018

Catalytic development: (Re)creating walkable urban places

If your company or organization has a white paper, report or study of interest to real estate professionals, let us know and we may include it here.

near vacuum and -40C temperature would prevent people from going outside without a protective suit. en again, astronauts have continually occupied the space station for decades, so perhaps it’s not so bad?

Harnessing the power of planetary design thinking, it taps into the desire for extreme height, seclusion and constant mobility. If the recent boom in residential towers proves that sales price per square foot rises with oor elevation, then

Masayuki Sono is a founding partner of Clouds AO, established in 2010 in New York City. He holds master’s degrees from University of Washington and Kobe University, Japan. He has worked on projects ranging from national museums to public arts and gained worldwide acclaim for his winning design for the competition of 9/11 Memorial in Staten Island NY (awarded by the American Institute of Architects). He has lectured at Pratt Institute, Tokyo University and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

a nontraditional approach to business collections

Timeto collect

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE –TRACKING THEM IS GOOD. COLLECTING THEM IS BETTER .

Business-to-business debts require special, focused expertise and finesse… and the selection of your commercial collection service is an important decision. It revolves around Service, Trust and Recovery. Rates are important, and recovery is the objective (the bottom line) … but there’s more to it.

The company you choose will be handling your money, talking to your customers, and representing you in the marketplace. You want your money as soon as possible – but you don’t want to lose clients.

At ABC, you’re never out-of-pocket for our services. We collect (at prearranged terms) and when – and only when – we succeed (i.e., once we collect money owed to you), do we get paid. There is no fee UNLESS and UNTIL we collect.

Our payment is contingent upon your recovery – so our success is integrally tied to yours.

As a privately owned company, we make decisions based on what is best for our clients. Our focus is exclusively on improving your bottom line, and we have the knowledge and experience to deliver exceptional results.

ANALEMMA TOWER

concerns by proving with its Rosetta mission that it's possible to rendezvous and land on a spinning comet. NASA has scheduled an asteroid retrieval mission for 2021 which aims to prove the feasibility of capturing and relocating an asteroid. e geosynchronous orbit of Analemma matches earth's rotation period of one day (therefore appearing motionless). It will travel between the northern and

Analemma Tower is a conceptual proposal for the world's tallest building - ever. It is the brainchild of New York City architectural rm Clouds AO’s partners Masayuki Sono and Ostap Rudakevych (see bios on opposite page).

Analemma inverts the traditional diagram of an earth-based foundation, instead depending on a space-based supporting foundation from which the tower is suspended. is system is referred to as the Universal Orbital Support System (a concept for suspending an object from a tether orbiting in space a/k/a UOSS). By placing a large asteroid into orbit over earth, a high strength cable can be lowered towards the surface of earth from which a super tall tower can be suspended. Since this new tower typology is suspended in the air, it can be constructed anywhere in the world and transported to its nal location. e proposal calls for Analemma to be constructed over Dubai, which has proven to be a specialist in tall building construction at one h the cost of New York City construction.

Manipulating asteroids is no longer relegated to science ction. In 2015 the European Space Agency sparked a new round of investment in asteroid mining

southern hemispheres on a daily loop in a gure eight, where the tower would move at its slowest speed at the top and bottom of the gure eight allowing the possibility for the tower’s occupants to interface with the planet’s surface at these points. The proposed orbit is calibrated so the slowest part of the towers trajectory occurs over New York City. The tower will return to exactly the same position in the sky each day.

Analemma would get its power from space-based solar panels. Installed above the dense and di use atmosphere, these panels would have constant exposure to sunlight, with a greater e ciency than conventional PV installations. Water would be ltered and recycled in a semi-closed loop system, replenished with condensate captured from clouds and rainwater. Developments in cableless electromagnetic elevators have e ectively shattered height restrictions imposed by elevator cable spool volume.

While researching atmospheric conditions for this project, the Clouds

AO partners realized that there is probably a tangible height limit beyond which people would not tolerate living due to the extreme conditions. For example, while there may be a bene t to having 45 extra minutes of daylight at an elevation of 32,000 meters, the

ANALEMMA TOWER

concerns by proving with its Rosetta mission that it's possible to rendezvous and land on a spinning comet. NASA has scheduled an asteroid retrieval mission for 2021 which aims to prove the feasibility of capturing and relocating an asteroid. e geosynchronous orbit of Analemma matches earth's rotation period of one day (therefore appearing motionless). It will travel between the northern and

Analemma Tower is a conceptual proposal for the world's tallest building - ever. It is the brainchild of New York City architectural rm Clouds AO’s partners Masayuki Sono and Ostap Rudakevych (see bios on opposite page).

Analemma inverts the traditional diagram of an earth-based foundation, instead depending on a space-based supporting foundation from which the tower is suspended. is system is referred to as the Universal Orbital Support System (a concept for suspending an object from a tether orbiting in space a/k/a UOSS). By placing a large asteroid into orbit over earth, a high strength cable can be lowered towards the surface of earth from which a super tall tower can be suspended. Since this new tower typology is suspended in the air, it can be constructed anywhere in the world and transported to its nal location. e proposal calls for Analemma to be constructed over Dubai, which has proven to be a specialist in tall building construction at one h the cost of New York City construction.

Manipulating asteroids is no longer relegated to science ction. In 2015 the European Space Agency sparked a new round of investment in asteroid mining

southern hemispheres on a daily loop in a gure eight, where the tower would move at its slowest speed at the top and bottom of the gure eight allowing the possibility for the tower’s occupants to interface with the planet’s surface at these points. The proposed orbit is calibrated so the slowest part of the towers trajectory occurs over New York City. The tower will return to exactly the same position in the sky each day.

“In politics…never retreat, never retract…never admit a mistake.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Analemma would get its power from space-based solar panels. Installed above the dense and di use atmosphere, these panels would have constant exposure to sunlight, with a greater e ciency than conventional PV installations. Water would be ltered and recycled in a semi-closed loop system, replenished with condensate captured from clouds and rainwater. Developments in cableless electromagnetic elevators have e ectively shattered height restrictions imposed by elevator cable spool volume.

While researching atmospheric conditions for this project, the Clouds

AO partners realized that there is probably a tangible height limit beyond which people would not tolerate living due to the extreme conditions. For example, while there may be a bene t to having 45 extra minutes of daylight at an elevation of 32,000 meters, the

near vacuum and -40C temperature would prevent people from going outside without a protective suit. en again, astronauts have continually occupied the space station for decades, so perhaps it’s not so bad?

Harnessing the power of planetary design thinking, it taps into the desire for extreme height, seclusion and constant mobility. If the recent boom in residential towers proves that sales price per square foot rises with oor elevation, then

Masayuki Sono is a founding partner of Clouds AO, established in 2010 in New York City. He holds master’s degrees from University of Washington and Kobe University, Japan. He has worked on projects ranging from national museums to public arts and gained worldwide acclaim for his winning design for the competition of 9/11 Memorial in Staten Island NY (awarded by the American Institute of Architects). He has lectured at Pratt Institute, Tokyo University and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

a nontraditional approach to business collections

Timeto collect

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE –

TRACKING THEM IS GOOD. COLLECTING THEM IS BETTER .

Business-to-business debts require special, focused expertise and finesse… and the selection of your commercial collection service is an important decision. It revolves around Service, Trust and Recovery. Rates are important, and recovery is the objective (the bottom line) … but there’s more to it.

The company you choose will be handling your money, talking to your customers, and representing you in the marketplace. You want your money as soon as possible – but you don’t want to lose clients.

At ABC, you’re never out-of-pocket for our services. We collect (at prearranged terms) and when – and only when – we succeed (i.e., once we collect money owed to you), do we get paid. There is no fee UNLESS and UNTIL we collect.

Our payment is contingent upon your recovery – so our success is integrally tied to yours.

As a privately owned company, we make decisions based on what is best for our clients. Our focus is exclusively on improving your bottom line, and we have the knowledge and experience to deliver exceptional results.

Brookings

Since the mid-1990s, demographic and economic shi s have fundamentally changed markets and locations for real estate development. ese changes are largely powered by growth of the knowledge economy, which, since the turn of the 21st century, has begun moving out of suburban o ce parks and into more walkable mixed-use places in an e ort to attract and retain highly educated young workers and support creative collaboration among them.

ASCE

Geographically, Texas is the largest state in the continental United States. It is an economic powerhouse, leading the way in wind power energy production, population growth, and some of the largest infrastructure that has an ever-increasing need for improvement. is is the main theme of the 2017 Report Card for Texas’s Infrastructure develop by the Texas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE Texas Section). In this update, though several of the infrastructure categories reviewed show areas of satisfactory performance, the clear majority indicate that Texas’s infrastructure lacks funding, proper maintenance, is poorly equipped to deal with environmental change as Texas continues to grow.

Catalytic development: (Re)creating walkable urban places

WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY & CHOICE BY THE NUMBERS

Today’s Workforce

With lower unemployment rates across the US, the race for talent is getting more and more competitive.

e US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts the unemployment rate will continue to decline, and that the fastest growing job segments will be: healthcare (5.7 million jobs) and professional and technical occupations (2.1 million jobs). Continental O ce (www.continentalo ce.com) recently conducted research to better understand what today’s workforce wants and what will attract them to and keep them at organizations    e results are based on 262 currently employed respondents and includes all levels of the workforce from associate to C-Level. Some of the key ndings include:

1. Nearly 25% of today’s workforce said their physical workplace a ects their decision to stay at or leave an organization.

2. 87% want exible settings like workshops, meeting rooms, private spaces, social areas, and more.

3. When asked how the physical workspace a ected their overall happiness, people ranked it an 8 out of 10 with 10 being the most important.

4. ere are many discrepancies between how associates and the C-Level perceive what’s important in the workplace.

Read the report here or online at: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/476162/Reports/ Workplace_Flexibility_and_Choice_by_the_Numbers.pdf?t=1530197604397

Family Friendly State

is paper by e Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program takes an in-depth look at six case studies to describe the process of catalytic development, a new model of investment that over the past decade has had remarkable success in creating such walkable communities. Catalytic development focuses on areas abandoned as a result of deindustrialization and auto-oriented development, in some cases recycling the very properties cleared or le vacant by mid-20th century urban “renewal” programs. Catalytic development incorporates many urban design best practices—granularity, incrementalism, and mixing of uses, scales, and people—and can address di cult urban challenges while delivering long-term economic returns to both the public and private sectors.

CBRE

CBRE’s annual survey detailing and analyzing the impactful strategies real estate executives are putting in place for their various lines of business and their employees. To learn more about CBRE Research or to access additional research reports, go to: https://www.cbre.com/ research-and-reports .

If your company or organization has a white paper, report or study of interest to real estate professionals, let us know and we may include it here.

Texas – A Great Place to Call Home! Homes.com ranked the top 25 metropolitan areas in the U.S. based on their overall “family-friendliness.” At the top of the list is Dallas (#1), and not far behind are Houston (#3) and San Antonio (#5). Cities were chosen based on crime rate, cost of living, availability of child care services, average commute times, school (K-12) quality, and park acreage per capita.  ese key considerations were chosen for the ways they contribute to both a child’s development and a family's quality of life. e methodology and a map of America’s Most Family-Friendly Cities can be viewed at Homes.com

Forbes

USAA (San Antonio), Southwest Airlines (Dallas) and MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston) were Texas’s top companies in Forbes’ America’s Best Employers list coming in at #11, #13 and #27 respectively. See the whole list here: https://www.forbes.com/best-employers/list/#tab:rank

Homebuyers e Best Cities for First-Time Homebuyers in 2018

SmartAsset compared data in 7 categories to determine and rank the 25 best places for rst-time homebuyers. Speci cally, they looked at the number of HUDapproved lenders, loan funding ratio, average price per square foot, a ordability ratio, stability score, price variance and the number of negative quarters in the last 6 years. Texas cities fared very well, with 8 of the top 25: Houston #4, San Antonio #7, Dallas #10, Fort Worth #11, Arlington #14, Corpus Christi #16, El Paso #20 and Austin #24. See the data and methodology at https://smartasset.com/mortgage/ best-cities-for- rst-time-homebuyers-2018

“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.” (Richard Nixon) “I don’t know, Marge. Trying is the rst step toward failure.” (Homer Simpson)

MISTAKES TO AVOID

The Design Process

Many business leaders misjudge how complex an o ce renovation can be. Unlike other projects, o ce improvements are o en delegated to employees who lack the time and experience to tackle them properly. At the beginning of the design process, you create goals for the budget, schedule, quality, and functionality. At the end, if those goals are not met, your company stands to lose time, money, and productivity. You could fail to deliver for your clients and damage your company’s reputation. is common-sense guide presents 13 common problems along with tips on how to avoid them.

IWBI

e WELL Building Standard® is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and wellbeing, through air, water, nourishment, light, tness, comfort, and mind. WELL is managed and administered by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public bene t corporation whose mission is to improve human health and wellbeing through the built environment. WELL is grounded in a body of medical research that explores the connection between the buildings where we spend more than 90 percent of our time, and the health and wellness of its occupants. WELL Certi ed™ spaces and WELL Compliant™ core and shell developments can help create a built environment that improves the nutrition, tness, mood, and sleep patterns.

e WELL Building Standard® is third-party certi ed by the Green Business Certi cation Incorporation (GBCI), which administers the LEED certi cation program and the LEED professional credentialing program. (See companion articles on Pages 14 and 16.)

World Green Building Council is report explores the dual opportunity to do right by the planet and its people by showcasing pioneering green building projects that are leading the way in being resource e cient and providing healthy, productive spaces for their occupants and signi cant returns for their owners and investors. It presents fresh global evidence from around the world that building green with features that people love – from improved air quality and comfort indoors, to access to nature and amenities outdoors – provides tangible environmental, health and economic bene ts. Among the key ndings: Companies can save money by occupying a green building with features that bene t people. Employees prefer green buildings that make them feel healthier and more productive. A building’s asset value increases the greener and healthier it is.

This is NOT the kind of building you probably think of when you think of the capital city of Lebanon. Beirut was settled over 5,000 years ago and has a very long history, and, once upon a time not all that long ago, the “Paris of the Middle East” was a thriving city. In the last 20-30 years, however, while the city has made attempts to rebuild and to bring together its divided population, continuous wars and bombings have been a threat. (In fact, a formal census or population count has not been taken since the 1930s, and because of that, the population numbers are estimated. e most recent estimates of the city put it at 361,000. e population of the metro area have been estimated from just under 1 million to over 2 million – a rather large gap.)

Basel-based Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (who were featured in our June 2018 issue) designed Beirut Terraces as part of a new masterplan in a part of the capital that is gradually being regenerated following a devastating car bomb attack that killed prime minister Ra k Hariri in 2005. e residential tower is made up of irregularly and staggered oor plates sized oor slabs that give it an inde nite outline. " e moderate climate of Beirut is undoubtedly one of the city's greatest assets it makes outdoor living an integral part of Beirut's urban culture," said the architects. "Indoor and outdoor spaces merge into each other so that the generous terraces truly become living spaces."

“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.” (Richard Nixon)

“I don’t know, Marge. Trying is the rst step toward failure.” (Homer Simpson)

The Spheres—the newest buildings on Amazon’s campus in downtown Seattle—have no enclosed o ces, conference spaces, or desks, and employees can meet in treehouses suspended under 40+ foot trees or in sitting areas and walking paths alongside cascading waterfalls. Plants, trees, sunlight, soil, and water take center stage – the sound of running water and the scent of owering plants create an instant botanical immersion that takes visitors far away from the urban landscape. e project is part of Amazon’s more than $4 billion investment in the design, development, and construction of its Seattle HQ.

e Spheres, designed by the architecture rm NBBJ, are meant for internal use by Amazon employees, providing a contemplative break from the boxy shapes and right angles of the surrounding urban neighborhood. ey are home to more than 40,000 plants from around the world. ere’s no place else in the world quite like it – a spot where Amazon employees can work in an environment that’s more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an o ce. Plants, trees, sunlight, soil, and water take center stage – the sound of running water and the scent of owering plants create an instant botanical immersion that takes visitors far away from the urban landscape. e Spheres are a result of innovative thinking about the character of the workplace and an extended conversation about what is typically missing from urban o ces – a direct link to nature. Studies suggest that spaces that embrace biophilic design can inspire creativity and even improve brain function.

“Our goal with e Spheres was to create a unique gathering place where employees could collaborate and innovate together, and where the Seattle community could gather to experience biodiversity in the center

of the city,” said John Schoettler, Amazon Vice

President of Global Real Estate and

Facilities.

The Spheres feature treehouse meeting rooms, river and waterfall features, paludariums, a four-story living wall, and epiphytic trees. They are home to more than 400 species spanning ve continents and 50 countries, and many of the plants have journeyed from botanical gardens, tree nurseries, and conservation programs from around the globe. Many of the plants inside e Spheres are from cloud forest ecosystems, where plants thrive on mountainsides at an altitude ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 feet. Plants in these ecosystems have adapted to cooler temperatures, which makes their climate needs comfortable for people, too.

Amazon is committed to sharing the beauty and biodiversity inside e Spheres with the public and will provide educational opportunities to the Seattle community through tours, eld trips and partnerships with local schools and universities. e Spheres also include a visitor center – called e Understory – that is open to the public year-round. e Understory provides a fully immersive, 360-degree experience where visitors can get up close and personal with the science, engineering, and plants behind e Spheres.

Governor Jay Inslee said, “ ese unique buildings are so much more than a beautiful creative space for Amazon employees. ey will help conserve a number of rare plant species from around the world and provide countless educational opportunities for local students – and that’s something Washington can take pride in.” “ is unique landscape will bring together students, visitors, and residents in the heart of our City,” added Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. According to Toby Bradshaw, Professor and Chair at the University of Washington Department of Biology, “ e use of plant biodiversity — including the ‘weird’ and ‘ugly’ specimens — to tell the story of interconnections among living things will be an inspiration to all who visit and work at e Spheres.”

Learn about e Spheres, e Understory, and how to visit on www.seattlespheres.com. For regular updates about the plant life inside e Spheres, follow @SeattleSpheres on Instagram.

About The Spheres

e Spheres were built to create a wide variety of ways to communicate, work and dine on ve di erent levels in the backdrop of dramatic plant installations including living walls, paludariums and treehouse gathering spaces. Below are a few facts about e Spheres, as well as what visitors will nd within and around them:

• More than 600 full-time jobs created through the design, build and construction of e Spheres.

• More than 620 tons of steel, or enough steel to build the Space Needle three times

• 12 million pounds of concrete used in the construction, or enough concrete to build a highway from Seattle to Sacramento, CA.

• e exterior façade features a naturally occurring shape in nature called a “Catalan,” which is derived from the face of a pentagonal hexecontahedron Catalan solid – the shape repeats throughout e Spheres with 60 faces per Sphere and 180 total

• e Spheres’ façade contains 2,643 panes of glass that are ultra-clear and energy-e cient, with a lm interlayer to keep out infrared wavelengths that produce unwanted heat

• Structural engineers tested e Spheres for all kinds of environmental factors, including 91 di erent scenarios. At the base of e Spheres, a 400,000-pound ring beam transfers heavy loads of gravity, wind and seismic forces from the glass-and-steel façade to columns in the parking garage below

• e largest Sphere is more than 90 feet tall and 130 feet in diameter

• All three Spheres share a single indoor environment, which makes air ow critical between the buildings. Radiant oor heating and cooling is an e cient way to balance indoor temperature, and also ensures that less hot and dry air circulates through the HVAC system.

• More than 40,000 plants and over 400 species will call e Spheres home at any given time

• e Spheres’ plant collection spans ve continents, and includes specimens from e University of Washington and Atlanta Botanical Garden

• Many of the plants inside e Spheres are found in cloud forests, a remarkably diverse type of highelevation tropical forest that receives much of its moisture from direct contact with clouds rather than from rain

• Cloud forest ecosystems are typically located at high altitudes (3,000 to 10,000 feet), and they are found in tropical and subtropical mountainous regions of the world, where cooler temperatures on mountain slopes cause clouds to form

• Cloud forest plants depend on cool, humid conditions. To ensure that both people and plants can thrive, e Spheres operate on a diurnal cycle – the daytime temperature inside will average 72 degrees with humidity around 60 percent, and the nighttime temperature will average 55 degrees with humidity around 85 percent.

• e space can seat about 800 people.

e Spheres largest inhabitant – a Ficus rubiginosa dubbed “Rubi” – was planted at a tree farm in California in 1969. Today, Rubi is 55-feet tall, 22-feet wide and weighs nearly 36,000 lbs.

Caption: Rubi traveled more than 1,200 miles on the back of a atbed truck, arriving in Seattle a er a 3-day journey through California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Because of her size, Rubi had to be craned into e Spheres through a small opening at the top. (A video of how Rubi came to e Spheres is at https://youtu.be/bQmJOiuUM6A .)

e Delivery of “Rubi”

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

Kiss Me Quick, Dick Dowling

There is a statue of Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass, Texas that hopefully will not ever be disturbed. It's well cared for (and a state historic site) because every St. Patrick's Day, it is washed and shined by caring people at Sabine Pass. Why? Because St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, and Dick Dowling drove the federal troops - the Yankeesout of Texas. Great story! Actually, it's an unbelievable story!

It all begins in Ireland with the birth of Dick Dowling in 1837. His family was able to send him to school until disaster struck the country - the Great Irish Potato Famine - in 1846. e Dowling family managed to come to the United States and then moved on south to Houston. Dick grew up and, like a typical Irishman, opened not one, but three saloons in Houston.

He became famous for a drink called ‘Kiss Me Quick and Go’. Was it ever a smooth slurp!  e customers told of the taste of Irish Whiskey that lingered on the palate for a very long time!

Kiss Me Quick Drink Recipe

In an Old Fashioned glass, mix

1 tsp. Triple Sec (Cointreau)

2 oz. Pernod

3 dashes Bitters, Angostura

Fill with Carbonated Water/Club Soda

All was well, until the Civil War erupted. Now, Texas was not destroyed in the war as much of the deep South was. Most Texas farmers were able to bring in the crops and send a goodly amount of cotton to England, where the British weaving looms awaited the ne cotton thread. Nevertheless, Dick Dowling with his Irish-born buddies did join the Confederate army. A er all, the Irish were known to be rebels, and these Irishmen were part of what was called the Davis Guards (a Confederate Army unit named for Je erson Davis).

Confederate Lt. Richard “Dick” Dowling and his men (composed of forty- ve enlisted men, one engineer, and one surgeon, all Irish and all in their twenties or younger, part of Company F, Texas Heavy Artillery) thwarted an attempted Union attack on Sabine Pass, a primary Texas port for Confederate shipments of supplies and vital to the war e ort. In a battle lasting less than an hour, Dowling and his men constructed an earthen-work fort large enough to hold their six guns, and in the space of forty minutes, they red 137 shots without stopping to swab the guns. Although they destroyed two gunboats, captured 350 prisoners and killed 50 Union soldiers, the Davis Guards sustained no losses. (The recruits were hand-picked from the docks at Houston and Galveston and were known as the Fighting Irishmen.) Thanks to their e orts, area ports escaped capture and Union forces never penetrated the Texas interior in the Civil War.

On January 1, 1863, the Union Navy attempted to blockade all shipping out of Galveston. But General John Bankhead Magruder held the forces o Bales of cotton were stacked on the ships for protection from the Yankee cannon re. e Battle of Galveston was considered a victory for Magruder. In fact, he killed Jonathan Wainwright, the captain of the federal ship, the Lane, who later became the grandfather of General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of the Death March of Bataan in World War II.

president of the Confederacy, claimed the battle at Sabine Pass was "more remarkable than the Battle of ermopylae." is was the battle where a few Greeks held o the mighty Persian forces in 480 BC. Both ancient and modern writers have used the Battle of ermopylae as an example of the power of a patriotic army defending its native soil. (See companion piece on next page)

Francis Richard Lubbock (1815 – 1905) was the ninth Governor of Texas (from 18611863). He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom Lubbock County, Texas and the City of Lubbock are named.

The Solution Was 94.8% Proof

e Yankee Navy moved out of the Gulf, and the Union leaders decided to attack Texas on the Red River. But their plans drastically changed. At 6:30 AM on September 8, 1863, the federal Armada27 warships and 5,000 troops - headed for Sabine Pass where they planned to invade Texas on the southeastern side of the gulf. Well, this was where a part of the Davis Guards (46 Irish-born men under the leadership of Dick Dowling) were stationed.  ey were hunkered down in a mud fort there at the pass, posted with 6 pieces of patched up artillery.

Je erson Davis kept asking, "How did they do it?" e answer came, " ey had a sudden attack of homesickness."  is could be interpreted as, " ey were enjoying some Irish whiskey before the attack!" Nevertheless, they did it!  e Houston Telegram ran stories for days about their bravery and the Southern Dramatic Association, presented plays with all the proceeds from the productions going to the Irishmen.

Dowling ordered his men to wait to re until the ships came very close to the shore. "Aim for the boilers!" was the command. ey waited, they red, and they captured two of the ships. e rest of the eet fearfully sailed out to sea in the dark! Fi y Union navy men were killed and were buried with great respect by the Dowling group. ree hundred and y prisoners were taken to Houston.

Francis Lubbock, the Governor of Texas, claimed those Irishmen were as "brave as those in the Alamo." Je erson Davis, the

Dowling returned to Houston a decorated war hero and reopened his saloons, but – like a typical Texan - he also went into the oil and gas business. By the spring of 1866, he was head of the Houston Gas Company. Sadly, he died just two years later at the age of thirty. He contracted yellow fever while caring for others who had contracted the disease.

To learn more about the battle of Sabine Pass in Civil War context, click here: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GimmB1eMmfE&feature=youtu.be

(Much of this information came from a book, DICK DOWLING AT SABINE PASS, by Frank X. Tolbert, 1962. Writer Frank X. Tolbert was responsible for the Chili Cooko s we all enjoy in Texas today.)

Francis Lubbock

The History Page Battle of Thermopylae

The Battle of ermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek citystates, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place simultaneously with the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September 480 BC, at the narrow coastal pass of ermopylae (“ e Hot Gates”). e Persian invasion was a delayed response to the defeat of the rst Persian invasion of Greece, which had been ended by the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. By 480 BC Xerxes had amassed a huge army and navy and set out to conquer all of Greece. e Athenian politician and general emistocles had proposed that the allied Greeks block the advance of the Persian army at the pass of ermopylae, and simultaneously block the Persian navy at the Straits of Artemisium.

A Greek force of approximately 7,000 men marched north to block the pass in the middle of 480 BC. e Persian army, alleged by the ancient sources to have numbered over one million, but today considered to have been much smaller (various gures are given by scholars, ranging between 100,000 and 150,000), arrived at the pass in late August or early September. The vastly outnumbered Greeks held o the Persians for seven days (including three of battle) before the rear-guard was annihilated in one of history’s most famous last stands.

During two full days of battle, the small force led by Leonidas blocked the only road by which the massive Persian army could pass. A er the second day, a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a small path that led behind the Greek lines. Leonidas, aware that his force was being out anked, dismissed the bulk of the Greek army and remained to guard their retreat with 300 Spartans and 700 espians, ghting to the death.

emistocles was in command of the Greek Navy at Artemisium when he received news that the Persians had taken the pass at ermopylae. Since the Greek strategy required both ermopylae and Artemisium to be held, given their losses, it was decided to withdraw to Salamis. e Persians overran Boeotia and then captured the evacuated Athens. e Greek eet - seeking a decisive victory over the Persian armada - attacked and defeated the invaders at the Battle of Salamis in late 480 BC. Wary of being trapped in Europe, Xerxes withdrew with much of his army to Asia (losing most to starvation and disease), leaving Mardonius to attempt to complete the conquest of Greece. However, the following year saw a Greek army decisively defeat the Persians at the Battle of Plataea, thereby ending the Persian invasion.

Both ancient and modern writers have used the Battle of Thermopylae as an example of the power of a patriotic army defending its native soil. e performance of the defenders is also used as an example of the advantages of training, equipment, and good use of terrain as force multipliers and has become a symbol of courage against overwhelming odds.

When it comes to construction, real-estate professionals know that there are three axioms we can always count on: it will cost too much, take too long, and never quite turn out the way you wanted. If you’ve ever had to deal with mechanic’s or materialmen’s liens on your commercial properties, I am sure you will acknowledge that these axioms are true and correct. Construction-lien claims can arise out of work initiated by the owner of the real property and from work your tenants perform. If either the property owner or the tenant fails to pay the general contractor, or the general contractor fails to pay its subcontractors or suppliers, then liens can be led against the property and the tenant’s leasehold interest.

Background:

Texas construction-lien laws are some of the most complex (and confusing) lien laws in the county. In Texas, liens for work performed, materials or equipment (known as “mechanic’s and materialmen’s” liens) are governed by both the Texas Property Code and the Texas Constitution. Speci cally, Texas Property Code Section 53 creates statutory mechanic’s liens that must be properly and timely perfected. To perfect a lien, a contractor or supplier must timely send written notice and record a lien a davit. An original contractor (i.e., one who has a direct contract with the owner or its agent) may secure a constitutional lien without satisfying the notice or recording requirements.

e lien statute in the Property Code tries to accomplish two things. First, it requires property owners and tenants to take reasonable steps to ensure that its contractors are paying their subcontractors and vendors. Second, it provides subcontractors and vendors who have an oral or written contract with the general contractor protection for the work or materials provided. However, if the subcontractor fails to timely comply with the procedures in the Property Code, their lien may be invalid.

Liens for Retainage:

Section 53.101 of the Property Code requires the owner or tenant to withhold 10% of the contract price of the work or 10% of the value of the work as a “statutory retainage”. is retainage must occur for each payment during the project and for thirty (30) days a er completion. e retained funds are to secure payment for subcontractors and suppliers. If you fail to hold the 10% retainage, a subcontractor or supplier can have a lien against the property, at least to the extent of the amount that should have been retained. If a subcontractor or supplier was engaged by

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your tenant’s general contractor, they should only be allowed to le a lien against the tenant’s leasehold interest (and their leasehold improvements). However, o entimes a tenant’s subcontractor attempts to create leverage by ling a lien against the owner’s property.

Liens Against “Trapped Funds”:

In addition to the statutory retainage, the owner or tenant can have additional liability depending upon whether funds were “trapped” by proper fund trapping notices. is is in addition to the statutory retainage discussed above. If, during a construction project, a subcontractor or supplier is not paid, they can send written notice to the owner, and upon timely receipt of a proper notice, the owner must “trap” any funds from being paid to the contractor. A subcontractor or supplier can obtain a lien on the property or the tenant’s leasehold improvements (as the case may be), and the property owner or tenant will have personal liability to the extent they received the notice and failed to withhold any further payments.

Deadlines to File Notices for Retainage and Fund Trapping Liens:

For subcontractors and suppliers to take advantage of their lien rights, they must timely and properly send written notice to the contractor and the owner, as well as timely le a proper lien a davit. e Texas Property Code has strict guidelines for when to send notices and le the a davits, as well as the content thereof.

Before ling a lien a davit, a subcontractor must send timely written notice of its unpaid claim to the original contractor not later than the eenth (15th) day of the second (2nd) month following each month in which all or part of the claimant’s labor was performed or its material delivered. In addition, the subcontractor must also send timely notice of its unpaid claim to both the original contractor and the owner (or tenant) not later than the eenth (15th) day of the third (3rd) month following each month in which all or part of the labor was performed or material delivered. e notices must be sent by registered or certi ed mail and must be addressed to the owner (or tenant) or the original contractor, as applicable, at their last known business or residence address.

The deadline for a subcontractor or supplier to le a lien a davit is the fteenth (15th) day of the fourth (4th) calendar month following the day the indebtedness accrues. e lien a davit must be led with the county clerk of the county where the project is located.

e lien a davit must be signed by the person claiming the lien and contain several facts required by the Property Code, including the amount of the claim. e lien a davit must be sworn to and notarized. Among the other facts that must be listed in the a davit, subcontractors must list each month the work was performed and materials furnished. e claimant must send a copy of the lien a davit by registered or certi ed mail to the owner (or tenant) not later than the h (5th) day a er the date the lien a davit is led with the county clerk. If a claimant has properly led his claim, he has two years (one for a residential construction project) to le suit to foreclose his lien.

Failure to adhere to these requirements may invalidated the liens. To that end, if you receive any lien notices or a davits, you should check with legal counsel to ensure that they are properly prepared and timely sent.

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Constitutional Lien for General Contractors

In addition to the speci c procedure outlined above in the Texas Property Code for claiming a lien against the 10% retainage and “trapped funds”, the Texas Constitution provides an automatic lien for improvements to property made by an original contractor who signs a construction contract with an owner or tenant. A constitutional lien exists without the contractor having to le a lien a davit, however, the constitutional lien is limited and sometimes the original contractor might want to also le a statutory lien. For example, a constitutional lien cannot be enforced against a “good faith” purchaser of the property who had no knowledge of the constitutional lien claim. Accordingly, contractors should le the lien a davit anyway to put prospective purchasers of the property on notice of the lien. e constitutional lien is a “last ditch e ort” for contractors that forget to timely le their liens or who le an invalid lien.

Certain types of construction work which may be covered by the statutory lien are not covered by a constitutional lien. e constitutional lien is only valid for articles or buildings and the land necessary to its enjoyment. Suppliers of certain materials or equipment that are not “incorporated” into the construction job may not acquire a constitutional lien, even if they are ordered directly by the owner.

Liens on Homestead

ere are additional requirements to obtain a lien on a homestead. ese additional requirements must be met prior to performing work on the homestead. A person who performs work or provides material to the homestead owner must sign a written contract with the owner(s). e contract must be executed before the work starts, it must be signed by all owners, and the contract must be led with the clerk of the county where the homestead is located. ere is no deadline to le the contract, but it should be led before commencing work. To properly le a contract, it will have to satisfy the county’s recording requirements – similar to ling a lien. Further, the a davit of lien must contain the following notice, in a size equal to at least 10-point boldface or the computer equivalent, at the top of the page: “NOTICE: THIS IS NOT A LIEN. THIS IS ONLY AN AFFIDAVIT CLAIMING A LIEN.”

Texas Property Code Section 53.254 contains additional language that must also be in the lien a davit, which is above and beyond the required provisions for a commercial (or non-homestead property). is information is too lengthy to list here.

Terminating Invalid or Fraudulent Liens

Property Code Section 53.157 lists six ways to terminate a lien. The best method is to le a release, which must be signed by the lien claimant Most of the methods in the Code require the property owner to le a bond. e bond must be issued by a bonding company, in an amount no less than the amount of the lien. Note that most bond companies will require the owner to supply collateral to back up the lien or sign a guaranty (or both). Also, if the lien claimant does not foreclose on the lien within two years (one for a residential construction project), then the lien can also be removed.

Subchapter J of the Texas Government Code provides three options for the property owner to remove a fraudulent lien. e rst is if the court clerk or county clerk is provided with information (usually in the form of an a davit with supporting documentation) showing a “reasonable basis” for believing that a led document is fraudulent. In that case, Section 51.901(f) of the Government Code requires the clerk to take steps to try and get the lien removed, including requesting assistance from the district attorney and obtaining additional documentation from the claimant. Second, the property owner may le a veri ed motion with the district clerk asking for removal of the lien. Section 51.902 of the Texas Government Code contains a form of the veri ed motion. If the motion is successful, a district judge will rule that the lien a davit at issue is not a lien. Likewise, Section 51.903 of the Government Code permits the ling of a veri ed motion to removal a fraudulent lien. is section also applies to fraudulent deeds, and it contains a form of the motion to be led with the district court.

Once you have removed a fraudulent lien, you can then seek penalties against the person who led it. Chapter 12 of the Civil Practice & Remedies Code states that a person who knowingly and intentionally les a fraudulent lien may be held liable in civil district court for the greater of $10,000 or your damages and attorney’s fees. It is also a crime per Texas Penal Code § 37.01. Additionally, the Deceptive Trade Practices Act may give the property owner the legal ability to seek further damages against someone who les a fraudulent lien.

Whether you are a property owner or a vendor, the Texas lien laws are complex – anyone involved in this process needs to proceed with caution to protect your interests.

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Vincent Callebaut (1977 - ) is a Belgian ecological architect. He designs futuristic-like ecodistrict projects which take account of several aspects of sustainability (renewable energies, biodiversity, urban agriculture). (An ecodistrict or eco-district designates urban planning aiming to integrate objectives of sustainable development and reduce the ecological footprint of the project. It considers all environmental issues by attributing them very ambitious levels of requirements.)

We reached out to Mr. Callebaut because the images we wanted to show here are all copyright protected. Unfortunately, we did not receive a response. His work, however, is truly astounding, and deserves your taking a look. From the completed projects to those currently under construction and those than are planned or purely conceptual, step into the world and mind of Vincent Callebaut at http://vincent.callebaut.org/category/projects/user.

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Marking its 30th anniversary, e North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and Real Estate Professionals (NTCAR) held its 2018 Reunion and Hall of Fame event on May 10th at the Dallas Country Club. Tobin C. Grove, president of KDC, and Jerry Jones, founder and CEO of Blue Star Land (and owner, president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys) were inducted into the 2018 NTCAR Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame.

Mickey Ashmore, current chairman of retail services Americas for CBRE received the Michael F. McAuley Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor presented to one who has dedicated countless hours of personal service to their community, to professional organizations committed to the real estate industry and to charitable pursuits during their professional real estate career. Additionally, the award recognizes the individual’s commitment to promoting integrity, honesty, reciprocation and professionalism throughout their commercial real estate career.

e NTCAR Hall of Fame was launched in 1988, when the rst six distinguished real estate recipients were Trammell Crow; Lyn Davis; Henry S. Miller, Jr.; John M. Stemmons, Sr. and his brother, L. Storey Stemmons; and Angus G. Wynne. Later additions to the roster included John Carpenter; Roger Staubach; Henry S. Miller Company; Ross Perot, Jr.; Gerald Hines and Je Hines; and many others.

In 2017, the inductees were John Scovell, founder and chairman of Woodbine Development Corporation, and Jack Hu , principal at Transwestern in Fort Worth. John F. Crawford, the longtime president/CEO who was recently named vice chairman of Downtown Dallas, Inc., was the Michael F. McAuley Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

Ken Kopf, Mickey Ashmore

Toby Grove, Jack Lowe

Toby Grove, Mickey Ashmore and Jerry Jones with past Hall of Fame inductees

Toby Grove, Mickey Ashmore, Jerry Jones

NTCAR Hall of Fame Committee. Back row: Bill Cox, Darrell Hurmis, Chris Teesdale. Front row: Robert Grunnah, Kathy Permenter, Lynn Dodd, Greg Cannon (Not pictured: Lynn Dowdle and Bill Cox)

Toby Grove with KDC employees

Jerry Jones and Roger Staubach

John Zogg, Sarah Hinkley, Joe Hickman

Darrell Hurmis, Mickey Ashmore, Jack Gosnell

Darrell Hurmis, Toby Grove, Steve Van Amburgh

Roger Staubach, Jerry Jones, Darrell Hurmis

Mickey Ashmore, Toby Grove, Jerry Jones

Raymond L. Critch eld Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament

On ursday, June 28th, TEXO hosted the second annual Raymond L. Critch eld Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament at Coyote Ridge Golf Club. With over 130 players participating, the following teams placed: A big congratulations to the rst-place team from Martin Marietta (1), secondplace team from Andres Construction Services (2), and the third-place team from Brandt Companies (3).

Houston

1 ABC/CMEF 2018 Chairman, Robert Burelsmith, accepting the National Excellence in Construction Award of Excellence for E.E. Reed Construction at the 2018 ABC National Convention

2 Eco-Sta 's team winning 1st place at the Spring Golf Tournament held at Kingwood Country Club 1n March

3 Turner Construction's team winning 1st place at the YPC Bowling Tournament held at University of Houston in March

4 e East Harris County Manufacturers Association (EHCMA) presenting an $85,000 check to support CMEF's workforce development and training e orts at the March Membership Breakfast

Raymond L. Critch eld (who passed away on January 31, 2016) worked for TEXO for seven years as a Safety Director before leaving to work for Satter eld & Pontikes Construction. He was a dedicated professional who impacted the construction industry through his passion, love of people, family, and friends. One of his greatest attributes was his ability to train people to recognize hazards and create a safer workplace. The Raymond L. Critch eld Scholarship Program provides scholarships to individuals pursuing or continuing a course of study in the construction health and safety professions. Next year’s event is already on the calendar - Thursday, June 27, 2019.

Rio Grande Valley

2018 Board of Directors

President - Steve Garza (GP7 Construction, Inc.)

Vice President - Jorge Gonzalez (Tri-Gen Construction, LLC)

Treasurer -Noel Muñoz Jr. (NM Contracting)

G. C. Director – Alfredo Garcia (Noble Texas Builders, LLC)

G.C. Director - Michael Montalvo (Holchemont, Ltd)

Associate Director - Richard Linn (Central Ready Mix)

Associate Director - Derek Gerdes (Metro Electric, Inc.)

Executive Director - Perry A. Vaughn (RGV-AGC Chapter)

Immediate Past President - Robert Bennett (SpawGlass Contractors, Inc.)

Registration is open for the 2018 STAR Texas Recycling Summit on Oct. 28-31 at Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston. is is the only conference dedicated entirely to recycling and waste diversion activities in Texas. Join engaging sessions, panels, and keynote presentations on hot topics with industry experts, tons of networking opportunities and more!

Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are still available. Learn more and register to attend at www.recyclingstar.org/summit. See you on the coast!

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9 Industrial/Warehouse 2 (Projects over $5 million): F.A. Nunnelly General Contractor for New Braunfels Food Bank

***This project also won statewide***

10 Building 2 (Projects $2 - 5 million): Alpine Contracting for Seven Oaks Business Park

11 Building 3 (Projects $5 - 10 million): Joeris General Contractors, Ltd. for Ferrari San Antonio

***This project also won statewide***

12 Building 4 (Projects $10 - 30 million): Guido Construction for Northside ISD Nathan Kallison Elementary School

13 Building 5 (Projects $30 - 75 million): Linbeck Group, LLC for The Witte Museum ***This project also won statewide***

14 Building 6 (Projects over $75 million): Bartlett Cocke/Koehler, A Joint Venture for New Seguin High School ***This project also won statewide***

15 Design Build 3 (Projects over $30 million): Turner Construction Company for The Alamodome Upgrades and Renovation

***This project also won statewide***

16 Health Care 3 (Projects over $30 million): Skanska USA for Methodist Hospital Children's Hospital Tower Expansion and Renovation

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OUTSTANDING CONSTRUCTION AWARDS

San Antonio

Projects were judged on di culty in construction resulting from design, location, materials, etc.; unusual construction techniques involved; nal appearance and quality of the nished product; timeliness of completion; safety and utilization of AGC members.   e winners were announced at a luncheon on June 18th at the Airport Hilton.

1 Electrical 1 (Projects $0 - 5 million): Alterman, Inc.for Alamodome Renovations

2 Electrical 3 (Projects over $10 million): Alterman, Inc. for SAWS Desalination Plant

3 Other Specialty: Alterman, Inc. for Valero HQ EOC LED Video Wall

4 Residential Multi-Family: Galaxy Builders, Ltd. for Lookout Springs Apartments

5 Specialty Construction: Morganti Texas/Casias JV for SWSA 2017 Attraction - Wave Breaker: The Rescue Coaster

6 Interior Finish-Out 1 (Projects under $500,000): Turner Construction Company Central Texas Headquarters Renovation

7 Interior Finish-Out 4 (Projects over $5 million): Turner Construction Company for The Four Seasons Houston Lobby and Grand Staircase Renovation

8 Historic Renovation: Joeris General Contractors, Ltd. for CAST Tech High School

The name of each of the continents ends with the same letter with which it starts.

e 2017 Community Honors were bestowed on persons, firms, corporations or associations for meritorious work in their respective fields.

The 360 Plan

In partnership with the City of Dallas, Downtown Dallas, Inc. developed e 360 Plan, a ve-year comprehensive and strategic plan that sets forth a clear, cohesive vision for Downtown Dallas and its adjoining neighborhoods. An update to the 2011 Downtown Dallas 360 plan, e 360 Plan encapsulates the current momentum and vibrancy of Downtown Dallas, ensuring longterm prosperity and success of the City Center, comprised of the diverse neighborhoods within a 2.5-mile radius of Downtown. rough a robust community outreach e ort – involving more than 40 partner organizations and 150 stakeholder meetings – e 360 Plan was organized around the idea of a complete and connected City Center. rough three transformative strategies, e 360 Plan seeks to advance urban mobility, build complete neighborhoods, and promote great placemaking. Each transformative strategy contains a set of overarching goals, in which there are a set of action items, creating a structured path for achieving implementable and successful outcomes. e 360 Plan was unanimously adopted by the Dallas City Council in December 2017. e implementation process has begun with the identi cation of seven priority areas to be addressed in 2018.

CitySquare & CitySquare Housing

Since their humble beginnings in 1988 to present day, CitySquare has grown into a broad community development organization o ering a comprehensive array of social services that address four key areas related to the persistence of poverty: hunger, health, housing, and hope. Its mission is to ght the causes and e ects of poverty through service, advocacy, and

friendship. Together, their 17 social service programs provide more than 50,000 human touches in Dallas, Waco, and Denver, Colorado.

community, by providing essential support uniquely focused on the needs of local performing artists, arts groups, audiences, and arts education, to enrich the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. Located just north of Downtown Dallas in the old water works building, the Center undertook the renovation of the historic Turtle Creek Pump Station and operates the facility as multipurpose performing arts center and incubator. e Center produces the Sammons Jazz series, the premier jazz concert series in DFW, now in its 29th year of production featuring top local jazz artists to sold-out crowds. It serves 14 resident and more than 80 non-resident arts groups, and produces more than 20 jazz/cabaret concerts each year, and is the only facility serving the needs of the small and midsize arts organizations for o ce space, rehearsals, performances, auditions, administrative resources, and meetings seven days per week. e Sammons Center is a national model for adaptive reuse projects and public/private partnerships and has been widely copied by other communities.

CitySquare Housing was founded in 2001 to act as the development and housing arm of CitySquare, a Dallas-based, anti-poverty nonpro t organization. Although it began with no assets, it has developed or constructed almost 1,000 residential units, 200,000 sq. . of commercial space, and is closing in on the $200 million mark in assets developed and a consolidated net worth of $30 million. CitySquare Housing has achieved these successes by bringing an innovative and sophisticated approach to funding nonpro t development, where necessary, creating capital stacks that rival or exceed the work of much larger for-pro t developers in complexity. eir properties include e Cottages at Hickory Crossing, CityWalk @ Akard, and HighPoint Family and Senior Living.

Cottages photos by Craig Blackmon, FAIA; CityWalk photos courtesy of CitySquare Housing

Sammons Center for the Arts

Founded in 1981 to provide facilities, services, and cultural programming to the citizens of Dallas, the Sammons Center grows the Arts, in and for this

San Antonio was the host city for the BOMA International Conference in June

Chapter Vice President Betty Lagred welcomes attendees to the 2018 Annual Conference

Betty Lagred (far right) participates in a session on Women in Commercial Real Estate

e chapters’ attendees at e Outstanding Buildings of the Year (TOBY) Banquet

(L-R) Sally Flanagan, Carolyn Guerrero, Adrian Contreras, and Amanda Reed working at the conference welcome booth

Unbuilt Design Awards

On May 17th at Common Desk in Deep Ellum, the 2018 AIA Dallas Unbuilt Design Awards were presented to

1 Ricardo A. Muñoz

2 HKS, Inc.

3 Corgan

4 BOKA Powell

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Unbuilt Design Award Jurors

Michelle Addington is dean of e University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where she holds the Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture. Formerly, she served as Gerald Hines Chair in Sustainable Architectural Design at the Yale University School of Architecture and was jointly appointed as a Professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Prior to teaching at Yale, she taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Technical University of Munich, Temple University and Philadelphia University.

Nancy Hou is a co-founder and Principal of Hou de Sousa, a New York based architecture and design studio with a broad spectrum of projects that includes commercial, cultural and residential spaces, as well as art installations. Recent honors include Hou de Sousa’s winning entry for the Architectural League of New York’s 2016 Folly/ Function competition to design and build an open-air educational space at Socrates Sculpture Park. Originally from Shanghai, Nancy grew up in Quito, Ecuador and went on to receive a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard GSD.

Elena Manferdini, principal and owner of Atelier Manferdini, has over een years of professional experience in architecture, art, design, and education. She graduated from the University of Civil Engineering (Bologna, Italy) and later received her Master of Architecture and Urban Design from the University of California Los Angeles. In 2004, she founded Atelier Manferdini in Venice, CA. e o ce has completed projects in the US, Europe, and Asia. Recently the rm completed a 8 stories façade for the Hermitage parking structure in Florida and the gate for La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood.

(George Bernard Shaw)

(L-R) Billy Rowland and Adam Bernhardt BOMA International TOBY Winners (see page 24)

Shane Baggett and Kristine Lang at BOMA International Conference Dallas Dinner

(L-R) Michelle Lynn, Teresa Foster, Kristine Lang, Andrew Taylor, Cathy Kuebler - Dallas o cer team at the International Board of Governors Meeting during BOMA International Conference.

Sarah Buckles, Chandra Hamric, Kim Hartz at the chapter’s dinner at the International Conference

Dallas group at TOBY Awards Banquet International Conference

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e Smithsonian also holds close ties with 171 museums in 41 states, as well as Panama and Puerto Rico. ese museums are known as Smithsonian A liates. Collections of artifacts are given to these museums in the form of long-term loans from the Smithsonian. ese long-term loans are not the only Smithsonian exhibits outside the Smithsonian museums. e Smithsonian also has a large number of traveling exhibitions. Each year more than 50 exhibitions travel to hundreds of cities and towns all across the United States.

“Presidential” Moods

A satellite image of the eastern half of the National Mall with 10 Smithsonian museums located on it. On the northern side of the Mall are the National Museum of American History (2) and the National Museum of Natural History (3). On the southern side are the National Museum of the American Indian (10), the National Air and Space Museum (11), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (12), Arts and Industries Building (13), Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) (14), Freer Gallery of Art (15), Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (16), and the National Museum of African Art (17). The National Museum of African American History and Culture is built on the plot of land to the west of the National Museum of American History (2).[2] Other landmarks shown in this image include the Washington Monument (1), the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden (4), West Building (5), and East Building (6), the United States Capitol (7), the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial (8), and the United States Botanic Garden (9). (The Washington Monument and the United States Capitol were pixelated in the original image.)

Redneck Vocabulary Final

(Circle T for True or F for False)

A menstrual cycle has three wheels. T or F

Asphalt describes rectal problems. T or F

A G-string is part of a ddle. T or F

Semen is a term for sailors. T or F

Testicles are found on an octopus. T or F

A pubic hair is a wild rabbit. T or F

Masturbate is used to catch large sh. T of F

Fetus is a character on Gunsmoke. T or F

An umbilical cord is part of a parachute. T or F

A condom is a large apartment complex. T of F

An orgasm is accompanies a church choir. T or F

A diaphragm is a drawing in geometry. T or F

An erection is when Japanese people vote. T or F

Statue of Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building

The Smithsonian museums are the most widely visible part of the United States' Smithsonian Institution and consist of nineteen museums and galleries as well as the National Zoological Park. Seventeen of these collections are located in Washington D.C., with eleven of those located on the National Mall.

e birth of the Smithsonian Institution can be traced to the acceptance of James Smithson's legacy, willed to the United States in 1826. Smithson died in 1829, and in 1836, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the gi , which it accepted. In 1838, Smithson's legacy, which totaled more than $500,000, was delivered to the United States Mint and entered the Treasury. A er eight years, in 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was established.

and increased admission from 10.8 million to 30 million people a year. is period included the greatest and most rapid growth for the Smithsonian, and it continued until Ripley's resignation in 1984. Since the completion of the Arts and Industries Building, the Smithsonian has expanded to twenty separate museums with roughly 137 million objects in their collections, including works of art, natural specimens, and cultural artifacts. Collectively, they are visited by over 25 million people every year.

Smithsonian’s collection of knowledge centers are a treasure chest for visitors. e Air and Space Museum and Natural History Museum are de nitely fan favorites. e American History Museum collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scienti c, and military history and the National Zoo, which features hundreds of species also draw millions each year.

Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

e Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as " e Castle") was built from 1847 to 1855 to house an art gallery, a library, a chemical laboratory, lecture halls, museum galleries, and o ces. At the time, the Smithsonian was a learning institution concerned mainly with enhancing science and less interested in being a museum. Under the second secretary, Spencer Fullerton Baird, the Smithsonian turned into a full- edged museum, mostly through the acquisition of 60 boxcars worth of displays from the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. e income from the exhibition of these artifacts allowed for the construction of the National Museum, which is now known as the Arts and Industries Building. is structure was opened in 1881 to provide the Smithsonian with its rst proper facility for public display of the growing collections.

Growth was slow until 1964 when Sidney Dillon Ripley became the Institution’s 8th secretary. Ripley managed to expand the institution by eight museums

As noted above, 17 of the 19 museums are located in Washington D.C.. Eleven of the 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and galleries are at the National Mall in Washington D.C., the open-area national park in Washington, D.C running between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol, with the Washington Monument providing a division slightly west of the center. Five other Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are located elsewhere in Washington.

Two more Smithsonian museums are located in New York City and one is located in Chantilly, Virginia. e newest building, completed in 2016 is the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

John James Smithson

‘The Castle’ is still the organizations headquarters

The Arts and Industries Building

Sidney Dillon Ripley

National Museum of African American History and Culture By Fuzheado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/

The Smithsonian museums are the most widely visible part of the United States' Smithsonian Institution and consist of nineteen museums and galleries as well as the National Zoological Park. Seventeen of these collections are located in Washington D.C., with eleven of those located on the National Mall.

e birth of the Smithsonian Institution can be traced to the acceptance of James Smithson's legacy, willed to the United States in 1826. Smithson died in 1829, and in 1836, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the gi , which it accepted. In 1838, Smithson's legacy, which totaled more than $500,000, was delivered to the United States Mint and entered the Treasury. A er eight years, in 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was established.

and increased admission from 10.8 million to 30 million people a year. is period included the greatest and most rapid growth for the Smithsonian, and it continued until Ripley's resignation in 1984. Since the completion of the Arts and Industries Building, the Smithsonian has expanded to twenty separate museums with roughly 137 million objects in their collections, including works of art, natural specimens, and cultural artifacts. Collectively, they are visited by over 25 million people every year.

Smithsonian’s collection of knowledge centers are a treasure chest for visitors. e Air and Space Museum and Natural History Museum are de nitely fan favorites. e American History Museum collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scienti c, and military history and the National Zoo, which features hundreds of species also draw millions each year.

Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils?

e Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as " e Castle") was built from 1847 to 1855 to house an art gallery, a library, a chemical laboratory, lecture halls, museum galleries, and o ces. At the time, the Smithsonian was a learning institution concerned mainly with enhancing science and less interested in being a museum. Under the second secretary, Spencer Fullerton Baird, the Smithsonian turned into a full- edged museum, mostly through the acquisition of 60 boxcars worth of displays from the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. e income from the exhibition of these artifacts allowed for the construction of the National Museum, which is now known as the Arts and Industries Building. is structure was opened in 1881 to provide the Smithsonian with its rst proper facility for public display of the growing collections.

Growth was slow until 1964 when Sidney Dillon Ripley became the Institution’s 8th secretary. Ripley managed to expand the institution by eight museums

National Museum of African American History and Culture

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/ index.php?curid=50264123

As noted above, 17 of the 19 museums are located in Washington D.C.. Eleven of the 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and galleries are at the National Mall in Washington D.C., the open-area national park in Washington, D.C running between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol, with the Washington Monument providing a division slightly west of the center. Five other Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are located elsewhere in Washington.

Two more Smithsonian museums are located in New York City and one is located in Chantilly, Virginia. e newest building, completed in 2016 is the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

John James Smithson

‘The Castle’ is still the organizations headquarters

The Arts and Industries Building

Sidney Dillon Ripley

By Fuzheado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,

Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils?

e Smithsonian also holds close ties with 171 museums in 41 states, as well as Panama and Puerto Rico. ese museums are known as Smithsonian A liates. Collections of artifacts are given to these museums in the form of long-term loans from the Smithsonian. ese long-term loans are not the only Smithsonian exhibits outside the Smithsonian museums. e Smithsonian also has a large number of traveling exhibitions. Each year more than 50 exhibitions travel to hundreds of cities and towns all across the United States.

“Presidential” Moods

A satellite image of the eastern half of the National Mall with 10 Smithsonian museums located on it. On the northern side of the Mall are the National Museum of American History (2) and the National Museum of Natural History (3). On the southern side are the National Museum of the American Indian (10), the National Air and Space Museum (11), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (12), Arts and Industries Building (13), Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) (14), Freer Gallery of Art (15), Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (16), and the National Museum of African Art (17). The National Museum of African American History and Culture is built on the plot of land to the west of the National Museum of American History (2).[2] Other landmarks shown in this image include the Washington Monument (1), the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden (4), West Building (5), and East Building (6), the United States Capitol (7), the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial (8), and the United States Botanic Garden (9). (The Washington Monument and the United States Capitol were pixelated in the original image.)

Redneck Vocabulary Final

(Circle T for True or F for False)

A menstrual cycle has three wheels. T or F

Asphalt describes rectal problems. T or F

A G-string is part of a ddle. T or F

Semen is a term for sailors. T or F

Testicles are found on an octopus. T or F

A pubic hair is a wild rabbit. T or F

Masturbate is used to catch large sh. T of F

Fetus is a character on Gunsmoke. T or F

An umbilical cord is part of a parachute. T or F

A condom is a large apartment complex. T of F

An orgasm is accompanies a church choir. T or F

A diaphragm is a drawing in geometry. T or F

An erection is when Japanese people vote. T or F

Statue of Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building

Dallas

Unbuilt Design Awards

On May 17th at Common Desk in Deep Ellum, the 2018 AIA Dallas Unbuilt Design Awards were presented to

1 Ricardo A. Muñoz

2 HKS, Inc.

3 Corgan

4 BOKA Powell

Unbuilt Design Award Jurors

Michelle Addington is dean of e University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where she holds the Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture. Formerly, she served as Gerald Hines Chair in Sustainable Architectural Design at the Yale University School of Architecture and was jointly appointed as a Professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Prior to teaching at Yale, she taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Technical University of Munich, Temple University and Philadelphia University.

Nancy Hou is a co-founder and Principal of Hou de Sousa, a New York based architecture and design studio with a broad spectrum of projects that includes commercial, cultural and residential spaces, as well as art installations. Recent honors include Hou de Sousa’s winning entry for the Architectural League of New York’s 2016 Folly/ Function competition to design and build an open-air educational space at Socrates Sculpture Park. Originally from Shanghai, Nancy grew up in Quito, Ecuador and went on to receive a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard GSD.

Elena Manferdini, principal and owner of Atelier Manferdini, has over een years of professional experience in architecture, art, design, and education. She graduated from the University of Civil Engineering (Bologna, Italy) and later received her Master of Architecture and Urban Design from the University of California Los Angeles. In 2004, she founded Atelier Manferdini in Venice, CA. e o ce has completed projects in the US, Europe, and Asia. Recently the rm completed a 8 stories façade for the Hermitage parking structure in Florida and the gate for La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood.

You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by

“I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.”

(George Bernard Shaw)

5 CallisonRTKL

(L-R) Billy Rowland and Adam Bernhardt BOMA International TOBY Winners (see page 24) Engineer Lunch & Learn - June 14th

Shane Baggett and Kristine Lang at BOMA International Conference Dallas Dinner

(L-R) Michelle Lynn, Teresa Foster, Kristine Lang, Andrew Taylor, Cathy Kuebler - Dallas o cer team at the International Board of Governors Meeting during BOMA International Conference.

Sarah Buckles, Chandra Hamric, Kim Hartz at the chapter’s dinner at the International Conference

Dallas group at TOBY Awards Banquet International Conference

worrying about the future.

e 2017 Community Honors were bestowed on persons, firms, corporations or associations for meritorious work in their respective fields.

The 360 Plan

In partnership with the City of Dallas, Downtown Dallas, Inc. developed e 360 Plan, a ve-year comprehensive and strategic plan that sets forth a clear, cohesive vision for Downtown Dallas and its adjoining neighborhoods. An update to the 2011 Downtown Dallas 360 plan, e 360 Plan encapsulates the current momentum and vibrancy of Downtown Dallas, ensuring longterm prosperity and success of the City Center, comprised of the diverse neighborhoods within a 2.5-mile radius of Downtown. rough a robust community outreach e ort – involving more than 40 partner organizations and 150 stakeholder meetings – e 360 Plan was organized around the idea of a complete and connected City Center. rough three transformative strategies, e 360 Plan seeks to advance urban mobility, build complete neighborhoods, and promote great placemaking. Each transformative strategy contains a set of overarching goals, in which there are a set of action items, creating a structured path for achieving implementable and successful outcomes. e 360 Plan was unanimously adopted by the Dallas City Council in December 2017. e implementation process has begun with the identi cation of seven priority areas to be addressed in 2018.

CitySquare & CitySquare Housing

Since their humble beginnings in 1988 to present day, CitySquare has grown into a broad community development organization o ering a comprehensive array of social services that address four key areas related to the persistence of poverty: hunger, health, housing, and hope. Its mission is to ght the causes and e ects of poverty through service, advocacy, and

friendship. Together, their 17 social service programs provide more than 50,000 human touches in Dallas, Waco, and Denver, Colorado.

community, by providing essential support uniquely focused on the needs of local performing artists, arts groups, audiences, and arts education, to enrich the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. Located just north of Downtown Dallas in the old water works building, the Center undertook the renovation of the historic Turtle Creek Pump Station and operates the facility as multipurpose performing arts center and incubator. e Center produces the Sammons Jazz series, the premier jazz concert series in DFW, now in its 29th year of production featuring top local jazz artists to sold-out crowds. It serves 14 resident and more than 80 non-resident arts groups, and produces more than 20 jazz/cabaret concerts each year, and is the only facility serving the needs of the small and midsize arts organizations for o ce space, rehearsals, performances, auditions, administrative resources, and meetings seven days per week. e Sammons Center is a national model for adaptive reuse projects and public/private partnerships and has been widely copied by other communities.

CitySquare Housing was founded in 2001 to act as the development and housing arm of CitySquare, a Dallas-based, anti-poverty nonpro t organization. Although it began with no assets, it has developed or constructed almost 1,000 residential units, 200,000 sq. . of commercial space, and is closing in on the $200 million mark in assets developed and a consolidated net worth of $30 million. CitySquare Housing has achieved these successes by bringing an innovative and sophisticated approach to funding nonpro t development, where necessary, creating capital stacks that rival or exceed the work of much larger for-pro t developers in complexity. eir properties include e Cottages at Hickory Crossing, CityWalk @ Akard, and HighPoint Family and Senior Living.

Cottages photos by Craig Blackmon, FAIA; CityWalk photos courtesy of CitySquare Housing

Sammons Center for the Arts

Founded in 1981 to provide facilities, services, and cultural programming to the citizens of Dallas, the Sammons Center grows the Arts, in and for this

San Antonio was the host city for the BOMA International Conference in June

Chapter Vice President Betty Lagred welcomes attendees to the 2018 Annual Conference

Betty Lagred (far right) participates in a session on Women in Commercial Real Estate

e chapters’ attendees at e Outstanding Buildings of the Year (TOBY) Banquet

(L-R) Sally Flanagan, Carolyn Guerrero, Adrian Contreras, and Amanda Reed working at the conference welcome booth

You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

OUTSTANDING CONSTRUCTION AWARDS San Antonio

Projects were judged on di culty in construction resulting from design, location, materials, etc.; unusual construction techniques involved; nal appearance and quality of the nished product; timeliness of completion; safety and utilization of AGC members.   e winners were announced at a luncheon on June 18th at the Airport Hilton.

1 Electrical 1 (Projects $0 - 5 million): Alterman, Inc.for Alamodome Renovations

2 Electrical 3 (Projects over $10 million): Alterman, Inc. for SAWS Desalination Plant

3 Other Specialty: Alterman, Inc. for Valero HQ EOC LED Video Wall

4 Residential Multi-Family: Galaxy Builders, Ltd. for Lookout Springs Apartments

5 Specialty Construction: Morganti Texas/Casias JV for SWSA 2017 Attraction - Wave Breaker: The Rescue Coaster

6 Interior Finish-Out 1 (Projects under $500,000): Turner Construction Company Central Texas Headquarters Renovation

7 Interior Finish-Out 4 (Projects over $5 million): Turner Construction Company for The Four Seasons Houston Lobby and Grand Staircase Renovation

8 Historic Renovation: Joeris General Contractors, Ltd. for CAST Tech High School

There are no photographs of Abraham Lincoln smiling.

9 Industrial/Warehouse 2 (Projects over $5 million): F.A. Nunnelly General Contractor for New Braunfels Food Bank

***This project also won statewide***

10 Building 2 (Projects $2 - 5 million): Alpine Contracting for Seven Oaks Business Park

11 Building 3 (Projects $5 - 10 million): Joeris General Contractors, Ltd. for Ferrari San Antonio

***This project also won statewide***

12 Building 4 (Projects $10 - 30 million): Guido Construction for Northside ISD Nathan Kallison Elementary School

13 Building 5 (Projects $30 - 75 million): Linbeck Group, LLC for The Witte Museum ***This project also won statewide***

14 Building 6 (Projects over $75 million): Bartlett Cocke/Koehler, A Joint Venture for New Seguin High School ***This project also won statewide***

15 Design Build 3 (Projects over $30 million): Turner Construction Company for The Alamodome Upgrades and Renovation

***This project also won statewide***

16 Health Care 3 (Projects over $30 million): Skanska USA for Methodist Hospital Children's Hospital Tower Expansion and Renovation

The

Raymond L. Critch eld Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament

On ursday, June 28th, TEXO hosted the second annual Raymond L. Critch eld Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament at Coyote Ridge Golf Club. With over 130 players participating, the following teams placed: A big congratulations to the rst-place team from Martin Marietta (1), secondplace team from Andres Construction Services (2), and the third-place team from Brandt Companies (3).

Houston

1 ABC/CMEF 2018 Chairman, Robert Burelsmith, accepting the National Excellence in Construction Award of Excellence for E.E. Reed Construction at the 2018 ABC National Convention

2 Eco-Sta 's team winning 1st place at the Spring Golf Tournament held at Kingwood Country Club 1n March

3 Turner Construction's team winning 1st place at the YPC Bowling Tournament held at University of Houston in March

4 e East Harris County Manufacturers Association (EHCMA) presenting an $85,000 check to support CMEF's workforce development and training e orts at the March Membership Breakfast

Raymond L. Critch eld (who passed away on January 31, 2016) worked for TEXO for seven years as a Safety Director before leaving to work for Satter eld & Pontikes Construction. He was a dedicated professional who impacted the construction industry through his passion, love of people, family, and friends. One of his greatest attributes was his ability to train people to recognize hazards and create a safer workplace. The Raymond L. Critch eld Scholarship Program provides scholarships to individuals pursuing or continuing a course of study in the construction health and safety professions. Next year’s event is already on the calendar - Thursday, June 27, 2019.

Rio Grande Valley

2018 Board of Directors

President - Steve Garza (GP7 Construction, Inc.)

Vice President - Jorge Gonzalez (Tri-Gen Construction, LLC)

Treasurer -Noel Muñoz Jr. (NM Contracting)

G. C. Director – Alfredo Garcia (Noble Texas Builders, LLC)

G.C. Director - Michael Montalvo (Holchemont, Ltd)

Associate Director - Richard Linn (Central Ready Mix)

Associate Director - Derek Gerdes (Metro Electric, Inc.)

Executive Director - Perry A. Vaughn (RGV-AGC Chapter)

Immediate Past President - Robert Bennett (SpawGlass Contractors, Inc.)

Registration is open for the 2018 STAR Texas Recycling Summit on Oct. 28-31 at Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston. is is the only conference dedicated entirely to recycling and waste diversion activities in Texas. Join engaging sessions, panels, and keynote presentations on hot topics with industry experts, tons of networking opportunities and more!

Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are still available. Learn more and register to attend at www.recyclingstar.org/summit. See you on the coast!

He’s not afraid of hard work; you can tell by the way he ghts it.

It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money.

Marking its 30th anniversary, e North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and Real Estate Professionals (NTCAR) held its 2018 Reunion and Hall of Fame event on May 10th at the Dallas Country Club. Tobin C. Grove, president of KDC, and Jerry Jones, founder and CEO of Blue Star Land (and owner, president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys) were inducted into the 2018 NTCAR Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame.

Mickey Ashmore, current chairman of retail services Americas for CBRE received the Michael F. McAuley Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor presented to one who has dedicated countless hours of personal service to their community, to professional organizations committed to the real estate industry and to charitable pursuits during their professional real estate career. Additionally, the award recognizes the individual’s commitment to promoting integrity, honesty, reciprocation and professionalism throughout their commercial real estate career.

e NTCAR Hall of Fame was launched in 1988, when the rst six distinguished real estate recipients were Trammell Crow; Lyn Davis; Henry S. Miller, Jr.; John M. Stemmons, Sr. and his brother, L. Storey Stemmons; and Angus G. Wynne. Later additions to the roster included John Carpenter; Roger Staubach; Henry S. Miller Company; Ross Perot, Jr.; Gerald Hines and Je Hines; and many others.

In 2017, the inductees were John Scovell, founder and chairman of Woodbine Development Corporation, and Jack Hu , principal at Transwestern in Fort Worth. John F. Crawford, the longtime president/CEO who was recently named vice chairman of Downtown Dallas, Inc., was the Michael F. McAuley Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

Ken Kopf, Mickey Ashmore

Toby Grove, Jack Lowe

Toby Grove, Mickey Ashmore and Jerry Jones with past Hall of Fame inductees

Toby Grove, Mickey Ashmore, Jerry Jones

NTCAR Hall of Fame Committee. Back row: Bill Cox, Darrell Hurmis, Chris Teesdale. Front row: Robert Grunnah, Kathy Permenter, Lynn Dodd, Greg Cannon (Not pictured: Lynn Dowdle and Bill Cox)

Toby Grove with KDC employees

Jerry Jones and Roger Staubach

John Zogg, Sarah Hinkley, Joe Hickman

Darrell Hurmis, Mickey Ashmore, Jack Gosnell

Darrell Hurmis, Toby Grove, Steve Van Amburgh

Roger Staubach, Jerry Jones, Darrell Hurmis

Mickey Ashmore, Toby Grove, Jerry Jones

bene tting from the world’s second-thickest glass walls (seven panes!) to minimize runway noise.

e hotel’s Instagram-ready interiors are tailor-made to suit today’s Mad Men-abetted obsession with all things mid-century modern, anchored by an attention to detail that borders on the fanatical. e rooms will feature only Saarinen-designed Knoll furniture and period-perfect terrazzo tiling in the bathrooms. Retro-obsessed guests will even have the opportunity to order room service on 1950’s rotary phones. To drum up anticipation for the hotel, its owners have o ered up a preview of the property’s aesthetic in an exclusive lounge installation at One World Trade Center, complete with a museum section celebrating original TWA assets.

While the building’s architecture serves as its major selling point, its high-pro le provenance has added signi cant headaches to the hotel’s development. Its renovation required approval from 22 government agencies and drew on the expertise of 173 design rms to bring the project up-to-code, including removing asbestos and replacing the building’s many obsolete windows.

When nished, the TWA Hotel will be JFK’s only on-site hotel, attracting guests seeking convenience and accessibility. However, the building—with its expansive public space and hospitality options—will no doubt also become a destination for architecture bu s and curious travelers with long connections. One can imagine taking the train to the airport just to soak in its atmosphere—an almost unheard-of proposition in the age of the TSA and cramped economy seating.

In fact, the renovated building may help reignite a long-lost spirit of glamor and occasion in air travel, one that predates sweatpants and neck pillows, in which exquisite design and glamor are part of the journey itself. In that sense, Saarinen’s vision of an artistic and ambitious travel future was spot on. It just took us 64 years to catch up with him. . n

Return of the Jet Set:

TWA’s Terminal Turns Time Machine

In 1955, Trans World Airlines commissioned the brilliant architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen to design a new terminal at New York’s Idlewild Airport. In the 63 years since, almost every proper noun in the previous sentence would be altered by some kind of untimely end: Saarinen died before his time in 1961—a year before the terminal’s eventual completion; Idlewild was renamed John F. Kennedy International in 1963, mere weeks a er the President’s tragic assassination; TWA folded in 2001, absorbed by American Airlines a er decades of nancial struggle.

However, despite the ravages of time and the relentlessness of change, the daring heart of Saarinen’s structure remains with us, as timely as ever e head house of the TWA Flight Center— magni cent, futuristic, and ambitious—still stands

in the middle of New York’s largest airport. It’s a stubborn, elegiac landmark to a bygone idea of travel, one that transcends mere transportation.

If you’ve ever own through JFK, you know the terminal’s sublime concrete contours, equally at home in Jamaica, Queens and in e Jetsons. It’s simultaneously retro and futuristic.

Intended to evoke the spirit of ight, Saarinen’s building resembles a bird from above. Its thin concrete shell of a roof extends in great, symmetrical gull wings. Inside, the smooth form of the building blurs the lines between ceiling, wall, and oor, becoming pure, gestural geometry.

e building was an immediate icon. In 1994, it was named a New York City Landmark. Later, it would be added to the National Register of Historic Places. However, changes in air travel would eventually doom the forward-facing terminal. Planes got bigger. Security clearance became more onerous and timeconsuming, creating longer lines and eventually making the terminal become less and less viable. It went on to close in 2001.

While its heyday as a terminal has passed, the TWA Flight Center is not yet a complete relic. Next year, after 18 years of disuse, the structure will know the lively bustle of crowds once again, this time as the centerpiece of a high-concept hotel devoted to celebrating the optimistic design of the Jet Age. e $265 million project, appropriately called the TWA Hotel, is the brainchild of MCR and Morse Development and will once again place Saarinen’s original vision front and center.

Connected to JetBlue’s Terminal 5 by dramatic, redcarpeted “ ight tubes,” Saarinen’s main structure will serve as a 200,000 square foot lobby (the world’s largest) containing retail spaces, eight restaurants, and six bars. e hotel’s 512 guest rooms will be housed in two separate buildings anking the main structure,

ANGELA O’BYRNE aobyrne@e-perez.com

Angela O’Byrne, FAIA, is President of Perez, APC, a 70+ yearold architecture, planning, interior design, and construction rm. She is also a Contributing Editor of the network

In Texas, Seniors and Disabled People Don’t Have to Pay Real Property Taxes

The Texas Tax Code, Section 33.06, allows taxpayers 65 years of age or older and disabled people to defer their property taxes until their estates are settled a er death. e tax deferment, (like a homestead exemption) is available to quali ed homeowners free of charge. You don't need to pay anyone to help you get these tax breaks. And if there is any question of your owing delinquent taxes, don't take anyone's word for it other than your local tax assessor/ collector.

You can contact the Comptroller of Public Accounts and your county tax assessor/ collector's o ce for more information about property tax deferment and exemptions on homesteads for elderly homeowners.

Caveats: If you have a mortgage check with the mortgagee. Not all mortgage companies will honor a deferral. Some may require taxes be paid when due. Interest on the unpaid taxes will accrue at 8% per annum. Any delinquent penalties, interest or attorney fees that accrued before you led will remain due on the property, so don’t delay if you plan to defer. e deferred amount plus interest will become immediately due on sale or change in ownership. You or your heirs have 180 days a er death, sale or transfer of ownership to pay the deferred amount.

TEXAS HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST AVERAGE PROPERTY TAX RATES IN THE COUNTRY

True, Texas is one of the few states that have no income tax. ( e others are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming.) But only thirteen states levying higher property taxes.

Texas's median income is $62,353 per year and the median property tax in Texas is $2,275.00 per year for a home worth the median value of $125,800.00. Counties in Texas collect an average of 1.81% of a property's assessed fair market value as property tax per year. Texas is ranked 12th of the 50 states for property taxes as a percentage of median income (but it is 3rd of the 50 states as a percentage of home value - http://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/propertytax-by-state ).

e exact property tax levied depends on the county in Texas the property is located in. King County collects the highest property tax in Texas, levying an average of $5,066.00 (1.56% of median home value) yearly in property taxes, while Terrell County has the lowest property tax in the state, collecting an average tax of $285.00 (0.67% of median home value) per year. You can see the complete county list of rates at http://www.tax-rates.org/texas/property-tax#Counties

e a davit you would need to le is simple and is available here: Tax Deferral

A davit Age 65 or Older or Disabled Homeowner

Sec. 33.06. DEFERRED COLLECTION OF TAXES ON RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD OF ELDERLY OR DISABLED PERSON OR DISABLED VETERAN. (a) An individual is entitled to defer collection of a tax, abate a suit to collect a delinquent tax, or abate a sale to foreclose a tax lien if:

(1) the individual: (A) is 65 years of age or older; (B) is disabled as de ned by Section 11.13(m) (under which “Disabled” means under a disability for purposes of payment of disability insurance bene ts under Federal OldAge, Survivors, and Disability Insurance.); or (C) is quali ed to receive an exemption under Section 11.22 and

(2) the tax was imposed against property that the individual owns and occupies as a residence homestead. (b) To obtain a deferral, an individual must le with the chief appraiser for the appraisal district in which the property is located an a davit stating the facts required to be established by Subsection (a). The chief appraiser shall notify each taxing unit participating in the district of the ling. After an a davit is led under this subsection, a taxing unit may not le suit to collect delinquent taxes on the property and the property may not be sold at a sale to foreclose the tax lien until the 181st day after the date the individual no longer owns and occupies the property as a residence homestead. (The additional subsections of Section 33.06 deal with abating the foreclosure process.)

English One Oh One: Redundancies

Why is it that people can’t stand a noun or a verb standing alone? They wind up giving them an adjective or an adverb for company.

capitol building

baby calf circle around slippery slime

hollow tube

illegal poaching

old adage

NFL football team merge together re ect back

very unique

sandwiched between Strangled to death

successful escape

old fossil

3 AM in the morning

Fellow countrymen old geezer

new beginning

illegal scam

Appreciated in value

total extinction disappear from view violent explosion

awkward predicament knots per hour cluster together

temporary reprieve Hoist up free of charge

swivel around enclosed herewith

Recur again new recruits

fellow colleagues

rst priority

Invited guest completely satis ed

He’s really tough. He went to reform school on a scholarship.

Street Art – Gra ti or Not? Tips for Property Owners

Although gra ti o en has a negative connotation – associated with gang-related origins and vandalism – in some cases it’s viewed as legitimate art created by street artists with local or even national reputations.

Gra ti vandalism is a criminal act done without the building owner’s permission. But urban forms of gra ti art, also known as street art or as seen in murals on the sides of city buildings, are legal. e property owner has granted those artists permission. And while gra ti costs cities millions of dollars to clean up, another type of nancial battle can occur regarding the rights of street artists vs. property owners. A landmark example came in a February court decision in New York City, resulting in the awarding of $6.7 million to gra ti artists who sued building owner Gerald Wolko .

“ e message to property owners everywhere was, don’t paint with a broad brush when it comes to dealing with street artists,” says Timothy Kephart, founder of Gra ti Tracker (www.gra titracker. com), a web-based system designed to help identify and prosecute gra ti vandals. “Know the details if you have a property already a xed with street art and assume you have control of the situation. ere are many implications, and a little-known law could cost you millions.”

Kephart refers to the Visual Artist Rights Act (VARA), which gra ti artists used to their advantage against Wolko . Wolko had allowed gra ti on his unused buildings in the 1990s but

said he would one day tear them down and have the gra ti removed. A er he did so in 2013, some people who had drawn gra ti on his property sued, citing VARA, arguing the murals had risen to recognized stature and that the artists hadn’t been given proper noti cation of removal. “It opens up a whole litany of questions,” Kephart says. “Most importantly, is your property no longer your property to do with what you wish because people put gra ti on it?”

Kephart has four points for property owners to keep in mind regarding ownership and removal of gra ti art on their buildings:

• Know if it’s legal or illegal street art. When

acquiring, renovating or destroying property containing street art, Kephart says you should assess whether it’s “recognized stature,” thus making it protected by copyright law. “ ough gra ti is o en illegal, murals or other forms of street art may have been a xed with a previous owner’s permission,” Kephart says. “Also, it could have been placed illegally, but since has risen to recognized stature.”

• Be aware of VARA-related issues. “If granting an artist permission to attach art to your property, you need a written agreement stipulating the artist waives their VARA rights,” Kephart says. “If acquiring a property with visual art that could be protected, you need to be well-versed in VARA.”

• Court may be the only resort. If a street artist paints a building wall without permission, they still have VARA rights and the copyright.

“However, the physical part of the building where the art was displayed remains the property of the building owner,” Kephart says. “Whether the owner has the right to remove and sell the work can require litigation.”

• Separate new work from collective work. “It’s important to get a written agreement from an artist if the owner has commissioned the artist for a new work that’s part of a collective work,” Kephart says. “ at separate work should be designated “work for hire,” which can eliminate a future VARA claim.”

“I’ve long held the belief that the di erence between gra ti vandalism and gra ti art simply comes down to permission,” Kephart says. “But sometimes in terms of ownership and rights, it’s not that simple.

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Timothy Kephart is the founder of Gra ti Tracker (www. gra titracker.com), a web-based system designed to help people identify, track and prosecute gra ti vandals.

New gures from the U.S. Census Bureau underscore just how much bigger the San Antonio metro area is getting. e Alamo City added the greatest number of residents among large U.S. cities from 2016 to 2017, and New Braunfels ranked among the fastest-growing cities on a percentage basis.

From July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017, San Antonio’s population swelled by 24,208, according to Census Bureau data released May 24. Put another way, that's an average of 66 new residents per day (people moving to the city and babies being born).

“ at’s a growth rate of 1.6 percent. is growth was enough to push San Antonio’s population above the 1.5 million mark,” Census Bureau demographer Amel Toukabri says in a release. To be precise, San Antonio’s population stood at 1,511,946 as of July 1, 2017

“It comes as no surprise to me that San Antonio was the fastest-growing city in the country from 2016 to 2017. A competitive cost of living and business-friendly atmosphere make our city a great place for young people, families, military members, and businesses,” says Richard Perez, president and CEO of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. “All you have to do is come to San Antonio and see our 300 years of culture and history, proud residents, excited tourists, and a bustling economy sprinkled with opportunity,” Perez adds. “San Antonio is real and ready.”

San Antonio wasn’t the only big gainer among Texas cities with at least 50,000 residents. Dallas ranked third for numeric growth among large cities from 2016 to 2017, adding 18,935 residents and landing at a population of 1,341,075. Fort Worth was in fourth place with 18,664 new residents. It bypassed Indianapolis to become the 15th largest city in the U.S; as of last July, Fort Worth’s population was 874,168.

No. 9 on the list of fastest-growing cities was the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Frisco, adding 13,470 residents from 2016 to 2017. Austin rounded out the Texas contingent in the top 15, taking the No. 12 spot with the addition of 12,515 residents and elevating the total population to 950,715 as of last July. Examined on

a percentage basis, seven Texas cities with at least 50,000 residents were among the 15 fastest-growing U.S. cities from 2016 to 2017, according to the Census Bureau.

At No. 1 in that ranking was Frisco, notching an 8.2 percent increase in population from 2016 to 2017. As of last July, Frisco was home to 177,286 people. At No. 2, right behind Frisco, was the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels, with a growth rate of 8 percent. As of last July, its population stood at 79,152. City planning director Chris Looney predicts the population of New Braunfels will reach 91,974 in 2022. In third place for percentage growth was the Austin suburb of P ugerville, which registered a 6.5 percent jump in population during the one-year period. It was home to 63,359 people as of last July.

Another Austin suburb, Georgetown, held down the No. 6 spot, with a 5.4 percent population spike from 2016 to 2017. e city had 70,685 residents as of last July. Other Texas cities in the top 15 for percentage growth were:

• McKinney (DFW), ranked ninth, with a 4.8 percent growth rate and a July 2017 population of 181,330.

• Flower Mound (DFW), ranked 11th, with a 4.3 percent growth rate and a July 2017 population of 76,681.

• Cedar Park (Austin), ranked 13th, with a 4.2 percent growth rate and a July 2017 population of 75,704.

JOHN EGAN

John Egan is a freelance writer and a regular contributor to CultureMap.com where this piece originally appeared. CultureMap.com isTexas’s premier network of local lifestyle websites, serving Austin, Dallas, Houston, FortWorth, and San Antonio.Visit CultureMap.com for daily updates on how to make the most of living in your city, as well as insider tidbits about what’s happening around the state.

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Texas is Snap, Crackle and Populating!

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area’s 146,000-population increase last year was the most of any metro area in the United States and Maricopa County, Ariz., saw a population increase of nearly 74,000 — the most of any county last year — according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 1, 2017 population estimates released in May (of this year). e statistics provide population estimates and components of change for the nation’s 382 metropolitan statistical areas, 551 micropolitan statistical areas and 3,142 counties. (According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington combined population is now 7.4 million.)

From July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017, six of the top 10 largest-gaining counties were in Texas — Bexar, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Harris and Tarrant.

Texas Keeps Getting Bigger

from about 326 million today to 404 million. e population is projected to cross the 400-million threshold in 2058.

Aging

As the population ages, the ratio of older adults to working-age adults, also known as the old-age dependency ratio, is projected to rise. By 2020, there will be about three-and-a-half working-age adults for every retirement-age person. By 2060, that ratio will fall to just two-and-a-half working-age adults for every retirement-age person. e median age of the U.S. population is expected to grow from age 38 today to age 43 by 2060.

e United States is an aging country. Already there are more middle-aged people than children and, in just a few decades, we project that older adults will outnumber kids for the rst time in U.S. history. But the country’s population did not always look like this. What did it look like in 1860 and how has it changed across the decades?

Race and Ethnicity

e non-Hispanic White-alone population is projected to shrink over the coming decades, from 199 million in 2020 to 179 million in 2060 — even as the U.S. population continues to grow. eir decline is driven by falling birth rates and a rising number of deaths over time among non-Hispanic Whites as that population ages. In comparison, the White-alone population, regardless of Hispanic origin, is projected to grow from about 253 million to 275 million over the same period.

e Two or More Races population is projected to be the fastest growing over the next several decades, followed by single-race Asians and Hispanics of any race. e causes of their growth are di erent, however. For Hispanics and people who are Two or More Races, their high growth rates are largely the result of high rates of natural increase, given the relatively young age structures of these populations. For Asians, the driving force behind their growth is high net international migration.

From Pyramid to Pillar: A Century of Change

2030 - Important Demographic Milestones

e year 2030 marks an important demographic turning point in U.S. history according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017 National Population Projections. By 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65. is will expand the size of the older population so that 1 in every 5 residents will be retirement age

“ e aging of baby boomers means that within just a couple decades, older people are projected to outnumber children for the rst time in U.S. history,” said Jonathan Vespa, a demographer with the U.S. Census Bureau. “By 2035, there will be 78.0 million people 65 years and older compared to 76.4 million under the age of 18.”

e 2030s are projected to be a transformative decade for the U.S. population. e population is expected to grow at a slower pace, age considerably and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Net international migration is projected to overtake natural increase in 2030 as the primary driver of population growth in the United States, another demographic rst for the United States.

Although births are projected to be nearly four times larger than the level of net international migration in coming decades, a rising number of deaths will increasingly o set how much births are able to contribute to population growth. Between 2020 and 2050, the number of deaths is projected to rise substantially as the population ages and a signi cant share of the population, the baby boomers, age into older adulthood. As a result, the population will naturally grow very slowly, leaving net international migration to overtake natural increase as the leading cause of population growth, even as projected levels of migration remain relatively constant.

In coming years, the rate at which the U.S. population grows is expected to slow down. e population is projected to grow by an average of 2.3 million people per year until 2030. But that number is expected to decline to an average of 1.8 million per year between 2030 and 2040, and continue falling to 1.5 million per year from 2040 to 2060. By 2060, the United States is projected to grow by 78 million people,

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Children

By 2020, less than half of children in the United States are projected to be nonHispanic white alone (49.8 percent of the projected 73.9 million children under age 18). In comparison, about 72 percent of children are projected to be White alone, regardless of Hispanic origin. e share of children who are Two or More Races is projected to more than double in coming decades, from 5.3 percent today to 11.3 percent in 2060.

e racial and ethnic composition of younger birth cohorts is expected to change more quickly than for older cohorts. In 2060, over one-third of children are projected to be non-Hispanic white alone compared with over one-half of older adults (36.5 percent compared with 55.1 percent, respectively).

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FORT WORTH’S SOCIETY OF COMMERCIAL REALTORS LOOKS WESTWARD

Redevelopment in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards, a thriving hospitality mecca in Downtown, and a medical district whose employee base will double in 10 years are only parts of the success of the nation’s 15th largest city. Commercial realtors in the greater Fort Worth area know rsthand that huge tracts of land are now master-planned and their initial phases are moving forward quickly.

Clearfork

Fort Worth celebrates “a new frontier” with the completion of Clearfork Phase 1, a 270-acre, multiphase development projected to be 2 million square feet of o ce space; 1.2 million square feet of retail, dining and entertainment; and 2,500 multi-family residential units at completion. Managed by the sixth generation of the pioneering Edwards family, much of the land over the decades has been systematically master-planned as a viable and economically sustainable area in this rapidly-growing city and North Central Texas region.

Development Co., the Edwards family’s business developer, working together to bring high-end retail here. e 500,000-squarefoot, open-air center o ers a mix of luxury apparel, jewelry, home furnishings and restaurants, as well movie theaters and an entertainment/bowling center.

Chisholm Trail Parkway

Before Chisholm Trail Parkway even opened in May 2014, the Johnson County communities along its path began seeing huge opportunities, and now the previous rail hub of Cleburne welcomes multiuse and industrial development by businesses who desire the quick access about 35 miles north to Fort Worth via the toll road. City-owned industrial centers o er big opportunities in Cleburne, Keene and Grandview.

Internet speed — and residents and businesses will have an option to tap into 10 gigabit services. A company known as Frog is installing the ber optics. e area, which is in the high-performing Aledo school district, will eventually have its own middle and high schools.

Ultimately, 50,000 people are expected to call Walsh home. e development is being built in a cooperative e ort that involves the Walsh family, which still lives in the area and owns ranch land, and Republic Property Group. Republic also developed Frisco’s Phillips Creek Ranch and Celina’s Light Farms and is working on Plano’s Villas at Legacy West. e partners formed Quail Valley Land Co. for the Walsh project.

It's not only Fort Worth but many smaller legacy towns which are on the cusp of tremendous growth—Aledo, Willow Park, Hudson Oaks and on west into Weatherford. “Rural” Parker County will be no longer, and, because of master-planned developments like Walsh, they will become cities. Given the tra c congestion problems of this region, and because there are lots of Texas-sized open spaces,

Walsh

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Do You Drink Beer?

Woman: Do you drink beer?

Man: Yes.

Woman: How many beers a day?

Man: Usually about three.

Woman: How much do you pay per beer?

Man: $5.00 – including the tip.

To the west of Clearfork, Walsh is expected to be a bell cow for neighborhoods wishing to lure uppermiddle income and wealthy residents, as today’s population of 850,000 swells to nearly 1.5 million by 2040. e entire area is being wired for 2 gigabit

Woman: And how long have you been drinking?

Man: About 20 years, I suppose.

Woman: So, a beer costs $5 and you have three beers a day, which puts your spending each month at $450. In one year, it would be approximately $5400. Correct?

Man: I guess so. Correct.

Woman: If in one year you spend $5400, not accounting for in ation, the past 20 years puts your spending at $108,000 correct?

Man: I guess – correctamundo.

Woman: Do you know that if you didn’t drink so much beer, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account. And, after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought an airplane?

Man: Wow! Amazing. Do you drink beer?

Woman: No.

Man: Where’s your airplane?

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They say everything’s “bigger in Texas”! That’s particularly true when it comes to your paycheck. Compared to other markets around the country, your money goes further in Texas, which is especially important for millennials just starting out or early in their careers.

A er adjusting for cost of living, the di erences among metro areas can range from $6,000 a year in Dallas versus Chicago to more than $20,000 annually between Austin and Portland. Combine that with Texas’ expanding job opportunities, you have a place where you can be “more you.”

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FORT WORTH’S SOCIETY OF COMMERCIAL REALTORS LOOKS WESTWARD

Redevelopment in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards, a thriving hospitality mecca in Downtown, and a medical district whose employee base will double in 10 years are only parts of the success of the nation’s 15th largest city. Commercial realtors in the greater Fort Worth area know rsthand that huge tracts of land are now master-planned and their initial phases are moving forward quickly.

Clearfork

Fort Worth celebrates “a new frontier” with the completion of Clearfork Phase 1, a 270-acre, multiphase development projected to be 2 million square feet of o ce space; 1.2 million square feet of retail, dining and entertainment; and 2,500 multi-family residential units at completion. Managed by the sixth generation of the pioneering Edwards family, much of the land over the decades has been systematically master-planned as a viable and economically sustainable area in this rapidly-growing city and North Central Texas region.

Development Co., the Edwards family’s business developer, working together to bring high-end retail here. e 500,000-squarefoot, open-air center o ers a mix of luxury apparel, jewelry, home furnishings and restaurants, as well movie theaters and an entertainment/bowling center.

Chisholm Trail Parkway

Before Chisholm Trail Parkway even opened in May 2014, the Johnson County communities along its path began seeing huge opportunities, and now the previous rail hub of Cleburne welcomes multiuse and industrial development by businesses who desire the quick access about 35 miles north to Fort Worth via the toll road. City-owned industrial centers o er big opportunities in Cleburne, Keene and Grandview.

Internet speed — and residents and businesses will have an option to tap into 10 gigabit services. A company known as Frog is installing the ber optics. e area, which is in the high-performing Aledo school district, will eventually have its own middle and high schools.

Ultimately, 50,000 people are expected to call Walsh home. e development is being built in a cooperative e ort that involves the Walsh family, which still lives in the area and owns ranch land, and Republic Property Group. Republic also developed Frisco’s Phillips Creek Ranch and Celina’s Light Farms and is working on Plano’s Villas at Legacy West. e partners formed Quail Valley Land Co. for the Walsh project.

It's not only Fort Worth but many smaller legacy towns which are on the cusp of tremendous growth—Aledo, Willow Park, Hudson Oaks and on west into Weatherford. “Rural” Parker County will be no longer, and, because of master-planned developments like Walsh, they will become cities. Given the tra c congestion problems of this region, and because there are lots of Texas-sized open spaces,

Walsh

To the west of Clearfork, Walsh is expected to be a bell cow for neighborhoods wishing to lure uppermiddle income and wealthy residents, as today’s population of 850,000 swells to nearly 1.5 million by 2040. e entire area is being wired for 2 gigabit

Do You Drink Beer?

Woman: Do you drink beer?

Man: Yes.

Woman: How many beers a day?

Man: Usually about three.

Woman: How much do you pay per beer?

Man: $5.00 – including the tip.

Woman: And how long have you been drinking?

Man: About 20 years, I suppose.

Woman: So, a beer costs $5 and you have three beers a day, which puts your spending each month at $450. In one year, it would be approximately $5400. Correct?

Man: I guess so. Correct.

Woman: If in one year you spend $5400, not accounting for in ation, the past 20 years puts your spending at $108,000 correct?

Man: I guess – correctamundo.

Woman: Do you know that if you didn’t drink so much beer, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account. And, after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought an airplane?

Man: Wow! Amazing. Do you drink beer?

Woman: No.

Man: Where’s your airplane?

e Shops at Clearfork is a partnership between national retail developer Simon and Cassco

A committee keeps minutes and loses hours.

Texas is Snap, Crackle and Populating!

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area’s 146,000-population increase last year was the most of any metro area in the United States and Maricopa County, Ariz., saw a population increase of nearly 74,000 — the most of any county last year — according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 1, 2017 population estimates released in May (of this year). e statistics provide population estimates and components of change for the nation’s 382 metropolitan statistical areas, 551 micropolitan statistical areas and 3,142 counties. (According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington combined population is now 7.4 million.)

From July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017, six of the top 10 largest-gaining counties were in Texas — Bexar, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Harris and Tarrant.

Texas Keeps Getting Bigger

from about 326 million today to 404 million. e population is projected to cross the 400-million threshold in 2058.

Aging

As the population ages, the ratio of older adults to working-age adults, also known as the old-age dependency ratio, is projected to rise. By 2020, there will be about three-and-a-half working-age adults for every retirement-age person. By 2060, that ratio will fall to just two-and-a-half working-age adults for every retirement-age person. e median age of the U.S. population is expected to grow from age 38 today to age 43 by 2060.

e United States is an aging country. Already there are more middle-aged people than children and, in just a few decades, we project that older adults will outnumber kids for the rst time in U.S. history. But the country’s population did not always look like this. What did it look like in 1860 and how has it changed across the decades?

Race and Ethnicity

e non-Hispanic White-alone population is projected to shrink over the coming decades, from 199 million in 2020 to 179 million in 2060 — even as the U.S. population continues to grow. eir decline is driven by falling birth rates and a rising number of deaths over time among non-Hispanic Whites as that population ages. In comparison, the White-alone population, regardless of Hispanic origin, is projected to grow from about 253 million to 275 million over the same period.

e Two or More Races population is projected to be the fastest growing over the next several decades, followed by single-race Asians and Hispanics of any race. e causes of their growth are di erent, however. For Hispanics and people who are Two or More Races, their high growth rates are largely the result of high rates of natural increase, given the relatively young age structures of these populations. For Asians, the driving force behind their growth is high net international migration.

From Pyramid to Pillar: A Century of Change

2030 - Important Demographic Milestones

e year 2030 marks an important demographic turning point in U.S. history according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017 National Population Projections. By 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65. is will expand the size of the older population so that 1 in every 5 residents will be retirement age

“ e aging of baby boomers means that within just a couple decades, older people are projected to outnumber children for the rst time in U.S. history,” said Jonathan Vespa, a demographer with the U.S. Census Bureau. “By 2035, there will be 78.0 million people 65 years and older compared to 76.4 million under the age of 18.”

e 2030s are projected to be a transformative decade for the U.S. population.

e population is expected to grow at a slower pace, age considerably and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Net international migration is projected to overtake natural increase in 2030 as the primary driver of population growth in the United States, another demographic rst for the United States.

Although births are projected to be nearly four times larger than the level of net international migration in coming decades, a rising number of deaths will increasingly o set how much births are able to contribute to population growth. Between 2020 and 2050, the number of deaths is projected to rise substantially as the population ages and a signi cant share of the population, the baby boomers, age into older adulthood. As a result, the population will naturally grow very slowly, leaving net international migration to overtake natural increase as the leading cause of population growth, even as projected levels of migration remain relatively constant.

In coming years, the rate at which the U.S. population grows is expected to slow down. e population is projected to grow by an average of 2.3 million people per year until 2030. But that number is expected to decline to an average of 1.8 million per year between 2030 and 2040, and continue falling to 1.5 million per year from 2040 to 2060. By 2060, the United States is projected to grow by 78 million people,

Children

By 2020, less than half of children in the United States are projected to be nonHispanic white alone (49.8 percent of the projected 73.9 million children under age 18). In comparison, about 72 percent of children are projected to be White alone, regardless of Hispanic origin. e share of children who are Two or More Races is projected to more than double in coming decades, from 5.3 percent today to 11.3 percent in 2060.

e racial and ethnic composition of younger birth cohorts is expected to change more quickly than for older cohorts. In 2060, over one-third of children are projected to be non-Hispanic white alone compared with over one-half of older adults (36.5 percent compared with 55.1 percent, respectively). Compiled by network sources

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New gures from the U.S. Census Bureau underscore just how much bigger the San Antonio metro area is getting. e Alamo City added the greatest number of residents among large U.S. cities from 2016 to 2017, and New Braunfels ranked among the fastest-growing cities on a percentage basis.

From July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017, San Antonio’s population swelled by 24,208, according to Census Bureau data released May 24. Put another way, that's an average of 66 new residents per day (people moving to the city and babies being born). “ at’s a growth rate of 1.6 percent. is growth was enough to push San Antonio’s population above the 1.5 million mark,” Census Bureau demographer Amel Toukabri says in a release. To be precise, San Antonio’s population stood at 1,511,946 as of July 1, 2017

“It comes as no surprise to me that San Antonio was the fastest-growing city in the country from 2016 to 2017. A competitive cost of living and business-friendly atmosphere make our city a great place for young people, families, military members, and businesses,” says Richard Perez, president and CEO of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. “All you have to do is come to San Antonio and see our 300 years of culture and history, proud residents, excited tourists, and a bustling economy sprinkled with opportunity,” Perez adds. “San Antonio is real and ready.”

San Antonio wasn’t the only big gainer among Texas cities with at least 50,000 residents. Dallas ranked third for numeric growth among large cities from 2016 to 2017, adding 18,935 residents and landing at a population of 1,341,075. Fort Worth was in fourth place with 18,664 new residents. It bypassed Indianapolis to become the 15th largest city in the U.S; as of last July, Fort Worth’s population was 874,168.

No. 9 on the list of fastest-growing cities was the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Frisco, adding 13,470 residents from 2016 to 2017. Austin rounded out the Texas contingent in the top 15, taking the No. 12 spot with the addition of 12,515 residents and elevating the total population to 950,715 as of last July. Examined on

a percentage basis, seven Texas cities with at least 50,000 residents were among the 15 fastest-growing U.S. cities from 2016 to 2017, according to the Census Bureau.

At No. 1 in that ranking was Frisco, notching an 8.2 percent increase in population from 2016 to 2017. As of last July, Frisco was home to 177,286 people. At No. 2, right behind Frisco, was the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels, with a growth rate of 8 percent. As of last July, its population stood at 79,152. City planning director Chris Looney predicts the population of New Braunfels will reach 91,974 in 2022. In third place for percentage growth was the Austin suburb of P ugerville, which registered a 6.5 percent jump in population during the one-year period. It was home to 63,359 people as of last July.

Another Austin suburb, Georgetown, held down the No. 6 spot, with a 5.4 percent population spike from 2016 to 2017. e city had 70,685 residents as of last July. Other Texas cities in the top 15 for percentage growth were:

• McKinney (DFW), ranked ninth, with a 4.8 percent growth rate and a July 2017 population of 181,330.

• Flower Mound (DFW), ranked 11th, with a 4.3 percent growth rate and a July 2017 population of 76,681.

• Cedar Park (Austin), ranked 13th, with a 4.2 percent growth rate and a July 2017 population of 75,704.

JOHN EGAN

John Egan is a freelance writer and a regular contributor to CultureMap.com where this piece originally appeared. CultureMap.com isTexas’s premier network of local lifestyle websites, serving Austin, Dallas, Houston, FortWorth, and San Antonio.Visit CultureMap.com for daily updates on how to make the most of living in your city, as well as insider tidbits about what’s happening around the state.

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Director Adam Word Gates, AIA RVK Architects

Director Cassandra Annunzio, AIA Munoz & Co.

Director Marcello Martinez, AIA 1718 Group

TSA Director Nicole Marrone, AIA Alamo Architects

Immediate Past President Adam Reed, AIA Ford Powell & Carson

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Street Art – Gra ti or Not? Tips for Property Owners

Although gra ti o en has a negative connotation – associated with gang-related origins and vandalism – in some cases it’s viewed as legitimate art created by street artists with local or even national reputations.

Gra ti vandalism is a criminal act done without the building owner’s permission. But urban forms of gra ti art, also known as street art or as seen in murals on the sides of city buildings, are legal. e property owner has granted those artists permission. And while gra ti costs cities millions of dollars to clean up, another type of nancial battle can occur regarding the rights of street artists vs. property owners. A landmark example came in a February court decision in New York City, resulting in the awarding of $6.7 million to gra ti artists who sued building owner Gerald Wolko

“ e message to property owners everywhere was, don’t paint with a broad brush when it comes to dealing with street artists,” says Timothy Kephart, founder of Gra ti Tracker (www.gra titracker. com), a web-based system designed to help identify and prosecute gra ti vandals. “Know the details if you have a property already a xed with street art and assume you have control of the situation. ere are many implications, and a little-known law could cost you millions.”

Kephart refers to the Visual Artist Rights Act (VARA), which gra ti artists used to their advantage against Wolko . Wolko had allowed gra ti on his unused buildings in the 1990s but

said he would one day tear them down and have the gra ti removed. A er he did so in 2013, some people who had drawn gra ti on his property sued, citing VARA, arguing the murals had risen to recognized stature and that the artists hadn’t been given proper noti cation of removal. “It opens up a whole litany of questions,” Kephart says. “Most importantly, is your property no longer your property to do with what you wish because people put gra ti on it?”

Kephart has four points for property owners to keep in mind regarding ownership and removal of gra ti art on their buildings:

• Know if it’s legal or illegal street art. When

acquiring, renovating or destroying property containing street art, Kephart says you should assess whether it’s “recognized stature,” thus making it protected by copyright law. “ ough gra ti is o en illegal, murals or other forms of street art may have been a xed with a previous owner’s permission,” Kephart says. “Also, it could have been placed illegally, but since has risen to recognized stature.”

• Be aware of VARA-related issues. “If granting an artist permission to attach art to your property, you need a written agreement stipulating the artist waives their VARA rights,” Kephart says. “If acquiring a property with visual art that could be protected, you need to be well-versed in VARA.”

• Court may be the only resort. If a street artist paints a building wall without permission, they still have VARA rights and the copyright.

“However, the physical part of the building where the art was displayed remains the property of the building owner,” Kephart says. “Whether the owner has the right to remove and sell the work can require litigation.”

• Separate new work from collective work. “It’s important to get a written agreement from an artist if the owner has commissioned the artist for a new work that’s part of a collective work,” Kephart says. “ at separate work should be designated “work for hire,” which can eliminate a future VARA claim.”

“I’ve long held the belief that the di erence between gra ti vandalism and gra ti art simply comes down to permission,” Kephart says. “But sometimes in terms of ownership and rights, it’s not that simple.

A grenade fell onto a kitchen oor in France and resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.

Timothy Kephart is the founder of Gra ti Tracker (www. gra titracker.com), a web-based system designed to help people identify, track and prosecute gra ti vandals.

In Texas, Seniors and Disabled People Don’t Have to Pay Real Property Taxes

The Texas Tax Code, Section 33.06, allows taxpayers 65 years of age or older and disabled people to defer their property taxes until their estates are settled a er death. e tax deferment, (like a homestead exemption) is available to quali ed homeowners free of charge. You don't need to pay anyone to help you get these tax breaks. And if there is any question of your owing delinquent taxes, don't take anyone's word for it other than your local tax assessor/ collector.

You can contact the Comptroller of Public Accounts and your county tax assessor/ collector's o ce for more information about property tax deferment and exemptions on homesteads for elderly homeowners.

Caveats: If you have a mortgage check with the mortgagee. Not all mortgage companies will honor a deferral. Some may require taxes be paid when due. Interest on the unpaid taxes will accrue at 8% per annum. Any delinquent penalties, interest or attorney fees that accrued before you led will remain due on the property, so don’t delay if you plan to defer. e deferred amount plus interest will become immediately due on sale or change in ownership. You or your heirs have 180 days a er death, sale or transfer of ownership to pay the deferred amount.

TEXAS HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST AVERAGE PROPERTY TAX RATES IN THE COUNTRY

True, Texas is one of the few states that have no income tax. ( e others are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming.) But only thirteen states levying higher property taxes.

Texas's median income is $62,353 per year and the median property tax in Texas is $2,275.00 per year for a home worth the median value of $125,800.00. Counties in Texas collect an average of 1.81% of a property's assessed fair market value as property tax per year. Texas is ranked 12th of the 50 states for property taxes as a percentage of median income (but it is 3rd of the 50 states as a percentage of home value - http://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/propertytax-by-state ).

e exact property tax levied depends on the county in Texas the property is located in. King County collects the highest property tax in Texas, levying an average of $5,066.00 (1.56% of median home value) yearly in property taxes, while Terrell County has the lowest property tax in the state, collecting an average tax of $285.00 (0.67% of median home value) per year. You can see the complete county list of rates at http://www.tax-rates.org/texas/property-tax#Counties

e a davit you would need to le is simple and is available here: Tax Deferral A davit Age 65 or Older or Disabled Homeowner

Sec. 33.06. DEFERRED COLLECTION OF TAXES ON RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD OF ELDERLY OR DISABLED PERSON OR DISABLED VETERAN. (a) An individual is entitled to defer collection of a tax, abate a suit to collect a delinquent tax, or abate a sale to foreclose a tax lien if:

(1) the individual: (A) is 65 years of age or older; (B) is disabled as de ned by Section 11.13(m) (under which “Disabled” means under a disability for purposes of payment of disability insurance bene ts under Federal OldAge, Survivors, and Disability Insurance.); or (C) is quali ed to receive an exemption under Section 11.22 and

(2) the tax was imposed against property that the individual owns and occupies as a residence homestead. (b) To obtain a deferral, an individual must le with the chief appraiser for the appraisal district in which the property is located an a davit stating the facts required to be established by Subsection (a). The chief appraiser shall notify each taxing unit participating in the district of the ling. After an a davit is led under this subsection, a taxing unit may not le suit to collect delinquent taxes on the property and the property may not be sold at a sale to foreclose the tax lien until the 181st day after the date the individual no longer owns and occupies the property as a residence homestead. (The additional subsections of Section 33.06 deal with abating the foreclosure process.)

English One Oh One: Redundancies

Why is it that people can’t stand a noun or a verb standing alone? They wind up giving them an adjective or an adverb for company.

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hollow tube

illegal poaching

old adage

NFL football team merge together re ect back very unique

sandwiched between Strangled to death successful escape

old fossil

3 AM in the morning

Fellow countrymen old geezer new beginning

illegal scam

Appreciated in value

total extinction

disappear from view violent explosion

awkward predicament knots per hour cluster together temporary reprieve

Hoist up free of charge

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Return of the Jet Set:

TWA’s Terminal Turns Time Machine

In 1955, Trans World Airlines commissioned the brilliant architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen to design a new terminal at New York’s Idlewild Airport. In the 63 years since, almost every proper noun in the previous sentence would be altered by some kind of untimely end: Saarinen died before his time in 1961—a year before the terminal’s eventual completion; Idlewild was renamed John F. Kennedy International in 1963, mere weeks a er the President’s tragic assassination; TWA folded in 2001, absorbed by American Airlines a er decades of nancial struggle.

However, despite the ravages of time and the relentlessness of change, the daring heart of Saarinen’s structure remains with us, as timely as ever e head house of the TWA Flight Center— magni cent, futuristic, and ambitious—still stands

in the middle of New York’s largest airport. It’s a stubborn, elegiac landmark to a bygone idea of travel, one that transcends mere transportation.

If you’ve ever own through JFK, you know the terminal’s sublime concrete contours, equally at home in Jamaica, Queens and in e Jetsons. It’s simultaneously retro and futuristic.

Intended to evoke the spirit of ight, Saarinen’s building resembles a bird from above. Its thin concrete shell of a roof extends in great, symmetrical gull wings. Inside, the smooth form of the building blurs the lines between ceiling, wall, and oor, becoming pure, gestural geometry.

e building was an immediate icon. In 1994, it was named a New York City Landmark. Later, it would be added to the National Register of Historic Places. However, changes in air travel would eventually doom the forward-facing terminal. Planes got bigger. Security clearance became more onerous and timeconsuming, creating longer lines and eventually making the terminal become less and less viable. It went on to close in 2001.

While its heyday as a terminal has passed, the TWA Flight Center is not yet a complete relic. Next year, after 18 years of disuse, the structure will know the lively bustle of crowds once again, this time as the centerpiece of a high-concept hotel devoted to celebrating the optimistic design of the Jet Age. e $265 million project, appropriately called the TWA Hotel, is the brainchild of MCR and Morse Development and will once again place Saarinen’s original vision front and center.

Connected to JetBlue’s Terminal 5 by dramatic, redcarpeted “ ight tubes,” Saarinen’s main structure will serve as a 200,000 square foot lobby (the world’s largest) containing retail spaces, eight restaurants, and six bars. e hotel’s 512 guest rooms will be housed in two separate buildings anking the main structure,

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bene tting from the world’s second-thickest glass walls (seven panes!) to minimize runway noise.

e hotel’s Instagram-ready interiors are tailor-made to suit today’s Mad Men-abetted obsession with all things mid-century modern, anchored by an attention to detail that borders on the fanatical. e rooms will feature only Saarinen-designed Knoll furniture and period-perfect terrazzo tiling in the bathrooms. Retro-obsessed guests will even have the opportunity to order room service on 1950’s rotary phones. To drum up anticipation for the hotel, its owners have o ered up a preview of the property’s aesthetic in an exclusive lounge installation at One World Trade Center, complete with a museum section celebrating original TWA assets.

While the building’s architecture serves as its major selling point, its high-pro le provenance has added signi cant headaches to the hotel’s development. Its renovation required approval from 22 government agencies and drew on the expertise of 173 design rms to bring the project up-to-code, including removing asbestos and replacing the building’s many obsolete windows.

When nished, the TWA Hotel will be JFK’s only on-site hotel, attracting guests seeking convenience and accessibility. However, the building—with its expansive public space and hospitality options—will no doubt also become a destination for architecture bu s and curious travelers with long connections. One can imagine taking the train to the airport just to soak in its atmosphere—an almost unheard-of proposition in the age of the TSA and cramped economy seating.

In fact, the renovated building may help reignite a long-lost spirit of glamor and occasion in air travel, one that predates sweatpants and neck pillows, in which exquisite design and glamor are part of the journey itself. In that sense, Saarinen’s vision of an artistic and ambitious travel future was spot on. It just took us 64 years to catch up with him. . n

September

27 AIA Fort Worth | ACME Brick Sporting Clay Classic

27 ASA North Texas | Membership Meeting

27 IFMA Austin | Golf Tournament at Star Ranch

27 AIA Corpus Christi | Chapter Meeting

ULI North Texas | Awards Banquet

28 SCM | CCIM Ultimate Group Sponsor

28-29 IREM | Global Summit in Ft. Lauderdale

28-29 AIA Lower Rio Grande Valley | Building Communities Conference & Expo

October

2 IREM Fort Worth | BOMA Fort Worth | Joint Luncheon

2 CCIM Houston/Gulf Coast | Scholarship Golf Tournament @ Sugar Creek Country Club

3 CREW Fort Worth | Luncheon

3 NTAEE | 35th Energy Conference

3-5 IFMA | World Workplace in Charlotte

4 NTCCIM | Sporting Clays Event – Dallas Gun Club, Lewisville

5 ASA Houston | Fishing Tournament

6 AGC San Antonio | Safety Fair and BBQ CookO at Helotes Fairgrounds

8 REC San Antonio | 27th annual Golf Tournament

9 NAWIC Waco | Monthly Dinner Meeting

10 CREW Dallas | Monthly Luncheon

10 ASA Houston | Schmooze and Mingle

26 IREM Dallas | 23rd Annual Golf Tournament at Coyote Ridge Golf Club

26-27 ICAA |A Baroque tradition - 300 years in the making in San Antonio

27 RECA | Christmas in October

28-31 STAR | Annual Texas Recycling Summit at Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston

November

1 AGC Houston | Member Mixer

6 CCIM Central Texas | Chapter Social

7 CREW Fort Worth | Luncheon

7 10 ASA Houston | Schmooze and Mingle

8 IFMA Houston | Monthly Meeting

8 CCIM Houston | Monthly Luncheon

13 BOMA Dallas | Monthly Luncheon

13 NAWIC Waco | Monthly Dinner Meeting

14 CREW Dallas | Monthly Luncheon

14 BOMA San Antonio | Monthly Luncheon

15 BOMA Austin | Monthly Luncheon at Norris Conference Center

15 IREM Fort Worth | Membership Luncheon

15 NTCCIM | Luncheon at Park City Club

20 AIA Corpus Christi | Chapter Meeting

27 CCIM Central Texas | Monthly Luncheon

28 BOMA Austin |Community First - Volunteer Workday

28 CTCAR | Luncheon at Maggiano’s

December

5 CREW Fort Worth | Luncheon

5 SCR | Breakfast with Dr. Mark Dotzour at Ridglea Country Club

5 10 ASA Houston | She Builds t Holiday Gathering

6 IFMA Houston | Holiday Awards Luncheon

6 DFW IFMA | Holiday Gala

7 Houston Contactors Association | Christmas Party

7 CREW Dallas | Holiday Awards Luncheon 11 CTCAR | Holiday Party

13 IREM Fort Worth | Holiday Luncheon/Silent Auction

13 BOMA Austin | Holiday Luncheon

Entries are the best information available at press time. Check the website of the organization (all listed on the masthead page) for changes and up-to-date information.

If your commercial real estate organization is not included and would like to be, please write to editor@crestnetwork.com

AUSTIN

DALLAS

EL PASO

2018

AUSTIN: Resilient Market Pushes Fundamentals During Cycleʼs Late Expansion Stage

Occupancy: 89.3%

Net Absorption: 76,902 sq. ft

DALLAS/ FORT WORTH: Positive Growth Returns Following Q1 2018 Minor Blip

Occupancy: 79.1%

Net Absorption: 578,235 sq. ft.

HOUSTON: CBD Class A Demand Positive in Q2 2018 for First Time in 3 Years

Occupancy: 81.6%

Net Absorption: 726,722 sq. ft.

CONTACTS

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CBD v. Suburban Absorption

International Winners

At the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International’s annual conference in San Antonio in late June, 16 commercial properties were honored with e Outstanding Building of the Year® (TOBY®) Award.

e TOBY Awards recognize honoring excellence in commercial building management and operations in speci c categories of building size or type. To win an International TOBY Award, a property rst must win both local and regional competitions. (See the June issue of the network.) Judging is based on community impact, tenant and employee relations programs, energy management systems, accessibility, emergency evacuation procedures, building personnel training programs and overall quality indicators. A team of expert industry professionals also conducted comprehensive building inspections.

e 2018 TOBY Award winners are pictured here.

Historical Building

Édifice Sun Life Building

Montreal, QC

Managed by Bentall Kennedy (Canada) LP

Mixed-Use

Ponce City Market

Atlanta, GA

Managed by Jamestown Commercial Management Company

Corporate Facility

Target Northern Campus Brooklyn Park, MN

Managed by Target Corporation

Industrial Office Building Henderson Commerce Center IV Phase III Henderson, NV

Managed by Harsch Investment Properties, LLC

Public Assembly Building

Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Dorval, QC

Managed by Aéroports de Montréal

Earth Award RBC WaterPark Place Toronto, ON

Managed by Oxford Properties Group

Medical Office Building Hoag Health Center Irvine – Sand Canyon Irvine, CA

Managed by California Commercial Real Estate Services

Renovated Building US Bank Tower Los Angeles, CA

Managed by Hines

Green Globes® Reinforces a Recycler’s Mission and Deepens Sustainability Knowledge

A Case Study

Reuse lies at the heart of Bob’s Metals’ operations, and core values of honesty, integrity, and sustainability drive the family-based metal processing business. “We are environmentally sustainable by our very nature,” says David Weinstein, Bob’s Metals’ vice president and chief nancial o cer. “As we expanded with our new headquarters building, we wanted to formally recognize our commitment to environmental stewardship.” Green Globes certi cation provided that pathway.

e headquarters is a 4,760 square-foot, two-level, o ce addition to an existing warehouse set on a 14-acre facility that serves clients throughout the Northwest. Because the project incorporated Green Globes at the outset, project architect Darrell Barnes (of Darrell Barnes Architect, Inc.) says process itself informed the team. “ e initial evaluation identi ed measures that we could implement early on to improve our rating – measures that we wouldn’t be able to go back and do later, like creating integrated design team meetings that tracked our progress.”

• Site, envelope, and indoor environmental goals were established early in the design.

• Building design has modest glazing with cross braces in the window assemblies, which will prevent bird collisions.

• e roof has a high solar re ective index.

• New plantings were adequately protected and the landscaping incorporated mostly native and drought-tolerant plants.

• More than 75% of the construction waste was recycled.

e team and owner combined suggestions from the Green Globes’ initial assessment with sustainable practices already in place. For example, Bob’s Metals is one of the only scrap metal recycling operations in the nation to have a fully contained zero discharge site thanks to its state-of-the-art stormwater treatment center. Weinstein says that the stormwater project had displaced 10,000 cubic yards of earth and the team reused much of that soil in the foundation‘s footprint for the new headquarters. ese items, along with other initiatives, led to its Green Globes certi cation:

Learning from the Job

No member of the design and construction team had tracked a project using Green Globes before. is o ered a great opportunity to take teams to the next level, according to the project’s Assessor, Eric Truelove, principal of Green Building Resources. “ e biggest bene t of going through certi cation is to show people where they are at with sustainability and where they can improve,” he says. “With Green Globes, both creativity and exibility on your side.”

Barnes agrees. “ e most valuable part was that it got everybody on the project involved and educated.

During the Stage 1 review, the suggestion to recycle construction waste helped the contractor learn improved methods,” Barnes says. “ e process made everyone aware of the value and importance of sustainability.”

Having access to resources and knowledgeable people at Green Globes was a distinct bene t in Weinstein’s view. “ e Assessor added value to our project and our operations, like providing direction to improve our indoor air quality systems,” he asserts. “ ey gave us a lot of information on the forefront and helped achieve our goals, which created a seamless process.”

Truelove says Green Globes seeks to push owners beyond doing a standard a code building, and it o ers an easy process that others can duplicate, nancially justify and use to validate their sustainability practices.

Despite this being his rst foray into Green Globes, Barnes notes that the process appears very straightforward now. “Green Globes really trains everybody involved. It’s a much friendlier than other frameworks and o ers the entire team simpler ways of achieving sustainability measures.”

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e School is known for its athletic pro ciency as well as its academic acumen. A 35,000-sf addition would over-extend the existing ENERGY service capacity and eventual need for a new gymnasium addition and Academic programs. Our engineers were very creative in providing new service entry points to make the current system work more e ciently and augmenting only where needed with capacity for future exibility and growth but with highly e cient light xture and mechanical systems that will save operational and utility costs while making the indoor environments much more pleasant and well lit.

South Oak Cli High School was graced with two wonderful internal courtyards that provided natural light and limited access to certain classes or grade levels. We repurposed those courtyards and created the new main entry to align with a view into the green space. We opened up each corner of the courtyards providing access for outdoor experiential learning and overlooks from the 2nd oor from the new collaboration spaces. One courtyard will have an amphitheater and stage while the other will serve as social gathering spaces for all grade levels. Each will be accessible to the educators for outdoor learning. A new 2 ½ story student entry named the ‘Bear Den’ is immediately adjacent to an outdoor newly designed and created pocket park on the school property celebrating the arrival of the students each morning, setting the tone for their HEALTH + HAPPINESS in the new SOC when it opens in August of 2020.

at Marsalis Blvd. and the new gymnasium addition along the rear of the school. e materials had to match the style and feel of the existing composition with texture and color as well as signify the renewed focus and address the pride exhibited by the students, parents and community leaders. Just as important was how we addressed the interiors to re ect a new day. We repurposed the old gym oor and married new nishes with old to create a blend that demonstrated progress while paying homage to the past. ese discussions were as involved with campus leadership as the other aspect of this complex project.

time, the audience was pleased with the care, concern Picture 7and design solution for their new front door. As SOC previously stood, the front door was non-descript and did not denote a sense of arrival for guest or parents. e students were required to enter the school before hours at the rear of the school and go up a set of exterior bare concrete stairs past a loading and service dock. We addressed both entries with solutions that celebrated the arrival and signi ed the pride of the past and promise for the future. e BEAUTY was welcomed and commended by all.

MATERIALS played an essential role in marrying the two main additions - the 1st oor administration wing (with 4 new science labs above) along the front

From the onset of our engagement, this entire project pivoted around the concept of EQUITY e students and parents felt slighted. ey expected to receive the same quality of education from other areas of the district and would not take status quo answers. ey demanded the same and expected no less. e platform they utilized allowed this project to ful ll the needs of this project at a level beyond the initial project parameters. With Gates Scholars and Collegiate Academies they performed well and expected similar spaces from schools in the Metroplex. Equity was at the basis of all conversations and resonated strongly with my team as we work diligently to deliver a dollar for dollar equivalency with all of our projects regardless of location or surroundings.

When our renderings were unveiled for the rst

It is increasingly clear that for the U.S. to close the educational gap with the industrialized world, it is going to require new thinking. Academic programs must work in concert with learning spaces allowing educators and administrators exible spaces to adapt as times and teaching pedagogies change. What cannot be lost is the need to create sustainable solutions to ensure the future of our planet and society is not imperiled due to exhaustion of resources and the next level of higher thinking is the health and wellbeing of the individual users. Previous sustainability measures have addressed the built environment. WELL Building StandardTM and the Living Building Challenge® may not be the panacea but the conversation moves along to include the human element which in turn can assist educational outcomes. e parents have spoken loudly to us and they want a healthy functioning equitable building and that is what we strive to deliver each and every time.

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BMW Welt (is a multi-use exhibition center used for meetings and promotional events, and where buyers take delivery of BMW vehicles. As you can see, it is right next to the Headquarters and the Museum.

Munich, Germany

DARREN JAMES dljames@kaitexas.com

Darren L. James, AIA is President & COO of KAITexas, a multi-disciplinary rm including architecture, interior design, MEP engineering, program/construction management and construction

The WELL Building Standard™ and the Living Building Challenge®

Their Importance in Educational Design and Construction

Educational spaces continue to evolve as various school districts and researchers look to create academic settings conducive to meeting the instructional needs of tomorrow’s pedagogies. Researchers have shown that the built environment can have an impact on student success. In the last few years as sustainable initiatives have been codi ed a core group of early adopters created WELL Building StandardTM and the Living Building Challenge®. ese two are complimentary yet distinct and can work in concert with LEED to produce a holistic approach to sustainability.

Whereas LEED, Green Globes and Enterprise Green Communities have human health as one metric, the WELL Building StandardTM encompasses 7 attributes; the framework is structured as 7 petals of a ower; Place, Water, Energy, Health + Happiness, Materials, Equity, and Beauty. ese variables are measured over a twelve month period of time to determine actual real-world performance opposed to calculated or expected outcomes.

A Holistic Approach

In our educational design e orts, we seek harmony with students and educators in mind, de ning, re ning and creating spaces that encourage maximum performance in the best spaces with connectivity to dataproven touchpoints such as natural light, comfortable exible learning and serendipity spaces. As noted, we were selected to update a 1950’s era undersized building bringing to current codes and educational standards while addressing community concerns.

Dallas’ South Oak Cli (SOC) High School is a microcosm of the issues WELL Building StandardTM was created to address. e students were so frustrated with the state of the learning conditions that they organized, protested and petitioned the Board of Trustees for redress. e crux of their most persuasive argument was that conditions inside were not conducive (and, in fact, were counterproductive) to learning. It was di cult and hard to concentrate or get the quality of education they expected and deserved in the conditions they were subjected too. Amazingly the human spirit cannot be denied or sti ed and despite the conditions the school produced at least two Gates Scholars and other academic champions.

Environmental Concerns Are Critical

In an educational setting this can be paramount to improved educational outcomes. In two of KAI’s most recent projects, a $52 million additional and major renovation to a high school built in the late 1950’s and a new PK-8 elementary and middle school, the community and parents were as concerned about environmental conditions as they were about academic spaces and technological amenities. In numerous community meetings, our design teams along with the district’s environmental department spent considerable time discussing the indoor air and water qualities conducive to supporting the academic rigor they expected and demanded.

e paradigm shi in these parents’ minds was that these were not mutually exclusive conditions that needed to work sequentially or even in a silo fashion. e expectation was that an indoor healthy environment was a fundamental right and that we should be as concerned about the human aspects of health as the built academic spaces. Obviously they had sympathetic ears from both the owner’s perspective and the design team’s. The Well Building Standard TM is a great compliment to assuring the indoor environment meets the desires of students, teachers, parents, administrators and designers in providing a healthy place to learn.

e evolution of the sustainable movement to introduce means and methods for promoting, encouraging and measuring the 7 petals the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) identi es goes a long way beyond the reduction of the operational impact, life cycle costs, material utilization, land ll waste and travel distances quanti ed in and calculated in the LEED or other pre-certi cation processes. ose metrics are extremely valuable and need to work collaboratively with the WELL Building StandardTM and the Living Building Challenge®. However the value of looking holistically provides a system that encompasses all aspects of a building and its impact on the person as well as the environment.

However, as we began the process with a series of community engagement meetings, the majority of the early meetings quickly moved beyond answering the mail, so to speak, of address the physical academic environment to the thoughts rst and foremost on their minds; “Would the newly renovated SOC be healthy and encouraging to my son/daughter?” As we worked through each issue sequentially, it was apparent that, although LEED was not part of the equation, addressing the quality of life aspects of this project was paramount to the success of the project upon completion.

Our design team consisted of architects, interior designers, MEP Engineers, acousticians and landscape architects and educational thought leaders. Each took a holistic approach to solving their discipline-speci c need but reviewed their respective solutions parametrically determining the downstream reaction their speci c solution may have on another aspect of the building and the interior and exterior learning and transitory environments we created. e desired outcomes were measured against perceived bene t and true bene t. e iterative nature of this process elevated the solution beyond a typical addition/ renovation project with stakeholder buy-in and true engagement.

SOC is truly a historic PLACE and is at the heart of the surrounding community. Multi generations have attended that school from the same immediate and sometimes extended families. It is near and dear to the consciousness and a re ection of the pride exhibited by those that came before and the nurturing they impart on those attending today and the future.

WATER was of utmost concern due to age of infrastructure and previous district wide and campus speci c water quality tests. e design team and the district sta work diligently to address this issue to the eventual satisfaction of the community leaders and parents.

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” (Albert Einstein)

DARREN JAMES dljames@kaitexas.com

Darren L. James, AIA is President & COO of KAITexas, a multi-disciplinary rm including architecture, interior design, MEP engineering, program/construction management and construction

The WELL Building Standard™ and the Living Building Challenge®

Their Importance in Educational Design and Construction

Educational spaces continue to evolve as various school districts and researchers look to create academic settings conducive to meeting the instructional needs of tomorrow’s pedagogies. Researchers have shown that the built environment can have an impact on student success. In the last few years as sustainable initiatives have been codi ed a core group of early adopters created WELL Building StandardTM and the Living Building Challenge®. ese two are complimentary yet distinct and can work in concert with LEED to produce a holistic approach to sustainability.

Whereas LEED, Green Globes and Enterprise Green Communities have human health as one metric, the WELL Building StandardTM encompasses 7 attributes; the framework is structured as 7 petals of a ower; Place, Water, Energy, Health + Happiness, Materials, Equity, and Beauty ese variables are measured over a twelve month period of time to determine actual real-world performance opposed to calculated or expected outcomes.

A Holistic Approach

In our educational design e orts, we seek harmony with students and educators in mind, de ning, re ning and creating spaces that encourage maximum performance in the best spaces with connectivity to dataproven touchpoints such as natural light, comfortable exible learning and serendipity spaces. As noted, we were selected to update a 1950’s era undersized building bringing to current codes and educational standards while addressing community concerns.

Dallas’ South Oak Cli (SOC) High School is a microcosm of the issues WELL Building StandardTM was created to address. e students were so frustrated with the state of the learning conditions that they organized, protested and petitioned the Board of Trustees for redress. e crux of their most persuasive argument was that conditions inside were not conducive (and, in fact, were counterproductive) to learning. It was di cult and hard to concentrate or get the quality of education they expected and deserved in the conditions they were subjected too. Amazingly the human spirit cannot be denied or sti ed and despite the conditions the school produced at least two Gates Scholars and other academic champions.

Environmental Concerns Are Critical

In an educational setting this can be paramount to improved educational outcomes. In two of KAI’s most recent projects, a $52 million additional and major renovation to a high school built in the late 1950’s and a new PK-8 elementary and middle school, the community and parents were as concerned about environmental conditions as they were about academic spaces and technological amenities. In numerous community meetings, our design teams along with the district’s environmental department spent considerable time discussing the indoor air and water qualities conducive to supporting the academic rigor they expected and demanded.

e paradigm shi in these parents’ minds was that these were not mutually exclusive conditions that needed to work sequentially or even in a silo fashion. e expectation was that an indoor healthy environment was a fundamental right and that we should be as concerned about the human aspects of health as the built academic spaces. Obviously they had sympathetic ears from both the owner’s perspective and the design team’s. The Well Building Standard TM is a great compliment to assuring the indoor environment meets the desires of students, teachers, parents, administrators and designers in providing a healthy place to learn.

e evolution of the sustainable movement to introduce means and methods for promoting, encouraging and measuring the 7 petals the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) identi es goes a long way beyond the reduction of the operational impact, life cycle costs, material utilization, land ll waste and travel distances quanti ed in and calculated in the LEED or other pre-certi cation processes. ose metrics are extremely valuable and need to work collaboratively with the WELL Building StandardTM and the Living Building Challenge®. However the value of looking holistically provides a system that encompasses all aspects of a building and its impact on the person as well as the environment.

However, as we began the process with a series of community engagement meetings, the majority of the early meetings quickly moved beyond answering the mail, so to speak, of address the physical academic environment to the thoughts rst and foremost on their minds; “Would the newly renovated SOC be healthy and encouraging to my son/daughter?” As we worked through each issue sequentially, it was apparent that, although LEED was not part of the equation, addressing the quality of life aspects of this project was paramount to the success of the project upon completion.

Our design team consisted of architects, interior designers, MEP Engineers, acousticians and landscape architects and educational thought leaders. Each took a holistic approach to solving their discipline-speci c need but reviewed their respective solutions parametrically determining the downstream reaction their speci c solution may have on another aspect of the building and the interior and exterior learning and transitory environments we created. e desired outcomes were measured against perceived bene t and true bene t. e iterative nature of this process elevated the solution beyond a typical addition/ renovation project with stakeholder buy-in and true engagement.

SOC is truly a historic PLACE and is at the heart of the surrounding community. Multi generations have attended that school from the same immediate and sometimes extended families. It is near and dear to the consciousness and a re ection of the pride exhibited by those that came before and the nurturing they impart on those attending today and the future.

WATER was of utmost concern due to age of infrastructure and previous district wide and campus speci c water quality tests. e design team and the district sta work diligently to address this issue to the eventual satisfaction of the community leaders and parents.

(Albert

Einstein)

On average, an American man will have sex two to three times a week. Whereas, a Japanese man will have sex only one or two times a year. This is very disturbing news to me. I had no idea I was Japanese. “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” (Albert Einstein)

On average, an American man will have sex two to three times a week. Whereas, a Japanese man will have sex only one or two times a year. This is very disturbing news to me. I had no idea I was Japanese.

e School is known for its athletic pro ciency as well as its academic acumen. A 35,000-sf addition would over-extend the existing ENERGY service capacity and eventual need for a new gymnasium addition and Academic programs. Our engineers were very creative in providing new service entry points to make the current system work more e ciently and augmenting only where needed with capacity for future exibility and growth but with highly e cient light xture and mechanical systems that will save operational and utility costs while making the indoor environments much more pleasant and well lit.

South Oak Cli High School was graced with two wonderful internal courtyards that provided natural light and limited access to certain classes or grade levels. We repurposed those courtyards and created the new main entry to align with a view into the green space. We opened up each corner of the courtyards providing access for outdoor experiential learning and overlooks from the 2nd oor from the new collaboration spaces. One courtyard will have an amphitheater and stage while the other will serve as social gathering spaces for all grade levels. Each will be accessible to the educators for outdoor learning. A new 2 ½ story student entry named the ‘Bear Den’ is immediately adjacent to an outdoor newly designed and created pocket park on the school property celebrating the arrival of the students each morning, setting the tone for their HEALTH + HAPPINESS in the new SOC when it opens in August of 2020.

at Marsalis Blvd. and the new gymnasium addition along the rear of the school. e materials had to match the style and feel of the existing composition with texture and color as well as signify the renewed focus and address the pride exhibited by the students, parents and community leaders. Just as important was how we addressed the interiors to re ect a new day. We repurposed the old gym oor and married new nishes with old to create a blend that demonstrated progress while paying homage to the past. ese discussions were as involved with campus leadership as the other aspect of this complex project.

time, the audience was pleased with the care, concern Picture 7and design solution for their new front door. As SOC previously stood, the front door was non-descript and did not denote a sense of arrival for guest or parents. e students were required to enter the school before hours at the rear of the school and go up a set of exterior bare concrete stairs past a loading and service dock. We addressed both entries with solutions that celebrated the arrival and signi ed the pride of the past and promise for the future. e BEAUTY was welcomed and commended by all.

MATERIALS played an essential role in marrying the two main additions - the 1st oor administration wing (with 4 new science labs above) along the front

From the onset of our engagement, this entire project pivoted around the concept of EQUITY. e students and parents felt slighted. ey expected to receive the same quality of education from other areas of the district and would not take status quo answers. ey demanded the same and expected no less. e platform they utilized allowed this project to ful ll the needs of this project at a level beyond the initial project parameters. With Gates Scholars and Collegiate Academies they performed well and expected similar spaces from schools in the Metroplex. Equity was at the basis of all conversations and resonated strongly with my team as we work diligently to deliver a dollar for dollar equivalency with all of our projects regardless of location or surroundings.

When our renderings were unveiled for the rst

It is increasingly clear that for the U.S. to close the educational gap with the industrialized world, it is going to require new thinking. Academic programs must work in concert with learning spaces allowing educators and administrators exible spaces to adapt as times and teaching pedagogies change. What cannot be lost is the need to create sustainable solutions to ensure the future of our planet and society is not imperiled due to exhaustion of resources and the next level of higher thinking is the health and wellbeing of the individual users. Previous sustainability measures have addressed the built environment. WELL Building StandardTM and the Living Building Challenge® may not be the panacea but the conversation moves along to include the human element which in turn can assist educational outcomes. e parents have spoken loudly to us and they want a healthy functioning equitable building and that is what we strive to deliver each and every time.

The BMW Museum is an automobile museum of BMW history located in Munich, Germany. e museum was established in 1973 (shortly a er the Summer Olympics opened). From 2004 to 2008, it was renovated in connection with the construction of the BMW Welt (English: BMW World), directly opposite. Known as the salad bowl or white cauldron, the silver futuristic building was designed by Karl Schwanzer, the architect of the BMW Headquarters, e roughly circular base is only 65 feet in diameter, the at roof about 130 feet.

BMW Welt (is a multi-use exhibition center used for meetings and promotional events, and where buyers take delivery of BMW vehicles. As you can see, it is right next to the Headquarters and the Museum.

Munich, Germany

Green Globes® Reinforces a Recycler’s Mission and Deepens Sustainability Knowledge

A Case Study

Reuse lies at the heart of Bob’s Metals’ operations, and core values of honesty, integrity, and sustainability drive the family-based metal processing business. “We are environmentally sustainable by our very nature,” says David Weinstein, Bob’s Metals’ vice president and chief nancial o cer. “As we expanded with our new headquarters building, we wanted to formally recognize our commitment to environmental stewardship.” Green Globes certi cation provided that pathway.

e headquarters is a 4,760 square-foot, two-level, o ce addition to an existing warehouse set on a 14-acre facility that serves clients throughout the Northwest. Because the project incorporated Green Globes at the outset, project architect Darrell Barnes (of Darrell Barnes Architect, Inc.) says process itself informed the team. “ e initial evaluation identi ed measures that we could implement early on to improve our rating – measures that we wouldn’t be able to go back and do later, like creating integrated design team meetings that tracked our progress.”

• Site, envelope, and indoor environmental goals were established early in the design.

• Building design has modest glazing with cross braces in the window assemblies, which will prevent bird collisions.

• e roof has a high solar re ective index.

• New plantings were adequately protected and the landscaping incorporated mostly native and drought-tolerant plants.

• More than 75% of the construction waste was recycled.

e team and owner combined suggestions from the Green Globes’ initial assessment with sustainable practices already in place. For example, Bob’s Metals is one of the only scrap metal recycling operations in the nation to have a fully contained zero discharge site thanks to its state-of-the-art stormwater treatment center. Weinstein says that the stormwater project had displaced 10,000 cubic yards of earth and the team reused much of that soil in the foundation‘s footprint for the new headquarters. ese items, along with other initiatives, led to its Green Globes certi cation:

Learning from the Job

No member of the design and construction team had tracked a project using Green Globes before. is o ered a great opportunity to take teams to the next level, according to the project’s Assessor, Eric Truelove, principal of Green Building Resources. “ e biggest bene t of going through certi cation is to show people where they are at with sustainability and where they can improve,” he says. “With Green Globes, both creativity and exibility on your side.”

Barnes agrees. “ e most valuable part was that it got everybody on the project involved and educated.

During the Stage 1 review, the suggestion to recycle construction waste helped the contractor learn improved methods,” Barnes says. “ e process made everyone aware of the value and importance of sustainability.”

Having access to resources and knowledgeable people at Green Globes was a distinct bene t in Weinstein’s view. “ e Assessor added value to our project and our operations, like providing direction to improve our indoor air quality systems,” he asserts. “ ey gave us a lot of information on the forefront and helped achieve our goals, which created a seamless process.”

Truelove says Green Globes seeks to push owners beyond doing a standard a code building, and it o ers an easy process that others can duplicate, nancially justify and use to validate their sustainability practices.

Despite this being his rst foray into Green Globes, Barnes notes that the process appears very straightforward now. “Green Globes really trains everybody involved. It’s a much friendlier than other frameworks and o ers the entire team simpler ways of achieving sustainability measures.”

International Winners

At the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International’s annual conference in San Antonio in late June, 16 commercial properties were honored with e Outstanding Building of the Year® (TOBY®) Award.

e TOBY Awards recognize honoring excellence in commercial building management and operations in speci c categories of building size or type. To win an International TOBY Award, a property rst must win both local and regional competitions. (See the June issue of the network.) Judging is based on community impact, tenant and employee relations programs, energy management systems, accessibility, emergency evacuation procedures, building personnel training programs and overall quality indicators. A team of expert industry professionals also conducted comprehensive building inspections.

e 2018 TOBY Award winners are pictured here.

Historical Building

Édifice Sun Life Building

Montreal, QC

Managed by Bentall Kennedy (Canada) LP

Mixed-Use

Ponce City Market

Atlanta, GA

Managed by Jamestown Commercial Management Company

Corporate Facility Target Northern Campus Brooklyn Park, MN

Managed by Target Corporation

Industrial Office Building Henderson Commerce Center IV Phase III Henderson, NV

Managed by Harsch Investment Properties, LLC

Public Assembly Building

Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Dorval, QC

Managed by Aéroports de Montréal

Earth Award RBC WaterPark Place Toronto, ON

Managed by Oxford Properties Group

Medical Office Building

Managed by California Commercial Real Estate Services

Renovated Building US Bank Tower Los Angeles, CA

Managed by Hines

Q2 2018 Office MarketViews

AUSTIN: Resilient Market Pushes

Fundamentals During Cycleʼs Late Expansion Stage

Occupancy: 89.3%

Net Absorption: 76,902 sq. ft

DALLAS/ FORT WORTH: Positive Growth Returns Following Q1 2018 Minor Blip

Occupancy: 79.1%

Net Absorption: 578,235 sq. ft.

HOUSTON: CBD Class A Demand Positive in Q2 2018 for First Time in 3 Years

Occupancy: 81.6%

Net Absorption: 726,722 sq. ft.

CONTACTS

Robert C. Kramp Director, Research & Analysis robert.kramp@cbre.com

E. Michelle Miller Research Operations Manager michelle.miller@cbre.com

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CBD v. Suburban Absorption

26 IREM Dallas | 23rd Annual Golf Tournament at Coyote Ridge Golf Club

26-27 ICAA |A Baroque tradition - 300 years in the making in San Antonio

27 RECA | Christmas in October

28-31 STAR | Annual Texas Recycling Summit at Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston

November

1 AGC Houston | Member Mixer

6 CCIM Central Texas | Chapter Social

7 CREW Fort Worth | Luncheon

7 10 ASA Houston | Schmooze and Mingle

8 IFMA Houston | Monthly Meeting

8 CCIM Houston | Monthly Luncheon

13 BOMA Dallas | Monthly Luncheon

13 NAWIC Waco | Monthly Dinner Meeting

14 CREW Dallas | Monthly Luncheon

14 BOMA San Antonio | Monthly Luncheon

15 BOMA Austin | Monthly Luncheon at Norris Conference Center

15 IREM Fort Worth | Membership Luncheon

15 NTCCIM | Luncheon at Park City Club

20 AIA Corpus Christi | Chapter Meeting

27 CCIM Central Texas | Monthly Luncheon

28 BOMA Austin |Community First - Volunteer Workday

28 CTCAR | Luncheon at Maggiano’s

December

5 CREW Fort Worth | Luncheon

5 SCR | Breakfast with Dr. Mark Dotzour at Ridglea Country Club

5 10 ASA Houston | She Builds t Holiday Gathering

6 IFMA Houston | Holiday Awards Luncheon

6 DFW IFMA | Holiday Gala

7 Houston Contactors Association | Christmas Party

7 CREW Dallas | Holiday Awards Luncheon

11 CTCAR | Holiday Party

11 NAWIC Waco | Monthly Dinner Meeting

12 ULI North Texas | Holiday Party

13 IREM San Antonio | Holiday Party

13 IREM Fort Worth | Holiday Luncheon/Silent Auction

13 BOMA Austin | Holiday Luncheon

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Corgan Headquarters Expansion

Corgan’s addition to our own ten-year-old, downtown headquarters building was driven by bringing all the local employees back under one roof. With a desire to stay in one location, our expansion and renovation project is registered to pursue a wellness-based certi cation, WELL New and Existing Interiors, seeking Silver Certi cation in 2018.

An evaluation of the WELL criteria identi ed features already in place that simply required documentation to and small changes and quick upgrades including an increased commitment to quality of light and creating an in-house program to sustain the nourishment preconditions that could help measurably achieve wellness goals.

Tip: WELL’s focus on people is a strong opportunity to naturally extend corporate culture and values and don’t require a complete o ce overhaul. Rather, a thoughtful and strategic approach to design and evaluation of existing amenities such as low-glare sit to stand workstations, circadian lighting practices, and nourishment accommodations for special diets can help identify realistic opportunities to improve wellbeing, productivity, and creativity.

ABOUT CORGAN

Corgan is a leading architecture and interior design rm with deep technical experience and a reputation for great service. Consistently ranked as one of the top ve architecture rms, Corgan creates spaces and structures that inspire, inform, and innovate. For eight decades, Corgan has developed special expertise in aviation, commercial, critical facilities, education, healthcare, and interior design projects. Combining a sound functional business approach with a sensitivity to aesthetic value, Corgan is committed to creating environments where our clients thrive. www.corgan.com

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Building is a 10- oor structure on the central-west part of the island of Mauritius. As it outgrew the headquarters in the capital city of Port Louis, it required expansion into new premises. e new building is an ellipse which sits on 4 travertine clad pillars themselves resting on championship golf lawns covering the roofs of the service areas, sta canteen and kitchen. e responsible people were from Jean Francois Koenig Architects; the building was completed in 2010.

The building was the rst in the southern hemisphere to be granted British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) certi cation. e carefully chosen building orientation ensures that the façades face due north and south with generous overhangs which virtually eliminate all direct solar gains. It also became the rst Mauritian work of architecture to represent (with four others) the best of African architecture at the International Union of Architects World Congress in Tokyo 2011, a triennial event and with it, Koenig was elected as one of the ‘100 Architects of the World 2012’ in a competition organized by the Union of International Architects and the Korean Institute of Architects.

Formerly a Dutch colony (1638–1710) and a French colony (1715–1810), Mauritius became a British colonial possession in 1810 and remained so until 1968, the year in which it attained independence. The people are multiethnic, multi-religious, multicultural and multilingual, and the island's government is closely modeled on the British parliamentary system. It is highly ranked for democracy and for economic and political freedom. The United Nations Human Development Index of Mauritius is the highest in Africa. The population is 1,268,520 (the equivalent of 0.02% of the total world population) making it #158 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) has long served as the international standard in “green buildings”. As a driver of environmental responsibility and sustainability, LEED measures and scores the performance of the building in the same way WELL evaluates the experience and impact of the building on the people inside. Expanding the notion of healthy buildings to focus on the people that occupy the world’s buildings—either as employees, visitors, or residents—WELL measures, certi es, and monitors speci c features of the built environment and its e ect on human health and well-being.

The WELL Building Standard pays particular attention to several features that fall into one of seven wellness concepts: air, water, nourishment, comfort, light, tness, and mind. Demonstrated success in all these preconditions is the foundation to WELL Certi cation though higher certi cation can be achieved by pursuing optimization features. ese more advanced objectives vary from one building to the next to provide exibility when selecting what best suits the occupants and the project’s goals.

More than 700 projects worldwide have already registered or certi ed through WELL, including the rst WELL project in Texas, Stryker’s Flower Mound Regional Distribution Center designed by Corgan.

By placing people at the heart of design, construction, operations, and development decisions, WELL has the potential to add meaningful value, generate savings in personnel costs, and enhance the human experience, health and well-being. WELL is changing the future of design—challenging design to create intentional spaces that encourage healthier decisions and support organizational initiatives to promote a culture of wellness for everyone.

CASE STUDIES:

Varsity Brands/ BSN Sports

Most of us spend more time at work and at our desks than we do at the gym. What if going to the o ce didn’t mean giving up on your health goals?

Fitness and athleticism are a core part of the Varsity Brands DNA, so when it came time for an o ce renovation, reinforcing those values internally was a natural extension of their culture. Varsity Brands wanted to give their employees the extra motivation to keep moving and turned their “cat-walk” type cut-through into a walking track with a gallery featuring inspiring images of their client’s

LAUREN WHITNEY Lauren.whitney@corgan.com

LaurenWhitney, RID, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C,WELL AP is aVice President at Corgan, a leading architecture and design rm headquartered in Dallas

coaches and student athletes. Markers on the track measure distances in relation to their most popular sports—for example,1.5 laps equals the length of an in eld baseball diamond or the length of one football eld. Inspirational quotes and details like the large “HUSTLE” graphic provide visual destinations and create energetic areas to take a break, get active, and even catch up with colleagues over a fast-paced game of ping pong—a more purposeful take on the popular o ce amenity.

Tip: All those trips to the printer can add up. Have a couple of meetings in the far conference room? You may not be that far from reaching your tness goals! Intentional design features such as connecting stairs and environmental graphics both intentionally and casually encourage physical activity and movement throughout the space.

Toyota North American Headquarters ere’s no excuse for swinging through a drive-through with the onsite tness center, rock-climbing wall, and healthy dining options accessible anytime at Toyota’s new North American Headquarters in Plano. With an onsite bistro, three satellite dining locations, a large restaurant with courtyard views, specialty juice bars, a pharmacy, medical clinic, and convenient retail options, eating right and mindful wellness are easier and a natural part of the day.

Tip: Numerous dining opportunities are great, but don’t just grab your lunch and head back to your desk. Dining “al desko” may result in consuming more food. e social interaction during can do your mind good, help reduce stress and isolation.

Tip: Did you know most Americans live in some stage of dehydration every day? Providing frequently located hydration stations throughout o ce spaces encourages more regular refueling. Need extra motivation? Providing healthy, clean tasting or sparkling water can promote water consumption.

A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine.

how and where to live than those of the generation before. Increasingly, safety and health-focused design features have become a priority in assisted and independent living facilities. Just as millennials are shi ing expectations for the design and operation of commercial o ces, an older generation is shi ing expectations in multifamily residential housing.

Architects and designers have always been caretakers, ensuring that buildings are designed to prevent injury and ensure the occupants safety. The WELL framework promotes new ways that architects and designers can contribute to an organization’s commitment to health and wellness. ese shi s in workplace design and workplace policies have led to the emersion of a new caretaker role within organizations: e Chief Wellness O cer. In some o ces this new role emerges out of human resources, while in others out of facilities management. Increasingly, these workplace wellness o cers are becoming WELL Accredited Professionals as an indication of their enterprise knowledge across WELL’s ten Concepts. There are now over 5,000 people pursuing their WELL AP credential across 73 countries.

Driving acceleration even further is the continued commitment from the rst WELL projects. When building owners, corporate tenants and residential landlords implement health and wellness policies, they don’t do so at a building scale, they do so across the entire organization. Employees in New York are going to demand the same health and wellness bene ts as those in Chicago and anywhere else. at’s why global companies like CBRE, HKS and TD Bank – to name a few –are pursuing WELL for multiple projects across their portfolio. IWBI has found that many companies pilot WELL in one building, and then move to scale. is approach has prompted IWBI to launch WELL Portfolio, a streamlined approach for companies pursuing WELL for multiple buildings.

According to the Global Wellness Institute, wellness is now a $3.7 trillion industry, and through optimized policy and informed real estate decisions, we have a tremendous opportunity to bring health and wellness to our businesses, our employees, our tenants and occupants at scale, positively a ecting the lives of millions across the globe.

You can learn more about becoming a WELL AP and bringing health and wellness to the forefront of your organization or access the WELL Building Standard and start a project that puts people rst at wellcerti ed.com.

Summer’s Fall Reading List

Fiction

• A Fish Story by Rod Enreel

• Fallen Underwear by Lucy Lastic

• Full Moon by Seymour Bunz

• Mystery in the Barnyard by Hu Flung Dung

Non-Fiction

• The Cat’s Revenge by Claude Bottom

• The Good Breakfast by Hammond Deggs

• Where to Put Your Money by Bill Fold

• Mountain Climbing by Andover Hand

Travel

• New Mexico Tour Book by Albie Kierky

• What to Look for in a Hotel by Mary Ott

• A Guide to Desert Highways by Dusty Rhodes

• Swimming in the Arctic by I. C. Waters

Ethnic

• Mexican Revenge by Monty Zuma

• Jewish Mysticism by Levi Tayshun

• Italian Cooking by Mack Arroni

• Irish Dentistry by Perry O’Dontal

The Demand for Healthy Buildings

We were designed to live in harmony with our environment. We require clean air, drinkable water and light to thrive. We also require shelter, driving us to create buildings around us that serve to protect us from harm. ese buildings are our caretakers, o ering cooler temperatures in the summer, warmer temperatures in the winter and helping meet our basic needs for growth. Now, through an evolving and mounting evidence base, we know that the extent of our relationship with our environments goes much further. We know how to create spaces that protect us from that which can make us sick, promote practices that can keep us well, and facilitate opportunities for us to connect with one another and live our lives to the fullest.

at has been the mission behind the International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™) and its WELL Building Standard™ (WELL™), the rst to be focused exclusively on the ways that buildings, and everything in them, can generally enhance, not compromise, our health and wellness. WELL provides a framework for designing spaces that put people – their health, productivity and happiness – rst. is includes lighting that supports our circadian systems for a better night’s sleep and measuring various attributes of air quality, from VOCs to particulate matter.

rough comprehensive rigor and years of research, WELL provides clear guidance for leaders who value veri ed performance when the health and wellness of the people we care about is at stake. A testament to its rigorous and value driven approach, WELL has scaled quickly. Since its inception in 2014, WELL has grown to encompass nearly 1,000 projects totaling 175 million square feet across 34 countries. And that

demand is growing. From o ces to schools, homes to supermarkets, interest in applying health and wellbeing best practices is rising.

Rick Fedrizzi, the founder and immediate past CEO of the USGBC and current CEO of IWBI, calls this the second wave of sustainability. And to truly ride this wave to full market transformation, we have to change not just the spaces in which people live,

work, and play, but also the mindsets of consumers along the way. In my work at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as the Founding Director of the Center for Green Schools over the last decade, one of the things I found most challenging was empowering consumers to ask for what they need to become their most productive, engaged, and happy selves – to demand healthier schools from their schoolboards, healthier homes from their realtors, and healthier workplaces from their employers.

What we learned along the way was that we could open more minds by opening hearts and fostering conversations that centered around highperforming children rather than high-performing buildings. We know that intellectual agreement alone won’t bring about this transformation. In order to shi behavior and practice we have to nd new ways to personalize the conversation.

Now, new innovations and increased awareness promise to turn this second wave into a possible tsunami. is shi in demand is in part tied to a shi in generational needs. Companies seek to recruit the best and the brightest, and the next generation workforce is looking for something very di erent in their work environment and in the organizations that they choose to work for. ese candidates want more than just a healthy paycheck and something to put on their resume. ey want to work for an organization that aligns with their values and supports them as a whole person. Almost nine in 10 millennials believe that the success of a business should be measured in terms of more than just its nancial performance (2017 Deloitte Millennial Survey).

Baby boomers are increasingly faced with decisions regarding late life care of their parents while making plans for their own retirements. is generation also has di erent demands and expectations for

Rachel Gutter is the president of the International WELL Building Institute™

Credit: Arup Boston, WELL Certi ed at the Gold level

Who Has Nuclear Weapons

There are eight sovereign states that have successfully detonated nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (de ned as those that have built and tested a nuclear explosive device before January 1, 1967) under the terms of the 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT). ey are the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China.

Since 1970, three states that were not parties to the treaty have conducted nuclear tests:, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. (North Korea had been a party to the NPT but withdrew in 2003.) Israel is also generally understood to have nuclear weapons, but does not acknowledge it, maintaining a policy of strategic ambiguity.

States that formerly possessed nuclear weapons are South Africa (which developed nuclear weapons but disassembled its arsenal before joining the NPT) and the former Soviet republics Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

According to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nuclear Notebook, the total number of nuclear weapons worldwide is estimated at 9,220 in 2017

The Non-Proliferation Treaty

The NPT is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

It is often seen to be based on a central bargain:

The NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons and the NPT nuclearweapon states in exchange agree to share the bene ts of peaceful nuclear technology and to

pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

Compiled by network sources

Nuclear-Armed States of the World

NPT-designated nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States)

Other states with nuclear weapons (India, North Korea, Pakistan)

Other states presumed to have nuclear weapons (Israel)

NATO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey)

States formerly possessing nuclear weapons (Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Ukraine)

The Deep State, The Dark Web, Phishing & Gaslighting

In the United States the term "deep state" is used to describe in uential decisionmaking bodies believed to be within government who are relatively permanent (the "entrenched bureaucracy”) and whose policies and long-term plans are una ected by changing administrations. e term is o en used in a critical sense to refer to the lack of in uence popular democracy has on these institutions and the decisions they make as a shadow government. e term was originally coined in a somewhat pejorative sense to refer to similar relatively invisible state apparatus in Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and post-Soviet Russia.

Since Donald Trump's inauguration, the term has been used by some commentators to support a variety of conspiracy theories, which contend that a "deep state", involving the FBI, CIA, NSA, the United States Department of Justice, former President Barack Obama, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is aiming to delegitimize the Trump presidency and thwart its policy goals.

While the belief in a deep state is popular among Trump supporters, critics maintain that it has no basis in reality, arguing that the sources of the leaks frustrating the Trump administration lack the organizational depth of deep states in other countries, and that use of the term in the U.S. could undermine con dence in vital institutions and be used to justify suppressing dissent.

The Deep Web is a subset of the Internet that is not indexed by the major search engines. is means that you have to visit

those places directly instead of being able to search for them.

ere aren’t directions to get there, but they’re waiting if you have an address. The Dark Web (also called Darknet) is a subset of the Deep Web that is not only not indexed, but that also requires something special to be able to access it (e.g., speci c proxying so ware or authentication to gain access). It o en sits on top of additional sub-networks (e.g., Tor, I2P, and Freenet), and is o en associated with criminal activity of various degrees, including buying and selling drugs, pornography, gambling, etc.

Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and money), o en for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. e word is a homophone of shing due to the similarity of using a bait in an attempt to catch a victim. Phishing is typically carried out by email spoo ng or instant messaging, and it o en directs users to enter personal information at a fake website, the look and feel of which are identical to the legitimate one and (the only di erence being the URL of the website in concern). Communications purporting to be from social web sites, auction sites, banks, online payment processors or IT administrators are o en used

to lure victims. Phishing emails may contain links to websites that distribute malware (short for malicious so ware) - any so ware intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target's belief. e term originated in the 1938 play Gas Light and its lm adaptations, and it has been used in clinical and research literature, as well as in political commentary.

In his book State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, Bryant Welch describes the prevalence of the technique in US politics over the past few decades: “Gaslighting comes directly from blending modern communications, marketing, and advertising techniques with longstanding methods of propaganda. ey were simply waiting to be discovered by those with su cient ambition and psychological makeup to use them.”

In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ben Yagoda wrote that the term gaslighting had become topical again as the result of (President) Trump's behavior, saying that Trump's "habitual tendency to say ‘X’, and then, at some later date, indignantly declare, 'I did not say ‘X’. In fact, I would never dream of saying ‘X’" had brought new notability to the term.

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Mychele Lord is the CEO of Lord Green Real Estate Strategies

The GREEN Light for Retaining Tenants

How can a Landlord help attract employees to its tenants business? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of May 2018 in both the United States and the Dallas Metroplex, there is less than one unemployed person per job opening. As a company owner, I can vouch that employers have to work much harder to attract and retain top talent.

e Landlord has no say in many of the traditional tools companies use to recruit and retain top talent. At my company, Lord Green, we are dog-friendly with almost as many dogs as people reporting to work each day. We o er regular massages, a kegerator with beer and another with Kombucha, a kitchen lled with healthy snacks, standing desks, health bene ts, 401K and pension plans. ankfully, we are our own landlord. is makes taking the additional steps to attract top talent incrementally easier. In addition to installing the dog park that allows employees to bring their dogs to work, we have installed reverse osmosis water lters for all to enjoy and provided the game room were the team gathers for an a ernoon game of foosball.

Our building is ENERGY STAR certi ed and we are pursuing various green building certi cations such as BREEAM and LEED. A er all, a wealth of research has indicated “green” buildings can enhance occupant wellbeing. ey can help companies boost employee productivity, cut absenteeism, reduce turnover and attract talent. ese are all “social” gains. What started out as the “green” movement, quickly evolved into “sustainability”, and now it is ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance).

For Landlords, the “social” does not end with the building itself. It also encompasses tenant and even community engagement. Also referred to as the “Health & Well-Being” movement, this translates into providing access to healthy food options, green spaces, exercise, and areas and events that encourage social

interaction within the asset and within the local community. For example, an o ce building hosting a brown-bag lunch once a month for all occupants and having health-related practitioners speak such as doctors, tness coaches, nutritionists, etc. We see this demand for more social spaces in new developments of apartment communities—more and more social spaces and smaller units.

As the “social” aspect becomes of greater and greater importance to tenants’ employees and to apartment dwellers, it presents an even greater opportunity for forward-thinking landlords to di erentiate (o en at little to no cost) to attract and retain tenants.

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Noah

The Lord spoke to Noah and said, “Noah, in six months I am going to make it rain until the whole world is covered with water and all the evil things are destroyed. But I want to save a few good people and two of every living thing on the planet.

I am directing you to build an ark.” And, in a ash of lightening, he delivered the speci cations and blueprint for the ark.

“Okay,” said Noah, trembling with fear and fumbling with the blueprints. “I’m your man.”

“Six months and it starts to rain,” thundered the Lord. “You’d better have my ark completed or learn to swim for a long, long time.”

Six months passed, the sky began to cloud up, and the rain began to fall in torrents. e Lord looked down and saw Noah sitting in his yard and weeping – and there was no ark.

“Noah!” shouted the Lord. “Where is my ark?”

A lightning bolt crashed into the ground right beside Noah.

“Lord, please forgive me, begged Noah. “I did my best, but there were some big problems. First, I had to get a building permit for the construction of the ark, but Your plans did not meet their code. So, I had to hire an engineer to redo the plans, only to get in a long argument with him about whether to include a re sprinkler system. My neighbors objected, claiming that I was violating zoning ordinances by building the ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning board.”

“ en I had a big problem getting enough wood for the ark, because there was a ban on cutting trees to save the spotted owl. I tried to convince the environmentalists and the Fish and Wildlife Service that I need the wood to save the owls, but they wouldn’t let me catch them – so no owls.”

“Next, I started gathering up the animals but got sued by an animal rights group that objected to me taking along only two of each kind. Just when the suit got dismissed, the Environmental Protection Agency noti ed me that I couldn’t complete the ark without ling an Environmental Impact Statement on your proposed ood. ey didn’t take kindly to the idea that they had no jurisdiction over the conduct of a Supreme Being. en the Corps of Engineers wanted a map of the proposed ood plan, so I sent them a globe.”

“Right now, I’m still trying to resolve a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Commission over how many minorities I’m supposed to hire. e IRS has seized all of my assets, claiming I’m trying to leave the country, and I just got a notice from the state that I owe some kind of use tax. Really, I don’t think I can nish the ark in less than ve years.”

With that, the sky cleared, the sun began to shine, and a rainbow arched across the sky. Noah looked up and smiled. “You mean that you are not going to destroy the world?” he asked hopefully.

“No,” said the Lord. “ e government already has.”

Useful Phrases

• ank you. We’re all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.

• e fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean that you’re an artist.

• I don’t know what your problem is, but I bet it’s hard to pronounce.

• Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.

• I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don’t give a damn.

• I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.

• What am I? Flypaper for freaks?

• I’m not being rude. You’re just insigni cant.

• Ahhh…I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again.

• I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.

• I’m really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.

• You sound reasonable. Time to up my medication.

• I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter.

• It might look like I’m doing nothing, but at the cellular level I’m really quite busy.

• I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

• Someday we’ll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

• Age gets better with wine.

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TIMOTHY KEPHART ( P. 31) is the founder of Gra ti Tracker, a web-based system designed to help people identify, track and prosecute gra ti vandals. He holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Cal State Long Beach. A court-certi ed gra ti expert, Kephart has testi ed in homicide trials as it related to using gra ti as a way to prove motive for murder. He worked for the City of Carson as their in-house gra ti expert and was assigned to Carson Station for the Los Angeles County Sheri ’s Department.

DARREN L. JAMES ( P. 18) is the President & COO of KAI Texas. He focuses his architectural talents and time on transforming communities through design, leadership and civic engagement. As President & COO of KAI Texas, he has made a signi cant impact on community advancement throughout

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MYCHELE LORD ( P. 10) is the Founder and CEO of LORD Green Real Estate Strategies, Inc., a global sustainability consultancy headquartered in Dallas, Tx specializing in providing sustainability services to commercial real estate investment rms. She is a 30-year veteran of the commercial real estate investment community. Mychele has presented at a number of industry events and is an accomplished author. Her publications include the USGBC's Green O ce Guide: Integrating LEED into Your Leasing Process, and ASHRAE's Energy E ciency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings.

ANGELA O’BYRNE ( P. 32) is the president of national architecture, design-build, and real estate development rm Perez, APC. She champions the principles of smart growth in her home community of New Orleans and in her frequent travels across the country and abroad. Born in Cali, Colombia. Angela is a licensed architect in over a dozen states, a licensed general contractor in Louisiana, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the National CREW Network (Commercial Real Estate Women) Board of Directors. A singer, golfer, music-lover, and globetrotter, she relishes spending free time with her three grown children and large extended family. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and her Amazing Buildings feature appears in every issue.

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The GREEN Light for Retaining Tenants

Mychele Lord takes a quick look at what ‘ESG’ means to tenants.

The Demand for Healthy Buildings

Rachel Gutter, President of the International WELL Building Institute, on the institute’s rapid growth.

WELL: The Next Generation of Healthy Buildings

Corgan’s Lauren Whitney explains how and where they are doing WELL.

The WELL Building Standard and the Living Building Challenge

Architect Darren James explores the importance of both in educational design and construction.

Green Globes Reinforces a Recycler’s Mission

A case study.

The International TOBY Awards

BOMA’s prestigious annual award winners are pictured here.

Texas is Snap, Crackle and Populating

A look at the Census Bureau’s most recent report vis a vis Texas.

A New Population Milestone for San Antonio

CultureMap.com’s John Egan looks at the growth of various Texas cities.

Street Art – Gra ti or Not?

Tips for property owners from Timothy Kephart of gra titracker.net

Seniors and Disabled Don’t Have to Pay Real Property Taxes in Texas

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Amazing Buildings – Return of the Jet Set

Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne shows how Kennedy Airport’s TWA Terminal is being repurposed.

The Smithsonian 17 of 19 Museums are in Washington D.C. – and each one is more magni cent than the next.

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You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.