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Connecting from Afar
As a Peace Corps volunteer serving in rural Paraguay, I encountered moments when a quick internet search would have been a blessing. The resource could help with verb conjunction as I fumbled through Spanish or event planning during the rainy season. I shrugged off the inconvenience as part of the job. Away from the city, […]
06 / 20 / 13
WWDC 2013
“If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything?” That was the opening line of the 24th Apple World Wide Developers Conference that wrapped up last week. Tickets to this year’s event sold out in only 71 seconds. Over 1,000 engineers from more than 60 countries gathered for the first-look reveals of software, […]
06 / 18 / 13
#NAAEduConf
The 2013 NAA Education Conference & Exposition is just around the corner. Next week at this time I’ll be in sunny San Diego, listening to the wisdom of business virtuosos like Richard Branson, Erik Wahl, and Bert Jacobs. If Lauren Boston is right, I may see a few tears shed into lunch napkins. For me, […]
06 / 14 / 13
Still Recovering
Seven months after Hurricane Sandy barricaded into the East Coast, New York and surrounding areas are still reeling from the impact. The massive superstorm left an indelible mark on a number of buildings and infrastructure projects, and reverberations of the damages will also affect many future developments. At the New York State Association for Affordable […]
06 / 13 / 13
Animated Apertures
Green design features are here to stay. And as they become more ubiquitous in the multifamily development landscape, expectations for innovation just keep on growing. A team of Los Angeles architects is among those encouraging drastic changes to apartment buildings, and they’ve focused their efforts on windows. B+U Architects initiated the Animated Apertures Housing Tower […]
06 / 12 / 13
Apartments Get Arty
A man’s home is his castle. But a person’s apartment community could be her gym, business center and social lounge. And, in some cases, a gallery. That’s right; some property managers are setting up art installations so that residents can view beautiful works of art from famous and local artists right in their very own […]
06 / 11 / 13
Asus Transformer Trio
Asus is at it again. Imagination and innovation are once more on display with the newly revealed Transformer Book Trio. A mind-blowing gadget, it’s a slick notebook, a dockable tablet and a veritable desktop PC, all in one. The world’s first three-in-one mobile device is designed to offer extreme flexibility, encompassing work, play, and social […]
06 / 11 / 13
Project for Pride in Living
You may think you know what affordable housing looks like. Until you’ve taken a look at the amazing variety of projects developed by Twin Cities non-profit Project for Pride in Living, you may be wrong. PPL, serving lower-income families and individuals in Minneapolis and St. Paul for over four decades, has an impressive array of […]
06 / 10 / 13
Intel Haswell
We’ve blogged before on the shift from PCs and laptops to tablets, a trend that still has momentum at its back. Intel, the world’s leading chip manufacturer for personal computers, has announced the release of a new product that may reasonably swing the balance—or at least level the playing field. Intel’s Haswell chip has been […]
06 / 07 / 13
Music Matters
Amy Bassett, Director of Education and Community Engagement for the Santa Barbara Symphony, knows how much difference music can make in the life of a child. She has experienced its power first-hand. Growing up in a very small town in Massachusetts, Amy was exposed to the power of music via television broadcasts of the Boston […]
Shopping for Gen Y
As more of the 80 million-member Millennial generation enters the workforce, these so-called Gen Y-ers, age 18 to 35, are on everybody’s minds these days as one of the largest—and most fickle—groups to influence housing, shopping and the workplace. Financially strong and responsible, they nonetheless like to shop, prefer convenient housing over expansive, and while […]
06 / 05 / 13
Skyreaching Heights
Here’s a trivia question for you: Without cheating and looking at your smartphone, can you name the top ten tallest buildings in the world? And for bonus points: do you know that one of the planet’s highest skyscrapers has a Yardi connection? Until not too long ago, the world’s tallest skyscraper, was the Petronas Towers […]
06 / 04 / 13
Picture Perfect
Here at Point2, we help real estate agents market themselves and their properties. That means we spend a lot of time looking at listing photos. We’ve seen them all – the good, the bad and the truly incomprehensible. While we all know that evocative listing photos can promote a property by encouraging viewers to picture […]
06 / 04 / 13
New Lease on Life
As any redevelopment professional knows, the challenge of turning an aging, crime-ridden, Section 8 property into a trendy, coveted, market-rate lifestyle community is no small task. It requires vision, planning, enthusiasm and fearless execution. But with the right attitude, aggressive mobility and perhaps a little luck, amazing transformations can become reality. In Oklahoma City, there’s […]
06 / 03 / 13
Jacquelyn Bauer
We can almost guarantee that within one click of your mouse, we can convince you that Point2’s office in Saskatoon, located in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, is a pretty fantastic place to work. Why? Well, the company is known for its team cohesion and spirit. And then there’s the secret weapon: the cooking abilities […]
05 / 31 / 13
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