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10 LEED 2009 vs. LEED v.4 12 The Best in Texas Precast Awards -2016

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A new awards program recognizing design excellence, innovation and construction with precast concrete.

22 The TOBY Awards 26 Top Notch – The Architect of Light

Local and Regional winners in BOMA’s 2017 (The) Outstanding Building of the Year awards.

With his imprimatur on stunning architectural designs around the world, Charles Stone’s magic with lighting is truly inspirational.

30 Managing Cybersecurity Risk in the Real Estate Industry 36 He Ought to Have a Street Named After Him!

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Munsch Hardt’s Jessi Neufeld offers valuable insight into this growing problem

Contributor Roxana Tofan examines what it takes (in San Antonio) to honor someone by having a street named after him or her.

Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold uses graphology to peek inside the mind and brain of our 45th president – Donald Trump.

44 The 2017 Pritzker Prize 45 Your Workplace Is (or should be) Telling You Something Architecture’s highest honor is bestowed on Spanish firm - RCR Arquitectes

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Business Development Consultant Sandra Kimball offers sage advice on how workplace design can impact performance and employee satisfaction.

46 Queen of the Curve – The Architecture of Zaha Hadid 52 That’ll Be the Day 55 The Cost of Waiting 56 The Future is Now!

A glimpse of the astounding creativity of the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

A look at the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts in Lubbock.

Mortgage professional Jason Dickson says that now is a great time to buy in Texas.

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17 You Need to Know – the 25th Amendment 32 Amazing Buildings – George Lucas’s Passion Project 38 Artchitecture – Hidden Images

Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne examines the creator of Star Wars’ ambitious art museum.

Oleg Shupliak creates intriguing optical illusions with pictures carefully concealed in other pictures – very much to the viewer’s delight.

40 Herstory – Of Thee I Sing

Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley looks at the 1931 Broadway musical that must have been (at least in part) the inspiration for todays’ hit show, Hamilton.

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41 The History Page

A list of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the years they were passed. And – an introduction to the first First Lady of the United States.

48 Legal View: Case Law Update

Attorney and Contributing Editor Anthony Barbieri delves into some of the more interesting and meaningful judicial decisions of the last year.

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43 (The Man Who Says He Will) Make AMeRiCa GReAT AGAiN

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6 Our Affiliates | On the Cover 7 Contributing Writers 8 Editor’s Note/InBox 14 CBRE 15 JLL Need to Know – The 25th 17 You Amendment 50 Product Showcase 53 Shout Outs 54 Professionals on the Move 54 In the News in a Name? Places With 57 What’s Bizarre Names.

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Links Marketplace and 59 The Directory Page: Our Advertisers/ 62 Back Contest Winners/Answers/ Coming Next Issue IBC Contest – Sports Awards

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On the Cover: Self Portrait Under the Lime Trees

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“I painted myself as a little boy when I first started to draw. Now, as a mature artist, in Self Portrait Under the Lime Trees, I symbolically show my entire career. I am also trying to convey that we are changing over the years, but, in so many ways, we always remain children.”

See more of his work on pages 38-39.

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ANTHONY BARBIERI (P. 48) is a shareholder at Kessler Collins, where he enjoys a broad legal practice. He has been a speaker for ICSC, IREM, and BOMA, has taught continuinglegal education seminars, and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star for many years, as well as being a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. He and his wife, Cathy, enjoy traveling and spending time with their extended families, getting involved in their church and supporting the community through various programs – including raising awareness of muscular dystrophy, education and exercise to fight heart disease, providing care and treatment for autism, and counseling domestic-violence victims. He is also a Contributing Editor of the network.

JASON DICKSON (P. 55) is the Texas Regional Manager for Churchill Mortgage. In his spare time, Jason and his wife Lauren, along with their 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, enjoy traveling throughout the Southwest.

MICHELLE DRESBOLD (P. 43) is an artist and author.

Her book, Sex, Lies, and Handwriting, published by Simon and Schuster, takes you into the mysterious world of dotted “i’s” and crossed “t’s”. As the only civilian to be invited to the United States Secret Service’s Advanced Document Examination training program, she draws on her extensive experience helping law enforcement agencies around the country and has testified in court on cases involving kidnapping, arson, forgery, murder, embezzlement, and stalking. Her TV appearances include NBC’s Today Show, CBS’ Early Show, Fox & Friends, The O’Reilly Factor, and Inside Edition. She also contributed to The History Channel’s documentary on Jack the Ripper, in which she presented information from Sex, Lies, and Handwriting that connects the dots… and the killer’s handwriting…to the suspect who got away, American serial killer Frances Tumblety.

SANDRA KIMBALL’s (P. 45) dynamic career began with twelve years in real estate, serving the Austin and Houston markets with luxury and waterfront homes. She spent the next several years consulting commercial building owners on energy management and sourcing strategic partnerships around the globe. Today, she consults with small and medium sized companies on effective and quantifiable business development strategies. She serves as a Board Member of CCIM and is an Austin Chamber Ambassador. Sandra has done many speaking engagements and training seminars including AAFAME, HGTV’s Design Camp, CREW, SXSW, and the Austin Chamber of Commerce. She leads the Texas Chapter of United Freedom Caucus, gives her time to Austin Angels and barn raising efforts for local families in need. For fun, Sandra hosts ridiculous parties for her three amazing children.

ANDERS MODIG (P. 26) is a Swedish journalist based in Switzerland. He specializes in lighting, architecture and watches. Besides Ljuskultur, the Swedish publication where his article originally appeared, he has been editor in chief of seven publications and his work has appeared in 40 titles around the globe including Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair On Time, Der Standard, South China Morning Post, Beijing Evening News, Sunday Herald Sun (AU) and The last Magazine (USA).

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ANGELA O’BYRNE (P. 32) is the president of national architecture, design-build, and real estate development firm Perez, APC. She champions the principles of smart growth in her home community of New Orleans and in her frequent travels across the country and abroad. Born in Cali, Colombia. Angela is a licensed architect in over a dozen states, a licensed general contractor in Louisiana, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the National CREW Network (Commercial Real Estate Women) Board of Directors. A singer, golfer, music-lover, and globetrotter, she relishes spending free time with her three grown children and large extended family. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and her Amazing Buildings feature appears in every issue.

ROSE-MARY RUMBLEY (P. 40) holds a Ph.D. in communications from the University of North Texas. She is a well-known speaker in Texas and enjoys researching each and every topic. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and Herstory appears in every issue.

ROXANA TOFAN (P. 36), aside from entrepreneurship, has a passion for and a boundless energy for giving back to the military. She is deeply involved with different programs and events for active military personnel and serves on the San Antonio USO Advisory Council as the Vice President - Fundraising. When she is not running her business, volunteering for the USO, or cheering at baseball games and orchestra concerts, she enjoys history, traveling and NASCAR. Roxana is a regular contributor to the network.

ALLISON WILSON (P. 10) is an architect and sustainability strategist with Ayers Saint Gross. She supports high-performance building and planning objectives across the firm, providing analytical support to the design process, integrating sustainability into campus master plans, and helping projects achieve LEED certification. She serves the design community as the Secretary of USGBC Texas Central Texas Regional Council and the Secretary of the ACE Mentor Program of Austin. She was the lead author of the Sustainable DC Plan, an urban sustainability strategy to transform Washington, DC into the “healthiest, greenest, most livable city in the nation by 2032,” has worked extensively with Texas A&M University’s master planning efforts, and was a student leader of the U.S. Department of Energy’s winning Solar Decathlon 2011 project, WaterShed.

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Reinventing History | It Sounds Reasonable Actual Answers to 6th Grade History Tests • Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wore hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

• Solomon had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.

• The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

• Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

• In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits and threw the Java.

• Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”

• Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw.

• Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen, she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted, Hurrah.”

• It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100foot clipper.

• The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couple. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid

by Juliet.

What a wonderful blend of information and fun! The Network is my favorite magazine – and the March issue just might have been the best one yet!

- Emma Ettinger, Colleyville, TX Herstory? The History Page? The Geography Page? You Need to Know? I keep finding myself talking with someone in my office about something I learned in The Network. What a surprising source for such a wide range of interesting topics!

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• Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, “A horse divided against itself cannot stand.” Franklin died in 1700 and is still dead.

• Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest Precedent. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show.

They believe the assassinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career and the play for everyone.

• Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between, he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic.

Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English.

He was very large.

• Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him.

Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

• The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.

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• Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

• Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost.

Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

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ALLISON WILSON awilson@asg-architects.com Allison Wilson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C is an architect and sustainability strategist with Ayers Saint Gross, a nationally recognized leader in highperformance design for colleges, universities, and cultural institutions.

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LEED 2009 vs. LEEDv4

he United States Green Building Council’s premier green building rating system, LEED 2009, phased out on October 31, 2016. All projects registered thereafter (after the ‘sunset’) are required to meet the more stringent requirements of LEEDv4.

Many entities, public and private, have standing statements that they either a) certify all new buildings and major renovations to LEED Silver or b) that they design all new building and major renovations to LEED Silver equivalent.

As LEED 2009 has evolved into LEEDv4, however, so has the definition of a LEED Silver building, and that will have implications on how the architectural, engineering, construction, and development communities create projects.

A new Integrative Process credit category encourages teams to begin addressing performance early and requires a schematic design phase energy model (typically done by the architect) and a water budget (typically completed by the plumbing engineer). The number of total points required to hit a desired level of certification also remains the same.

The time for general understanding has passed. LEEDv4 is the premier green building rating system offered by USGBC and understanding the new rating system in depth will allow project teams to advance the caliber of highperformance buildings. Design and development teams need to get in the weeds about LEEDv4 to have confidence in certifying a building under the new rating system and achieve the higher return on investment third-party verified performance provides.

USGBC Texas Central Region is providing six sessions in Austin this year to provide the in-depth education the AEC and development community need to advance LEEDv4 projects across the state. The sessions will provide networking and in-depth credit-by-credit comparisons between LEED 2009 and LEEDv4 so teams gain confidence about certifying projects under the new system.

In addition, attendance supports LEED professionals in maintaining their professional credentials through LEED-specific education.

USGBC Texas Central Region is excited to provide an opportunity to learn how the specifics of LEEDv4 will influence design and sustainability. LEEDv4 and other competitive green building rating systems, standards, and codes will push the AEC and development community to create more efficient highperformance buildings that serve the community and the world.

All sessions are being hosted at TreeHouse in Austin (4477 S Lamar Blvd #600, Austin, TX 78745) from 5:30 – 7:00 pm. The sessions start with networking, food, and beverages followed by the continuing education unit. Register online at: https://usgbctexas.wildapricot.org/events

Beyond the structural similarities, LEEDv4’s credit calculations are vastly different than LEED 2009’s in almost every case. Compliance is demonstrated through different metrics in many cases, including access to public transportation and community connectivity which historically were “lowhanging fruit” credits.

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These sessions will dive into the nitty-gritty of what designing under this new rating system will mean, including: • Transportation Access. LEEDv4’s public transportation access credit counts the number of trips made by public transit infrastructure, whereas LEED 2009 counted the number of public transit lines. Projects that previously may not have qualified for any public transit points under LEED 2009 may be able to access a point under LEEDv4.

• Covered Bicycle Parking. Under LEEDv4, both institutional and residential buildings require covered bicycle parking. Under the old system, only residential buildings had to meet this requirement.

• Regional Materials. LEEDv4 does not offer points especially for sourcing materials from within 500 miles of a project as LEED 2009 did. Sourcing materials locally now allows project teams to double the value of local materials when performing building material optimization calculations.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

The basics of LEED certification have stayed the same. The same number of total points exist within the system and only minor point shifts have occurred across credit categories. The biggest structural change to the system is the division of LEED 2009’s Sustainable Sites category into two in LEEDv4 - Location and Transportation and Sustainable Sites. The scope of the new LEEDv4 categories is comparable to LEED 2009’s single Sustainable Sites category but differentiates between criteria that are likely met prior to a project’s arrival on site (Location and Transportation) and criteria that a project itself is likely responsible for meeting (Sustainable Sites).

• Energy modeling baseline updated from ASHRAE90.1-2007 to ASHRAE 90.1-2010 • Increased scope of fixtures addressed by water efficiency credits, including lab equipment among other process fixtures; • Restructured Materials and Resources credits that push for transparency in manufacturing and multi-attribute sustainability in building products; • Increased synergies with LEED for Neighborhood Development and SITES; and • New metrics in daylighting to more accurately account for daily and annual variations.

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LEED 2009 is the most widely adopted green building rating system on the planet, and it follows that LEEDv4 is likely to command a similar percentage of market share for green building certifications. However, since LEED 2009 debuted, a number of other rating systems, standards, and codes have been established, including the Living Building Challenge, IgCC, and ASHRAE189.1.

LEEDv4 walked into a much more crowded certification marketplace than LEED 2009 did. These sessions will discuss how LEEDv4 is being received by early and mid-range adopters to the sustainability movement as well as how later adopters are responding.

Summer’s Summer Reading List Non-Fiction • Arriba by Juan Tanamerra • Computer Memories by Meg Abight • Pressure Relief by My Korsetsov • Events in The Former Soviet Union by Perry Stroyka

Biography • Ladies’ Man by Phil Anderer • My Role in the Industrial Revolution by Otto Mattick • Astronauts in Space by Landon Moon • I Was a Cloakroom Attendant by Mahatma Koate

Self-Help

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

• 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Howie “Gunner” Dudiss • Overcoming Nervousness on Radio by Mike Fright • Positive Reinforcement by Wade Duhgo • How to Read a Book by Paige Turner Fiction • Who Killed Cock Robin? by Howard I. Know • The Glass Bikini by Seymour Skynn • Fastest Gun in the West by Everett DeRedi • Breaking the Law by Kermit A. Kryme

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Highway Bridge - Dallas Horseshoe Project

Bexar Concrete Works, I Pegasus Link Constructors An $850 million reconstruction project of the I-30 and I-35E bridges that cross the Trinity River in Dallas, and the related downtown “Mixmaster” interchanges. Currently serving 450,000 vehicles every day, the project includes six major long-span bridges over the Trinity River, each of which required (at minimum) 250 foot spans to accommodate future river basin development. The project team selected, designed, fabricated and constructed variable-depth, continuous concrete spliced girders for these spans, made up of precast segments fabricated and partially stressed off-site. Precast elements were shipped to the site, erected on temporary shoring, joined and fully stressed in place to create (essentially) a monolithic construction of at least 1000 feet for all six bridges.

State Bridge - 7th St Bridge:

Sundt Construction, Texas Department of Transportation, Heldenfels Enterprises, Inc. Complete replacement of the aging West 7th St. Bridge in Fort Worth. Utilizing on-site construction with precast arches, prestressed/precast floor beams, prestressed/precast stay-in-place deck panels produced the world's first precast network arch bridge. This landmark is a gateway connecting the city's downtown with the cultural district and mixed use developments, providing improved pedestrian access and safety as well as a unique signature structure. Approximately 300,000 pounds of polished stainless steel within the arches and bridge superstructure are illuminated at night with embedded lighting.

Large Parking Garage - University of Houston Stadium Parking Garage

East Texas Precast, WHR Architects, Walker Parking Consultants, Vaughn Construction A 2000+ space parking for TDECU’s (University of Houston) football stadium. Primarily serving parking for the football stadium during the weekends, and students/faculty on weekdays, this project was designed to serve multiple purposes. The key design feature was the combination of two different architectural mixes that presented the patterns that the University wanted. The key accomplishment of this project was to complete the project installation in a very short time. East Texas Precast and Vaughn Construction chose to use two cranes to maximize the usage of time and achieve substantial completion during the summer session at the school.

Stadium - Kyle Field Redevelopment at Texas A&M University:

Manhattan Construction /Vaughn Joint Venture, Populous, Heldenfels Enterprises, Inc. Extensive redevelopment of Kyle Field constructed in two phases. Phase one included the new South End Zone Stands, as well as replacing the lower East Side Deck. Phase two replaced the entire West Side of the stadium. Stadium seating expanded from 82,600 to over 100,000, producing the largest stadium in both Texas and the Southeastern Conference and the third largest in the United States.

Medical Facility - William P. Clements Jr. Hospital – UT Southwestern Medical Center Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc., RTKL Associates The William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital is a 12 floor, 1.3 million square foot, 464 bed hospital located at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The building features an innovative w-shaped architecture inspired by resort-style layouts. Designed in the form-follows-function style, the floor plan enables a higher level of patient care, enhanced privacy and comfort, and a simplified visitor experience. The precast portion of the building is composed primarily of 1,529 pieces of architectural precast wall panels, spandrels, and column covers – covering over 242,000 square feet. All of the precast panels share the same coloration and sandblasted texture, resulting in a clean, uniform appearance.

Retail Architectural - Neiman Marcus At Clearfork

Gate Precast Company, Alamo Architects, Rogers-O’Brien Construction Company, LTD, Ranger Steel Erectors, Stehler Structural Engineering This noteworthy project is an anchor store in a retail complex. The architectural precast façade consists of approximately 300 architecturally finished panels showcasing three colors each with a different texture and finish. 44,000 square feet of highly creative and significantly complex architectural precast was utilized on this project. The precast helped significantly with the thermal performance of the building by providing edge to edge, uninterrupted insulation.

Mid-Size Parking Garage - TCU Frog Alley Parking Garage

Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc., Beck Architecture, LLC, Datum Engineers, Inc. Texas Christian University’s Frog Alley Parking Garage, a 950-space parking structure with over 225,000 square feet of elevated precast deck, is located immediately adjacent to the Amon G. Carter Stadium on the University campus. Produced and erected by Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc., the structure is four and a half levels comprised of 854 pieces of structural precast concrete, and 28,000 square feet of architectural cladding consisting of 553 additional precast panels. The garage is the realization of many months of collaboration between Coreslab Structures and the project’s design team.

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Muti-Use Structure - Hughes Landing Retail Building/Parking Structure

Manco Structures, Ltd., Gensler Architects,Tribble & Stephens, Howard Hughes Corp.

Hughes Landing Retail Building is a four-level, 360,000 sq. ft. multi-use precast concrete structure accommodating a retail area, a major grocer and a loading dock on the first level. The three suspended levels above allows for parking of 700 vehicles as well as direct pedestrian access to the businesses below.

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Commercial Architectural - BP Data Center

Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc., Helmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum LP The BP Data Center is a striking new addition the energy company’s existing campus in Houston. The precast portion of this project produced over an eightmonth period from July 2012 to February 2013, consisted of 192 individual panels, including walls, spandrels, and flat slabs. For the exterior surface of the precast concrete panels on the upper levels of the structure, Coreslab Structures utilized CNC technology to create a custom form liner designed to mimic geology mapping images. This was accomplished through the use of a series of curved recesses running the length of the panels. The upper-level panels project from the face of the building, drawing attention to the unique visual created by their undulating surface. The panels at ground level are dark gray, providing a dramatic contrast to the lighter shades of the panels above. Another unique design feature of this project are the sloped panel-to-panel joints, which bring an additional level of aesthetic detail to the project’s architecture.

Overall Use - General Electric – Oil & Gas Technology Center

Coreslab Structures (OKLA), Inc., Miles Associates, bdd (Brockette/Davis/Drake, Inc.), Precast Technical Services Group P.C. This project includes three distinct precast concrete systems: 1) a 3-level parking garage utilizing a total precast concrete system which includes architectural features combined with the structural components on the exterior which match 2) the architectural precast concrete skin (cladding) on the three 100 ft. tall towers located on the Lab/Office building. The 3rd was the security/sound fence constructed of CIP columns with architectural precast panels spanning from column to column.

529 pieces were manufactured for this project; the garage consisted of 277 pieces, the lab/office building 211 pieces, and 41 pieces were required for the security/ sound fence. The precast components were designed, fabricated, hauled and erected within the CM’s two-year project schedule.

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TEXAS OFFICE OCCUPIERS INFLUENCE HIGH NUMBERS IN

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According to national rankings presented by CBRE Research, Texas claimed two of the top 10 highest metros for absorption and annual rent growth in 2016. With a Texas-sized appetite for office space, Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) and Austin landed at the top of national absorption totals, ranking first and eighth in 2016. Houston’s supply of sublease space, which could be described as big as the Lone Star State, ranked first in the nation for the highest available sublease volume at 11.1 million sq. ft.

HIGHEST ABSORPTION, HIGHEST RANKED: DFW LEADS THE NATION

5.28 3.53 3.22 2.55 1.91 1.81 1.76 1.74 1.72 1.67

DFW had the highest amount of office absorption of any U.S. metro at nearly 5.3 million sq. ft. With its diverse economy and attractive business environment, DFW has become a hot spot for large companies. Several major corporations, including State Farm, 7-Eleven, and Geico, relocated to DFW in 2016. In addition, DFW ranked third for annual rent growth, increasing 18.2%, driven by Class A CBD inventory within the Arts District.

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GROWTH IN TECH INDUSTRY BOOSTS AUSTIN INTO TOP 10 RANKINGS

Austin was not far behind, coming in as the eighth metro with the highest net absorption in the country. Tech expansions drove Austin’s high demand and climbing rents, and kept vacancies below 10% as local tech tenants and out-of-state firms expanded in the state capital. Austin also ranked eighth in lowest vacancy and fourth for highest annual rent growth in 2016.

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Houston topped the list of metros with the highest amount of sublease availability. At 11.1 million sq. ft., Houston’s sublease market was more than double the size of Boston, which was the second highest market with sublease availability at 4.8 million sq. ft. To put it in perspective, Houston’s available sublease space was equivalent to the combined sublease total of Boston (2nd), Manhattan (3rd) and Washington, D.C. (4th) and more than five times the amount in DFW.

The Energy Capital of the World, which is more vulnerable to the volatility associated with crude oil commodity pricing, watched as sublet availability increased 167% since the oil crash in 2014. Occupiers in Houston have been able to find prime sublease space with long terms, which has resulted in aggressive rates from landlords.

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JLL Office Insights Launching into 2017, the Dallas and Austin office markets stay on a promising path. For DFW, job gains amount to nearly 700,000 across all major industries since 2010—continuing to drive office demand and raise its profile for relocation. Construction is meeting demand and garners higher rates for new space, which is helping to drive rates for existing assets, too. Austin’s 34,000 job-gain secures it as one of the fastest growing metros in the U.S. With cranes on its horizon, 80% of projects under construction have already been preleased—spurring a momentous 11.5% year-over-year rental rate increase.

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DFW is adding a diversity of jobs faster than other U.S. markets, which is driving office demand.

High level of Q1 office absorption is being driven by lease-up in new deliveries.

Vacancy is near the historic low point.

Rental rate growth is being driven by high demand.

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Austin’s population growth exceeded expectations in 2016 bringing total population to over 2 million.

Annual job growth continues at a rate of 2.7%; Austin added 27,000 jobs last year, adding to the 32% growth since 2010.

Technology continues to drive Austin’s office market.

Demand is driving vacancy to near long-term lows and half of 2010 levels.

Rent growth continues to see upward pressure.

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Our near-term outlook for Dallas is to continue on its same trajectory. As we see it, 2017 will be a solid year.

Office absorption will continue to outpace its historic average by a wide margin and probably come in around the 5-million square foot mark, due primarily to the delivery of large build-to-suits and other new projects that have been underway the last couple of years.

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12 Month Forecast 514,005 s.f. ˑ

This quarter finally broke Austin’s improving vacancy streak largely due to the 900,000 square feet of new construction that delivered vacant. As tenants begin to move in to the new construction, vacancy should improve, but will likely not shift dramatically due to the remaining 1.3 million square feet projected to deliver throughout the remainder of the year, which is only 37 percent preleased.

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The AGC held its 2017 annual golf tournament on March 27th at the Club at Sonterra.

228 members took part.

North Course Winners: 1st Place Gross (pictured): Joe Mathia, Brook Henderson, Polo Mendez, Rodney Eikenberg

The State of Texas Alliance for Recycling (STAR) is a nonprofit, membership organization whose mission is to increase recycling rates in Texas. It works closely with communities and with those in the recycling industry to encourage communication among different sectors and to assist with industry research, policy discussions, and professional development through networking and training events.

STAR consists of several regional and topical groups in Central Texas, North Texas, and San Antonio concerned with reuse, industrial composting, and product stewardship. It is a data-driven organization that is focused on collaboration, resulting in strong and meaningful projects like the Texas Recycling Data Initiative (TRDI), that demonstrated that recycling both creates jobs and revenue for the state. For more information or to become a member, go to www.recyclingstar.org.

(L-R) Membership & Communications Coordinator Erin Andary and Executive Director Sara Nichols at the Texas Environmental Leadership Awards in San Antonio CREW San Antonio members recently toured Hemisfair Park and learned about redevelopment plans for the 19 acres of parkland and 17 acres of lifestyle live-workshop space in the heart of downtown San Antonio.

1st Place Net: John Benavidez, Keith Colvin, Ralph Ruiz, Ed Boyld

Longest Drive: Dustin Lozano Closest to Hole: Travis Edlund

South Course Winners 1st Place Gross (pictured): Mike King, Jeff Ray, Rocky Shoffstalll, Logan Richter

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DALLAS Renaissance Hotel Dallas 1st Place Net (pictured): Scott Stafford, Tim Tabbert, Ray Hendricks, Martin Heath

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NAIOP North Texas 12th Annual Shoot Out Competition

2nd Place Net: Neilesh Verma, Sam Beierle, Sean Kemmy, Rodger Canales 3rd Place Net: Matt Mainer, Ramiro Contreras, Bruce Williams, Tom Crow Longest Drive: Logan Richter Closest to Hole: Adam Matthys

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The NAIOP North Texas eleventh annual Texas Shoot-Out Real Estate Challenge was held April 7, 2017 at the Jones Lang LaSalle conference center in Dallas. The case competition topic was highest and best use at the highly visible 13.64 acre sites along 75 at Legacy Central. It included graduate-level teams from seven Texas schools: Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M, Texas Tech University, The University of Texas at Dallas, Baylor, University of Texas and University of Texas Arlington. The teams competed for $6,000 and $3,000 cash prizes. First prize went to the University of Texas and second prize to the University of Texas Dallas. (Regent Properties contributed the subject property and LYNOUS Talent Management developed the case study.)

1st Place University of Texas (L-R): Phil Copulsky, Whitney Williamson, Jon Mendoza, Valentina Scalia Virla, Mike Senia, Kellen McColl

Don’t take life too seriously; you won’t get out alive.

2nd Place Net: Travis Edlund, BG Horner, David Wright, Lester Maxey

3rd Place Net: Tyler Fleming, Kevin Blische, Brandon Gaeke

YOU NEED TO KNOW

The 25th Amendment

Presidential Disability and Succession

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rior to ratification of the 25th Amendment, the rules of succession to the presidency were vague. The Constitution didn’t specify whether the vice president would become president or acting president if the president were to die, resign, be removed from office or become disabled. The problem came into the spotlight after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. On January 6th, 1965, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and Representative Emanuel Celler of New York introduced joint resolutions in the Senate and House of Representatives aimed at clarifying and defining the rules of presidential succession and inability in the Constitution.

These proposals formed the foundation of the 25th Amendment, approved by Congress on July 6, 1965; ratified by the states

by February of 1967, and certified into law by President Lyndon Johnson on February 23, 1967.

The first use of the 25th Amendment occurred in 1973 when President Richard Nixon nominated Congressman Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to fill the vacancy left by Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation. In less than a year, it was used again. This time, Vice President Ford who had become President after Nixon resigned, nominated Nelson Rockefeller to fill the Vice-Presidential vacancy left by him.

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Today, in the wake of the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th POTUS, there’s a lot of buzz about this amendment.

It started before election day, to be sure, and though it wasn’t written to deal with a president who seems, to borrow a phrase, “barking mad,” Donald Trump does embody the reasons people are talking. He’s wildly unpredictable, if not outright unstable. He has extensively documented conflicts of interest out the wazoo. He shows no understanding of policy, and lord only knows about the Russia stuff. The list of possible justifications is long and growing.

But we brought this on ourselves. Everything wrong with Trump the president was also wrong with Trump the candidate. Mike Pence, the cabinet members Trump has appointed, and the Republican Party would need to overwhelmingly back Trump’s removal. All have been willing to overlook Trump’s issues thus far… or they’ve signed up for them. Nothing short of unambiguous, raving madness or unmistakable scandal (of a higher order than the raving madness and scandal we’ve already seen) would move the party to admit they erred in bringing a dangerous, corrupt lunatic into the White House and trigger the political catastrophe that ditching Trump would ultimately result in. The 25th Amendment provision relies on a governing party willing to shoot itself in the foot for the good of the country.

The intended purpose of the 25th amendment was to address the situation in which a president with a serious ailment is alive, but unable to fulfill the duties of the office. (Several first ladies – most notably Edith Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt - served as de facto presidents during their husbands’ long illnesses.) And it does mean that Congress isn’t the only institution that can remove a president from office between elections. By virtue of Section 4 (see highlight below), a sitting vice president and a majority of the executive branch’s cabinet could, on their own, agree to transfer power out of the hands of a sitting president.

At that point, those officials would notify Congress, and the vice president would assume the office as the acting president.

“You’re fired!” “Nuh-uh!”

If the president contests this move, it would be up to Congress to settle the matter. A two-thirds majority in both houses would be necessary to keep the vice president in charge; failing that, the president would resume his power. Of course, this is not a likely scenario that Mike Pence and half of the administration’s cabinet (a group who owe their jobs to the president whose stability has been called into question) would challenge the president and effectively stage a coup…but the law does exist, and that possibility has created hope among Trump’s detractors.

The 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Section 1 • In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Section 2 • Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Section 3 • Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Section 4 • Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

As Olbermann correctly notes, the 25th Amendment offers no specifics on exactly what kind of inability would warrant removal. Although the amendment is typically referred to as a way to replace deeply infirm or perhaps insane presidents, a president could presumably be removed for any reason relevant to their ability to perform the job advanced by the vice president and Cabinet.

But if Mike Pence and Trump’s cabinet were able to rally their party around the idea of removing Trump from office for the sake of the country, they could potentially sideline him for his entire term, with Pence stepping in as acting president, and Trump having little recourse. It’s extremely unlikely to happen, but it’s there - waiting for someone to try it.

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10 LEED 2009 vs. LEED v.4 12 The Best in Texas Precast Awards -2016

Architect Allison Wilson offers insight on how the rating system is changing.

A new awards program recognizing design excellence, innovation and construction with precast concrete.

22 The TOBY Awards 26 Top Notch – The Architect of Light

Local and Regional winners in BOMA’s 2017 (The) Outstanding Building of the Year awards.

With his imprimatur on stunning architectural designs around the world, Charles Stone’s magic with lighting is truly inspirational.

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Munsch Hardt’s Jessi Neufeld offers valuable insight into this growing problem

Contributor Roxana Tofan examines what it takes (in San Antonio) to honor someone by having a street named after him or her.

Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold uses graphology to peek inside the mind and brain of our 45th president – Donald Trump.

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Business Development Consultant Sandra Kimball offers sage advice on how workplace design can impact performance and employee satisfaction.

46 Queen of the Curve – The Architecture of Zaha Hadid 52 That’ll Be the Day 55 The Cost of Waiting 56 The Future is Now!

A glimpse of the astounding creativity of the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

A look at the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts in Lubbock.

Mortgage professional Jason Dickson says that now is a great time to buy in Texas.

A smart, efficient and FUN way to get where you’re going.

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17 You Need to Know – the 25th Amendment 32 Amazing Buildings – George Lucas’s Passion Project 38 Artchitecture – Hidden Images

Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne examines the creator of Star Wars’ ambitious art museum.

Oleg Shupliak creates intriguing optical illusions with pictures carefully concealed in other pictures – very much to the viewer’s delight.

40 Herstory – Of Thee I Sing

Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley looks at the 1931 Broadway musical that must have been (at least in part) the inspiration for todays’ hit show, Hamilton.

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A list of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the years they were passed. And – an introduction to the first First Lady of the United States.

48 Legal View: Case Law Update

Attorney and Contributing Editor Anthony Barbieri delves into some of the more interesting and meaningful judicial decisions of the last year.

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Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

43 (The Man Who Says He Will) Make AMeRiCa GReAT AGAiN

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

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6 Our Affiliates | On the Cover 7 Contributing Writers 8 Editor’s Note/InBox 14 CBRE 15 JLL Need to Know – The 25th 17 You Amendment 50 Product Showcase 53 Shout Outs 54 Professionals on the Move 54 In the News in a Name? Places With 57 What’s Bizarre Names.

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Links Marketplace and 59 The Directory Page: Our Advertisers/ 62 Back Contest Winners/Answers/ Coming Next Issue IBC Contest – Sports Awards

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On the Cover: Self Portrait Under the Lime Trees

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“I painted myself as a little boy when I first started to draw. Now, as a mature artist, in Self Portrait Under the Lime Trees, I symbolically show my entire career. I am also trying to convey that we are changing over the years, but, in so many ways, we always remain children.”

See more of his work on pages 38-39.

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ANTHONY BARBIERI (P. 48) is a shareholder at Kessler Collins, where he enjoys a broad legal practice. He has been a speaker for ICSC, IREM, and BOMA, has taught continuinglegal education seminars, and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star for many years, as well as being a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. He and his wife, Cathy, enjoy traveling and spending time with their extended families, getting involved in their church and supporting the community through various programs – including raising awareness of muscular dystrophy, education and exercise to fight heart disease, providing care and treatment for autism, and counseling domestic-violence victims. He is also a Contributing Editor of the network.

JASON DICKSON (P. 55) is the Texas Regional Manager for Churchill Mortgage. In his spare time, Jason and his wife Lauren, along with their 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, enjoy traveling throughout the Southwest.

MICHELLE DRESBOLD (P. 43) is an artist and author.

Her book, Sex, Lies, and Handwriting, published by Simon and Schuster, takes you into the mysterious world of dotted “i’s” and crossed “t’s”. As the only civilian to be invited to the United States Secret Service’s Advanced Document Examination training program, she draws on her extensive experience helping law enforcement agencies around the country and has testified in court on cases involving kidnapping, arson, forgery, murder, embezzlement, and stalking. Her TV appearances include NBC’s Today Show, CBS’ Early Show, Fox & Friends, The O’Reilly Factor, and Inside Edition. She also contributed to The History Channel’s documentary on Jack the Ripper, in which she presented information from Sex, Lies, and Handwriting that connects the dots… and the killer’s handwriting…to the suspect who got away, American serial killer Frances Tumblety.

SANDRA KIMBALL’s (P. 45) dynamic career began with twelve years in real estate, serving the Austin and Houston markets with luxury and waterfront homes. She spent the next several years consulting commercial building owners on energy management and sourcing strategic partnerships around the globe. Today, she consults with small and medium sized companies on effective and quantifiable business development strategies. She serves as a Board Member of CCIM and is an Austin Chamber Ambassador. Sandra has done many speaking engagements and training seminars including AAFAME, HGTV’s Design Camp, CREW, SXSW, and the Austin Chamber of Commerce. She leads the Texas Chapter of United Freedom Caucus, gives her time to Austin Angels and barn raising efforts for local families in need. For fun, Sandra hosts ridiculous parties for her three amazing children.

ANDERS MODIG (P. 26) is a Swedish journalist based in Switzerland. He specializes in lighting, architecture and watches. Besides Ljuskultur, the Swedish publication where his article originally appeared, he has been editor in chief of seven publications and his work has appeared in 40 titles around the globe including Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair On Time, Der Standard, South China Morning Post, Beijing Evening News, Sunday Herald Sun (AU) and The last Magazine (USA).

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ANGELA O’BYRNE (P. 32) is the president of national architecture, design-build, and real estate development firm Perez, APC. She champions the principles of smart growth in her home community of New Orleans and in her frequent travels across the country and abroad. Born in Cali, Colombia. Angela is a licensed architect in over a dozen states, a licensed general contractor in Louisiana, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the National CREW Network (Commercial Real Estate Women) Board of Directors. A singer, golfer, music-lover, and globetrotter, she relishes spending free time with her three grown children and large extended family. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and her Amazing Buildings feature appears in every issue.

ROSE-MARY RUMBLEY (P. 40) holds a Ph.D. in communications from the University of North Texas. She is a well-known speaker in Texas and enjoys researching each and every topic. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and Herstory appears in every issue.

ROXANA TOFAN (P. 36), aside from entrepreneurship, has a passion for and a boundless energy for giving back to the military. She is deeply involved with different programs and events for active military personnel and serves on the San Antonio USO Advisory Council as the Vice President - Fundraising. When she is not running her business, volunteering for the USO, or cheering at baseball games and orchestra concerts, she enjoys history, traveling and NASCAR. Roxana is a regular contributor to the network.

ALLISON WILSON (P. 10) is an architect and sustainability strategist with Ayers Saint Gross. She supports high-performance building and planning objectives across the firm, providing analytical support to the design process, integrating sustainability into campus master plans, and helping projects achieve LEED certification. She serves the design community as the Secretary of USGBC Texas Central Texas Regional Council and the Secretary of the ACE Mentor Program of Austin. She was the lead author of the Sustainable DC Plan, an urban sustainability strategy to transform Washington, DC into the “healthiest, greenest, most livable city in the nation by 2032,” has worked extensively with Texas A&M University’s master planning efforts, and was a student leader of the U.S. Department of Energy’s winning Solar Decathlon 2011 project, WaterShed.

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Reinventing History | It Sounds Reasonable Actual Answers to 6th Grade History Tests • Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wore hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

• Solomon had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.

• The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

• Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

• In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits and threw the Java.

• Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”

• Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw.

• Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen, she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted, Hurrah.”

• It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100foot clipper.

• The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couple. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid

by Juliet.

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- Emma Ettinger, Colleyville, TX Herstory? The History Page? The Geography Page? You Need to Know? I keep finding myself talking with someone in my office about something I learned in The Network. What a surprising source for such a wide range of interesting topics!

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• Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, “A horse divided against itself cannot stand.” Franklin died in 1700 and is still dead.

• Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest Precedent. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show.

They believe the assassinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career and the play for everyone.

• Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between, he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic.

Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English.

He was very large.

• Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him.

Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

• The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.

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• Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

• Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost.

Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

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ALLISON WILSON awilson@asg-architects.com Allison Wilson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C is an architect and sustainability strategist with Ayers Saint Gross, a nationally recognized leader in highperformance design for colleges, universities, and cultural institutions.

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LEED 2009 vs. LEEDv4

he United States Green Building Council’s premier green building rating system, LEED 2009, phased out on October 31, 2016. All projects registered thereafter (after the ‘sunset’) are required to meet the more stringent requirements of LEEDv4.

Many entities, public and private, have standing statements that they either a) certify all new buildings and major renovations to LEED Silver or b) that they design all new building and major renovations to LEED Silver equivalent.

As LEED 2009 has evolved into LEEDv4, however, so has the definition of a LEED Silver building, and that will have implications on how the architectural, engineering, construction, and development communities create projects.

A new Integrative Process credit category encourages teams to begin addressing performance early and requires a schematic design phase energy model (typically done by the architect) and a water budget (typically completed by the plumbing engineer). The number of total points required to hit a desired level of certification also remains the same.

The time for general understanding has passed. LEEDv4 is the premier green building rating system offered by USGBC and understanding the new rating system in depth will allow project teams to advance the caliber of highperformance buildings. Design and development teams need to get in the weeds about LEEDv4 to have confidence in certifying a building under the new rating system and achieve the higher return on investment third-party verified performance provides.

USGBC Texas Central Region is providing six sessions in Austin this year to provide the in-depth education the AEC and development community need to advance LEEDv4 projects across the state. The sessions will provide networking and in-depth credit-by-credit comparisons between LEED 2009 and LEEDv4 so teams gain confidence about certifying projects under the new system.

In addition, attendance supports LEED professionals in maintaining their professional credentials through LEED-specific education.

USGBC Texas Central Region is excited to provide an opportunity to learn how the specifics of LEEDv4 will influence design and sustainability. LEEDv4 and other competitive green building rating systems, standards, and codes will push the AEC and development community to create more efficient highperformance buildings that serve the community and the world.

All sessions are being hosted at TreeHouse in Austin (4477 S Lamar Blvd #600, Austin, TX 78745) from 5:30 – 7:00 pm. The sessions start with networking, food, and beverages followed by the continuing education unit. Register online at: https://usgbctexas.wildapricot.org/events

Beyond the structural similarities, LEEDv4’s credit calculations are vastly different than LEED 2009’s in almost every case. Compliance is demonstrated through different metrics in many cases, including access to public transportation and community connectivity which historically were “lowhanging fruit” credits.

At this point in time, most people in the AEC industry are familiar with the key differences between LEED 2009 and LEEDv4. Major changes in LEEDv4 include: 10

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These sessions will dive into the nitty-gritty of what designing under this new rating system will mean, including: • Transportation Access. LEEDv4’s public transportation access credit counts the number of trips made by public transit infrastructure, whereas LEED 2009 counted the number of public transit lines. Projects that previously may not have qualified for any public transit points under LEED 2009 may be able to access a point under LEEDv4.

• Covered Bicycle Parking. Under LEEDv4, both institutional and residential buildings require covered bicycle parking. Under the old system, only residential buildings had to meet this requirement.

• Regional Materials. LEEDv4 does not offer points especially for sourcing materials from within 500 miles of a project as LEED 2009 did. Sourcing materials locally now allows project teams to double the value of local materials when performing building material optimization calculations.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

The basics of LEED certification have stayed the same. The same number of total points exist within the system and only minor point shifts have occurred across credit categories. The biggest structural change to the system is the division of LEED 2009’s Sustainable Sites category into two in LEEDv4 - Location and Transportation and Sustainable Sites. The scope of the new LEEDv4 categories is comparable to LEED 2009’s single Sustainable Sites category but differentiates between criteria that are likely met prior to a project’s arrival on site (Location and Transportation) and criteria that a project itself is likely responsible for meeting (Sustainable Sites).

• Energy modeling baseline updated from ASHRAE90.1-2007 to ASHRAE 90.1-2010 • Increased scope of fixtures addressed by water efficiency credits, including lab equipment among other process fixtures; • Restructured Materials and Resources credits that push for transparency in manufacturing and multi-attribute sustainability in building products; • Increased synergies with LEED for Neighborhood Development and SITES; and • New metrics in daylighting to more accurately account for daily and annual variations.

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LEED 2009 is the most widely adopted green building rating system on the planet, and it follows that LEEDv4 is likely to command a similar percentage of market share for green building certifications. However, since LEED 2009 debuted, a number of other rating systems, standards, and codes have been established, including the Living Building Challenge, IgCC, and ASHRAE189.1.

LEEDv4 walked into a much more crowded certification marketplace than LEED 2009 did. These sessions will discuss how LEEDv4 is being received by early and mid-range adopters to the sustainability movement as well as how later adopters are responding.

Summer’s Summer Reading List Non-Fiction • Arriba by Juan Tanamerra • Computer Memories by Meg Abight • Pressure Relief by My Korsetsov • Events in The Former Soviet Union by Perry Stroyka

Biography • Ladies’ Man by Phil Anderer • My Role in the Industrial Revolution by Otto Mattick • Astronauts in Space by Landon Moon • I Was a Cloakroom Attendant by Mahatma Koate

Self-Help

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

• 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Howie “Gunner” Dudiss • Overcoming Nervousness on Radio by Mike Fright • Positive Reinforcement by Wade Duhgo • How to Read a Book by Paige Turner Fiction • Who Killed Cock Robin? by Howard I. Know • The Glass Bikini by Seymour Skynn • Fastest Gun in the West by Everett DeRedi • Breaking the Law by Kermit A. Kryme

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desire to recognize design excellence, innovation, and construction quality with precast concrete resulted in the 2016 Best in Precast Awards. Precast concrete is a versatile and durable material that can be used in a wide range of projects and applications.

Highway Bridge - Dallas Horseshoe Project

Bexar Concrete Works, I Pegasus Link Constructors An $850 million reconstruction project of the I-30 and I-35E bridges that cross the Trinity River in Dallas, and the related downtown “Mixmaster” interchanges. Currently serving 450,000 vehicles every day, the project includes six major long-span bridges over the Trinity River, each of which required (at minimum) 250 foot spans to accommodate future river basin development. The project team selected, designed, fabricated and constructed variable-depth, continuous concrete spliced girders for these spans, made up of precast segments fabricated and partially stressed off-site. Precast elements were shipped to the site, erected on temporary shoring, joined and fully stressed in place to create (essentially) a monolithic construction of at least 1000 feet for all six bridges.

State Bridge - 7th St Bridge:

Sundt Construction, Texas Department of Transportation, Heldenfels Enterprises, Inc. Complete replacement of the aging West 7th St. Bridge in Fort Worth. Utilizing on-site construction with precast arches, prestressed/precast floor beams, prestressed/precast stay-in-place deck panels produced the world's first precast network arch bridge. This landmark is a gateway connecting the city's downtown with the cultural district and mixed use developments, providing improved pedestrian access and safety as well as a unique signature structure. Approximately 300,000 pounds of polished stainless steel within the arches and bridge superstructure are illuminated at night with embedded lighting.

Large Parking Garage - University of Houston Stadium Parking Garage

East Texas Precast, WHR Architects, Walker Parking Consultants, Vaughn Construction A 2000+ space parking for TDECU’s (University of Houston) football stadium. Primarily serving parking for the football stadium during the weekends, and students/faculty on weekdays, this project was designed to serve multiple purposes. The key design feature was the combination of two different architectural mixes that presented the patterns that the University wanted. The key accomplishment of this project was to complete the project installation in a very short time. East Texas Precast and Vaughn Construction chose to use two cranes to maximize the usage of time and achieve substantial completion during the summer session at the school.

Stadium - Kyle Field Redevelopment at Texas A&M University:

Manhattan Construction /Vaughn Joint Venture, Populous, Heldenfels Enterprises, Inc. Extensive redevelopment of Kyle Field constructed in two phases. Phase one included the new South End Zone Stands, as well as replacing the lower East Side Deck. Phase two replaced the entire West Side of the stadium. Stadium seating expanded from 82,600 to over 100,000, producing the largest stadium in both Texas and the Southeastern Conference and the third largest in the United States.

Medical Facility - William P. Clements Jr. Hospital – UT Southwestern Medical Center Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc., RTKL Associates The William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital is a 12 floor, 1.3 million square foot, 464 bed hospital located at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The building features an innovative w-shaped architecture inspired by resort-style layouts. Designed in the form-follows-function style, the floor plan enables a higher level of patient care, enhanced privacy and comfort, and a simplified visitor experience. The precast portion of the building is composed primarily of 1,529 pieces of architectural precast wall panels, spandrels, and column covers – covering over 242,000 square feet. All of the precast panels share the same coloration and sandblasted texture, resulting in a clean, uniform appearance.

Retail Architectural - Neiman Marcus At Clearfork

Gate Precast Company, Alamo Architects, Rogers-O’Brien Construction Company, LTD, Ranger Steel Erectors, Stehler Structural Engineering This noteworthy project is an anchor store in a retail complex. The architectural precast façade consists of approximately 300 architecturally finished panels showcasing three colors each with a different texture and finish. 44,000 square feet of highly creative and significantly complex architectural precast was utilized on this project. The precast helped significantly with the thermal performance of the building by providing edge to edge, uninterrupted insulation.

Mid-Size Parking Garage - TCU Frog Alley Parking Garage

Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc., Beck Architecture, LLC, Datum Engineers, Inc. Texas Christian University’s Frog Alley Parking Garage, a 950-space parking structure with over 225,000 square feet of elevated precast deck, is located immediately adjacent to the Amon G. Carter Stadium on the University campus. Produced and erected by Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc., the structure is four and a half levels comprised of 854 pieces of structural precast concrete, and 28,000 square feet of architectural cladding consisting of 553 additional precast panels. The garage is the realization of many months of collaboration between Coreslab Structures and the project’s design team.

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Muti-Use Structure - Hughes Landing Retail Building/Parking Structure

Manco Structures, Ltd., Gensler Architects,Tribble & Stephens, Howard Hughes Corp.

Hughes Landing Retail Building is a four-level, 360,000 sq. ft. multi-use precast concrete structure accommodating a retail area, a major grocer and a loading dock on the first level. The three suspended levels above allows for parking of 700 vehicles as well as direct pedestrian access to the businesses below.

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Commercial Architectural - BP Data Center

Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc., Helmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum LP The BP Data Center is a striking new addition the energy company’s existing campus in Houston. The precast portion of this project produced over an eightmonth period from July 2012 to February 2013, consisted of 192 individual panels, including walls, spandrels, and flat slabs. For the exterior surface of the precast concrete panels on the upper levels of the structure, Coreslab Structures utilized CNC technology to create a custom form liner designed to mimic geology mapping images. This was accomplished through the use of a series of curved recesses running the length of the panels. The upper-level panels project from the face of the building, drawing attention to the unique visual created by their undulating surface. The panels at ground level are dark gray, providing a dramatic contrast to the lighter shades of the panels above. Another unique design feature of this project are the sloped panel-to-panel joints, which bring an additional level of aesthetic detail to the project’s architecture.

Overall Use - General Electric – Oil & Gas Technology Center

Coreslab Structures (OKLA), Inc., Miles Associates, bdd (Brockette/Davis/Drake, Inc.), Precast Technical Services Group P.C. This project includes three distinct precast concrete systems: 1) a 3-level parking garage utilizing a total precast concrete system which includes architectural features combined with the structural components on the exterior which match 2) the architectural precast concrete skin (cladding) on the three 100 ft. tall towers located on the Lab/Office building. The 3rd was the security/sound fence constructed of CIP columns with architectural precast panels spanning from column to column.

529 pieces were manufactured for this project; the garage consisted of 277 pieces, the lab/office building 211 pieces, and 41 pieces were required for the security/ sound fence. The precast components were designed, fabricated, hauled and erected within the CM’s two-year project schedule.

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TEXAS OFFICE OCCUPIERS INFLUENCE HIGH NUMBERS IN

2016

According to national rankings presented by CBRE Research, Texas claimed two of the top 10 highest metros for absorption and annual rent growth in 2016. With a Texas-sized appetite for office space, Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) and Austin landed at the top of national absorption totals, ranking first and eighth in 2016. Houston’s supply of sublease space, which could be described as big as the Lone Star State, ranked first in the nation for the highest available sublease volume at 11.1 million sq. ft.

HIGHEST ABSORPTION, HIGHEST RANKED: DFW LEADS THE NATION

5.28 3.53 3.22 2.55 1.91 1.81 1.76 1.74 1.72 1.67

DFW had the highest amount of office absorption of any U.S. metro at nearly 5.3 million sq. ft. With its diverse economy and attractive business environment, DFW has become a hot spot for large companies. Several major corporations, including State Farm, 7-Eleven, and Geico, relocated to DFW in 2016. In addition, DFW ranked third for annual rent growth, increasing 18.2%, driven by Class A CBD inventory within the Arts District.

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GROWTH IN TECH INDUSTRY BOOSTS AUSTIN INTO TOP 10 RANKINGS

Austin was not far behind, coming in as the eighth metro with the highest net absorption in the country. Tech expansions drove Austin’s high demand and climbing rents, and kept vacancies below 10% as local tech tenants and out-of-state firms expanded in the state capital. Austin also ranked eighth in lowest vacancy and fourth for highest annual rent growth in 2016.

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Houston topped the list of metros with the highest amount of sublease availability. At 11.1 million sq. ft., Houston’s sublease market was more than double the size of Boston, which was the second highest market with sublease availability at 4.8 million sq. ft. To put it in perspective, Houston’s available sublease space was equivalent to the combined sublease total of Boston (2nd), Manhattan (3rd) and Washington, D.C. (4th) and more than five times the amount in DFW.

The Energy Capital of the World, which is more vulnerable to the volatility associated with crude oil commodity pricing, watched as sublet availability increased 167% since the oil crash in 2014. Occupiers in Houston have been able to find prime sublease space with long terms, which has resulted in aggressive rates from landlords.

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JLL Office Insights Launching into 2017, the Dallas and Austin office markets stay on a promising path. For DFW, job gains amount to nearly 700,000 across all major industries since 2010—continuing to drive office demand and raise its profile for relocation. Construction is meeting demand and garners higher rates for new space, which is helping to drive rates for existing assets, too. Austin’s 34,000 job-gain secures it as one of the fastest growing metros in the U.S. With cranes on its horizon, 80% of projects under construction have already been preleased—spurring a momentous 11.5% year-over-year rental rate increase.

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DFW is adding a diversity of jobs faster than other U.S. markets, which is driving office demand.

High level of Q1 office absorption is being driven by lease-up in new deliveries.

Vacancy is near the historic low point.

Rental rate growth is being driven by high demand.

Fundamentals YTD net absorption Under construction

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Total vacancy 19.6%

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More cranes on the horizon for Austin

Austin’s population growth exceeded expectations in 2016 bringing total population to over 2 million.

Annual job growth continues at a rate of 2.7%; Austin added 27,000 jobs last year, adding to the 32% growth since 2010.

Technology continues to drive Austin’s office market.

Demand is driving vacancy to near long-term lows and half of 2010 levels.

Rent growth continues to see upward pressure.

Fundamentals YTD net absorption

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Forecast 1,759,904 s.f. ▼

Our near-term outlook for Dallas is to continue on its same trajectory. As we see it, 2017 will be a solid year.

Office absorption will continue to outpace its historic average by a wide margin and probably come in around the 5-million square foot mark, due primarily to the delivery of large build-to-suits and other new projects that have been underway the last couple of years.

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Dallas fundamentals point to continued solid performance through 2017

12 Month Forecast 514,005 s.f. ˑ

This quarter finally broke Austin’s improving vacancy streak largely due to the 900,000 square feet of new construction that delivered vacant. As tenants begin to move in to the new construction, vacancy should improve, but will likely not shift dramatically due to the remaining 1.3 million square feet projected to deliver throughout the remainder of the year, which is only 37 percent preleased.

Average asking rents ($/s.f.)

Total vacancy 14.2%

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For more information about JLL’s Insights and Statistics contact: Austin | Emily Hunt • +1 542 225 2716 • emily.hunt@am.jll.com | Rachel Alexander • +1 713 888 4044 • rachel.alexander@am.jll.com Dallas | Walter Bialas • +1 214 438 6228 • walter.bialas@am.jll.com | Holly Golvach • +1 214 438 6464 • holly.golvach@am.jll.com | NET www.jll.com/dallas JUN2017 | THE WORK 15

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North Course Winners: 1st Place Gross (pictured): Joe Mathia, Brook Henderson, Polo Mendez, Rodney Eikenberg

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STAR consists of several regional and topical groups in Central Texas, North Texas, and San Antonio concerned with reuse, industrial composting, and product stewardship. It is a data-driven organization that is focused on collaboration, resulting in strong and meaningful projects like the Texas Recycling Data Initiative (TRDI), that demonstrated that recycling both creates jobs and revenue for the state. For more information or to become a member, go to www.recyclingstar.org.

(L-R) Membership & Communications Coordinator Erin Andary and Executive Director Sara Nichols at the Texas Environmental Leadership Awards in San Antonio CREW San Antonio members recently toured Hemisfair Park and learned about redevelopment plans for the 19 acres of parkland and 17 acres of lifestyle live-workshop space in the heart of downtown San Antonio.

1st Place Net: John Benavidez, Keith Colvin, Ralph Ruiz, Ed Boyld

Longest Drive: Dustin Lozano Closest to Hole: Travis Edlund

South Course Winners 1st Place Gross (pictured): Mike King, Jeff Ray, Rocky Shoffstalll, Logan Richter

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The NAIOP North Texas eleventh annual Texas Shoot-Out Real Estate Challenge was held April 7, 2017 at the Jones Lang LaSalle conference center in Dallas. The case competition topic was highest and best use at the highly visible 13.64 acre sites along 75 at Legacy Central. It included graduate-level teams from seven Texas schools: Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M, Texas Tech University, The University of Texas at Dallas, Baylor, University of Texas and University of Texas Arlington. The teams competed for $6,000 and $3,000 cash prizes. First prize went to the University of Texas and second prize to the University of Texas Dallas. (Regent Properties contributed the subject property and LYNOUS Talent Management developed the case study.)

1st Place University of Texas (L-R): Phil Copulsky, Whitney Williamson, Jon Mendoza, Valentina Scalia Virla, Mike Senia, Kellen McColl

Don’t take life too seriously; you won’t get out alive.

2nd Place Net: Travis Edlund, BG Horner, David Wright, Lester Maxey

3rd Place Net: Tyler Fleming, Kevin Blische, Brandon Gaeke

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The 25th Amendment

Presidential Disability and Succession

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rior to ratification of the 25th Amendment, the rules of succession to the presidency were vague. The Constitution didn’t specify whether the vice president would become president or acting president if the president were to die, resign, be removed from office or become disabled. The problem came into the spotlight after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. On January 6th, 1965, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and Representative Emanuel Celler of New York introduced joint resolutions in the Senate and House of Representatives aimed at clarifying and defining the rules of presidential succession and inability in the Constitution.

These proposals formed the foundation of the 25th Amendment, approved by Congress on July 6, 1965; ratified by the states

by February of 1967, and certified into law by President Lyndon Johnson on February 23, 1967.

The first use of the 25th Amendment occurred in 1973 when President Richard Nixon nominated Congressman Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to fill the vacancy left by Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation. In less than a year, it was used again. This time, Vice President Ford who had become President after Nixon resigned, nominated Nelson Rockefeller to fill the Vice-Presidential vacancy left by him.

I don’t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

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Today, in the wake of the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th POTUS, there’s a lot of buzz about this amendment.

It started before election day, to be sure, and though it wasn’t written to deal with a president who seems, to borrow a phrase, “barking mad,” Donald Trump does embody the reasons people are talking. He’s wildly unpredictable, if not outright unstable. He has extensively documented conflicts of interest out the wazoo. He shows no understanding of policy, and lord only knows about the Russia stuff. The list of possible justifications is long and growing.

But we brought this on ourselves. Everything wrong with Trump the president was also wrong with Trump the candidate. Mike Pence, the cabinet members Trump has appointed, and the Republican Party would need to overwhelmingly back Trump’s removal. All have been willing to overlook Trump’s issues thus far… or they’ve signed up for them. Nothing short of unambiguous, raving madness or unmistakable scandal (of a higher order than the raving madness and scandal we’ve already seen) would move the party to admit they erred in bringing a dangerous, corrupt lunatic into the White House and trigger the political catastrophe that ditching Trump would ultimately result in. The 25th Amendment provision relies on a governing party willing to shoot itself in the foot for the good of the country.

The intended purpose of the 25th amendment was to address the situation in which a president with a serious ailment is alive, but unable to fulfill the duties of the office. (Several first ladies – most notably Edith Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt - served as de facto presidents during their husbands’ long illnesses.) And it does mean that Congress isn’t the only institution that can remove a president from office between elections. By virtue of Section 4 (see highlight below), a sitting vice president and a majority of the executive branch’s cabinet could, on their own, agree to transfer power out of the hands of a sitting president.

At that point, those officials would notify Congress, and the vice president would assume the office as the acting president.

“You’re fired!” “Nuh-uh!”

If the president contests this move, it would be up to Congress to settle the matter. A two-thirds majority in both houses would be necessary to keep the vice president in charge; failing that, the president would resume his power. Of course, this is not a likely scenario that Mike Pence and half of the administration’s cabinet (a group who owe their jobs to the president whose stability has been called into question) would challenge the president and effectively stage a coup…but the law does exist, and that possibility has created hope among Trump’s detractors.

The 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Section 1 • In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Section 2 • Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Section 3 • Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Section 4 • Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

As Olbermann correctly notes, the 25th Amendment offers no specifics on exactly what kind of inability would warrant removal. Although the amendment is typically referred to as a way to replace deeply infirm or perhaps insane presidents, a president could presumably be removed for any reason relevant to their ability to perform the job advanced by the vice president and Cabinet.

But if Mike Pence and Trump’s cabinet were able to rally their party around the idea of removing Trump from office for the sake of the country, they could potentially sideline him for his entire term, with Pence stepping in as acting president, and Trump having little recourse. It’s extremely unlikely to happen, but it’s there - waiting for someone to try it.

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Always remember you are unique – just like everyone else.

The luncheon at Irving Convention Center in March highlighted Academic Advisor Dr. Steven Brown who challenged his students to write an essay on why an IREM Associate Membership would benefit them. Three Cedar Valley College students won a one year Associate Membership and a free lunch. Dr. Sririam Villupuram, UTA real estate professor, brought five students who saw IREM in action as Anna Corson was inducted as a CPM. There was also a presentation on HR by Christy Humphrey of Dominium and Fort Worth chapter members President-Elect Pattie McClean and Connie Ackerman were in attendance.

(L – R): Rutaj Bhatt, UTA Student; Kai Cui, UTA Student; Sidd Jampala, UTA Student; Dr. Sriram Villupuram, UTA Real Estate Professor; Fort Worth Chapter President Elect Pattie McClean, CPM; Dallas Chapter President Christie Clenney, CPM; IREM Academic and Cedar Valley College Professor Dr. Steven Brown, PhD; Kristin Hiett, CAE, ED/CEO; Past President Greg Wingate, CPM; Sarah Clark, UTA Student; Tanmay Patel, UTA Student; Corvez Kendrick, Cedar Valley, Award Winner; Vincent Wright, Cedar Valley, Award Winner; Middle: Corey Best, CPM Candidate, UTA Student; Adrienne Romo, Cedar Valley, Award Winner

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ARM Vice President Brittney Harbour, ARM; Chair Chanon Fisher, ARM; and Devin Carden, ARM spearheaded the representation of IREM Dallas Chapter 14 at the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas Trade Show on March 22nd. The group gave out pens, fans and other marketing items. Harbour stated that there was a lot of interest in the organization and in the profession of property management.

(L to R): Rene Martinez, Brittney Harbour, Devin Carden, Chanon Fisher, Jaqueline Zurita, Megan Pulido

Happy Hour at Joe T. Garcia’s

2017 Board of Directors (L-R) Sally Flanagan, Amanda Gladstone, Madlyn Lane, Donna Schmidt, President Lyndsay Walbran, Steve Rodgers, Tiffany Korbell and Ginger Miller, 2016 President

Committee Members (L-R) Jason Ruple, Welcome/ Registration; James Stewart, Programs; Tiffany Korbell, Membership & Candidate Guidance; Sally Flanagan, Special Programs; Natalie Smith, Education; Amanda Gladstone, Bowling

Madlyn Lane, Secretary and Kimberly Morgan, Regional 7 RVP

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Sign Language

2016/17 Award Winners Senior Property/Portfolio Manager of the Year Chandra Hamric, Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. Property Manager of the Year Sarah Adams, CBRE Assistant Property Manager of the Year Allison Skinner, JLL Administrative Assistant of the Year Laurel Materka, Granite Properties, Inc. Chief Engineer of the Year Steve Griggs, JLL

Allied Member of the Year Jenny Phillips, Fujitec America, Inc. Committee Member of the Year Christy Walters, Duke Realty Corporation Committee Chair of the Year Clay Johnson Outstanding Committee of the Year Programs Committee Outstanding Member of the Year Scott Moore, Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. President's Award Charles Hart, SELECT Commercial Services

2017-2018 Board of Directors

Seated (L-R): Jonathan “JJ” Jones, Director; Scott Moore, Former President; Mike Pugh, President,; Andy Taylor, Vice President; Adam Bernhardt, Director Standing (L-R): Sharon Walhood, Director; Kristine Lang, Director; Andrea Saccomanno, Director; Michael Walker, Director; Cathy Kuebler, Secretary/ Treasurer; Mary Leerssen, Director, Colleen Burrows, Director

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It IS as bad as you think and they ARE out there to get you!

Assistant Chief/Lead Engineer of the Year Michael Fowler, Peloton Commercial Real Estate

Building Engineer of the Year Jerae Smith, Billingsley Property Services

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The Epitome of Framing Space

ew cities on earth can compete for sheer verticality with largest city in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai. It is home to 911 completed high-rises, 88 of which stand taller than 591 ft. Dubai is home to the tallest building in the world - the Burj Khalifa (2,717 ft. tall) - which is twice the height of the Empire State Building. The pale sands of this once forgettable port alongside the emptiness of the Arabian desert have proved fertile ground for all manner of skyscrapers. (See the next issue of the network).

I must be a proctologist because I work with assholes.

Now, Dubai is about to gain another landmark, the Dubai Frame, literally and figuratively a frame imposed on the overwhelming view. Two parallel towers linked by an observation deck. The problem – its originality is under question. Except for that, it would already be complete and open.

The 492-foot-tall Dubai Frame project was conceived and named by Fernando Donis, a Mexican-born and Rotterdam based architect who won the 2009 ThyssenKrupp Elevator International Award from 926 proposals. Donis has accused the Dubai municipality of breaching his copyright claiming he was not included in the project’s execution and was not compensated for his intellectual property. He has strong legal claim, though the Dubai government, claims the $100,000 prize money received by him for winning the competition was proper compensation.

The concept reflects a journey through time, starting at the mezzanine level, where visitors enter an

immersive historical experience. Projections, mist effects, smells, and motion create the mood and setting. After that, visitors proceed to a panoramic elevator that takes them up through the rib of the frame to the top floor - the Sky deck level – where they can experience unimpeded views of Dubai from all sides, and a unique feel as if walking on high altitude.

For more about the Frame, see the Amazing Buildings article in our September issue.

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Local Winners

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he TOBY award is more than the result of a one-year competition. It is the reward of many years of dedication and attention to detail and of relentless passion for excellence. It is truly evidence of the character of all of those who contribute to making it happen. A reputation is the opinion of others — and all the nominees have earned an outstanding reputation. Character is who you are.

Since 1985, The Outstanding Building of the Year Award has been recognizing excellence in building management, operating efficiency, tenant retention, emergency planning and community impact. It is unquestionably among the most prestigious and comprehensive programs of its kind. Every building in the competition (as well as each individual who leads a management or service team that supports these buildings) is a winner!

Featured on these two pages are the winners of the local competition selected by the Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio BOMA chapters. The chapter’s judges scrutinize many aspects of a building’s management over the course of a year. Photographs, building standards, floor plans and the owner’s goals are all part of the appearance portion of the judging. That’s the part we get to see, but collectively these elements constitute only 5 % of the score a building receives. The remaining 95% is based upon tenant relations, community impact, emergency and security standards, environmental and regulatory policies, energy management systems, and personnel training and qualifications.

Mary Kay Building

Mary Kay, Inc. Property Manager: Tonia Rachel

Historical Building, Dallas

The Sharyland Building

Sharyland Office Management Property Manager: Scott Schutz

Renovated Building, Dallas

100,000- 249,000 SF, Dallas

CBRE Property Manager: Colleen Burrows

CBRE Property Manager: JJ Jones

Sterling Plaza

The Addison

Suburban Office Park (Low-Rise), Dallas

International Business Park Billingsley Property Services Property Manager: Cathy Kuebler

Over 1 Million SF, Dallas

1100 Louisiana (Bank of America Plaza) Peloton Commercial Real Estate Property Manager: Lisa Hall

Industrial Office Building, Dallas

Park 20/35

Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. Property Manager: Traci Devereaux

Suburban Office Park (MId-Rise), Dallas

Legacy Town Center I, II, & III CBRE Property Manager: Cathy Kuebler

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Under 100,000 SF, Austin

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The RMR Group Property Manager: Kathy McDuffie, CPM, FMA, RPA

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Suburban Office Park (Low-Rise), Austin

Corporate Headquarters, San Antonio

Real Estate Management, Inc. Property Manager: Kathleen Goddard

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Property Manager: Sally Flanagan

The Summit at Lantana

Tesoro Headquarters

100,000- 249,000 SF, Fort Worth

550 Bailey

Peloton Commercial Real Estate Property Manager: Mark Wilshire, LEED-AP, RPA, FMA

Under 100,000 SF, Fort Worth

Mallick Tower

Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. Property Manager: Carma Bohannon, RPA, CPM, CCIM

Renovated Building, San Antonio

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One Thousand Oaks

Gemini Rosemont Property Management of Texas Property Manager: Daphne Shepard

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BOMA Southwest Regional Winners

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OMA Southwest is composed of local chapters from Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas – a total of 13 chapters in all. In April (this year in Dallas), they met and conferred The (Regional) Outstanding Building of the Year awards on the buildings featured on these two pages.

In late June, at the annual convention of BOMA International, they will compete to win the International TOBY awards – and those buildings will be featured in our September edition. Good luck to all of the regional winners!

Arkansas – Greater Little Rock, Northwest Arkansas Louisiana – New Orleans, Shreveport New Mexico – Albuquerque Oklahoma – Oklahoma City, Tulsa Texas – Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio

Under 100,000 SF, Fort Worth

500,000 - 1 Million SF, Austin

Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. Property Manager: Carma Bohannon

Endeavor Commercial Real Estate Property Manager: Sammie Baker, CPA, RPA

Mallick Tower

The Addison

CBRE Property Manager: JJ Jones

250,000 - 499,999 SF, Houston

BBVA Compass Plaza

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Over 1 Million SF, Houston

1100 Louisiana (Bank of America Plaza) Hines Property Manager: Kelly McNeill

Historical Building, Dallas

The Sharyland Building

Sharyland Office Management Property Manager: Scott Schutz

Suburban Office Park (Low-Rise), Austin

The Summit at Lantana

Real Estate Management, Inc. Property Manager: Kathleen Goddard

Suburban Office Park (Mid-Rise), Dallas

Legacy Town Center I, II, & III CBRE Property Manager: Cathy Kuebler

Corporate Facility, Houston

HESS Tower

CBRE Property Manager: Janet L. Shipley, CPM

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100,000- 249,000 SF, Dallas

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Melissa Graham

of BOMA Fort Worth was named

Regional Member of the Year

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Medical Office Building, Houston

Memorial Hermann Southeast Medical Plaza 2 CBRE Property Manager: Sherry Farrow

Renovated Building, Houston

One Shell Plaza

Hines Property Manager: Sarah Sutton

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Industrial Office Building, Dallas

Park 20/35

Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. Property Manager: Traci Devereaux

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ANDERS MODIG mail@andersmodig.se photo by Pablo Wünsch Blanco

Lighting the Way Design journalist Anders Modig made the trek across the pond from Basel to New York for an extended lunch with Charles G. Stone II, CEO of Fisher Marantz Stone. This interview originally appeared in Ljuskultur, a Swedish publication. It is reprinted here in its entirety with the permission of the author and Mr. Stone.

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longside the circus, Vegas entertainment and wizardry, lighting design is the only industry whose representatives keep referring to magic. I understand what they mean – light is magic – but should magic really be a sales proposition? Still, I have heard it before; I am used to it. Thus I am not overly surprised when even somebody like Charles Stone, CEO of Fisher Marantz Stone, one of the world’s foremost lighting designers with finished projects in 22 countries, mentions the m-word without shame.

A friendly waiter in a red waistcoat passes by and completes our plates with a few creaking grinds of the pepper mill as a biting wind taps icy drops on the vaulted windows. “I think we have the perfect food for one of these cold May days,” says Charles, looking up.

Charles Stone started his It is hard to go to New York and not see works career in theater, but soon made by FMS. If you are here around 9/11, it is turned to architectural even impossible, since they produce the annual lighting design. When he remembrance lights that shine into the sky: The moved to New York, he got Tribute in Light. the opportunity to work for Jules Fisher and Paul “It takes a few days to set it up perfectly. You can’t Marantz, and later became just take 88 pieces of 7,000 watt xenon lights and point them straight on an afternoon. The a partner. Since 1999, he has been the CEO of Fisher hardest thing is to make them absolutely vertical – it is like getting a bunch of kindergarten kids Marantz Stone.

“Our clients come to us to buy some magic – which we sell … very expensive,” Charles whisperingly ends with an endearing smile. “They look at our portfolio and say ‘I want some of that!’ – That’s why they hire us. My privilege is that we have not only 10 projects in our portfolio to show them, not only 100, we have hundreds of fantastic projects in our portfolio to share. And our best project is always the next project. We have so many exciting projects in the pipeline. Sometimes I have to ask myself: how do I manage this extraordinary heritage? How can I expand our vision?”

to walk in a line. To know what is truly straight up we work really traditionally, with a Roman plumb bob, and we also have a team of people with walkie-talkies in different locations giving reports,” says Charles, while stroking the bristles on his chin, equally as long as the thinning strands on his pate.

FMS also lit the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, where they equipped the waterfall with water-cooled LED tubes custom-made in collaboration with the supplier. The latest addition to the spot whose events changed the worldview is the World Trade Center Transportation Hub designed by Santiago Calatrava.

This is capped by the Oculus, an organic shape reminiscent of whalebones or giant eyelashes, or in Calatrava’s own words, “A bird released from a child’s hands.”

The sculptural construction opened to the public in March 2016 is extremely light, since the whole interior is painted in a dazzling white. (See p. 14 of the network, March 2017)

What he says is, just like him, woven in an unmistakably New York cocoon of experience, humor and class – Charles’s full name is Charles G. Stone II. Thus his bold statements don’t come across as boasting because they are true. They trigger respect. They stir up curiosity. And he does have the portfolio to back it all up: World Trade Center, Burj Khalifa, Canary Wharf, Grand Hyatt Tokyo, Museum of Islamic Art, Grand Central Terminal, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, LVMH Tower, JFK Airport, brands like Chanel, Graff, Gucci, Ikea … I could fill pages with the projects carried out since 1971 when Jules Fisher and Paul Marantz founded the company in a New York basement. Just about every project is top-notch when you look at design quality, cultural significance and level of architecture. No wonder Fisher Marantz Stone has enough awards and diplomas to cover a Chinese square.

For a European to hear Charles wax lyrical becomes New York in a nutshell, because it simply is – and it is big. I am also smitten by his self-assuredness that makes it a nonquestion for him to choose a ruby red Campari soda, which he will sip slowly as if it were the perfect accompaniment to the roasted tomato soup and the carbonara.

The 100-yard-long Oculus, a selfsupporting structure completely devoid of pillars, is an extreme exercise in daylighting with ceiling windows across the entire edifice, thus unadulterated daylight trickles down to the subterranean train platforms through openings in the multi-story mezzanine.

With my own seafood pasta, I am more traditional in choice of drink. As we toast in the near-empty, now sadly defunct Italian haunt across the road from the office’s back door, I say a silent prayer to the house white not to go all roller coaster on my jetlagged being. During our initial small talk, we send out a few hooks regarding mutual friends and colleagues in architecture and lighting, a game where Charles of course has the upper hand since FMS has worked with everybody over the years.

Of course the natural light is supplemented with electrical light, mainly in the form of indirect lights hidden in the quills. Most renderings and photos show the exterior as a stark white peace dove, but often they are filled by a subtle leopard print pattern created by reflections from the surrounding skyscrapers, forever changing with the moving sun.

“An award is always the result of a collaboration with the architecture and the owner. Through true collaboration, we can accomplish results that we couldn’t reach on our own,” says Charles.

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Nothing is fool proof to a talented fool.

In the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world, FMS worked with all the spaces in the generous lobby and the Armani Hotel. Working on this true skyscraper whose concept, suitably enough, is based on a desert lily, demanded one virtue above all: patience. It took eight years from models, renderings and conceptual sketches to the project finally being completed, towering 2,722 feet above the ground.

When it comes to classical environments, the recently renovated Armory on Park Avenue is one of New York’s most talked about of late. Here FMS worked with the Basel architect, Herzog and de Meuron. Unbeknownst to many, this also has a connection to 9/11, since the stately building served as an emergency hospital after the attack; the first time Herzog and de Meuron arrived there were still wires hanging everywhere in an archaeological reminiscence of this usage.

Together the two companies have taken the building back to its heyday. Every room is unique in size and expression, and here the main scheme of the lighting was to dare to preserve contrasts through very clear thin-beam point sources, and to enhance the weight of the building through sparsely lighting elegant ornamental wooden panels. “The weight of the building is enhanced through sparsely lighting elegant ornamental wooden panels.”

All the public prestige buildings aside – right now, Charles is very excited about a law office in Washington, DC. The headquarters project for the law firm, Covington won two GE Edison Awards in May 2016, and a Lumen Award in June 2016.

“It is hard to win awards with office interiors – they are so normal,” Charles says about the 500,000 square feet glass building, which is a textbook example of modern, minimalist precision. The

Another project in the Middle East is the Museum of Islamic Art, which visitors reach from the corniche that runs along the bay of Doha in Qatar’s capital. The museum, which opened in 2008, is a project of architect I.M. Pei, who will celebrate his 100th birthday in April 2017. “This museum is etheric, it really pushes boundaries,” Charles says in awe of the architecture. The form of building blocks stapled in an octagon is inspired by the shape of a simple ablution block adjacent to a mosque in Egypt. The light is signified by a giant bay window spanning all four floors. The exhibitions on three floors are placed in peripheral, relatively dark rooms around the central day lit space. This simplicity is beautiful and necessary, since a majority of the artifacts and artworks are extremely sensitive to UV light.

Charles tells me that his focus is taking care of clients and staff.

He makes sure clients get what they want, and ensures that the technology is interacting with the design, and the design is correlating with the clients’ aspirations. A helpful tool is the four-step model mockupdocumentation-implementationevaluation. But perhaps even more important is setting time aside for the simple and important things in life – to meet, to talk with the clients, to make sure that they are happy and satisfied with the work. In his strategy there are no figures for happiness.

But I guess that happiness in lighting design is now spelled LED?

“Yes, we are living in an LED world. I call it the LED tsunami, and it is here whether you want it or not. All the new research goes into LED; all the new luminaires are LED. Everything else is simply left behind. Since 2014 – if you judge from what is presented at Light + Building in Frankfurt – LED is now available in all applications, from streetlights, luminaires for industrial environments and stadiums down to boutiques, shelves, wardrobes and everything in between. Digital LED is now covering the whole spectrum, and we take it for granted. But you just have to go back four or five years to realize what an extraordinary development LED has gone through in an incredibly short time. Now everything is available in LED, and unlike before, everything is available in good quality, which is a nice evolution of late.”

What is the most important step in this evolution?

architect, Lehman Smith McLeish has simply achieved something refined, understated and professional with a light touch of futurism. FMS did all the interior light, focusing on a uniform illumination. Recessed LED strips frame the rooms and add life to the glass facade, and a great emphasis has been placed on achieving a feeling of uniform light where different environments meet: when you open the door of an office and enter a corridor, from the foyer to the elevator lobby, where you enter or leave the conference room. According to Stone, such transitions should be resolved with a less is more strategy. “If you complicate too much in each of the respective spaces, there will be chaos when they meet,” he says matter-of-factly.

“Now you have excellent color rendering, for instance with GaNon-GaN technology, with SORAA being one of the manufacturers.

Their manufacturing technology also eliminates a few steps; thus it is more efficient. Supposedly this will make them cheaper when the volumes are big enough; everything is very expensive before you reach a critical mass. Unfortunately we have a Wild West situation at the moment; there are so many manufacturers around. Because of this you have a plethora of systems, control schemes and module sizes – compatibility can be a serious problem if you are not an expert.”

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at our generous offer. Afterwards, I called this manufacturer that I go back years with; we have done many projects together.

How do you advise your clients in this Wild West, or even jungle, given that they of course want long-term solutions?

“It is difficult, especially since too many clients believe that LED lights last forever, that they are some sort of holy grail of lighting. Of course, they don’t last forever and of course they are not. As you know, they often need more maintenance than the manufacturers claim. And ever since the world’s first gas streetlights were lit on Pall Mall in London on January 28, 1807, lighting technology has had a foundational shift in technology every twenty years. And whenever something new arrives, we forget that the future is not over. Do you remember compact fluorescents? MR16 Halogens? Soon we will also say, do you remember the funny first generation chips for LED? LED will also become history one day, but I have no idea what will replace it. If I knew, I would be smarter and richer.”

“Slowly it dawned upon him what they had done,” says Stone with a laugh just as two perfect espressos land softly on the white tablecloth.

After kissing the Scottish lady who owned the restaurant on both cheeks, we cross 18th Street and enter a slow elevator that brings us up to the office, and if I were to sum up my first impression in one word, it would be ‘playfulness’. Both founders and a couple of colleagues are testing new tools against a white wall – and the result seems to be that the free mobile app Optical Light is delivering equal results to Minolta’s light meter that somebody just bought for 2,000 dollars. Across the room, there is open-hearted experimentation going on in the 700 square foot experiment studio, which is filled from floor to ceiling with models, mockups and different types of ceilings.

Do you get what you pay for?

“Nowadays, it is not that simple. Twenty years ago you had to pay more for quality, for instance, for a better optical system or a better luminaire. But now with refraction plastic or builtin lenses at the LED point, the cost is pretty much the same for good and bad luminaires. But it is not only about the quality of the luminaire; bad lighting often comes from using the wrong luminaire for the situation. Having said that, I must add that the awareness of light has on the one side, become better. But on the other hand, not all clients understand that the technology is undergoing constant development.”

Some talk about softer, more flexible solutions.

“For sure, OLED, quantum dots and what have you. There is a strong focus on new technology, which is exciting, but what is often forgotten is that your eyes don’t change. The relationship between light and glare is deeply encoded in the human brain, and it is not likely to change.”

How has all this changed the role of manufacturers?

“They have a new, stronger role, since they to a certain extent dictate the rules.

And sometimes they use this recently increased attention to offer lighting design for free. But then the result is what you would expect.”

Do you have an example of this?

“We did the interior lighting design of a museum, and afterwards, we discussed possible strategies for the historical facade.

And since we’d already done the interior, we suggested only another $10,000 for this extra assignment. In the end, however, the museum didn’t choose us; they chose somebody else. But the result was not good.

So they called us again and said, ‘We don’t like the result, could you please do it after all?’ That’s how I found out that it was a wellknown manufacturer who’d done the poor job. Of course, we said yes, and we remained 28

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“We have a constant laboratory in the studio. We are playing with the future, trying to predict which suppliers will remain top-notch. You have to test, test and do more tests – it is never enough to only listen to their sales pitch.”

But as you said before – the suppliers are now in the driver’s seat?

“Yes, we are dependent on them. But we often alter and customize their products; we add optical parts that modify the performance. We rarely accept the standard methods for control and dimming – we improve them.”

How is it different to be a lighting designer in the United States compared with elsewhere in the world?

“Well, the United States has a strong tradition of litigation, and this affects our work. Take stairs for instance – you have to light them. If the owner or the architect doesn’t want to do that, we write them a letter along the lines of ‘you ought to light them, somebody could fall there and sue you; as lighting designer it is our responsibility to protect you from that.’ If they still don’t want to do it – fine. Then we can show the letter that proves that we have done our work, in case of a court case. Once many years ago, we were named in litigation that arose when somebody had fallen on the stairs of a discotheque. But we had put lights along the length of the whole stairs, which we showed to the judge, who said, “You can go home; this is not your fault.’”

Joe, the CFO who’s been with the company for 27 years, walks by.

“Hey Joe, you are the numbers guy, but what do we do with stairs?”

“You light the hell out of ’em.”

We all laugh, but as Charles keeps talking, I notice that he is getting somewhat itchy, since he is on his way to another meeting.

Given that he has at least 100 travel days per year, I realize that he has been extremely generous giving me two and a half hours of his time. I reach for my last questions.

When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane and going in the wrong direction.

‘You did this job, and just so you know, we have been asked to fix it. Who was your consultant?’ I asked him.

‘We did it ourselves.’

‘You took my job. But I don’t have a problem with that; I believe in free enterprise, I am a capitalist. But I must tell you that we just wanted $10,000.

How much did you charge?’

‘We did it for free. One of our interns did it.’

‘Well, the intern didn’t make the client happy. And since we have to redo the work, I guess the work wasn’t that great. But above all, do you realize what you just said to me? That you value our work alongside the work of your interns. So, I guess we are competitors from now on? I welcome you. But the next time you are in my office, you will not get further than the conference room, there will be no more walking around.’

There was a long silence at the other end of the line.

‘That’s reasonable though, isn’t it? You are now my competitor, so of course, I cannot share the secrets from our laboratory.’

Architects often talk about flexibility for future use.

“Everybody talks about it, but somebody has to pay for it – flexibility always costs money. If you, for instance, design a track lighting system for a restaurant of 1,600 square feet, you will need five pieces of track, each 16 feet long. But for future flexibility, you will need eight pieces of track, because what happens if they move the bar or change the placement of the tables? This means that somebody must agree to pay for 60 percent more material. In a museum, you think about it. In an academic context too, but schools rarely have the budgets. When it comes to boutiques and hotels, it is not necessary – they will tear it down or rebuild it in five or 10 years anyway. In such places, it is the other way around – cut away everything that is not absolutely essential.

What is your view on compatibility between different systems?

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

“I am impressed with strong engineering solutions with solid Wi-Fi signals on the right frequencies

that don’t interfere with police radios and the like.

But control has become very complicated, because there are so many different control systems. The question is who will own this spaceship control, which is increasingly voice controlled in a fashion like talking to Siri on your phone.”

Where will it end?

“Probably Apple, Google and Amazon will play an increasingly greater role. Alexa is already working with hubs from Amazon. The question is how we will communicate with the lights. Will the dimmer still be mounted on the wall, or will it be in your computer or in your phone? Lutron has, for example, interesting Wi-Fi pucks that can talk to a neighborhood of fixtures. Actually, the “spaceship” technology is already here. I have Alexa in my home in Seattle. Now I just enter the apartment and say, ‘turn on the light,’ ‘living room lights on’ or ‘evening atmosphere.’ Who needs buttons? This is coming fast – the spaceship has landed.”

Fisher Marantz Stone is famous for being a groundbreaking pioneer, and you have several secret high-tech clients in Seattle and California. What is the most advanced project that you are working on at the moment?

“The one that starts tomorrow.”

OK, I understand that you must respect nondisclosure agreements. But what is the next project for you?

“I just got back from Seattle, where I have moved to be in close contact with our new studio, which is a part of our larger New York studio – all our 35 employees, whether they are lighting designers, interior architects, architects or office staff, start out in New York – we call it boot camp.”

Last but not least: What is your view on new technology. Do you want to be the cutting-edge pioneers or do you wait until the teething problems are resolved?

“We like to be on the cutting edge but to stay off the bleeding edge.”

Oscar

“Remember the Alamo!”

Oscar, the Academy Award statuette, was named for Texan Oscar Pierce, whose niece worked in Hollywood for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. When she saw the gold statuette, she reportedly said, “Why, that looks just like my Uncle Oscar.

The famous battle cry “Remember the Alamo!” is often attributed to Sam Houston but was actually coined by Texas general Sidney Sherman (1805-1873) (pictured).

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JESSICA NEUFELD

jneufeld@munsch.com www.munsch.com Jessica Neufeld is an associate at Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr and a Certified Information Privacy Professional for U.S. privacy law.

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o company or industry is immune to a cyberattack, and as cybercriminals become more sophisticated, attacks are continuing -- with no sign of slowing down.

The real estate industry is no exception. While not necessarily as rich in personal and financial data as banking or health care, many companies within the industry maintain a substantial amount of personally identifying information that hackers are hungry for. And because they are not as heavily regulated and, therefore, may not have the most up-to-date protections in place, they may be more likely to have their vulnerabilities exploited.

Of course, there is also the infamous 2013 Target breach. The initial intrusion into the big box store’s network was achieved by stealing the login credentials of an HVAC contractor who was granted network access for billing purposes. The massive breach resulted in the theft of more than 40 million customer credit and debit cards, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in litigation and settlements.

One thing these breaches highlight is that a substantial portion of the businesses that fall under the umbrella of “real estate” (including hospitality and construction) are service-based, and as a result, they generate and maintain information either about or belonging to their clients. Depending on the business and the clients, this could include financial or proprietary information, as well as different types of intellectual property, such as design drawings, or material and other product data the client may want protected.

Taking steps to safeguard this type of data is critical not only in minimizing risk of a lawsuit or enforcement action, but protecting a company’s reputation. Below are five tips to consider when securing your information and mitigating cybersecurity issues.

1. Discern Your Duties

It is prudent to assess the different types of data your company maintains (including any that belongs to clients) and familiarize yourself with any federal or state privacy and security laws that may govern your business.

The U.S. does not currently have one over-arching law defining personal information or governing its protection that applies to all industries. Nor is there any federal law that imposes minimum information security standards across all verticals. Instead, at the federal level, the collection, use, disclosure and protection of certain types of personal information is regulated through a patchwork of laws directed specifically at certain industries, such as banking, health care and telecommunications. Some of these laws include a security component that identifies minimum security requirements for the entities to which these regulations apply. In addition, most states now also have laws on information privacy and security, some of which are broader and stricter than federal laws.

2. Recognize Privacy and Security Clauses in Contracts

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For instance, the standard AIA A201-2007 General Conditions does not contain provisions related to confidentiality or security. However, the AIA BIM addendum, E203-2013, addresses “security requirements” indirectly as among one of the model management protocols to be defined and further fleshed out by the parties and does not suggest any particular language.

The ConsensusDoc 303 BIM Addendum also required “security protocols and training” be developed. It also requires the BIM Manager to, among other things, “[e]stablish and maintain encryption and access security measures selected” and “undertake information system scans to maintain Model security.” Cyber-liability insurance is also addressed.

3. Implement Best Practices

Implementing data security best practices and obtaining cyber liability insurance to manage these risks is a good idea even if it is not contractually required by your clients.

In the context of critical infrastructure development and construction, the risk may have national security implications. One of the nation’s sixteen critical infrastructure sectors, known as “commercial facilities,” includes a large swath of private commercial real estate (e.g., casinos, hotels, theme parks, stadiums, office buildings and shopping malls). The Department of Homeland Security has developed specific guidance for this sector on cybersecurity risk management. The guidance is based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure, which is a set of standards and best practices for managing cybersecurity risk in any critical infrastructure sector.

4. Be Aware of Breach Obligations

In the event of a data breach, there are federal and state laws in place that regulate a company’s obligations. Most are prompted by the breach of some form of personal information but others have a different and potentially broader scope. For example, in October 2016 the Department of Defense published a final rule outlining “cyber incident” reporting requirements for defense contractors. A “cyber incident” must be reported when it results in an actual or potentially adverse effect on unclassified information (breach and reporting related to classified information is governed by other rules) relating to the contractor’s performance under the contract and the system that processes, stores, or transmits such information. The obligations in these breach notification laws, including who must be notified and the necessary time frame, vary so developing a data breach protocol to ensure the laws are quickly complied could go a long way to mitigate exposure in the event of a breach.

5. Never Work Alone

Enlist the guidance of a cybersecurity attorney to prepare for a potential data breach.

Additionally, the attorney can review your contracts ahead of time to ensure you understand your obligations. If a breach does occur, notify your attorney to begin the reporting process immediately.

As data breaches continue to make headlines, companies are expected to address vulnerabilities and be prepared to proactively protect their employees and customers, and prepare for the worst case scenario.

The laws governing cybersecurity threats continue to evolve and develop as awareness of the risks continues to grow. Knowing what your obligations are under the law, and establishing a program that implements best practices for cybersecurity and breach response will only become more important as technology is further integrated into the design, development and construction process.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

For example, one of the Federal Trade Commission’s most significant cybersecurity enforcement actions to date was against the Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, a hospitality company that manages and franchises hotels and sells timeshares. Wyndham had a property management system that stored consumer information, including names, addresses and credit card information. Wyndham managed the system and required its franchised hotels to purchase and use it as well. The FTC alleged that the hotel company’s cybersecurity practices “unreasonably and unnecessarily exposed consumers’ personal data to unauthorized access and theft.” It is believed that in three separate intrusions between 2008-2009, hackers obtained payment card information from more than 619,000 consumers, resulting in at least $10.6 million in fraud loss. In late 2015, Wyndham settled with the FTC over these charges. As part of that settlement, Wyndham agreed to establish a comprehensive information security program that would be audited annually for the next 20 years.

more popular construction contract forms, owners can easily them to include these types of obligations, along with requirements relating to the use and disclosure of proprietary or confidential project documents. With the increased utilization of BIM in the design and construction process, the cloud for project management, ‘smart’ devices in power and security systems, and mobile devices during and after the construction as part of the ‘smart’ systems installed, the importance of cyber-liability insurance and other related contractual requirements in construction contracts will only grow.

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ANGELA O’BYRNE aobyrne@e-perez.com Angela O’Byrne, FAIA, is President of Perez, APC, a 70+ yearold architecture, planning, interior design, and construction firm. She is also a Contributing Editor of the network

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s one of the world’s most successful filmmakers—and boasting a net worth of more than five billion dollars—George Lucas enjoys a rare kind of creative freedom. If he is struck by a fancy, he can see it through without real impediment. But when he announced his grand plan to build and fully fund an ambitious new art museum, he faced unexpected opposition in two major American cities. And so, Lucas found himself in the truly unique position of being unable to find a home for his billion-dollar gift.

For at least seven years, Lucas has been pitching and lobbying for his Museum of Narrative Art, a sprawling monument to all visual art that tells a story, from ancient painted Greek amphora through to modern digital animation. Lucas’s eclectic personal collection encompasses both high and low art, including original pages from the Flash Gordon

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comics, paintings by Norman Rockwell and Edgar Degas, and, of course, an extensive array of memorabilia and models from his Star Wars films. By presenting them all together, Lucas hopes to curate a populist and inclusive space, and one that attracts those who might normally avoid a more traditional art museum.

Lucas’s first choice for a site was in his hometown of San Francisco. He had chosen a beloved area of the Presidio near Crissy Field, where locals gather for outdoor recreation and stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge.

However, he encountered robust opposition to both his plans (some objected to the height of his design) and the content of the museum itself (too schlocky, some have speculated). And after an extensive and very public negotiation process, the Presidio Trust rejected the proposal in 2014. Lucas packed up and headed to Chicago, the hometown of his new wife, Mellody Hobson.

Finding a champion and a partner in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Lucas decided to test his fortunes in the Windy City. He settled on an exceptional site next to Soldier Field, where the Chicago Bears play. While the site was only a parking lot—beloved only by diehard tailgaters— it was also near Chicago’s picturesque waterfront and within walking distance of several the city’s foremost attractions, including the Field Museum and the Shedd Aquarium lakeside, positioning it ideally for field trips and convenience-minded tourists.

However, when Lucas unveiled the design for the building—a volcanic mass crowned with floating discs—the project was met with considerable backlash. In a city known for innovative architecture, the building was derided as “blob-like.”

Eventually, public opinion soured, amidst a lawsuit from Chicago’s Friends of the Parks and a citywide conversation about public land and appropriateness.

California. The area also falls within a Promise Zone—a Housing and Urban Development designation for high poverty communities selected for investment and improvement, granting the project an argument for meaningful community engagement.

In fact, the building would feel right at home in one of Lucas’s movies. The museum’s smooth, aerodynamic form recalls that of a perched intergalactic ship.

Elevated above the park, it appears to be hovering, allowing curious pedestrians to walk under the building.

The building was designed by Chinese architect Ma

To preserve as much of the park’s atmosphere as possible, the building also boasts curving green roofs, a terrestrial touch to an alien structure. It is 275,000 square feet altogether, including 100,000 square feet for gallery space, and one can easily imagine the excitement and wonder it will stir up among visiting school field trips.

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Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional villages built on their hillsides, the project consists of a stacked vertical forest set in the heart of the city, designed to bring more nature and open space in a dense and compact way.

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1 The icicle-shaped Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin China 2 and 3 Absolute World Towers is a residential condominium twin tower skyscraper complex in the five tower Absolute City Centre development in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

4 Ordos Museum in Inner Mongolia, China

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With two strikes against him, Lucas decided to try something unconventional, essentially pitting two cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco, in competition for the project and its sizable endowment. Exhausted by negotiating, he instead let each of the cities’ mayors of each to court him with incentives.

On January 10, 2017, it was announced that Lucas had finally found his Hollywood ending. The site for the museum would be South Los Angeles’s Exposition Park, near the Natural History Museum and the campus of the University of Southern

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12 Taichung Convention Center Commissioned by the Taiwanese government and looking like a cluster of pleated, venetian blind volcanoes, the ‘skin’ of this structure will naturally ventilate the structure and generate energy. The folded solar eco-skin serves two purposes: first, the envelopes provide natural airflow to the interior to minimize air conditioning; second, the pleats utilize a “double photovoltaic glass,” to reduce energy consumption.

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Yansong of MAD (see the network, December 2014)—the same studio that created the divisive Chicago design. However, this new iteration is more striking and streamlined, simultaneously organic and otherworldly.

If there’s a lesson to be learned from the Museum of Narrative Art’s own story, it’s an old classic: that of hubris. Despite being self-sufficient for the project’s funding, the movie magnate still needed pesky civic approval to get his project off the ground. Opting for some of the country’s most prized public real estate likely didn’t help the cause. All of this serves as a reminder that a building isn’t just an idea and a bunch of materials. It’s also a contract, requiring the consent of many stakeholders.

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ROXANA TOFAN

roxana@clearintegritygroup.com Roxana Tofan, CPM® is the Owner/Broker at Clear Integrity Group LLC in San Antonio

(Your Name Here)

Before you begin the process, keep in mind that the city asks a lot of questions such as is the name appropriate for the street location and character of the particular community or if the name is to honor a living person, or if the person is of such character that the name would still hold honor upon a person’s death. If the street is in a new development, naming a new street is a lot easier than changing a current street name because new streets have the name chosen by their developer and there are usually no other property owners to consider yet.

How do you chose which actual street you select? It is at your discretion - whether it is a major highway, main street or a dead-end street in a neighborhood. As you read the requirements below ensure that the street you choose is not a street that has already been chosen or approved to honor someone or something.

Have a good reason why you choose the particular location. Depending on the location, it could be either a small or large group that would have a say in approving the request.

To request to change the name of a city street or add a memorial designation, you must file a request with the Development Service Department Land Entitlement Section at the City of San Antonio but only after you’ve already involved the City of San Antonio City Council, either the Development Service or a government subdivision agency or department, the United States Post Office, Bear County Appraisal District, City of San Antonio Public Works and TXDOT Traffic Engineering.

If you are a member of the City of San Antonio City Council, the Development Service Director, a group, agency, business or owner of property located on the subject street, or an officer or authorized representative of a governmental subdivision agency, or department, you are in good shape because these parties are the only ones that can initiate a street name change or designation of a memorial name or naming a new street. Otherwise you must identify which 36

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one of the following parties below you should solicit assistance from. Now that you have the name you would like to honor, have identified the street or street location and have obtained support for the authorized parties to make the request, the official process begins.

STEP 1 - Request a letter of approval from the United States Post Office verifying that the proposed street name is not a duplicate and that it conforms with the other required guidelines. The city staff, in their official guidelines available to public, highly recommends that a minimum of five alternative street names be submitted to the United States Postal Service (USPS), Address Management Systems to maximize the probability of an approval.

The USPS requires several weeks to evaluate all requests.

STEP 2 - Contact the City of San Antonio Public Works Department and the TXDOT Traffic Engineering Department to determine the estimated costs for manufacturing and replacing all applicable street signs.

STEP 3 - Combine a list of all the names and addresses of all owners of the property with property on the street proposed for a name change or designation of a memorial street name according to the most current Bexar County Appraisal District tax rolls. This can range from the very simple in a new development to more complicated in an existing neighborhood and most complicated on a main city street or highway. A list of the owners on that street is necessary for official notification purposes.

STEP 4 - Figure out your application fees. The total cost associated with this request includes: A. Costs associated with the public notification requirements. Currently the cost per property/lot/parcel is $4.50. (To differentiate between streets with many property owners and streets with a limited number of property owners, the city staff established a per property/lot/parcel fee that reflects the actual cost, based on the number of notices that would be mailed as the application moves through the review process. Staff evaluated the anticipated tangible cost which includes paper and envelope costs, reproduction, postage, total number of mailings per owner, staff time and incidental management time to determine the $4.50 cost per property.)

B. The estimated cost for manufacturing and replacing all applicable street signs (See step 3 above).

C. A non-refundable application processing fee of $1,000.

STEP 5 - Complete an application that can be obtained from the Development Services Department (DSD) and include the following: A. Completed application with original signatures.

B. Letter of approval from USPS. C. A list of owners compiled in step 4. Complete the notification mailing list form included in the application package.

D. All fees determined in step 5.

No application will be accepted or be considered complete unless accompanied by all required fees.

Once your application is submitted, (within ten [10] business days of

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ave you ever seen your name on a street? It probably depends of how common or famous your first and last names are or where you live or have travelled. But what if you wanted to name a street as a memorial or to honor someone you admire or something that was important to you or the local community, or an organization? The research to figure out all the details and how to get from the idea of making something great happen to having that name on the street signs entailed more than I initially anticipated. The research showed a very detailed process that missed no steps or parties that are involved in the decision but also the responsibility to ensure naming a street or changing a street name is in the best interest of the public. Here are the details.

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receipt of the application and associated fees), the DSD staff will determine if the application is complete or incomplete. When it is deemed complete, there is a 10-business day technical review period. The department distributes copies of the application for review and comment to every city department, the USPS, Bear County, Bear Metro 9-1-1 network, applicable school districts, city public service energy, San Antonio Water System, BexarMet Water System, Texas Department of Transportation and any other department or entity the director may determine is appropriate. The agencies have ten days to review and comment and any comments are to be addressed by the applicant before placement on any commission agenda.

During this time, the Office of Historic Preservation will also determine if the request requires review by the Historic and Design Review Commission (“HDRC”). Should the request require review by the HDRC, the request will not be scheduled for Planning Commission consideration until HDRC issues its recommendation. Upon completion of the technical review period, staff will schedule the request for a public hearing at the next available Planning Commission meeting. At least ten days before the first public hearing all owners along the subject street segment will be notified of the public hearing with details of the street name change request and explanation. Notices are also posted on the department’s internet website.

At the public hearing, the planning commission will consider the request and make a recommendation. After the Planning Commission’s recommendation, the request is scheduled for the next available City Council hearing. Those requests can be as simple as possible and approved immediately or as complicated as reviewing petitions and legal battles.

In 2011, after months of legal protest the city of San Antonio has officially named one of its streets to honor Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard. A judge blocked the legal challenge by a local group that attempted to prohibit the change and lost. It was a controversial move that involved a lot of tension in the city.

In 2015, a local business owner that owned a family business for more than three generations on Old Highway 90 petitioned against the name change to honor a former councilman. The business owner noted that it was going to be a big expense to the business that includes catalogues, websites, government agencies, property deeds and on and on. Another city council person voted against the request indicated that it could cost $70,000 to change all the street signs on the 8-mile stretch of roadway.

The street name change was eventually approved. In December of 2016, after almost a year gathering signatures and raising money to replace signs, the group named “Save Old Highway 90” submitted a request for a name change to the highway’s original name, but the request was shut down almost unanimously by the City Council. As you can see even after a name change is approved there are individuals or organizations that fight to reverse that approval.

These are just two examples of how strategic you need to be to choose the right name, street location and local support for the change. Assuming your request is eventually approved by the City Council the development service department will implement a street name change and the public works department will install the new street signs.

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William Shakespeare

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idden inside these remarkable oil paintings

by Oleg Shupliak lies a second layer of mindblowing optical illusions. Behind carefully placed objects, characters, coloring and shadows, the contemporary Ukrainian painter has cleverly concealed a second figure. Objects and characters in his paintings are aligned perfectly in such a way they create outstanding illusions that are easily spotted. Blurring famous figures from art and culture with landscapes the ingenious artist’s work sometimes requires a double-take before the hidden images reveal themselves. He has used the technical precision of an architect to create these intriguing optical illusions.

Born in 1967, Oleg Shupliak is from Berezhany in Ukraine.

His broad body of work (much of which can be seen at http://art.ber.te.ua ranges from realism to the abstract, but his passion has always been painting. It is this series of illusions (which he calls “Dvovzory.”) which has brought him worldwide fame and recognition. In them, the artist skillfully combines various themes and genres and, all in one picture, the viewer can see a portrait, a landscape or a general

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John Lennon

Vincent Van Gogh

scene - often depicting famous historical figures like Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh and William Shakespeare.

Shupliak has participated in numerous collective and personal exhibitions in different countries. His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko in Kiev, Ukraine, in the Ministry of Culture, and the International Fund “Cultural Heritage.”

Oleg Shupliak is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, a ‘Michael Boychuk’ Laureate, and is the artist of the official logo for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko. (Shevchenko was a Ukranian poet, writer, artist and political figure who lived from 1814-1861.

His prints are available in many art stores throughout the U.S. and online. You can see much of his work at and actually communicate with the artist directly at shupliak.oleg@ gmail.com n

Charles Darwin

Shupliak carefully places objects, colors and shadows that create small images ‘behind’ the second, larger painting, making each painting is an adventure.

In some of his work, the faces are what the eye recognizes first and, stepping back, the details that make up the face can be better appreciated.

Other times, the eye is drawn to the landscape and finding the face is a bit more of a challenge.

Claude Monet

Isaac Newton

Jesus Christ

Leonardo da Vinci

Great art is among the most sublime, meaningful, and redeeming creations of all civilization. Few endeavors can equal the power of great artwork to capture aesthetic beauty, to move and inspire, to change perceptions, and to communicate the nature of human experience. Great art is also complex, mysterious, and challenging.

Filled with symbolism, cultural and historical references, and often visionary imagery, great artworks oblige us to reckon with their many meanings.

Ivan Aivazovsky

Sigmund Freud

Architects and designers (many of our readers) have a lot of influence on the way we perceive the world. A structure often plays a significant part in how we experience a place. (Think of a restaurant, a museum, an arena, a stadium… even an office building – virtually anywhere!) The interior design impacts our sensory perception, our comfort, and our physical connection and there is also artistry in the exterior design.

(That’s why we call it artchitecture.)

Taras Shevchenko

Lesia Ukrainka

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ROSE-MARY RUMBLEY

rosetalksdallas@aol.com

Rose-Mary Rumbley has written three books about her native city – Dallas. She has also written “WHAT! NO CHILI!” and a book about the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano. She has appeared on the stage at the Dallas Summer Musicals and at Casa Mañana and was head of the drama department at Dallas Baptist University for 12 years. Today she is on the speaking circuit and teaches drama classes at Providence Christian School. Her loving views of Texas history appear in every issue of the network..

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y Dear Readers,

Of Thee I Sing opened on Broadway in 1931, just after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President - a superman who (when he was to take office in 1932) was expected to solve every problem existing in the USA at that time.

And did the country ever have problems! The stock market crash of 1929 had lasting effects. Unemployment was at 16.3%. Car manufacturers were closing because no one could pay for a new car. And nature conspired to make things even worse with a devastating drought. The mid-west became a dust bowl.

There were only two positive things that cheered the folks: The Empire State On May 1, 1931, President Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C. officially opening and turning on the Empire State Building’s lights.

Roosevelt immediately took to the newest media -- the radio.

With his inspiring and comforting voice, he proclaimed, “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” He really did lift spirits. I remember my mother saying to me, “When Roosevelt was elected, your daddy got a raise!”

On Broadway, Of Thee I Sing opened, telling of the election of the president, Mr. Wintergreen. The song Wintergreen for President was a rousing number – Stars and Stripes Forever mixed with Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here. It became the spirit song of Harvard University.

Wintergreen ran on the LOVE ticket and the Gershwin song, Love is Sweeping the Country vibrated off the walls of the theater. Wintergreen was elected and the country was loving every minute of it. But, alas, the country fell out of love and was destined to impeach the president. Now, here was where the real political fun began. The president was impeached. “Now, what do we do?” “We get the vice-president!” And no one could remember who it was!

Alas, where was the poor forgotten vice president? In the case of Roosevelt, the vice president was John Nance Garner IV, who after accepting the post, said, “This job is not worth a bucket of warm spit!” Garner did not use the word “spit.” (see sidebar) Spit was a word substituted by the reporters. The word Garner used could not be put into print.

The Warm Bucket Brigade. Great book!)

Well, of course, on stage they found the vice president.

They spotted him in a tour group, touring the White House. He had never been invited in, so he decided he’d best take the tour.

The audience could spot him immediately. He had a nerdy look!

I was head of the Drama Department at Dallas Baptist University and decided to present Of Thee I Sing. We opened on November 7, 1972, the night Richard Nixon was elected for the second term.

The following year, with the threat of impeachment pending, Nixon resigned.

I always wondered if I had somehow put a curse on poor Richard with giving that show about the impeachment of the president on Nixon’s inaugural night.

Who knows?

Roosevelt, of course, went on to be elected for four terms. If you’re my age, you grew up not knowing that the country normally changed presidents.

Roosevelt and God were equals.

On April 12, 1945, I came home from school in tears. “Mother, President Roosevelt died. What’s going to happen to the world?” Mother assured me that all would be well. In fact, I remember she sang a song from a 1921 musical – I’m Just Wild About Harry. Harry Truman, that is!

(Aside: Jeremy Lott has just written a book on the Vice Presidents titled, Thomas Bowdler (1754 – 1825) was an English physician and philanthropist, best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of Shakespeare’s work intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original. The verb bowdlerize has associated his name with the censorship not only of literature, motion pictures and television programs. It means to ‘remove material that is considered improper or especially with the result that it becomes weaker or less effective. (Garner actually used the word “piss”, not “spit.”)

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The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it’s open.

In the last issue of the network, after telling of Hamilton, The Man and the Musical, I promised a story of another musical that won a Pulitzer (in this case the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1931), one that also dealt with politics and elected officials.

It’s the grand and glorious show, Of Thee I Sing, with music by Ira and George Gershwin and the book by George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.

Building was finished and gambling became legal in Las Vegas. Otherwise, gloom spread from coast to coast.

The History Page List of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

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hirty-three amendments to the United States Constitution have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of these, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution. (The ratification dates are shown below.) The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. Six amendments adopted by Congress and sent to the states have not been ratified by the required number of states.

Four of these amendments are still technically open and pending, one is closed and has failed by its own terms, and one is closed and has failed by the terms of the resolution proposing it.

1st Prohibits Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. (1791) 2nd Protects the right to keep and bear arms. (1791) 3rd Places restrictions on the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner’s consent, prohibiting it during peacetime. (1791) 4th Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause as determined by a neutral judge or magistrate. (1791) 5th Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy. (1791) 6th Protects the right to a fair and speedy public trial by jury, including the rights to be notified of the accusations, to confront the accuser, to obtain witnesses and to retain counsel. (1791) 7th Provides for the right to trial by jury in certain civil cases, according to common law.

8th Prohibits excessive fines and excessive bail, as well as cruel and unusual punishment.

(1791) 9th Protects rights not enumerated in the Constitution. (1791) 10th Reinforces the principle of federalism by stating that the federal government possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states or the people through the Constitution.(1791) 11th Makes states immune from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners not living within the state borders; lays the foundation for sovereign immunity. (1795) 12th Revises presidential election procedures. (1804) 13th Abolishes slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. (1865) 14th Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post–Civil War issues. (1868) 15th Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. (1870) 16th Permits Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. (1913) 17th Establishes the direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. (1913) 18th Prohibited the manufacturing or sale of alcohol within the United States. (1919) (Repealed December 5, 1933) 19th Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex. (1920) 20th Changes the date on which the terms of the President and Vice President (January 20) and Senators and Representatives (January 3) end and begin. (1933) 21st Repeals the 18th Amendment and makes it a federal offense to transport or import intoxicating liquors into US states and territories where such transport or importation is prohibited by the laws of those states and territories. (1933) 22nd Limits the number of times that a person can be elected president: a person cannot be elected president more than twice, and a person who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected cannot be elected more than once. (1951) 23rd Grants the District of Columbia electors (the number of electors being equal to the least populous state) in the Electoral College. (1961) 24th Prohibits the revocation of voting rights due to the non-payment of a poll tax or any other tax. (1964) 25th Addresses succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.

(1967) 26th Prohibits the denial of the right of US citizens, eighteen years of age or older, to vote on account of age. (1971) 27th Delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives. (1992)

The First First Lady

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arriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (1830 – 1903) acted as First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her uncle, lifelong bachelor James Buchanan (from 1857 to 1861). She was the first woman to be called first lady while actually serving in that position. Once Harriet Lane was called first lady, the term was applied retrospectively to her predecessors.

Harriet Lane

Harriet’s mother died when she was 9 and her father two years later. She requested that her favorite uncle, James Buchanan, be appointed her legal guardian and he, an unmarried Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, indulged his niece. She remained with him while he was Secretary of State and later minister to the Court of St. James’s.

(Queen Victoria gave “dear Miss Lane” the rank of ambassador’s wife, and admiring suitors gave her the fame of a beauty.)

Harriet was a popular hostess during the four years of the Buchanan presidency. Women copied her hair and clothing styles, parents named their daughters for her, and a popular song (“Listen to the Mockingbird”) was dedicated to her. While in the White House, she used her position to promote social causes, such as improving the living conditions of Native Americans on reservations. She also made a point of inviting artists and musicians to White House functions. Her popularity at the time is compared to that of Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1960s.

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Lane eventually married a Baltimore banker called Henry Elliott Johnston at the age of 36. They had two sons but within 18 years, her uncle, her husband, and her children died. She joined (and lived out the remainder of her life with) her uncle at his spacious country home, Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Four For One

efore that, in one administration (that was less than one full-term) there were four women who served as first ladies. Two of them were married to the president, and two of them were not.

The president was John Tyler; he was the first to assume the office without being directly elected to it. He had been the vice-presidential candidate on the winning ticket which William Henry Harrison headed as the presidential candidate. President Harrison died on his 32nd say in office and Tyler assumed the office. When Tyler moved into the White House in late April of 1841, he brought the largest first family to date to live there.

His wife Letitia Christian Tyler was confined to a “rolling chair,” unable to walk or to fully express herself verbally, having suffered a stroke two years earlier. She was unable to assume the public First Lady roles of hostess of social events in the state rooms and escort of the President to ceremonial events in and out of the White House so President Tyler specifically asked Priscilla Tyler (his daughter-in-law) to help him, rather than ask one of his daughters.

More so than any of her predecessors since the popular Dolley Madison, the young Mrs. Tyler was animated, sophisticated, empathetic, humorous, articulate and accessible. As a professional stage actress, she literally played out the role of “White House hostess” with the mansion’s public rooms as a theatrical stage.

23-year-old First Daughter Letty Tyler Semple inherited the First Lady role by default when Priscilla moved to Philadelphia to support her husband in beginning his law career. As her sister-in-law Priscilla had done, Letty sought the advice of aged former First Lady Dolley Madison (then living in a townhouse across the park from the White House). Her sojourn as First Lady came to an abrupt, traumatic and unexpected end, when President Tyler eloped with New York socialite Julia Gardiner who was three years younger than her.

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MICHELLE DRESBOLD

www.michelledresbold.com

Michelle Dresbold is the author of Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

The Man Who (Says He) Will

“MAke AMeRiCa GReAT AGAiN!” Donald Trump’s Handwriting Speaks Hugely

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ave you ever looked at a person and thought…? “He looks honest.” Or, “She seems friendly.” Or, “He doesn’t look like a serial killer.”

It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere.

Are you always right? The truth is: Looks can be deceiving, but handwriting never lies.

A single sentence can provide insight into a person’s background, psychology, and behavior. The way you write is a choice. You make a choice in every mark you place on the page. Do you choose to write large, small or somewhere in between? Do you choose to print or write in cursive, or do you use some sort of combination? Do you choose to press lightly on the page or do you press so heavily that it indents the page underneath? Do you choose to slant your writing to the left or right? Or do you write straight up and down? Every stroke you place on the page originates from your brain. That is why handwriting can also be called brain-writing.

Let’s peek inside the mind and the brain-prints of a most unusual man, our 45th president, Donald Trump.

Sometimes, we learn a specific style of writing. For example, if you are an architect, builder, draftsperson or designer, you may have been taught to print neatly and uniformly.

uniform printing of an architect, builder or engineer.

It is in a very straight line. In fact, it’s almost as if he used a ruler under every line, it’s that straight. Rulerstraight writing is typically a sign of a writer who wants everything to look perfect. Appearances are important to Trump. This is not surprising for a man who ran beauty contests for decades, married three models, and bragged that his cabinet picks could have been from “central casting.”

MAke AMeRiCa GReAT AGAiN! Although Trump writes in obsessively straight lines, his printing is not, as those reporters assumed, “all capital letters.” The seemingly perfect printing is in reality a mishmash of mismatched letters. Why does this make a difference?

If you saw a note with “MAke AMeRiCa GReAT AGAiN!” what image would it project?

Would the chaotic mixture of upper and lower case letters convey a scholarly tone or one that’s unpredictable? Likewise, If I submitted a resume for a job at your company and typed my name, at the top of my resume: “MIchelLe DResBolD,” what would you think? This combination of overly-perfect and erratic printing indicates that Trump is like a “finetuned machine” that runs on chaos.

Take a look at Trump’s signature. Do you see all those sharp angles? Curves in handwriting are a sign of a soft, nurturing and a maternal nature. Angles show toughness. Angles appear in the scripts of writers who are tense, competitive, driven, sharp-minded, aggressive, and combative. When a script is devoid of curves, the writer lacks empathy and craves power, prestige and admiration.

Take a look at the printing on this handwritten note from Trump to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. What’s your first impression?

Almost every newscaster who has interviewed me on Trump’s handwriting asks the same question “Why does Trump print in all caps?” I ask them – and I ask you – to take another look.

At first glance, Trump’s printing appears to be the

There is something else in Trump’s signature that is unusual. Do you see the HUGE “p” in Trump? Does it remind you of anything? When you see a phallic symbol in a writer’s script, it is almost always a sign of a writer who gets his kicks from, well, let’s just say, unusual or kinky sexual practices.

You can tell a lot about a person from the way he or she makes the word “I” (as in “me, myself and I”). The personal pronoun “I” is significant because it signifies the self. If your “I” is teeny weeny—you

need to work on your self-esteem. If your “I” is enormous, you’re supremely confident.

Take a look at Trump’s personal pronoun “I” in the letter he wrote to Ruthie. It’s certainly bold….but is it big? When we print the personal pronoun “I,” the vertical stroke correlates to the self (the writer). The horizontal strokes represent the writer’s relationships with his or her parents. Notice, how small Trump’s vertical stroke is in his “I” compared to the horizontal strokes. The heavy, almost overbearing, horizontal strokes show that Trump feels “small and insignificant” compared to his mother and father.

As confident as he seems, deep down inside, he feels that he has not lived up to his parents’ expectations.

It is this intense craving for parental approval that has motivated Trump throughout his life.

To learn more about what President Trump’s handwriting says about his him (including his truthfulness, energy, temperament, drives, impulses, and sexual secrets), read the new release (available in paperback and electronic format Spring 2017) of my book, Sex, Lies, and Handwriting, which includes a brand new chapter on Donald Trump (“The Man Behind the Angles”).

Graphology

… the analysis of the physical characteristics and patterns of handwriting purporting to be able to identify the writer, indicating psychological state at the time of writing, or evaluating personality c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s .

Controversial for more than a century, supporters of graphology point to the anecdotal evidence of positive testimonials as a reason to use it for personality evaluation; detractors argue that many empirical studies fail to show the validity claimed by its supporters.

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The 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize

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afael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have been selected as the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.

Landscape and architecture are united to create buildings that are intimately connected to place and time.

The purpose of the Pritzker prize is to honor a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.

Mr. Pritzker remarked: “The jury has selected three architects who have been working collaboratively for nearly three decades. Mr. Aranda, Ms. Pigem and Mr. Vilalta have had an impact on the discipline far beyond their immediate area. Their works range from public and private spaces to cultural venues and educational institutions, and their ability to intensely relate the environment specific to each site is a testament to their process and deep integrity.”

The 2017 Pritzker Prize Jury Citation states, in part: “we live in a globalized world where we must rely on international influences, trade, discussion, transactions, etc. But more and more people fear that because of this international influence…we will lose our local values, our local art, and our local customs…Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta tell us that it may be possible to have both. They help us to see, in a most beautiful and poetic way, that the answer to the question is not ‘either/or’ and that we can, at least in architecture, aspire to have both; our roots firmly in place and our arms outstretched to the rest of the world.”

The independent jury of experts ranges from five to nine members who serve for multiple years to assure a balance between past and new members and are entrusted with selecting the laureate each year. No members of the Pritzker family or outside observers are present during Zaha Hadid, whose work jury deliberations which usually take place during the is featured on page 46, first months of the calendar year. The jury members are was the 2004 Pritzker recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture, Architecture Prize Winner. business, education, publishing, and culture.

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The three architects, originating from Olot, in the Catalonian region of Spain, have worked together collaboratively since founding their firm RCR Arquitectes, in their hometown in 1988. Their work demonstrates an unyielding commitment to place and its narrative, to create spaces that are in discourse with their respective contexts.

Harmonizing materiality with transparency, Aranda, Pigem and Vilalta seek connections between the exterior and interior, resulting in emotional and experiential architecture.

SANDRA KIMBALL

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Sandra Kimball is an independent business development consultant based in Austin.

Your Workplace Is (or should be) Telling You Something

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aving spent the last two decades of my life in real estate and learning more aspects of the commercial building environment than I ever intended to, I can confidently say that we are in the midst of a huge shift in the workplace environment. Whether you embrace it or not could be the deciding factor in the success of your business in the coming years.

A seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago.

Since pretty much the Industrial Age, we’ve used a cookie cutter approach to employees, company structures, processes, and even our physical environments. We’ve focused on maximizing productivity and ignored the most important piece of the formula: the employee. And now we know this doesn’t work. With the talent shortage and generation gap, we’re going to have to up our game if we want to remain competitive. Over thirty studies across the globe in recent years have demonstrated the importance of the workplace environment on recruiting, retaining, and especially engaging employees.

The less engaged employees are, the less productive. Period. No matter which Harvard guru wrote your business processes, if you don’t engage your employees from day one, they’ll be checked out and looking for their next opportunity. 91% of Millennials expect to stay with a company for less than three years. Whereas, companies with the most engaged employees report 89% higher customer satisfaction, 54% higher employee retention, and 4 times revenue growth. (“Lighting the Path to Success”, Hay Group and FORTUNE’S World’s Most Admired Companies survey report, 2012) Those numbers translate directly to the bottom line. If turnover costs between $10,000-$30,000 per employee and you can cut that number in half by improving your workplace, you might worry less about increasing sales or reducing overhead.

It’s no secret that today’s employees are more stressed than in prior generations.

Globalization, urbanization, diversity, access to work 24/7 and less physical activity have led to a workforce that is having to compete for jobs unlike ever before.

Millennials today are graduating with more debt than any previous generation, while Gen Xers hold the largest student loan balances, averaging over $30,000 for just an undergraduate degree!

All generations report work being the most stressful part of their lives, but it’s not the type of work you do that most impacts your stress level. It’s the work environment itself – and that’s something employers can control. (www.stress. org/workplace-stress “Workplace Stress, American Institute of Stress) I recently met with a frustrated business owner who had just lost his best salesperson to a software company. He said, “They have slides and bean bags. I can’t compete with that.” He’s wrong, but I can’t blame him for thinking it. There are simple, even cost-effective things that he can do to maximize his space that will give him an edge in hiring and motivating his employees. His small business which brings in tens of millions of dollars in revenue, is housed in a beautiful historic building in the heart of Austin. It backs to a greenbelt that offers hiking, swimming, and mountain bike trails. Sure, the interior of his building could use a facelift and his furniture desperately needs an update, but those are easy fixes. He could even purchase used or refurbished furnishings to minimize the cost. Once he realizes how directly his real estate is tied to his revenue, he will understand that he can’t afford not to invest in the space where his employees spend upwards of forty hours per week.

Improving simple things like acoustics, daylight, and comfort within a workspace doesn’t just improve productivity, it reduces sick leave and turnover. 85% of people report that they are unhappy with their work environment and can’t concentrate. As we incorporate more open work environments and take down those ugly panels, it is imperative to consider the impact on acoustics. Sound masking, sound absorption, and curved walls are simple and low-cost solutions to an otherwise expensive problem.

The two biggest sources of dissatisfaction in poorly designed open offices

are distractions and a lack of privacy. Careful space allocation and appropriate furniture can easily address these concerns. (www.officerenew.com, 2016 Jones Lang Lasalle IP, Inc.: Forget the Beanbags) Removing cubicle walls is a great step towards a modern office, but also consider glass partitions to break up the noise, while still allowing for daylight, which improves mood and productivity. The answers to your ideal office design are often a simple observation away.

Do your employees bring in customers or partners for meetings or instead do they meet at coffee shops? For your brand to grow organically, it will be essential that you have a workplace that not only encourages these types of meetings, but also is a space where people want to visit.

Do your teams collaborate or are they ‘siloed’ in their respective departments? The most successful companies collaborate 23% more than their competitors ("U.S. Workplace Survey 2016", www.gensler.com/research-insight/workplace-surveys/us).

The most effective employees are only at their desks about 38% of the time. They spend the rest of their time meeting, collaborating, learning, and knowledge sharing with their teammates. If your employees are not collaborating, they’re not innovating.

If they have to book a conference room to collaborate, chances are good that they’re not. But you can’t just tell your employees to “go collaborate.” You must incorporate collaboration and break out areas into the very design of your space. Every employee should have a collaboration area within eyesight – about 25 feet at the most – for this to be most effective. You should encourage it in your very culture and your work environment should be a reflection of how people work, not just where they work.

While the modern open office concept is taking off, it’s still a new enough concept that many companies are failing in this dramatic workplace shift. The main reason is because they fail to account for the very different work styles among employees. An effective workplace is modular, gives privacy options to those who are writing or need to concentrate, allows executives to comingle with employees, and allows for all the types of work the organization performs. In some environments, it may make sense to shift from an ownership to a membership/hoteling model, where space is reserved as needed.

If an organization typically spends $3 per employee per square foot on utilities, $30 on rent and $300 on payroll per year then an optimized workspace gives the highest returns not in direct space savings but in indirect productivity gains. In making your workplace a desirable destination, you communicate that the employee experience is just as important as the customer’s. Your employees are your only asset with unlimited potential. Your workplace can be an incentive. It should not only demonstrate that you value your employees, but also that you want them to enjoy coming to the office.

The “employee engagement profit chain” (employee engagement definition by Kevin Kruse, New York Times author) states that engaged employees lead to higher service, quality and productivity, which boosts customer satisfaction, leading to increased sales, which results in higher profits and ultimately, a higher stock price. A carefully crafted workplace may be just the catalyst for your engagement profit chain.

With about ten thousand Baby Boomers retiring per day across this country, the talent shortage growing, and Millennials becoming the largest generation in the workforce, employers will need to anticipate a more discerning employee (Annual Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 2012, Social Security Administration). Consistent job growth has given today’s employee leverage in terms of pay and job choice. They are digital natives and expect to be able to work from anywhere, any time. Millennials, in particular, desire more connectivity, autonomy, career purpose, company culture and a dynamic workplace. (The Deloitte Millennial Survey 2016) There is no one-size-fits all workstation, no ideal work environment. While the William Penas of the world have been shouting programming from the architectural rooftops for decades, perhaps it’s time that we finally listen. (I don’t understand the reference in the last sentence.)

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e’ve featured some amazing architectural designs and achievements on these pages over the course of the years (and for last several years, in every issue). Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE, RA (1950-2016) is very much deserving to be within that group. An Iraqi-born British architect, she was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004).

She received the UK's most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

She was described by The Guardian of London as the 'Queen of the Curve', who "liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity."

Her works are all over the world and there are so many incredible structures that the smattering here does not do justice to her and her firm (Zaha Hadid Architects) whose work is continuing.

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ANTHONY BARBIERI

ajb@kesslercollins.com

Anthony J. Barbieri is a shareholder of Kessler Collins, PC in Dallas, Texas. He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and a member of the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is also a Contributing Editor of the network.

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“When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.” Norm Crosby

But these wild jury stories and overly dramatic shows and movies don’t tell the true story about what happens every day in the courtroom, and how these cases impact our daily lives in the real-estate world. This article will summarize some recent court cases from around the country related to commercial real estate. I can’t promise you any “Perry Mason moments”; but grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the show. (Disclaimer: please take care not to spill your hot coffee – the author is not responsible for personal injuries suffered while or as the result of reading this article.)

Caught in a Bind(-ing Letter Of Intent)?

West Palm Beach Hotel, LLC v. Atlanta Underground, LLC

The West Palm Beach Hotel received an offer to purchase its hotel from Frontier Development & Hospitality Group, an affiliate of Atlanta Underground. Both the seller and buyer were trying to “close the loop” on their own respective §1031 “like-kind” exchanges, and the sale/ purchase of the hotel provided each of them with a good opportunity to do so. The parties signed a LOI, stating that the purchase price would be $13.75 million. Among other terms, the LOI stated that it was intended to be “no more than an indication as to the basic terms of the proposed transaction” and that it was “not a binding agreement”. However, the LOI also provided that the parties agreed to “act in good faith in negotiating and executing the contract”.

For the next two months, the parties exchanged draft contracts and continued negotiations. However, the hotel’s financial performance increased over those two months, so just prior to signing the binding agreement, the seller demanded a $500,000 purchase price increase. The buyer argued that West Palm was prohibited from modifying the LOI’s purchase price. The parties tried to work out a compromise, but were unable to do so. West Palm suggested that they could still accomplish their tax-related goals by entering into a contract at the higher price of $14.25 million, and by placing the additional $500,000 into escrow, which would be disbursed to the prevailing party after the dispute was resolved. But the buyer rejected this and the parties ended up in litigation. While the lawsuit was pending, West Palm sold the hotel for $15 million to a different buyer.

The court held that the LOI was clearly non-binding, so it was not enforceable on either party. Had the LOI contained language that would have been confusing about whether or not it was binding, then this case could have had a different outcome, but the court found that it was not binding, except as discussed below.

What about the agreement in the LOI to “act in good faith in negotiating and executing the contract”? The court held that such a provision was binding on the parties. So, did West Palm breach that part of the LOI when they jacked the price up by $500,000 at the last minute? The court decided that West Palm did not breach the LOI’s good48

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faith provision because it had a legitimate financial justification for its increased demand, evidenced by the $15 million sale price. Second, West Palm offered the buyer the opportunity to hedge its position by purchasing the hotel at $14.25 million, with the escrow option, which would have allowed the buyer to accomplish its tax-savings goals without forfeiting its claim to the lower price.

And the Winner is …

Song v. 4170 & 4231 & 4271 Altoona Drive Holdings LP

Online real-estate auctions have become very popular. But sometimes they can create difficult legal issues. In one particular case in Texas, a buyer submitted the winning bid during an online auction for an apartment complex. The Buyer then executed a Purchase and Sale Agreement and wired an earnest money deposit. The Agreement contained an addendum that permitted the Seller to “terminate the Agreement, in [Seller’s] sole and absolute discretion, in the event [Seller] does not approve the sale.”

The Seller had 15 business days to make that determination. The addendum stated that if the Seller rejected the Agreement, then the Buyer got its earnest money back.

During the 15 business day period, the Buyer changed its mind and tried to get out of the deal. Seller refused to let the Buyer out of the deal, so the parties ended up in court.

The trial court initially agreed with the Seller. The Buyer appealed and the appellate court upheld the trial court’s decision. The appellate court found that execution and delivery of the Agreement created a binding contract that required the Buyer to hold their bid open for 15 business days. Seller’s acceptance of Buyers’ bid constituted sufficient consideration to support the existence of a valid contract. Seller’s promises to keep the property insured against fire and other hazards and to maintain the property in good condition while the Agreement was in force provided additional consideration. Although Seller’s obligations were not commensurate with Buyers’ obligation to purchase the property, Texas law did not require that every right or obligation by one party be met with an identical right or obligation in the other.

Buyer Beware!

Pritchett v. Comas Montgomery Realty And Auction Company, Inc.

This next case - a live auction selling commercial-real estate. Prior to the auction, the buyer signed a “Terms of Sale” agreement that expressly stated: “everything will be sold ‘AS IS, WHERE IS’, with no guarantee of any kind, regardless of statement of condition made from the auctioneer. Buyer shall rely entirely on their own inspection and information.” Additionally, the auctioneer announced that the bids were based solely on the bidders’ inspection and that the real estate was being sold as-is, without physical warranty. After the auction, as successful bidder, the buyer signed yet another contract containing an “as-is” clause and stated that the Seller did not make any warranties or representations as to the condition of the premises.

After acquiring the property, Purchaser learned that the building had only 9,353 square feet instead of the advertised 11,556 square feet. Feeling shortchanged, the buyer sued Comas, the auction company, for negligently stating that the property had 11,556 square feet. The auction company fought the claim, and won at the trial court level. The buyer appealed. The appellate court agreed with Comas and stated that there was no way the buyer can rely on the representation about the size of the building because buyer agreed to rely entirely on his own inspection, and purchase the building “as is”. The court clarified that parties may agree to not to rely on the

Suburbia – where they tear out the trees and then name the streets after them.

s a lawyer, I often find myself in social settings surrounded by people that want to vent about crazy court cases they’ve seen on the news. Most of the time people love conjuring up stories about runaway juries handing out multimillion-dollar awards for someone who spilled scolding-hot coffee on their lap. The conversation then usually drifts to everyone’s favorite courtroom television shows and what happened on the most-recent episodes. I like to bring up popular movies about court cases, like To Kill A Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men, or my personal favorite, My Cousin Vinny.

other party’s representations, and agreeing to accept real property ‘as is’ may negate any reliance on representations about the condition of that property.

As this case points out, if you are selling or leasing property, you can avoid certain liabilities by carefully drafting your agreements. On the flipside, buyers and tenants need to be diligent in inspecting all aspects of the property and making sure that they understand their rights if they didn’t get what they paid for.

An Oral Agreement isn’t Worth the Paper on Which it is Written Huber v. Hamilton

You can’t stay young forever, but you can stay immature as long as you like.

In this case, Hamilton, the defendant, sold commercialreal estate to the plaintiff, Huber. The sales contract contemplated that the seller would loan the buyer some of the money necessary to purchase the property.

The contract called for a down payment, monthly installments, and a balloon payment to be made at maturity, “unless renegotiated.”

As the maturity date approached, Huber asked Hamilton for an extension. The parties agreed to extend the due date, but never reduced it to writing.

Huber claimed that Hamilton said he could pay $300 a month to “keep the contract going” with no deadline or discussion about how the money would be applied.

Hamilton, on the other hand, claimed that he agreed to only extend the due date for one year and that the monthly payments were to be penalties, not applied to principal. Three years later, Hamilton sent Huber a default notice, demanding that he pay the balance on the note.

Huber and Hamilton were not able to work out the dispute, so they ended up in court. The trial court decided that since the loan related to real property, the extension had to be in writing to be enforceable. The court also decided that Huber was in default for failure to make the balloon payment at maturity, but that the additional $300 monthly payments were applicable to the outstanding principal, not penalties. The court also granted Hamilton’s request to proceed with a foreclosure of the property per a sheriff ’s sale, and awarded Hamilton a monetary judgment for unpaid amounts under the loan, as well as his attorney’s fees.

The case went to the appellate court, which largely upheld the decision.

Deals like this will “Automatically” End up in Court.

Bellini v. Patterson Oil Co

Bellini, a landlord, leased commercial property to Patterson Oil Company. The original lease was entered into in 1989, and automatically renewed every five years unless Patterson, the tenant, gave ninety days’ notice to Bellini, the landlord. In 1995, Bellini and Patterson signed a letter agreement to extend the lease for one year and then subsequently signed a second letter extending the lease for six more months. Neither letter referred to the original lease or the automatic renewals.

In 2011, the tenant gave the landlord eight days’ notice to terminate, and vacated the property. The landlord disputed the tenant’s ability to terminate the lease on such short notice, so a lawsuit ensued.

The trial court held that the letters formed a new lease agreement, and the original lease was ignored, and that Tenant had become a month-to-month tenant, operating under that status between 1995 and 2011.

Thus, the tenant as not liable for additional rent or

surcharges upon giving notice of intent to vacate. The court interpreted the lease like any other contract, and determined that the language of the letters was clear and unambiguous: in both letters the parties agreed to an extension without reference to the relevant provision of the lease or the five-year automatic renewal. The Court concluded that the parties effectively abrogated the relevant provision of the lease and formed a new agreement regarding the term.

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This case could have easily been avoided if the parties had taken the time to clearly write out their intentions and avoid confusion.

When Pigs Fly!

In re Sussex SkyDive This case arises out of a bankruptcy. The landlord, a joint venture between a company called “When Pigs Fly, LLC”, and William Gennaro, tried to get the bankruptcy court to force the debtor, Sussex SkyDive, to pay rent for the period of time after Sussex SkyDive filed bankruptcy (Susses SkyDive was still using the premises after they filed bankruptcy). Ordinarily, tenants are obligated to pay such rent, so landlords typically prevail in these types of cases. However, in this case, the landlord continued to use “self help” to try and collect rent from the tenant after the tenant filed bankruptcy. Such actions are prohibited because under the bankruptcy code, once a debtor (such as a tenant), files bankruptcy, there is an “automatic stay”, and all creditors (including landlords) must immediately stop any collection efforts unless they get the bankruptcy court’s permission.

In this case, the landlord locked the tenant out of the premises, then told one of the tenant’s owners that they could not get back into the premises. The landlord also removed and discarded some of tenant’s property from the premises (an airplane hangar), which prevented the tenant from making necessary repairs to its airplane.

Further, Landlord took steps to secure the airplane so the tenant could not access it.

The court held that the landlord violated an “automatic stay”, and was not entitled to post-petition rent, because the eviction permanently deprived the tenant of the beneficial enjoyment of the premises. The landlord changing the locks and notifying the tenant that it would not be allowed on the premises was enough for the court to hold that the eviction was complete to the point that there was no benefit to the estate. Thus, the Landlord was not entitled to an administrative expense.

Further, the Landlord improperly sought to dispose of Tenant’s property. A landlord, believing property to be abandoned, may take steps to dispose of property only after giving written notice to the former tenant stating that the property must be removed in not less than thirty days after delivery of the notice, else the property be sold or otherwise disposed. The Landlord did not comply with the basic notice provisions of state law regarding abandoned property before the landlord disposed of it. Further, the Landlord could not have reasonable believed that the Tenant had abandoned the property, since the Tenant visited the hangar often to attempt repairs.

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This case is a good reminder that once a tenant (or any other debtor) files bankruptcy, all creditors (including landlords) must stop trying to collect past due rent and enforcing your rights in the event of a default unless and until you get the court’s permission first.

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The rock-and-roll musician shot to fame with tracks including Peggy Sue and That'll Be the Day, before he was killed in a plane crash in 1959, at age 23.

A replica of a 200-foot telecommunications tower will be installed on the site as a light sculpture, forming a beacon for the performing arts center – a world class facility. Construction on the privately funded building, expected to cost $125 million is predicted to begin this fall.

Diamond Schmitt has designed the building as a tribute to the artist, and to fit into its setting on the Llano Estacado desert plains. "The building is very much meant to be a special place on the landscape and is heavily shaped to local conditions, including the need to reduce solar gain and provide shaded outdoor space," said project architect Matthew Lella. The structure will contain a 2,200-seat main theatre, an additional 400-seat auditorium, a 5,000-square-foot multi-purpose room and a 22,000-square-foot dance center.

Architect-Speak

The main auditorium will sit in the tallest section at the center of the building. Its lower tier of sloped seating will be removable so that the venue can also accommodate standing room for concerts. The rest of the structure will wrap the outside of the central volume and extend at one end to form an entrance canopy. Brick will clad the lower volume, while metal panels will feature higher up to reflect the sky.

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"The fenestration has allowed long, horizontal views to the landscape to capture the beauty of the sky, which seems to go on forever and is continuously changing color and mood," said Lella. "The long shallow slope on the main roof at the entrance is inspired by the angle of repose of the local soil."

anadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects has announced the construction of a concert hall dedicated to American musician Buddy Holly on what would have been his 80th birthday. The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts is to be built in Holly's hometown of Lubbock, Texas, where he was born Charles Hardin Holley on 7 September 1936.

shout outs!

Expressions of praise given in the presence of many people.

I wanted to be a procrastinator, but I never got around to it.

Hats off to Trademark Property Co. which raised more than $4 million through employee and property fundraising. The community service and charitable giving program supported 246 charities and accounted for 9,800 Trademark employee volunteer hours through its 2016 efforts. Trademark launched Make a Difference to encourage community service at all levels of the company through volunteerism, Conscious Place initiatives, and property-level efforts to raise awareness, funds and partnerships with community organizations.

A standing ovation for Steve Berger, a Senior Vice President with CBRE’s Industrial & Logistics team in Dallas, who was named the 2016 NTCAR Stemmons Service Award winner This award is considered one of the highest honors in commercial real estate in Dallas/Fort Worth. This prestigious award is conferred on the professional who has earned the respect of his or her peers, and is an active and productive broker who successfully resolves the intricacies of bringing two parties together in a real estate transaction.

Congratulations to SIOR’s heavy hitters!

The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors announced its top transactions award winners of 2016 - a compilation of the largest sales and lease transactions, ranked by dollar value, completed by SIOR members throughout the world. The awards were derived from nearly 650 SIOR members who reported close to 2,000 transactions totaling more than USD $8.6 billion in leases and sales in categories including: industrial; investment; office; land; alternative assets; associate; and redevelopment.

The largest transaction of 2016, both by dollar volume and square footage, was completed

by Mark D. Detmer SIOR, CCIM, and Bo Mills, SIOR, both of JLL, who arranged

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::::: Congratulations to Laura Sachtleben, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, who was selected as a 2017 Top Young Professional

by Engineering News Record (ENR) Texas and Louisiana. She is a principal architect and Houston area market leader within Stantec’s Education Group, as well as leader of the firm’s Research and Benchmarking Program. Considered a thought leader in educational design, she has given seminars on innovative and sustainable designs nationwide. ::::: Kudos to Samantha Markham, AIA, NCARB for being named 2016 Young Architect of the Year by the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She is a project architect at Stantec, designing educational facilities for K-12 clients across Texas, and co-leads the ACE North Dallas Mentor Program while working with the firm’s intern development team to create robust and exciting internship experiences.

Cheers to DFW for being named the “best large airport in North America” for customer service by the Airport Council International.

Based on passenger surveys at over 320 airports worldwide, the honor/ranking came during a year when 3 of the 5 terminals were undergoing major construction as part of a $3 billion renovation project. Among the upgrades – adding lights above parking spaces, additional custodial services to keep bathrooms clean and automated passport entry machines to reduce the size of lines in customs.

::::: Hooray for Texas Roof Management Inc., a commercial roofing company based in Richardson, which received the coveted Golden Hammer Award for 2016 from the North Texas Roofing Contractor A s s o c i a t i o n (NTRCA) for the most outstanding commercial roofing project in North Texas. The project centered on the historic Old Municipal Building in Downtown Dallas, a structure poised to become the new home of the University of North Texas Law School.

the $240 million sale of a 2,079,080 square-foot industrial space in Los Angeles.

This transaction won the largest Member to Member industrial and investment categories.

SIOR also announced its Top 100 Office Transactions list of 2016 - the largest office transactions by square feet, completed

by SIOR members during calendar year 2016. (http://www.sior.com/docs/defaults o u rce / Tra n s a c t i o n s / to p - 1 0 0 - o f f i ce transactions-2016) ::::: A respectful bow to Brad Struck, SIOR, President of Industrial Services at E Smith Realty Partners for being recognized by NAIOP North Texas as the Industrial Broker of the Year. The award is given to commercial real estate professionals that 1) demonstrate a high level of professional skill and competence in representing the interests and needs of his/her clients which results in significant transaction production; 2) operates with a high standard of business ethics in dealing with his/her clients and all other real estate related professionals and specialists; and 3) is active in civic and charitable activities.

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Julie Lynch is the principal of LYNOUS, a talent management firm that provides recruiting, interim staffing and training to the real estate industry. She is also a contributing editor of the network.

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Tarrant County passed a major milestone last year as its population topped 2 million. It remains the 3rd largest county in the state (after adding over 35,000 residents in the year that ended on July 1) as its total population reached 2,016,872.

That growth was second in Texas to (Houston’s) Harris County (which grew by over 56,500 to a total of 4,589,928. San Antonio’s Bexar County wasn’t too far off the pace (adding over 33,000 to a make a total population of 1,928,680). Dallas County added over 29,000 and now has an estimated population of 2,574,984. And, the suburban areas grew even faster! Both DFW-Arlington and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metro areas increased by over 100,000 residents.

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Weston Urban, KDC and TRT Holdings Inc. broke ground on Frost Tower, a 23-story, approximately 460,000-square-foot, Class AA office tower in downtown San Antonio, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli. The tower – the first luxury office building to be built in downtown San Antonio in 30 years - will include approximately 430,000 square feet of office space, a 400,000-square-foot wraparound parking facility at its base, 20,000 square feet of ground floor retail, and 10,000 square feet of tenant amenity space including a fitness center and lounge. JLL will lead the office leasing effort and San Antonio-based REATA will handle the retail leasing.

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omebuyers in today’s marketplace are becoming more selective about their timing as to when they choose to buy a home. Whether moving down the street or across the country, many borrowers think they can wait out the market until prices fall or another housing bubble bursts. Unfortunately for them, prices are on the rise and there is no sign of a downturn. The truth of the matter is that waiting to purchase a home can have a major impact on an individual’s or family’s finances.

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Consider a family buying a home in Texas today.

According to the Texas Association of Realtors, at the end of Q1 2016, a median priced home in Texas cost around $213,400. Factoring in a 4.5% interest rate and a 20%down payment on a 30-year conventional loan, that family would have a monthly mortgage payment of about $865, or pay a total of $311,400 over the full course of the loan.

Now, consider the financial impact if that family were to wait one year to purchase that same median-priced home. The Texas Association of Realtors reports that year-overyear, median home prices in Texas have risen 11% since 2016. Assuming this trend continues and the Fed raises interest rates another quarter of a percent, that family (with the same 20% down payment) would end up with a monthly mortgage payment of $988 for 30 years, or pay a total of $355,680 over the full course of the mortgage loan. That’s almost a $45,000 increase in the mortgage obligation, which could extend the life of their loan and/or prolong achieving debt-free homeownership.

Setting aside interest rates and property values for a moment, it’s important to note that borrower demand for housing is also at an all-time high in Texas, and builders cannot keep up with demand. At current price points, regardless of what happens with interest rates, the law of supply and demand indicates that prices should continue to rise. Taking into account Texas’s favorable climate, numerous universities with in-state tuition and income tax benefits, it’s easy to understand that there are also numerous soft costs to waiting, beyond a simple increase in housing prices.

The point is to provide insight into how borrowers can determine if now is the best time to buy based on their individual financial situation and how it fits into their smarter mortgage plan. For some, now is the better time to buy. For others, despite rising rates and home prices, a year from now might be best.

The silver lining for residential housing professionals is that now they have another great reason to help qualified homebuyers get into their dream home today – to save them money in the long run. In the end, borrowers will look to their mortgage and real estate professionals as mentors who can guide them through the home buying process. This means laying out all the pros and cons of a purchase, even those which may turn up further down the road. If done properly, this will set the mentor up as a lifelong resource for the borrower, who will return time and again.

For commercial real estate professionals, the costs of waiting may not have a direct impact on business, but since knowledge is power, understanding the costs can serve as a powerful talking point when interacting with buyers. For example, if a business is considering moving to Texas, being able to explain that it will be more expensive to move employees the next year may be the extra push they need to make a purchase. Even a basic understanding of the macroeconomic factors involved in the costs of waiting will give commercial agents a better understanding of the overall Texas real estate market and enhance their daily interactions with potential buyers and referral partners.

While one can never say what the future will hold, there are clear indications that now is a great time to buy in Texas – in addition to rising home prices, interest rates are also rising and housing inventory is low. By laying out these factors for borrowers, real estate and mortgage professionals can guide them on the right path and set them up for their own long-term financial success.

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E-Scooter: Efficient, Practical, Economical, AND FUN

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coReco is a line of eco-friendly, efficient, portable, smart, designed for everyday urban transportation e-scooters - and they are inexpensive. Really inexpensive!

A personal means of transportation makes more sense for many occasions in your daily life. While

a person to adjust to the traffic flow - Throttle and Kick-Assist modes.

The e-scooter prevents vehicular congestion and there is no need for facilities or racks to accommodate them. The threat of theft decreases, too, because they don’t have to be left unattended as they are compact enough to be placed under a desk or table or in a locker at your destination. need to be without a car. And a car means parking, traffic, pollution, insurance and the generally high (and increasing) cost of owning and maintaining a vehicle. The influx of cars also changes the landscape of urban areas, making them much less attractive.

a gasoline-fueled car can only move you 5-6 miles on $1 of gasoline, you can travel more than 500 miles with that same dollar on an EcoReco scooter.

And it’s fun. And it’s cool. And it can save you an enormous amount on parking!

Changing Urban Smarter Cities

Environments

Historically, transportation has been at the heart of development of urban areas. Without dependable services, cities suffer. Picture San Francisco without its buses, trollies, and regional rail service. How would over 160,000 people from surrounding

communities travel to school, work, and even the supermarket without the San Franciscan transportation services that exist today?

Think of how busy Austin gets during SXSW. Mass transportation is at capacity as locals and visitors (from all over the U.S. and 84 foreign countries) attend the yearly festival. Never in the history of the city have personal transportation services been in demand like they are when SXSW is in town.

The same is true of every major city in the world.

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EcoReco’s energy-efficient motorized Model R scooter is among the most innovative ‘last-mile solutions’ available with smart sensors, connectivity, and built-in safety and security features. You can

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EcoReco answers the need for timely transportation between home and bus stops and work and the rail station. Even the most convenient mass transit routes still require commuters to walk the rest of the way to their destination. Although walking, skateboarding, and biking are possibilities, they’re very physical.

EcoReco enables you to arrive at your destination cool and coolly. No sweat!

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There are several companies making motorized scooters out there, a few even made in the U.S., though as you would probably expect, this mode of transportation is much more popular and more widely used elsewhere in the world. But none has thought the process through with the attention to detail of EcoReco - and that could make for a big change in the way Americans approach personal transportation.

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park for free a mile or two from work for free and scoot to work in minutes. Lightweight and compact, the e-scooter folds up (in 5 seconds) so it can be carried in one hand and placed underneath a seat at work or conveniently in the trunk of virtually any vehicle.

Environmental Impact

The E-scooter personal transportation device can travel up to 500 miles on $1 of electricity. Even the most efficient hybrid vehicles are only able to go 46 miles before needing additional electrical resources.

Trains make it about 0.46 miles and buses make it five miles on a $1. The e-scooter has a durable allmetal frame, a quite hub motor, and no exhaust, zero emissions.

The scooter features the patented Dynamic Battery Switching system that allows riders to use a single pack or mix and match battery packs to go greater distances. The range is anywhere from 10-40 miles.

It offers safety features such as the eBCAS (Early Bicycle Collison Avoidance System) that enables cars to detect nearby connected bikes and scooters. It can be seen in unfavorable conditions such as fog, traffic, blind spots, and corners.

The scooter also has two different modes allowing

Incredibly,EcoReco scooters begin at just $379 per unit. You can pay more, based upon the tire sizes, FWD vs RWD, battery choice, features, etc. but you still won’t pay a lot. You can walk away with an awful lot and still stay under a grand! And, as we said at the outset, the cost of recharging the battery will run you about $1 for every 500 miles. If you drive or use public transportation now, figure out the payback in savings .

Obviously, the EcoReco won’t do away with the need for a car (at least not right away), but it can/ will reduce your reliance on a car and you’re the expense of operating them. And, a big BIG plus – it’s cool and it’s fun! Of course, it’s only for the young at heart, regardless of your age!

Go to www.ecoreco.com. Set up a no obligation account and explore. We are betting you become a believer.

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ere are some strangely named places and the stories, legends, and theories about their origins.

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1. Santa Claus, Indiana In 1854, a group of pioneers settled in southwest Indiana and established a small town called Santa Fe. But when they applied to get a post office two years later, they were turned down. There was already another Santa Fe, Indiana, with a post office. The new Santa Fe would need a new, distinct name to get one of their own.

Fact and legend blur when it comes to how the town settled on calling itself Santa Claus. The standard version of the story goes like this: the townspeople held several meetings over the next few months to select a new name, but could not agree on one. The last town meeting of the year was held late on Christmas Eve after church services. During the debate, a gust of wind blew open the church doors and everyone heard the ringing of sleigh bells close by. Several children got excited and shouted “Santa Claus!” A light bulb went off in someone’s head and by Christmas morning, the town had a new name.

2. Intercourse, Pennsylvania The town of Cross Keys, nestled in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, changed its name to Intercourse in 1814. How and why is anybody’s guess. There are a few explanations floating around about the origin of the name, but none with a lot of solid evidence to back them up.

One story ties it to a racetrack that used to exist just east of the town. The entrance to the track had a sign above it that read “Enter Course.” Locals began to refer to the town as “Entercourse,” which eventually evolved into “Intercourse.”

5. Eighty Eight, Kentucky Eighty Eight is an unincorporated town in Barren County. According to the New York Times, Dabnie Nunally, the town’s first postmaster, came up with the name. Nunnally didn’t think very highly of his handwriting, and thought that using a number as the town’s name would make legibility on mail less of an issue. To come up with the numbers, he reached into his pocket and counted his change. He had 88 cents.

An alternate explanation sometimes floated around is that Eighty Eight is located eight miles from each of its neighboring towns—Glasgow to the west and Summer Shade to the east. (According to Google Maps, however, Summer Shade is actually about five miles away.)

6. Eighty Four, Pennsylvania Eighty Four is a small unincorporated community southwest of Pittsburgh. It was originally named Smithville, but Pennsylvania already had a Smithville (also a New Smithville), so the USPS required a name change to avoid postal confusion. The true origin of the name is unknown, but it’s been suggested that the number comes from the town’s place along the 84th mile of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, or the year the post office was built.

7. Ding Dong, Texas The fact that Ding Dong is in central Texas’ Bell County is a funny coincidence. The county was named for Governor Peter Bell, and the town for resident and businessman Zulis Bell and his nephew Bert (no relation to the governor). The Bells ran a general store and hired a local painter named C.C. Hoover to make a sign for their business. Hoover supposedly illustrated the sign with two bells inscribed with the Bells’ names, and then wrote “Ding Dong” coming out the bottom of the bells. As a rural community grew around the area, the words stuck as a name for the place.

8. Cut and Shoot, Texas In the early 1900s, trouble was brewing in a small, unnamed community a little north of Houston.

Different versions of a local legend say that the

Another proposed origin has to do with an old usage of the word intercourse—everyday social and business connections and interactions.

3. Idiotville, Oregon Idiotville is a ghost town and former logging community northwest of Portland. Most of its former residents worked at a nearby logging camp called Ryan’s Camp. Because of the camp’s remote location, locals said that only an idiot would work and live there. They began referring to the surrounding area as Idiotville. The name was eventually borrowed for a nearby stream, Idiot Creek, and officially applied to the community on maps.

4. Toad Suck, Arkansas A widely-accepted story about Toad Suck’s name dates back to the days of steamboat travel on the Arkansas River. Toad Suck sits along the river and its tavern was a frequent stop for boatmen, who were said to “suck on the bottle until they swelled up like toads.”

Dr. John L. Ferguson, late director of the Arkansas History Commission, proposed an alternate explanation. He thought it was likely that, since the first Europeans to thoroughly explore the area were French, the name was an English corruption of a French word (like how aux Arcs became Ozarks). An Arkansas travel website runs with Ferguson’s idea and muses at length about the different words and phrases that could have given rise to Toad Suck, including eau d’ sucre, chateau d’ sucré and coté eau d’ sucre.

townspeople were fighting over either the new steeple for the town’s church; the matter of which denominations could use the building (and when); or the land claims of church members.

Whatever the reason, the townspeople had gathered near the church and were on the brink of violence. A boy at the scene supposedly declared to his family that he was going to take up a tactical position and “cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes.”

The matter was eventually taken before the court. When the judge asked one witness where the confrontation had taken place, he didn’t know what to call it, since the town didn’t have a name. He told the judge, “I suppose you could call it the place where they had the cutting and shooting scrape,” and the name stuck.

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Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec The municipality of Saint-Louisdu-Ha! Ha! in Quebec has a name that makes perfect sense -in French.

Sort of. The Ha! Ha! is officially

traced back to an archaic French term, “The haha,” which means an unexpected obstacle or dead end.

This would refer to Lake Témiscouata, which came into view suddenly for early French explorers. The citizens of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! are proud to say that it is the only city name in the world that features two exclamation points.

10. Hot Coffee, Mississippi In the early 1800s, travelers on their way to Mobile often stopped at an inn in southern Mississippi, where owner Levi Davis greeted them with ginger cookies and a pot of piping hot coffee. The inn took on the name of its signature beverage, and eventually so did the surrounding area. Today, it’s not really a town so much as a scattering of farms, homes and businesses along Hot Coffee Road.

11. Knockemstiff, Ohio Knockemstiff is a small rural town in south central Ohio. Several legends give different explanations for the name. One says that in the 1800s, a traveling preacher entering town came across two women fighting over a man. The preacher doubted the man was worth the trouble and said that someone should “knock him stiff.”

Another similar story has it that a woman went to a preacher to complain that her husband was cheating on her. The preacher’s straightforward advice became a motto around town, and eventually its name. Yet another explanation is that the name is slang for the moonshine or homemade liquor that many of the locals manufactured.

12. Two Egg, Florida This little burg got its name during the Great Depression. The story goes that in the town’s general store, two lads often came in on errands for their mom, regularly trading two eggs for a package of sugar. Locals began referring to the place as the “two egg store,” and the name stuck for the town as well.

Strange fact: On the town’s website, there is news about sightings of a Bigfoot-type creature called the Two Egg Stump Jumper.

13. Rabbit Hash, Kentucky According to popular legend, a flood in the 1840s drove hundreds of rabbits from the riverbank, and right into the stew pots of hungry settlers.

Described by the general store clerk as “a little slice of American pie,” Rabbit Hash consists of “eight buildings and an official population of one.”

14. Cookietown, Oklahoma This place supposedly got its name in the early 1900s, after general store owner Marvin Cornelius gave a cookie to a young boy, who exclaimed, “I don’t want to leave Cookietown.” Despite its yummy name, Cookietown is more of a ghost town today—just a few residents and a church.

15. Glen Campbell, Pennsylvania This small (pop. 306 as of the 2000 census) borough in Western PA isn’t named after the Glen Campbell famous for Rhinestone Cowboy and Wichita Lineman Instead, it’s named in honor of Cornelius Campbell, the first superintendent of the Glenwood Coal Company, which operated the mines in the area. The Glen in the name comes from the Scottish word for a valley.

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ANSWER FROM PAGE 58: YOU’RE GOING TO CALL ME WHAT? 1 Pepé Le Pew is a character from the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons (which were first introduced in 1945).

Depicted as a French striped skunk, Pepé is constantly in search of love; however, his offensive odor and his aggressive pursuit of romance typically cause other characters to flee from him in fear.

Penelope Pussycat is his oftenbewildered love interest who is constantly being chased by the overly enthusiastic Pepé.

2 Tigger is a fictional tiger character originally introduced in A. A. Milne’s book The House at Pooh Corner. Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed toy animals.

Nowadays he is also widely recognized as reinterpreted by the Disney studios, with distinctive orange and black stripes, large eyes, a long chin, a springy tail, and (the one detail originating from A. A. Milne) his love of bouncing.

As he says himself, “Bouncing is what Tiggers do best.”

3 Curious George is the protagonist of a series of popular children’s books by the same name, featuring a curious brown monkey named George, who is brought from his home in Africa by “The Man with The Yellow Hat” to live with him in a big city. When the first story, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys was published in France in 1939, George was named Fifi; in the United Kingdom, George was originally called “Zozo”, apparently to avoid using the name of the then King George VI for a monkey. The authors, Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey, fled Paris in June 1940 on self-made bicycles, carrying the Curious George manuscript with them.

At first, only H. A. Rey was credited for the work to distinguish the Reys’ books from the large number of children’s books written by female authors. Later, Hans Rey was credited for the illustrations and Margret Rey for the writing.

4 Krypto was originally the toddler Kal-El’s dog while they were on Krypton. Jor-El, his father, testing prototypes for the rocket that would eventually send Kal-El to Earth, decided to use Krypto as a test subject. Krypto’s rocket was knocked off-course and 62

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4 Endless Love (1981) 5 Somethin’ Stupid (1967) 6 (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life (1987) 7 I Got You Babe (1965) 8 The Next Time I Fall in Love (1986) 9 You’re The One That I Want (1978) 10 Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (1967) 11 Say Say Say (1983) 12 You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (1978) 13 I Like It (2010) 14 Love Never Felt So Good (2014 - released posthumously) 15 The Lady is a Tramp (2015) 16 Don’t Know Much (1989) 17 The Boy is Mine (1998) 18 Reunited (1979) 19 The Closer I Get to You (1978) 20 I’m Your Angel (1998)

the rocket drifted through space for years until it eventually landed on Earth, where Krypto was reunited with the now-teenaged superhero, Superboy.

While on Earth, he stayed with the Kent family, posing as their pet dog, “Skip”. The Kents devised a pull cordactivated dye applicator and other methods which Krypto could use to switch to “Skip” and back without assistance. Krypto, drawn as a white dog of generic pedigree, possessed the same powers and abilities as his master, although his physical abilities were proportionate to his smaller size and species, like an ordinary dog vs. a human; the comics expressed this via the use of thought balloons indicating what Krypto was thinking.

5 Astro is the Jetsons’ family dog. (The Jetsons was an animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing 1962 -1963, then later in syndication, with new episodes from 1985 to 1987. It was Hanna-Barbera’s spaceage counterpart to The Flintstones.

Prior to being a Jetson, Astro’s name was Tralfaz and he belonged to the fabulously rich Mr. J.P. Gottrockets. Astro is one of George’s best friends (next to his work computer, R.U.D.I.) as well as Elroy’s best buddy. He is able to speak in a rough sounding English resembling dog barks and growls, a manner of speaking which voice actor Don Messick would later reuse for the role of ScoobyDoo. 6 Mr. Peabody & Sherman are the stars of a 2014 American 3D computeranimated comic science fiction comedy film based on the 1960s animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Peabody is the smartest dog in existence, who has accomplished many things in his life as a business magnate, inventor, scientist, Nobel laureate, gourmand, and two-time Olympic medalist. He becomes sad and lonely and decides to adopt his own human son. He meets Sherman (a dorky, bespectacled, red-haired boy) in an alley where he saves him from a group of bullies. Sherman is an orphan and, after a court appearance and a talk with the President and the government, Peabody becomes Sherman’s new guardian. Peabody invents the Way Back time machine as a birthday gift for Sherman. He and Sherman go back in time on every episode, gradually changing Way Back to a “should-have-been machine,” and with past

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In You Need to Know, we ask the question; which is it – England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom? Is there a difference? Contributing Editor Tony Barbieri’s Legal View explains the difference between negligence and gross negligence. What is the standard of care for each? In Amazing Buildings, Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne profiles the soon-to-be completed Dubai Frame, a massive square structure resembling a picture frame.

It’s embroiled in controversy because it might constitute architectural plagiarism (see page 29 in this issue). In Herstory, Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley brings her inimitable style to a few very special highways – then and now. (Hint – what was Route 66 is now I-40.) We will look at Abu Dhabi, a city that has shot up in just one generation and is home to several of the tallest and most recognized buildings in the world. And we will ‘rediscover’ James Hoban – the architect for the White House. Of course, there will be our affiliates news and events, UnReal Estate/The Wow Factor, Diversions, You’re Going to Call Me What?, In The Loop, our quarterly Contest and much MUCH more.

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elow is a list (and some pictures) of 20 awards and trophies earned by individuals and teams in a broad spectrum of sports. Can you match the accomplishment with the prize? In other words, who takes home …?

Send in your entry on or before June 30th and you could win one of the prizes

shown on page 50 or another valuable prize. At least one winner from each of our market areas (Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Atlanta) will be chosen.

contest

Sports Awards “And the winner is...”

1. ___ The Super Bowl winner

a) The Stanley Cup

2. ___ The top point guard in women’s NCAA Division 1 basketball

b) The Davis Cup

3. ___ Winner of the Indianapolis 500

c) Vince Lombardi Trophy

4. ___ Winner of the premier international event in men’s tennis

d) America’s Cup

5. ___ Winner of the premier international event in women’s tennis

e) The Fed Ex Cup

6. ___ Winner of the World Series in Major League Baseball

f) The Ryder Cup

7. ___ Winner of the National Hockey League Playoffs

g) The Fed Cup

8. ___ Winner of a race between two sailing yachts

h) The Nancy Lieberman Award

9. ___ A biennial golf competition between teams from Europe and the U.S.

i) The Borg-Warner Trophy

10. ___ Winner of the Professional Golf Association’s post season tournament.

j) The Commissioner’s Trophy

11. ___ The Winner of the National Basketball Association championship

k) The Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy

12. ___ The best pitchers in Major League Baseball, one each for the A.L. and N.L.

l) The Bob Cousy Award

13. ___ The top point guard in men’s NCAA Division 1 basketball

m) The World Cup

14. ___ Winner of the quadrennial soccer tourny between FIFA men’s national teams n) The Heisman Trophy 15. ___ The highest accolade given out in USA Track and Field (now only men)

o) The Jesse Owens Award

16. ___ The highest accolade given out in USA Track and Field (women only)

p) The Jackie Joyner-Kersee Athlete of the Year Award

17. ___ The most outstanding college football player in the NCAA Division I

q) Davey O’Brien Award

18. ___ The best of quarterback of the year in the NCAA

r) The Cy Young Award

19. ___ The top male and female water polo player in the NCAA

s) The Ben Hogan Award

20. ___ The best college golf player in the United States

t) The Peter J. Cutino Award

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