White & Case LLP, a global law firm with operations in 26 countries, plans to relocate but will remain on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The firm has signed a 440,000-square-foot long-term lease at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, which is owned by The Rockefeller Group. The leased space includes the top floors in the […]
Manhattan office space that was re-priced higher in the first quarter 2014 was significantly greater than the space re-priced lower. Downtown led the asking rents re-pricing with 1.5 million square feet re-priced in the quarter, nearly doubling Midtown space re-pricings, according to a report from CBRE. “Clearly, Downtown is leading the upward re-pricing trend. Asking […]
Veracen Partners is among a set of several new tenants to take space at Boston Properties’ 250 West 55th Street, signing a 10-year, 11,263-square-foot lease for a portion of the 16th floor at the 38-story tower. CBRE, which represented the landlord, announced the lease concurrently with a 7,196-square-foot deal with RTW Investments & LifeSci Capital […]
Tokyo-based Sumitomo Corporation has acquired a 581,107 square-foot office tower in downtown Chicago for $111.5 million. The 27-story class A mixed-use building is located at 203 North LaSalle in the Central Loop district. The office sale transaction did not include the retail space on the first and second floors, nor the 10 levels of parking. […]
A joint venture of Lincoln Property Company and Newport Beach, Calif.-based investment manager PIMCO, has retained HFF to sell their 29-story office tower located at 230 West Monroe on Chicago’s West Loop. The JV acquired the 623,524-square-foot in August 2012 for $91.3 million from General Electric Pension Trust. 230 West Monroe is currently 67.6 percent […]
DLA Piper has signed a lease to relocate its Chicago law office to River Point at 444 W. Lake Street in Chicago’s West Loop area. The firm has leased approximately 175,000 square feet of office space on levels 9-16 in River Point and will move to their new space in early 2017. Another law firm, […]
Customer Relationship Software (CRM) company, salesforce.com, has leased 714,000 square feet in the 61-story high-rise at 415 Mission Street in San Francisco, which is under construction. Cushman & Wakefield’s Vice Chairman Dan Harvey and his team of brokerage professionals in the firm’s San Francisco office represented salesforce.com in the transaction, which is the single largest […]
Abandoned warehouses and manufacturing lands are being transformed into a sustainable urban mixed-use master-planned community on the Oakland Estuary—a move forward, developers say, for a forgotten part of Oakland’s history. The project, Brooklyn Basin, is being developed by Oakland Harbor Partners, which includes Oakland-based Signature Harbor Partners, owned by James and Michael Ghielmetti, commercial development […]
After many stops and starts over the years, including designs from Renzo Piano, Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Pelli Clark Pelli, developer TMG Partners has hired Foster + Partners and Heller Manus Architects to take a crack at designing a pair of high-rise buildings at First and Mission in San Francisco. The approximately two million […]
West coast developer Schnitzer West plans to build a 16-story Class A+ office building in Bellevue, Washington. The project site is located in the central business district on the corner of 106th Avenue Northeast and Northeast Fourth Street. Plans call for a 360,000-square foot office building that will include street-level retail and a Bank of […]
Four elevations of aluminum facade are undergoing a complete restoration at 1201 Third Avenue, a 55-story office building in the heart of downtown Seattle. Built in 1988, the high-rise has experienced wear and tear over the years, creating an aged facade in need of cleaning. The architectural restoration company, Stuart Dean, will clean, refinish and […]
Capstone Development Partners (CDP) and Cornish College of the Arts are working together to bring new student housing, classrooms and administrative offices to the Cornish campus in downtown Seattle. “We are so pleased to partner with CDP on this project,” said Cornish President Nancy J. Uscher. “This new building will be the heart of our […]
Harrah’s Resort Southern California in Valley Center, CA, takes its commitment to building a better playground seriously. The entertainment company’s most recent project encompasses a new 21-story Resort Tower that will accompany the existing casino and hotel. The resort recently changed its name. It was formerly known as Harrah’s Rincon, after the American Indian reservation […]
Believed to be the largest net-zero energy commercial office building in the United States, a 13-story office tower has just been completed in La Jolla, California. Tower II at La Jolla Commons is the new San Diego headquarters of LPL Financial LLC, an RIA custodian. In the weeks leading up to the office’s opening, more […]
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced today that the 2016 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo will move from San Diego to Los Angeles. The announcement came during the Clinton Global Initiative’s 21st Century Infrastructure and Innovation for a Resilient Economy event, where Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and former President Bill Clinton, a previous […]
The Fallon Company and Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers have secured $204 million in construction financing for the development of Two Harbor Shore Drive, a 516,000-square-foot office building on Fan Pier in Boston’s Seaport District. HFF worked on behalf of the joint venture to obtain the construction loan through RBS Citizens. Due for completion in Spring […]
Developer Joseph Fallon has begun construction on a 17-story office and retail high-rise on Northern Avenue, in Boston’s Fan Pier district. this will be the fourth commercial tower on Fan Pier. The 515,000 square foot, build-to-suit tower will house the Boston office of global law firm Goodwin Procter LLP. Fan Pier is one of the […]
Beginning in September 2014, Boston-based Wentworth Institute of Technology will offer its Master of Science in Facility Management in a fully online format in addition to the current on-campus format. This represents the third fully online degree program for the Institute. Both the on-campus and online formats will continue to be offered part-time to appeal […]
Houston-based developer Midway, and hotel operator Valencia Group, announced plans yesterday for Hotel Alessandra, a 25-story luxury high-rise hotel in downtown Houston’s GreenStreet district. Formerly known as the Houston Pavilions, GreenStreet is a Class-A mixed-use project, spanning four city blocks, connected via sky bridges and above-ground walkways. Slated to debut in late 2016, this venture […]
Unlike many facilities professionals, Greg Pell didn’t venture into commercial real estate management with previous experience, or by climbing the ranks. An industry leader took a chance on him, and Pell excelled in his very first role as property manager. Paying it forward as his career developed, Pell now enjoys identifying potential in young industry […]
The Interfin Companies has broken ground on their luxury high-rise condominium known as Belfiore, located in the Uptown area of Houston. The ceremony included a blessing from Most Reverend Joseph A. Fiorenza Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston followed by the groundbreaking conducted by Scott Schwinger, Giorgio Borlenghi, Joe Hudson and Joseph Lopez donning hard hats with […]
One of Dallas’ largest law firms, Gardere Wynne Sewell, has signed on to become the anchor tenant at a tower set to begin construction this summer. The firm is leaving Thanksgiving Tower for Crescent Real Estate’s 20-story high-rise. Gardere’s approximately 109,000 square foot lease will kick-start the development at 2021 McKinney Avenue. Gardere will move […]
Hines is planning to build a new 23-story office tower in the Victory Park neighborhood of Dallas. The high-rise office building will be located at 2371 Victory Avenue just north of Hines’ One Victory Park development. The 470,000-square-foot building will have prominent visibility along Interstate-35 and include 15 levels of office space with views of […]
One Main Place, a 33-story office high-rise located at 1201 Main Street in Dallas’ Central Business District, is under new ownership according to Elie Khoury, President and CEO of the New Orleans-based KFK Group. Designed by world renowned architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One Main Place is considered to be a longtime landmark of […]
MB1 Capital Partners and Aquinas Realty Partners today announced the official groundbreaking for the construction of the AQ Rittenhouse, a mixed-use, apartment-retail-classroom tower at 2021 Chestnut Street in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. The $40 million complex, due to be completed by the end of the year, will be constructed on the site of the former Philadelphia […]
Rubenstein Partners has acquired Philadelphia’s Penn Mutual Towers, a historic Class A complex spanning 850,000 square feet at 510-530 Walnut Street in the heart of the historic section of Center City. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) has been named exclusive leasing agent for the three buildings, the tallest of which rises to 22 stories. It […]
Philadelphia-area mechanical construction and energy services firm Burns Mechanical has announced the appointment of Matthew Rafferty as service manager of its service division. Burns is a leading provider of mechanical service in the Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware regions, and its clients benefit from an extensive array of service offerings as well as exceptional […]
The cachet of owning the finest property in the centre of town is irresistible to the world’s billionaires, who are increasingly looking for the ultra-luxurious bricks and mortar in the top cities. But where large-scale lateral square footage is hard to find, property developers are building up, with lavish new skyscrapers in some of the […]
Parkway Properties has acquired One Orlando Centre, a 19-story, 356,000 square foot, Class A office building located in Orlando, Florida. The high-rise was built in 1987 and includes an 8-story parking garage. The property is 81.3% occupied and is expected to generate an initial full-year cash net operating income yield of 7.0%. James R. Heistand, […]
Turnberry Ocean Club is the latest residential real estate project in the works for Jeffery Soffer’s Turnberry Associates, best known for Miami Beach’s landmark Fountainbleau resort. Designed by Carlos Zapata, Turnberry Ocean Club is a luxury high-rise condominium development located at 18501 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles, Florida. With more than $7 billion in commercial and […]
Sotherly Hotels has acquired the Georgian Terrace Hotel, an adjacent 698-space parking structure and a 0.6 acre development parcel for $61.0 million. The seller was Fremont Realty Capital. The 326-room independent, full-service hotel is located in Atlanta, Georgia’s Midtown business district and will be managed by Chesapeake Hospitality. The original 10-story tower, nicknamed the “Grand […]
Dallas-based Behringer Harvard Multifamily REIT I, Inc. has started construction on Cyan on Peachtree, a new 329-unit luxury multifamily property with a prominent Peachtree Road address in the heart of the Buckhead office and entertainment district approximately five miles north of downtown Atlanta. The property will include a 23-story residential tower and an adjacent seven-level […]
Residents living in Novare’s SkyHouse Atlanta and SkyHouse Orlando high-rises are now able to participate in a bike sharing service. Zagster, a company that provides bike sharing programs for real estate providers has partnered with Novare Group, a developer of mixed-use high-rise communities in southeastern urban markets, to offer the new service. The cruiser-style bikes […]
Founded by the Romans, the small town of Rottweil is located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, in southwest Germany. The old city is famous for its medieval center and for its traditional carnival, called “Fasnet” in the local Swabian dialect. The oldest town in the region, Rottweil’s appearance has changed very little […]
A new state-of-the-art elevator manufacturing facility in Hanover, Pennsylvania has earned North America’s first LEED Gold green building certification for an elevator manufacturing plant. The plant, celebrating its grand opening today, is one of two Schindler Elevator manufacturing facilities located in the U.S. The other is in Clinton, North Carolina. The 150,000 square-foot Hanover facility […]
Schindler’s elevator and escalator products are now featured on MasterSpec/SpecAgent, providing architects, engineers, and other design and specification professionals comprehensive and technically correct specifications and background research information. With an enhanced listing, MasterSpec users can now view and download product information, product brochures, and layout data sheets on Schindler’s top products including Schindler 330A, Schindler […]
14 Wall Street, in lower Manhattan, has completed a comprehensive access control installation and upgrade. Constructed in 1914, 14 Wall Street hosts 1.04-million-square-feet of commercial space. The 37-story building is located directly across from the New York Stock Exchange. The building was designated as a New York City Landmark in 1997. More than 15 perimeter […]
Universal Protection Service has acquired International Security Management Group, Inc. (ISMG). With their corporate office located in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1990, ISMG have been providing superior security and risk management services to companies and corporations throughout the country. “We are excited to announce that today we will be bringing ISMG and their key managers into […]
Biometric devices for access control have been installed at Panorama Towers, an award-winning, luxury high-rise residential condominium complex located in Paradise, Nevada. The successful deployment was led by RVNUE Technologies, a provider of security systems integration and solutions. Between the two high-rise buildings at Panorama Towers, more than 70 access points were placed under access […]
The LeFrak Organization, one of the largest landlords in New York City, put the deep freeze on thousands of Battery Park City residents during one of the coldest winters in recent memory. That is the accusation at the heart of a class action lawsuit filed yesterday in Supreme Court, New York County by the law […]
ABM Building Services has acquired the service assets of Alpha Mechanical, a provider of HVAC service, energy solutions, building controls, plumbing service and process piping. Alpha Mechanical is headquartered in San Diego, CA and maintains operations throughout Southern California. The transaction closed on March 4, 2014. Alpha’s design and build construction business will continue to […]
Speaking at a San Francisco news conference on January 17th, California Governor Jerry Brown officially declared a drought emergency in the state. Brown called on all citizens to voluntarily reduce their water use by at least 20%. 2013 was the driest year on record in California with San Francisco receiving the least amount of rain […]
An innovative developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies hopes to soon be outfitting high-rise buildings with windows that generate electricity. Maryland-based New Energy Technologies has already developed see-through coatings capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics. Their newest window arrays, which they call SolarWindow, measure ablout 36 square-inches and have highly-uniform, colored […]
With energy costs eroding profits at an ever-escalating pace, building owners and managers attending the BuildingsNY Show on March 19-20 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City will be looking for answers and alternatives to dependency on the U.S. grid. One of the highly anticipated speakers at the event will be cogeneration […]
Advances in building and information technologies have brought a new “Big Data” analytics-based approach to facilities management—one that ushers in a new era of operational control, reliability and productivity for businesses and workers. Smart buildings can increase employee comfort, engagement and productivity. This according to a number of reports including a new one from Jones […]
Emergency lights and exit signs are one of the most integral, yet overlooked, elements of a building’s life safety program. When the Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) fines your business for non-compliant emergency lighting, it can cost up to $7,000 for a first-time violation and as much as $70,000 for a repeat violation. “Much […]
International luxury design firm Wilson Associates is joining forces with East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. (ECADI). In a joint statement, the firms announced that their partnership will create a dominant new force in the architectural design industry. “As one of the world’s most renowned architecture firms, we wanted to align our […]
New York City-based Brookfield Office Properties, the owner of a downtown Los Angeles high-rise, was cited this month by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) after it was discovered that light bulbs inside the 41-story Ernst & Young Plaza caused interference with cell phone signals. The cell phone interference has mostly affected Verizon customers, but customers […]
An innovative developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies hopes to soon be outfitting high-rise buildings with windows that generate electricity. Maryland-based New Energy Technologies has already developed see-through coatings capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics. Their newest window arrays, which they call SolarWindow, measure ablout 36 square-inches and have highly-uniform, colored […]
With the construction industry on the upswing and 2013 construction starts advancing 6% to $516.8 billion over the year prior according to McGraw Hill Construction, attention is turning to emerging building methodologies, technology resources and materials that have extreme upside potential and can positively impact bottom lines. According to real estate “futurist”, Michael Craig, a […]
As part of a $41-million renovation of the historic Tishman Building at 10 Lafayette Square in Buffalo, New York, Berkowitz, an architectural glass fabricator, is retrofitting all of the 20-story building’s windows. The building’s owners, Amherst-based Hamister Group, are transforming the nearly vacant office building into a mixed-use complex while adhering to requirements set by […]
The winter months are when schools, healthcare facilities, offices, and many other types of locations become very concerned about infection control. Fortunately, cleaning professionals can play one of the most important roles in helping to reduce illness and infections. “There are many steps cleaning professionals can take to help improve cleaning results and at the […]
SFGoodwill is launching a new initiative that will make donating textiles as convenient as dropping a bottle in a recycling bin. Designed to serve multi-unit apartment towers, the Goodwill goBINTM lets residents donate – and do good – without leaving their buildings. Clothing, shoes, and accessories can be dropped in anytime, eliminating the weekend trip […]
With much of North America covered by snow and ice, now is the perfect time to review one of the most effective ways to keep facilities clean and healthy during the winter months. According to Dennis Knapp, national sales director for Crown Mats and Matting, “An effective matting system is your best defense against adverse […]
Emergency lights and exit signs are one of the most integral, yet overlooked, elements of a building’s life safety program. When the Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) fines your business for non-compliant emergency lighting, it can cost up to $7,000 for a first-time violation and as much as $70,000 for a repeat violation. “Much […]
Recent architectural trends have involved the use of engineered wood as a structural material for increasingly tall buildings. The buildings, which are cited for their advantages in sustainability resulting from the use of a renewable construction material, are constructed from wood products including cross laminated timber (CLT), laminated veneer lumber (LVL), or glued laminated timber […]
Condo owners of the 42-story high-rise at 2626 North Lakeview Avenue in Chicago recently instituted the city’s first full smoking ban in a high-rise condominium building, effective since January 31. The motive for the ban comes from the unsprinklered high-rise’s recent fire history: a double-fatal fire in January 2007, a fire in October 2012, and […]
An initiative of the Bloomberg administration, WiredNYC is aimed at bringing transparency to broadband connectivity in NYC office buildings. The program encourages landlords to understand their internet offerings and market them as amenities, while helping tenants to make better informed searches for office space. WiredNYC, which is being operated on behalf of the city by […]
Advances in building and information technologies have brought a new “Big Data” analytics-based approach to facilities management—one that ushers in a new era of operational control, reliability and productivity for businesses and workers. Smart buildings can increase employee comfort, engagement and productivity. This according to a number of reports including a new one from Jones […]
A new 22-story, 704,000-square-foot San Diego courthouse breaking ground next month will be the largest project funded through California’s Senate Bill 1407, which finances new and renovated court facilities using court user fees rather than the state’s general fund. The 71-courtroom, high-rise building, schedule to open in 2016, will provide the local community with a […]
The cachet of owning the finest property in the centre of town is irresistible to the world’s billionaires, who are increasingly looking for the ultra-luxurious bricks and mortar in the top cities. But where large-scale lateral square footage is hard to find, property developers are building up, with lavish new skyscrapers in some of the […]
Renderings have been released for DreamWorks Asia Headquarters, Oriental Dreamworks, and creative offices in the new Shanghai DreamCenter. Located along the riverside in Xuhui District, China, the five-million-square-foot DreamCenter is an integrated cultural and lifestyle landmark that will feature performing arts spaces, creative media spaces, black box and imax theaters, as well as world-class entertainment, […]
eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of their 2014 Skyscraper Competition. The 2014 edition marks the ninth anniversary of the competition established in 2006 to recognize outstanding ideas for vertical living through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations. eVolo is an architecture and design journal focused on technological advances, sustainability, […]
ZOM, a luxury multifamily real estate developer, recently closed on a land and air rights parcel within the Met 3 mixed use project and simultaneously commenced construction on Montage at Met 3. Montage will feature 462 apartment homes in a 32-story luxury tower, which is being constructed over a ground-level Whole Foods grocery and 12 […]
Wood Partners has broken ground on a 281-unit apartment tower complex in Portland’s popular Pearl District. The tower, located adjacent to the newly built 3.2 acre Fields Park, is Wood Partners first development in Portland and third in the Pacific Northwest. “We are excited to break ground on this new development in the Pearl District,” […]
Developer Joseph Fallon has begun construction on a 17-story office and retail high-rise on Northern Avenue, in Boston’s Fan Pier district. this will be the fourth commercial tower on Fan Pier. The 515,000 square foot, build-to-suit tower will house the Boston office of global law firm Goodwin Procter LLP. Fan Pier is one of the […]
Vetrotech Saint-Gobain, a leading manufacturer of fire-rated glazing and framing, has launched the Vetrotech HI System, an assembly of high-strength VDS curtain wall and door profiles and Contraflam HI glazing. “Vetrotech HI is the first certified fire-rated solution on the market that has hurricane impact resistance feature built-in to curtain,” says Kevin Frisone, National Sales […]
The Sanborn Map Company has expanded its innovative 3-D product line with the groundbreaking Sanborn 3D Stacking Plans. Stacking plans originated as two-dimensional charts displaying the arrangement of tenants on floors in high-rise office buildings or condominiums. They are typically shaded or color-coded to represent lease terms of the building’s tenants, such as expiration date […]
Nalco, an Ecolab company, expands its industry-leading 3D TRASA technology with introduction of the 3D TRASAR Solid Cooling Water Program for commercial buildings, hotels, hospitals and educational facilities. 3D TRASAR Cooling Water technology continuously monitors building cooling water systems to detect water quality issues in real-time and dispense precise chemistry to optimize system performance, reduce […]
Building owners often pay hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each month for the multiple phone lines that ensure communications in their multiple elevators. During an emergency, passengers rely on these elevator phones in case of entrapment or an emergency. They’re a necessary expense, but wouldn’t it be great to be able to […]
Tom Worthington
Tom Worthington owns ESRM Communications, based in Fort Lauderdale, FL (www.ESRMphones.com).
During lunchtime on the construction site of One World Trade Center (OWTC) in Lower Manhattan, crew members and the design team usually spend their break on the 103rd floor. They roll up the construction plans, close their laptops, and eat the sandwiches they’ve brought with them. On a clear day, the view is spectacular: the […]
Jens Holtgrefe and Steve Geyer
Jens Holtgrefe is in internal communications with ThyssenKrupp Germany. Steve Geyer is vice president of modernization sales for ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas.
“Think about a LinkedIn or Shutterstock employee,” says Thomas Durels, executive vice president, chief of property operations and leasing for Empire State Realty Trust. “Those are our tenants; they’re working at the Empire State Building any time, day or night. They’re traveling to and from restaurants, a fitness center, conference space, and their workspaces – all under one roof. We’re contributing to their productivity by making sure they don’t have to wait in line for…
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
Owning or managing a tall building is a lot like operating a small city. Being responsible for the services and infrastructure that keep occupants and tenants in business is a big job. So why not take some suggestions and help from your colleagues when you can get it?
We found some examples of best practices that are being incorporated in high-rise facilities, and arranged them into categories.
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
High-def flat screens embedded into bathroom mirrors. Electronic doorbell systems that feature guest presence detection and tray removal tracking. Energy management systems that set lighting and temperature levels based on whether guests are in the room, out of the room, or checked out. All of these technologies are being incorporated into upscale…
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
Tenants living in residential high-rises have different security expectations based on a wide variety of factors, says Daun St. Amand, vice president at RTKL Associates. “They ebb and flow relative to several things.”
Security levels and expectations vary…
Leah Grout-Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
Harrah’s Resort Southern California in Valley Center, CA, takes its commitment to building a better playground seriously. The entertainment company’s most recent project encompasses a new 21-story Resort Tower that will accompany the existing casino and hotel. The resort recently changed its name. It was formerly known as Harrah’s Rincon, after the American Indian reservation […]
It may seem like all touchless restroom faucet fixtures are created equal (and have been that way for the past few years). Recently, however, manufacturers have unveiled new technology that offers helpful benefits and savings for facilities professionals. The latest commercial faucet lines offer smart fixtures that don’t just dispense water for hand-washing – they […]
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
Martins Maintenance is one of the largest family-run commercial cleaning companies in the northeast with over 200 clients in 10 states. Among those clients is a Fortune 500 company occupying a high-rise office building. The firm called on the aid of Manuel Martins Jr. and Jordan Amaral to help solve an interesting problem at their […]
Don’t forget to pull the plug and turn out the lights! While the concept is known by different names – phantom load, vampire power, standby mode – at the end of the day, “phantom energy” does the same thing: it pulls unnecessary extra energy from the grid into commercial buildings when you aren’t looking. Many […]
Ben Wilde
Ben Wilde is Director, Europe for FirstCarbon Solutions (FCS). He has 10 years’ experience in data management and business process outsourcing, working with numerous UK public and private-sector organizations to develop data capture and management systems. Wilde works with clients worldwide to develop outsourcing and technology services that make their energy and sustainability strategies more efficient. He is a qualified Carbon Verifier for Projects & Inventories against ISO 14065. With a BSc. in Business & Economics from the University of East Anglia, Ben also has experience leading the commercialization of more than a dozen clean tech and biotech projects via a $3 million innovation fund he cofounded for early-stage ventures. For more information, visit www.firstcarbonsolutions.com.
Facilities managers of large commercial buildings can’t open a trade publication or scan an industry website without reading something about energy-saving products, practices, or protocols … and with good reason. In 2011, commercial buildings accounted for nearly one-fifth of the total energy used in the United States, with an aggregate expenditure of more than $132 […]
Gary K. Markowitz
Gary K. Markowitz is the founder and president of Kilojolts Consulting Group, an energy consulting firm and energy-efficiency product developer based in Lexington, MA.
Many high-rise facilities have evolved to become multi-function, multi-tenant spaces where tenants can live, work, and shop all in one building. Managing a large space can be a challenge when trying to provide a comfortable environment while maximizing energy efficiency and keeping building costs low. The balance between happy tenants and reasonable costs can be […]
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson is the director of installation support and customer service for Panoptix, Johnson Controls’ smart building energy management platform.
“Cities are becoming the place to be,” says Gary Pomerantz, executive vice president at WSP Group. “If you’re going to bring local wealth back into the cities from the suburbs, you have to offer something as luxurious as what can be found in a single-family home with acres of land and beautiful views.”
Residential high-rises used to be reserved for affordable housing…
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
Although they’re not incredibly common yet in the United States, mixed-use towers are growing in popularity. They maximize building infrastructure, address density issues, and capitalize on building owners’ investments through multiple income streams. They also provide a type of investment diversification (when office lease rates are down, residential leases may be up, for example). But many of today’s commercial architects find themselves working on…
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
How long does it take for the lifecycle costs of fluorescent fixtures to exceed LEDs? Do the maintenance requirements of fluorescent fixtures have an impact on these costs? How will the development of LED lighting affect the breakeven point between the two technologies? These questions and many others are frequently on the minds of anyone […]
Adrian Charest
Adrian Charest is an Engineer / Editor with RSMeans / Reed Construction Data. He is the Senior Editor for the Electrical Cost Data, Electrical Change Order Cost Data, and the Metric Construction Cost Data books.
Investing in something you don’t use seems like a waste of money and resources… but that’s what appears to be happening in New York City (and probably in other U.S. cities, too). A December 2013 study led by the Urban Green Council (UGC) looked at 55 buildings throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens to see if […]
Steve DeBusk
Steve DeBusk is global energy solutions manager for the window film division at Eastman Chemical Company. DeBusk has 30 years of experience in energy efficiency. He is a Certified Energy Manager, a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional, and a Certified Sustainable Development Professional. You can visit his blog at blog.vista-films.com or follow him on Twitter @greenbldgs.
2 Broadway in New York City is a high-rise office tower that opened in 1959 and was renovated in 1999. As part of the renovation, a new glass curtain wall with stainless steel mullions was installed replacing operable windows. The original window cleaning method was completed by two window cleaners using a portable scaffold supported […]
Mick Lange
Mick Lange established Sky Pro LLC in 2007 after spending 22 years in the manual window cleaning business. Today, Sky Pro systems are used worldwide. For more information, visit www.skypro.com.
What’s the best way to prove that your green investments are paying off? To measure the savings on utility bills, and improvements that tenants are experiencing as a result of your investment.
Whether you’re cutting back on energy use due to mandates or voluntary efforts, quantifying the savings from your green initiatives can help determine whether the purchases are truly worth it (or at least offset implementation costs). This data can go a long way toward supporting other green investments in the future as well. It can also be a solid indicator of improved building performance, which could make your facility more attractive to tenants or prospective buyers.
Steve DeBusk
Steve DeBusk is global energy solutions manager for the window film division at Eastman Chemical Company. DeBusk has 29 years of experience in the energy-efficiency business. He is a Certified Energy Manager, a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional, and a Certified Sustainable Development Professional. You can visit his blog at blog.vista-films.com or follow him on Twitter @greenbldgs.
Martins Maintenance is one of the largest family-run commercial cleaning companies in the northeast with over 200 clients in 10 states. Among those clients is a Fortune 500 company occupying a high-rise office building. The firm called on the aid of Manuel Martins Jr. and Jordan Amaral to help solve an interesting problem at their […]
Owning or managing a tall building is a lot like operating a small city. Being responsible for the services and infrastructure that keep occupants and tenants in business is a big job. So why not take some suggestions and help from your colleagues when you can get it?
We found some examples of best practices that are being incorporated in high-rise facilities, and arranged them into categories.
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
The 38-story Helena apartment building on Manhattan’s West Side is the first in the city to offer its residents regular food scrap collection through the city’s Organics Collection Program. The program takes “organic materials” such as food scraps, soiled paper and plants out of the trash stream, and recycles them , helping the City reduce […]
The auditing of tenant space with regards to fire & life safety can be a challenge. There’s the delicate balance of trying to view all interior rooms and areas of the space being audited, be it small or large, and doing so without disrupting the tenants business in any manner. A look at key items […]
Dennis Hirschberg
Dennis Hirschberg is CEO of JLD Audits, Orange County, CA and specializes in Fire & Life Safety auditing of high-rise and commercial buildings throughout the United States.
Excellent response to emergency situations is never an accident. In order to ensure first responders are in the best position to save lives and property, property managers should fulfill the crucial responsibility of pre-incident planning their facilities. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has outlined pre-plan standards for fire departments to evaluate protection systems, building […]
David Howorka
David Howorka is executive vice president at Chicago-based RealView, LLC, developers of the all-digital CommandScope pre-planning technology. The program is available to both property owners/operators and first responders to expedite emergency response, saving lives and property. He can be contacted at [email protected].
A few obvious factors come to mind when high-rise building owners and managers think about preparing for and recovering from a natural disaster: creating emergency plans, establishing reliable back-up power, forming business continuity strategies to preserve data… and the list goes on. But as New York continues its recovery from Hurricane Sandy, the recommendations released in a report from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn are a good reminder that there are other things to think about when preparing your facility for a possible disaster.
Leah Grout-Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
When potential tenants come knocking, a marquee address, square-footage, floor plans and breathtaking high-rise views aren’t the only things they are looking for. Today business and residential lessors place a high value on cellular voice and broadband mobile data coverage. Landline telephones are rapidly becoming a thing-of-the-past for homes and for an increasing number of […]
Tim W. Ayers
Tim W. Ayers is the Vice President Global Services for ExteNet Systems, Inc., a leader in distributed networks for the wireless industry, based in the Chicago, IL area.
Owning or managing a tall building is a lot like operating a small city. Being responsible for the services and infrastructure that keep occupants and tenants in business is a big job. So why not take some suggestions and help from your colleagues when you can get it?
We found some examples of best practices that are being incorporated in high-rise facilities, and arranged them into categories.
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
In a significant transaction for the technology industry in New York City and Lower Manhattan, Telx, a leading provider of interconnection and data center services, has “plugged in” to the Rudin Family’s 32 Avenue of the Americas in TriBeCa. The cloud enablement provider has signed a 20-year, 45,000 square-foot lease for the entire 10th floor […]
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International has issued its “Top 7 Strategies” for commercial real estate professionals to help make cities green, complementing the 2014 Earth Day “Green Cities Campaign.” With the office building industry accounting for nearly 20 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, BOMA has committed to helping its members and […]
Believed to be the largest net-zero energy commercial office building in the United States, a 13-story office tower has just been completed in La Jolla, California. Tower II at La Jolla Commons is the new San Diego headquarters of LPL Financial LLC, an RIA custodian. In the weeks leading up to the office’s opening, more […]
An innovative developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies hopes to soon be outfitting high-rise buildings with windows that generate electricity. Maryland-based New Energy Technologies has already developed see-through coatings capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics. Their newest window arrays, which they call SolarWindow, measure ablout 36 square-inches and have highly-uniform, colored […]
Rose Associates, the owners of 70 Pine Street in Lower Manhattan, are spending $550 million to transform the historic 952-foot-tall high-rise into a mixed-use building with rental apartments, a hotel and retail space. The Art Deco skyscraper was built in 1932 to act as the headquarters of the Cities Services Company (Citgo). When completed it […]
Whether the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Tower of Babel, humankind has always been reaching for the sky. Beginning with the start of the 20th century and the construction of the first modern skyscrapers, man has come a few hundred meters closer to achieving that aim. Here is a look back over more than 100 years of skyscraper history and the towers that have so far been entitled to proclaim “World’s Tallest Building”.
Rock Ventures – the umbrella entity that manages a diverse portfolio made up of companies like Quicken Loans – first entered the commercial real estate world as a developer.
“As our development work grew, we knew we needed to start a real estate company,” explains Vice President of Bedrock Real Estate Services Dan Mullen.
In 2010, Quicken Loans Visionary, Founder, and Chairman Dan Gilbert partnered with 30-year real estate veteran Jim Ketai to form Bedrock Real Estate Services. At that time, the company also established its office space in downtown Detroit.
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
Unlike many facilities professionals, Greg Pell didn’t venture into commercial real estate management with previous experience, or by climbing the ranks. An industry leader took a chance on him, and Pell excelled in his very first role as property manager. Paying it forward as his career developed, Pell now enjoys identifying potential in young industry […]
“There is no manual that says, ‘Read this, and you’ll be a successful property manager.’ You learn through experiences and trial and error,” says Kurt Wilczek, general manager at Zeller Realty Group in Minneapolis. With 13 years of industry experience, he is focused on helping his team members become the best property managers they can […]
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
Gordon Beckman’s interest in high-rise buildings started when he was 12 years old. Along with several of his neighborhood friends in Rockford, IL, he decided to construct a tree house. It started with modest dimensions, but “pretty soon, it was a five-story tree house that went well above the telephone wires,” says Beckman, AIA, principal […]
Leah Grout Garris
An award winning editor, Leah spent over eight years in senior
editorial positions at both BUILDINGS magazine and ARCHI-TECH
magazine. Her work has been incorporated into training and
educational programs around the country. She is a graduate of
University of Iowa. She is Editor at Large for High Rise Facilities.
Vetrotech Saint-Gobain, a leading manufacturer of fire-rated glazing and framing, has launched the Vetrotech HI System, an assembly of high-strength VDS curtain wall and door profiles and Contraflam HI glazing. “Vetrotech HI is the first certified fire-rated solution on the market that has hurricane impact resistance feature built-in to curtain,” says Kevin Frisone, National Sales […]
The Sanborn Map Company has expanded its innovative 3-D product line with the groundbreaking Sanborn 3D Stacking Plans. Stacking plans originated as two-dimensional charts displaying the arrangement of tenants on floors in high-rise office buildings or condominiums. They are typically shaded or color-coded to represent lease terms of the building’s tenants, such as expiration date […]
Nalco, an Ecolab company, expands its industry-leading 3D TRASA technology with introduction of the 3D TRASAR Solid Cooling Water Program for commercial buildings, hotels, hospitals and educational facilities. 3D TRASAR Cooling Water technology continuously monitors building cooling water systems to detect water quality issues in real-time and dispense precise chemistry to optimize system performance, reduce […]
White & Case LLP, a global law firm with operations in 26 countries, plans to relocate but will remain on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The firm has signed a 440,000-square-foot long-term lease at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, which is owned by The Rockefeller Group. The leased space includes the top floors in the […]
Manhattan office space that was re-priced higher in the first quarter 2014 was significantly greater than the space re-priced lower. Downtown led the asking rents re-pricing with 1.5 million square feet re-priced in the quarter, nearly doubling Midtown space re-pricings, according to a report from CBRE. “Clearly, Downtown is leading the upward re-pricing trend. Asking […]
Veracen Partners is among a set of several new tenants to take space at Boston Properties’ 250 West 55th Street, signing a 10-year, 11,263-square-foot lease for a portion of the 16th floor at the 38-story tower. CBRE, which represented the landlord, announced the lease concurrently with a 7,196-square-foot deal with RTW Investments & LifeSci Capital […]
Tokyo-based Sumitomo Corporation has acquired a 581,107 square-foot office tower in downtown Chicago for $111.5 million. The 27-story class A mixed-use building is located at 203 North LaSalle in the Central Loop district. The office sale transaction did not include the retail space on the first and second floors, nor the 10 levels of parking. […]
A joint venture of Lincoln Property Company and Newport Beach, Calif.-based investment manager PIMCO, has retained HFF to sell their 29-story office tower located at 230 West Monroe on Chicago’s West Loop. The JV acquired the 623,524-square-foot in August 2012 for $91.3 million from General Electric Pension Trust. 230 West Monroe is currently 67.6 percent […]
DLA Piper has signed a lease to relocate its Chicago law office to River Point at 444 W. Lake Street in Chicago’s West Loop area. The firm has leased approximately 175,000 square feet of office space on levels 9-16 in River Point and will move to their new space in early 2017. Another law firm, […]
Customer Relationship Software (CRM) company, salesforce.com, has leased 714,000 square feet in the 61-story high-rise at 415 Mission Street in San Francisco, which is under construction. Cushman & Wakefield’s Vice Chairman Dan Harvey and his team of brokerage professionals in the firm’s San Francisco office represented salesforce.com in the transaction, which is the single largest […]
Abandoned warehouses and manufacturing lands are being transformed into a sustainable urban mixed-use master-planned community on the Oakland Estuary—a move forward, developers say, for a forgotten part of Oakland’s history. The project, Brooklyn Basin, is being developed by Oakland Harbor Partners, which includes Oakland-based Signature Harbor Partners, owned by James and Michael Ghielmetti, commercial development […]
After many stops and starts over the years, including designs from Renzo Piano, Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Pelli Clark Pelli, developer TMG Partners has hired Foster + Partners and Heller Manus Architects to take a crack at designing a pair of high-rise buildings at First and Mission in San Francisco. The approximately two million […]
West coast developer Schnitzer West plans to build a 16-story Class A+ office building in Bellevue, Washington. The project site is located in the central business district on the corner of 106th Avenue Northeast and Northeast Fourth Street. Plans call for a 360,000-square foot office building that will include street-level retail and a Bank of […]
Four elevations of aluminum facade are undergoing a complete restoration at 1201 Third Avenue, a 55-story office building in the heart of downtown Seattle. Built in 1988, the high-rise has experienced wear and tear over the years, creating an aged facade in need of cleaning. The architectural restoration company, Stuart Dean, will clean, refinish and […]
Capstone Development Partners (CDP) and Cornish College of the Arts are working together to bring new student housing, classrooms and administrative offices to the Cornish campus in downtown Seattle. “We are so pleased to partner with CDP on this project,” said Cornish President Nancy J. Uscher. “This new building will be the heart of our […]
Harrah’s Resort Southern California in Valley Center, CA, takes its commitment to building a better playground seriously. The entertainment company’s most recent project encompasses a new 21-story Resort Tower that will accompany the existing casino and hotel. The resort recently changed its name. It was formerly known as Harrah’s Rincon, after the American Indian reservation […]
Believed to be the largest net-zero energy commercial office building in the United States, a 13-story office tower has just been completed in La Jolla, California. Tower II at La Jolla Commons is the new San Diego headquarters of LPL Financial LLC, an RIA custodian. In the weeks leading up to the office’s opening, more […]
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced today that the 2016 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo will move from San Diego to Los Angeles. The announcement came during the Clinton Global Initiative’s 21st Century Infrastructure and Innovation for a Resilient Economy event, where Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and former President Bill Clinton, a previous […]
The Fallon Company and Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers have secured $204 million in construction financing for the development of Two Harbor Shore Drive, a 516,000-square-foot office building on Fan Pier in Boston’s Seaport District. HFF worked on behalf of the joint venture to obtain the construction loan through RBS Citizens. Due for completion in Spring […]
Developer Joseph Fallon has begun construction on a 17-story office and retail high-rise on Northern Avenue, in Boston’s Fan Pier district. this will be the fourth commercial tower on Fan Pier. The 515,000 square foot, build-to-suit tower will house the Boston office of global law firm Goodwin Procter LLP. Fan Pier is one of the […]
Beginning in September 2014, Boston-based Wentworth Institute of Technology will offer its Master of Science in Facility Management in a fully online format in addition to the current on-campus format. This represents the third fully online degree program for the Institute. Both the on-campus and online formats will continue to be offered part-time to appeal […]
Houston-based developer Midway, and hotel operator Valencia Group, announced plans yesterday for Hotel Alessandra, a 25-story luxury high-rise hotel in downtown Houston’s GreenStreet district. Formerly known as the Houston Pavilions, GreenStreet is a Class-A mixed-use project, spanning four city blocks, connected via sky bridges and above-ground walkways. Slated to debut in late 2016, this venture […]
Unlike many facilities professionals, Greg Pell didn’t venture into commercial real estate management with previous experience, or by climbing the ranks. An industry leader took a chance on him, and Pell excelled in his very first role as property manager. Paying it forward as his career developed, Pell now enjoys identifying potential in young industry […]
The Interfin Companies has broken ground on their luxury high-rise condominium known as Belfiore, located in the Uptown area of Houston. The ceremony included a blessing from Most Reverend Joseph A. Fiorenza Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston followed by the groundbreaking conducted by Scott Schwinger, Giorgio Borlenghi, Joe Hudson and Joseph Lopez donning hard hats with […]
One of Dallas’ largest law firms, Gardere Wynne Sewell, has signed on to become the anchor tenant at a tower set to begin construction this summer. The firm is leaving Thanksgiving Tower for Crescent Real Estate’s 20-story high-rise. Gardere’s approximately 109,000 square foot lease will kick-start the development at 2021 McKinney Avenue. Gardere will move […]
Hines is planning to build a new 23-story office tower in the Victory Park neighborhood of Dallas. The high-rise office building will be located at 2371 Victory Avenue just north of Hines’ One Victory Park development. The 470,000-square-foot building will have prominent visibility along Interstate-35 and include 15 levels of office space with views of […]
One Main Place, a 33-story office high-rise located at 1201 Main Street in Dallas’ Central Business District, is under new ownership according to Elie Khoury, President and CEO of the New Orleans-based KFK Group. Designed by world renowned architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One Main Place is considered to be a longtime landmark of […]
MB1 Capital Partners and Aquinas Realty Partners today announced the official groundbreaking for the construction of the AQ Rittenhouse, a mixed-use, apartment-retail-classroom tower at 2021 Chestnut Street in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. The $40 million complex, due to be completed by the end of the year, will be constructed on the site of the former Philadelphia […]
Rubenstein Partners has acquired Philadelphia’s Penn Mutual Towers, a historic Class A complex spanning 850,000 square feet at 510-530 Walnut Street in the heart of the historic section of Center City. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) has been named exclusive leasing agent for the three buildings, the tallest of which rises to 22 stories. It […]
Philadelphia-area mechanical construction and energy services firm Burns Mechanical has announced the appointment of Matthew Rafferty as service manager of its service division. Burns is a leading provider of mechanical service in the Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware regions, and its clients benefit from an extensive array of service offerings as well as exceptional […]
The cachet of owning the finest property in the centre of town is irresistible to the world’s billionaires, who are increasingly looking for the ultra-luxurious bricks and mortar in the top cities. But where large-scale lateral square footage is hard to find, property developers are building up, with lavish new skyscrapers in some of the […]
Parkway Properties has acquired One Orlando Centre, a 19-story, 356,000 square foot, Class A office building located in Orlando, Florida. The high-rise was built in 1987 and includes an 8-story parking garage. The property is 81.3% occupied and is expected to generate an initial full-year cash net operating income yield of 7.0%. James R. Heistand, […]
Turnberry Ocean Club is the latest residential real estate project in the works for Jeffery Soffer’s Turnberry Associates, best known for Miami Beach’s landmark Fountainbleau resort. Designed by Carlos Zapata, Turnberry Ocean Club is a luxury high-rise condominium development located at 18501 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles, Florida. With more than $7 billion in commercial and […]
Sotherly Hotels has acquired the Georgian Terrace Hotel, an adjacent 698-space parking structure and a 0.6 acre development parcel for $61.0 million. The seller was Fremont Realty Capital. The 326-room independent, full-service hotel is located in Atlanta, Georgia’s Midtown business district and will be managed by Chesapeake Hospitality. The original 10-story tower, nicknamed the “Grand […]
Dallas-based Behringer Harvard Multifamily REIT I, Inc. has started construction on Cyan on Peachtree, a new 329-unit luxury multifamily property with a prominent Peachtree Road address in the heart of the Buckhead office and entertainment district approximately five miles north of downtown Atlanta. The property will include a 23-story residential tower and an adjacent seven-level […]
Residents living in Novare’s SkyHouse Atlanta and SkyHouse Orlando high-rises are now able to participate in a bike sharing service. Zagster, a company that provides bike sharing programs for real estate providers has partnered with Novare Group, a developer of mixed-use high-rise communities in southeastern urban markets, to offer the new service. The cruiser-style bikes […]
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March 6, 2014
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Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on Viginia’s new tallest office building — a speculative 35-story high-rise at 1812 N. Moore St., Rosslyn, Virginia. In fact, it will be one of the Washington region’s tallest office towers, delivering into one of the most sluggish office markets in years. The developer is Monday Properties, the New York-based property firm that owns the Helmsley Building at 230 Park Ave. in Manhattan.
Monday’s Executive Vice President Tim Helmig said interest in the office tower has been steadily on the rise since the first of the year, heightened now that prospective tenants can tour the space. The completed structure now also allows them to imagine where their offices might sit and how they might gaze out over the sweeping views of Washington’s skyline.
Designed by Davis, Carter, Scott Ltd., the 580,000 square-foot building will be certified LEED Core & Shell Platinum. Monday Properties worked closely with Arlington County officials in planning the building to take advantage of building density incentives. The building includes high-efficiency mechanical systems, preferred parking for hybrid vehicles, and direct access to the Rosslyn metro station.
Helmig, who has been involved in the project since its inception, highlighted the building’s selling points on a recent tour of the nearly 580,000-square-foot structure. Looking forward, Helmig said he hopes to sign an anchor tenant within the next 180 days.