How to Keep Your Shopping Center Leased
Who remembers getting the JC Penney’s Christmas catalog as a child? Besides having more than enough toys to go around, big department stores had something for everyone no matter the…
ICSC in Philadelphia
The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) held its annual regional conference in Philadelphia last week. Attendance was down, but there were deals being done and new contacts made. The…
Designing Retail Centers for Resilience
Merriam Webster defines resilience as “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”, which sounds like the condition of the retail industry. *For years the death of retail…
Fast & Affordable Benefits of a Managed Real Estate Data Base
Commercial real estate is a competitive market, so any advantage an owner can secure enhances the ability to show a return on investment. JL Architects can offer you that advantage…
What is a Green Globes Assessment?
As Director of Sustainability for JL Architects, I am active as both a Green Globes Professional and Green Globes Assessor for the Green Building Initiative (GBI). Green Globes is a…
Sound & Space
Sound can be absorbed, contained or amplified based on how a building is designed. Recently, JL Architects attended two presentations on controlling acoustics within a space. We had Regupol America…
The Renewal of Camden
In pre-World War II America, many towns in the Mid-Atlantic region were flourishing due to manufacturing and the steel industry. The backbone of America’s economy was helping build today’s famous…
How Architecture Affects Our Quality of Life
People spend most of their day in or around buildings. Homes, offices, schools, and stores are all types of architecture in which the design can affect the way we feel,…
2018 in Color
In late 2016, I wrote the blog Colors of My Mind , which discussed how the mind perceives color. Today, I am going to give a general overview of the…
Real-Time Rendering for Architecture; What are your Benefits?
For architects, visualization has always been the primary method used to translate our thoughts and ideas. The process has evolved from sketches and hand drawings to 3D realistic photo renderings….
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