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Nick Falker of Cambridge Realty Partners | The Elm in New Haven | Second Cities

Nick Falker is the Managing Partner at Cambridge Realty Partners based in New Haven, Connecticut. His firm has been investing and developing in real estate opportunistically since 1978. Beginning in 2015, the company pivoted to focus on the New Haven multifamily residential market. We will be discussing with him about The Elm, a new construction multi-family building in downtown New Haven. More broadly, we will discuss the rise of the second city during COVID and what other cities may learn from it.

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Arthi Krishnamoorthy of Deborah Berke Partners | The Princeton Residential Colleges in Princeton | In-Between Space

Today we are joined by Arthi Krishnamoorthy, a partner at Deborah Berke Partners, the renowned architectural design firm. We discuss the two new Residential Colleges that her team has designed at Princeton University, including the strategies she uses to make university buildings feel more homely for students. Join us today as we discuss Arthi’s journey from Southeast Asia to the cornfields of Urbana Champaign to West Philadelphia as well as how she brings to her designs to transform architectural spaces.

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Paul Lewis of LTL Architects | Carnegie Mellon University Residence & Academic Hub in Pittsburgh | Designing for Education

In today's episode, Paul Lewis, Principal at LTL Architects based in New York City, shares his experience of working on projects for universities across the United States, from NYU to the University of Wyoming. As the Professor and Associate Dean at Princeton University School of Architecture, he works with students to develop environmentally sensitive and sustainable projects. Listen to this week’s episode to learn more about Paul’s experience as a designer as well as his most recent project working on the Carnegie Mellon University Residence & Academic Hub.

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Lauren Eckhart Smith of Alagem Capital Group | One Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills | Large-Scale Sustainable Design

We are joined today by our guest Lauren Eckhart Smith, the Head of Design at Alagem Capital Group in Beverly Hills, California. She speaks to us about One Beverly Hills, a mixed-use project that includes residential, retail, hotel and both new construction and renovation components. More broadly, we discuss how this particular 17.5-acre site is one of the largest projects incorporating sustainable design and architecture in California, far beyond the hand-waving that we see in our industry.

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Lea Cloud of CDR Studio Architects | Bushwick Townhouse in New York City | Designing Connectivity

In this week’s episode, we will be speaking to Lea Cloud about her experience working at PKSB Architects and co-founding CDR Studio Architects with Victoria Rospond in 1995. She shares with us her experience working in Passive House, sustainable design, architectural design, interiors and comprehensive planning. We also learn more about her project in Brooklyn where the Bushwick townhouse is located, a project where she incorporates the concepts of connectivity and openness to allow growth and change for the client.

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Peter Brosens of Stolar Capital | Chatham on Main in Chatham | What's Workforce Housing

In today’s episode, we will be speaking with Peter (Pete) Brosens, the co-founder of Stolar Capital, a real estate investment firm with offices in Hoboken and Philadelphia. Since 2012, the firm’s focus has been on developing large mixed-use projects in transit-oriented downtown locations in New Jersey.

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Faith Rose of O’Neill Rose Architects | Cowboy Heaven in Big Sky | Redefining Residential

Today we will be speaking with Faith Rose, a founding partner of O’Neill Rose Architects, a design firm based in Brooklyn. Her firm builds projects that have distinct physical, cultural, and historical conditions that create rich and meaningful spaces. She shares how her projects use a versatile approach to creating space that reflects and frames her client’s aspirations. One such project is Cowboy Heaven, a vacation home project in Big Sky.

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Johanna Anderson of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services | Founders Way in Ithaca | Affordable Housing Development

In today’s episode, we will be speaking with Johanna Anderson, Executive Director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. We will be speaking about Founder’s Way, a major mixed-use project in downtown Ithaca, New York on the site of a former Catholic school. This project was purchased by INHS from the Immaculate Conception School at 320 West Buffalo St. in Ithaca from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.

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Yasmin Rehmanjee of Buro Happold | The Hudson’s Site in Detroit | Urban Redevelopment

In today’s episode, we will be speaking with Yasmin Rehmanjee, partner and Co-Director of the New York office of Buro Happold. She has had two decades of structural engineering design experience, leading large-scale, multidisciplinary projects such as the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Today we will be speaking to Yasmin about the Hudson’s Site in downtown Detroit, a 680-foot mixed-use project that will pay homage to the late department store and tallest retail building in the world.

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Jenny Peysin of Jenny Peysin Architecture | Wilderness Drive in East Jewett | Passive House Design

This week we will be speaking with Jenny Peysin, a licensed architect based in Brooklyn, NYC, about her current passive house project, Wilderness Drive in the Catskills region of upstate New York. As the founder of Jenny Peysin Architecture, her approach to design is rooted in a modernist philosophy, one that incorporates people with the spaces in which they live and work.

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Chris Mazzola of Bijou Properties | 7Seventy House in Hoboken | Mitigating Environmental Hazards

Today we will be speaking with Chris Mazzola, the Director of Development at Bijou Properties. We will hear more about the 7Seventy House, a new major mixed-use development in Hoboken, New Jersey, and dive into Chris’s personal experience working on this development. At a broader level, we will also touch on the impact of climate change on urban real estate portfolios and how this has led to evident shifts in urban development projects.

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Camila Crazut of Spivak Architects | Central Park West in New York City | Client Chemistry

Today we speak with Camila Crazut, an architect and interior designer working as a Project Manager at Spivak Architects in New York City. After training and becoming licensed as an architect in Venezuela, Camila came to the US to extend her training with a degree in interior design. Regardless of the title, Camila identifies as a designer capable of a wide range of creative projects, including the project we focus on today, a Central Park West residential apartment.

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Alicia Hylton-Daniel of Hylton Daniel | Modernist 4 in Durham | Durham Does Modern

In today’s episode, we will be speaking with Alicia Hylton-Daniel who is the founder of Hylton Daniel, a design and construction company in Durham, North Carolina. Today we will be speaking with her about Modernist 4, a new single-family home project currently in development.

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Rachel Loeb of NYCEDC | Bronx Point in Bronx | Building with Integrity

Today, our guest is Rachel Loeb. Rachel is the President and CEO of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. NYCEDC is a mission-driven non-profit organization that works on behalf of New York City to invest in neighborhoods to address long-standing community needs. We’ll chat about the Bronx Point project, which broke ground earlier this year.

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Kirk Mitchell of AKT Designs | North Woodland St in Englewood | The Client's Desire

Today, our guest is architect Kirk Mitchell. Kirk is the founder and principal at AKT Designs, an architecture and interior design firm based in Bergen County, New Jersey. We will be talking about 432 Woodland, a spectacular renovation of a single-family home in the Palisades, a stunning cliffside area of northern New Jersey.

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MaryAnne Gilmartin of MAG Partners | 241 West 28th Street in New York City | Building When No One Else Is

Listen in as MaryAnne Gilmartin, founder and CEO of MAG Partners, walks us through the process of their latest project, 241 West 28th St, a new-construction, residential building in Chelsea, Manhattan. This building was the only major development in the city to break ground last year during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Predictions for 2023 from Leading Housing Developers

Predictions for 2023 from Leading Housing Developers