Reimagining multifamily development - what does the future look like?
[{"id": "hjaylg1", "text": "I'd suggest you check in with the folks at Walker and Dunlop, (WD) a large CRE firm that specializes in financing multi-family projects. I've found them to be an extremely consumer friendly business. Since this asset class is their market niche I suspect that there will be someone in their organization who will have the information you seek at their fingertips.\n\nAlso of interest, the company CEO Willy Walker also hosts a free weekly webcast with guests of interest to anyone following commercial real estate. You can sign up to watch them live or you can pick them up the next day on their Youtube channel.\n\nNot relevant to your question but of more than passing interest is their stock is doing great. Their third quarter financials were just announced and beat the estimates by a lot. Here's a link to their website [https://www.walkerdunlop.com/](https://www.walkerdunlop.com/).\n\nIf you send in a written query (similar to what you just posted on Reddit) to the office nearest you I think you'll find them very helpful. Good luck in getting the info and please share what you find with us.  Multi-family is very hot part of the market right now with plenty of room for growth, especially to the consumer you describe.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hjbrep4", "text": "Probably like this: https://opticosdesign.com/work/culdesac-tempe/", "replies": [{"id": "hjovhvc", "text": "&gt;https://opticosdesign.com/work/culdesac-tempe/\n\nGreat link, thanks", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hjbxdbd", "text": "Dude...those are excellent questions!!! Equally interesting are the various ideas for offers in design.\n\nRecommendations:\n\n1. Skip offering the wifi (free or charged).  When it goes out...you're the asshole.  Not good.  They're all adults...they know how to call Comcast.\n2. Do NOT make your locks and other devices wifi or app friendly (fine on heaters and thermostats).  When someone figures out how to access their front door (and they will...that's what bad guys do for a living)....you're the guy that allowed it to happen.\n\nIf you can incorporate some kind of parallel parking thing where cars can stack in a line without being in the way of other cars....in about 10 years I would anticipate robot / autonomous cars being a thing and...that would be an efficient use of asphalt (don't build it now but...design it in to your landscape areas so you can remove some curbs and pave that section without interfering with current parking).\n\nEverything else...great work!", "replies": [{"id": "hlu7eoj", "text": "Exactly what I thought. \n\nI've seen a rise in concierge type living. Kind of like living in a condo with a well developed HOA. Services range from grocery shopping to drycleaning to dog walking. \n\nAbout five years ago there was a Whole Foods built adjacent to a college campus with apartments above. There was some talk that there was a similar service that was going to be offered, then Amazon bought Whole Foods and I don't know how it's gone. \n\n[There are amenities](https://www.brookside51.com/Amenities.aspx) but the tie-in isn't there and the concierge is not as developed. Still, I like your idea.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]