Operations & Technology
Student Housing Is Not for Amateurs
There is opportunity aplenty in the student housing sector for firms willing to study hard and follow the lead of the seasoned pros.
AMCAL to Debut First LEED Silver Affordable Housing Project
Panorama City, Calif.–AMCAL Multi-Housing Inc. is taking its commitment to a new level with the Los Angeles-area Montecito Terraces senior workforce housing project.
Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program
The NFIP expired in 2008 and has since been operating on a series of extensions. Efforts to reauthorize have been coupled with needed reforms to return the program to solvency.
Green Incentives for Brownfield Development
Green building and brownfield development are walking hand-in-hand these days, with urban infill projects likely to take a lead in the multi-housing comeback.
Lend Lease to Reduce Military-Housing Energy Use
New York–Lend Lease launches a program to decrease energy use by 20 percent at its 65.3 million square-foot Military Housing Privatization Initiative portfolio.
Laticrete and Supercap Join Forces to Pump Concrete Sky High
Laticrete International has entered into a partnership with Supercap to form Laticrete Supercap LLC. The company uses high-tech pumping trucks to deliver self-leveling underlayment up to 50 stories high.
Suburban D.C. Townhouses Win First New LEED Platinum Designation
Silver Spring, Md.–USGBC has certified Blair Towns, a suburban D.C. multifamily property, LEED Platinum, making it the first property certified as such anywhere in the world.
TODAY’S DEALS: IPA Sells Newly Constructed L.A. Community for $133M
IPA completes the sale of a newly constructed 438-unit property in Los Angeles for $133 million; Tryko picks up a campus of age-restricted properties in West Philadelphia; and GFI sells a rent-stabilized building in Brooklyn for $5.15 million.
Campus Suites Communities Go to Head of Class
Orlando-based Campus Suites is figuring out that today’s student housing market has a higher expectation built in than it once did.
MHN TV: Regulatory and Benchmarking Update
MHN interviews AUM executives at the 2011 NAA conference in Las Vegas. Jeffrey Peterson and Jim Kenneally share information about water meter regulations in California as well as benchmarking green attributes in affordable housing.