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Amenities Feature
Here are some more important facts about millennials: Millennials expect luxury. This fortunate group has grown up with granite counters and stainless steel appliances and they believe that hardwood floors are a birthright. The mobile and tech savvy consumers favour urban chic hotels when they travel and they expect their apartments to have similar amenities. Apartment developers who want to appeal to the new breed of renters should consider hiring an architect with hotel experience. Millennials need work space. When they are not travelling, millennials often work from home, so in addition to an office space in their unit, they need a place to meet clients. Apartments with a hotel-style business centre and conference rooms are at the top of the list for these renters who bring their work home but prefer to meet their clients elsewhere.
Millennials need space for guests. Unfortunately, their propensity for working at home often means the millennials’ second bedroom is an office, leaving them without a guest room. To solve this problem, an increasing number of apartment communities are offering furnished hotel-style guest suites to accommodate overnight guests. These one- and two-bedroom suites are comparably priced to hotel rooms and are more convenient than sending guests to a hotel. Millennials think green. They may eschew politics but they do tend to be green-conscious consumers. These civic minded renters read magazines like Dwell and view their homes as an extension of themselves. Recycling programs and sustainable building features are hot buttons with this socially responsible crowd. August/September 2013 11