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Howard Hughes Signs Two New Leases at 1700 Pavilion in Downtown Summerlin 1024 677 Madison Silvers

Howard Hughes Signs Two New Leases at 1700 Pavilion in Downtown Summerlin
A white, modern office building at dusk in a desert setting with a baseball field in the distance.

Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HHH), developer of the Summerlin® master planned community, announces two new leases at 1700 Pavilion, a 10-story, Class-A office building at Downtown Summerlin®, the community’s walkable urban core. 

Snell & Wilmer, one of the largest law firms in the Western U.S. with offices in 16 locations throughout the United States and Mexico, will occupy the entire 7th floor spanning 27,542 square feet. Douglas Elliman, one of the largest independent residential real estate brokerages headquartered in New York City with operations in Florida, California, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. will occupy Suite 150, offering 3,856 square feet.

1700 Pavilion, which officially opened in January 2023, is now 90 percent leased. Spanning approximately 267,000 square feet on just under three acres directly south of the Las Vegas Ballpark, the office building features vantage points with one-of-a-kind views of the entire valley, from The Strip to Red Rock Canyon.

Snell & Wilmer and Douglas Elliman join Wynn Design & Development that occupies the top two floors, along with law firms Clark Hill and ER Injury Attorneys, as well as PNC Bank, that have all signed leases at the newest office building in Downtown Summerlin, relocating to a walkable, amenity-rich environment.

“We are thrilled to call Downtown Summerlin our new home,” said Scott Durkin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Douglas Elliman. “Howard Hughes has curated an extraordinary, award-winning community, and we are excited for our growing team to thrive in this beautiful space and vibrant location.”

“While national firms like Snell & Wilmer and Douglas Elliman are drawn to Nevada for the state’s business-friendly environment and quality real estate, they are specifically drawn to Downtown Summerlin for the type of urban office setting that employees are looking for—one that is located closer to home and cuts down on commute time, while offering an abundance of retail, dining, and entertainment experiences all within walking distance,” said Frank Stephan, President, Nevada Region for Howard Hughes. “We are pleased to add Snell & Wilmer and Douglas Elliman to the Downtown Summerlin line-up.”

1700 Pavilion was designed by Hart Howerton, an interdisciplinary planning, architecture, and interior design firm. The building’s design recently achieved LEED Silver certification, exemplifying Summerlin’s commitment to a healthy, active lifestyle and sustainable development. The building offers bike storage to encourage cycle-to-work options. It also features low-flow water fixtures to promote water conservation, touchless entry points, and enhanced air filtration throughout. The Living Room—a shared common area within the first floor lobby with reservable conference room and gathering spaces—provides direct access to Pavilion Center Drive and retail and dining options across the street, just steps from the office front door. 

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Yerba Buena Island’s condos are outselling SF’s other luxury buildings. Here’s why. 1024 685 Madison Silvers

Yerba Buena Island’s condos are outselling SF’s other luxury buildings. Here’s why.

exterior photograph of an apartment building overlooking the sf bay

Sumeetha Jacob had been living in Fremont for 20 years when the pandemic hit and she decided she wanted a change. While droves of people were leaving San Francisco, she thought it was the perfect time to buy a place in the city. She searched for about a year, mostly looking at downtown condo buildings, but never found anything that felt right. Then she learned about The Bristol.

The new housing development on Yerba Buena Island wasn’t yet completed, but even before she embarked on her hard-hat tour, she was hooked. “I parked my car and stepped out and was immediately blown away by the breathtaking views around,” she said. “The water views, the Golden Gate, Alcatraz, the ships and sailboats. I thought, what? There’s a place where you can see all of it?”

The views are just one reason the property is currently outselling other luxury buildings in San Francisco. The Bristol outpaced similarly amenity-heavy buildings in unit sales, especially ones located downtown, by more than two times in the past 16 months. But it’s not just stunning vistas that are luring buyers across the Bay — the building is winning over buyers thanks to reduced interest rates, a separation from downtown and the island’s neighborly feel.

The Bristol is just the beginning of the massive, 8,000-unit Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Development Project, with Yerba Buena Island’s housing units the first completed. The tiny island attached to the manmade Treasure Island and accessible by the Bay Bridge will have more than 250 homes spanning a condo building, single-story residences and townhomes, with access to a private clubhouse, a pool, 72 acres of parks and 5 miles of walking trails.

Condos at The Bristol range from $599,000 for a 612-square-foot studio to nearly $3 million for an approximately 2,200-square-foot three-bedroom. The development began selling units in March 2021 and has sold a total of 46 residences out of 124 — just 37% of what’s available. 

But that’s considered a success amid a tough Bay Area housing market, especially for amenity-laden luxury buildings. Condo sales in September 2023 in San Francisco were down 19% year over year when compared with 2022, according to data from the California Association of Realtors. In February 2023, the SF condo market hit the lowest point it had seen since the 2009 recession, a Compass report shows

Read the full article in the SF Gate.

Rod and gun club proposed as first compact rural community in eastern Collier County 984 426 Madison Silvers

Rod and gun club proposed as first compact rural community in eastern Collier County
rendering of a residential area with small cottages and walkable paths set into green space

It’s a sometimes overused word, but a new community planned in eastern Collier County is unique.

It’s not a town, or a village.

It’s a compact development, the first one proposed under the county’s Rural Lands Stewardship Area, or RLSA, program.

The community’s name reflects its rural character. It’s dubbed the Collier Rod and Gun Club at the Preserve, with an emphasis on the word preserve.

Naples-based Barron Collier Cos. is behind the proposed development, about five miles east of Ave Maria and 10 miles south of Immokalee.

The project is still winding its way through the regulatory channels. It will go before county commissioners for final approval on Tuesday, but remains under review by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the South Florida Water Management District, for its required permits.

The long-time local developer has proposed a seasonal, nature-inspired retreat, with no more than 225 single-family homes, or “cabins,” on about 260 acres, with a main entrance off State Road 29.

The Collier County Planning Commission and county staff are recommending approval of the two petitions.

When asked to share his thoughts on the development by the planning commission at a hearing in August, Mike Bosi, the county’s planning and zoning director, said: “Staff’s a pretty muted group, but we like it.”

Louise Le Gardeur, an associate principal with Hart Howerton, a design firm and consultant on the project, told the advisory board that the development would celebrate, rather than try to tame, the Everglades’ “powerful ecology.”

“Our firm’s and our client’s shared goal is to create a club community that respects and builds upon the existing natural characteristics and land’s heritage, the indigenous ecology, and the preservation of native features,” she said in her presentation. “In order to accomplish this, these projects preserve wetland areas and extend forested areas, enhancing the overall natural environment.”

Read the full article in the Naples Daily News.

Who will be the winner of the south Florida golf boom? 820 549 Madison Silvers

Who will be the winner of the south Florida golf boom?

162 holes, 13 big-name architects, all within a 10-mile radius

Ken Bakst, the founder and developer of Friar’s Head on Long Island, crouches into the driver’s seat of a two-man Gator utility vehicle and cranks the engine. We’re off to explore what will become The Ranch, his soon-to-be 36-hole golf club in Martin County, Florida. We drive for half a mile across barren pastureland and through a series of steel gates that prevent the wanderlust of the roughly 800 head of cattle that call the property home. Eventually we come to a section of land that looks mostly like what we’ve passed: flat, grassy and intersected with drainage ditches. A few pockets of trees break the horizon, but the only other elevations are dozens of seven-foot-high white stakes that represent the tees, fairways and greens of what will become the East and West courses.

Little here suggests the makings of a national-level golf club: no heaving sand dunes, no sunset marsh vistas, no forests of elevated tees and cascading creeks. It’s difficult to envision an architecturally compelling design existing on this site, but Bakst has been through this before. Large portions of Friar’s Head, now ranked 15th on America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses, were dead flat and had to be transformed into a riveting tapestry of sand, bumps, fescues and frolicking turf, much of the work done by Dave Axland and Rod Whitman, who helped construct the course for architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw in the early 2000s. Axland, Whitman and partner Keith Cutten will build The Ranch. As Bakst sees it, this property has the potential to achieve something greater than its countenance suggests.

Some of the most esteemed players in investment, real estate and golf development—Bakst at The Ranch; Michael Pascucci at The Apogee Club with partner Stephen Ross; Discovery Land Company with Atlantic Fields; Chris Shumway’s (investor and founder of Shumway Capital) Rolling Sands; and Dominik Senn’s Panther National (15 miles south in Palm Beach Gardens)—are sensing something similar, namely an opportunity to capitalize on the surging demand for private golf in this section of Florida. Across a 10-mile stretch of Martin County, west of the sleepy beach town of Hobe Sound and just north of Jupiter, these investors are building or preparing to build eight private upscale courses at five properties. Another club, McArthur, has added a second course that will open this fall. The plans total 162 new golf holes, not counting several short par-3 and regulation-length practice courses.

What exactly is happening in Martin County, and to a lesser extent adjacent Palm Beach County, that’s so attractive to golf’s highest rollers and prognosticators? For 15 years, almost all new course construction has been driven not by need or location but rather by the discovery of gorgeous golf sites like Streamsong and Sand Valley. A lot of squinting is required to picture a similar level of destination-worthy golf in Hobe Sound. As one architect familiar with the properties puts it, “These people are investing tens of millions of dollars, and none of the sites are any good.”

Imagination, engineering and money will be required to transcend the limitations of these flat parcels that are largely indistinguishable from the terrain on which hundreds of other south Florida courses have been built. Tabbed with making that happen are some of the biggest architects in the profession. In addition to Whitman, Axland and Cutten are Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw; Tom Doak; Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner; Tom Fazio; Tommy Fazio and Mike Davis; Kyle Phillips; and Nicklaus Design.

It amounts to what may be the biggest architectural bake-off in the history of the profession, with the generation’s top designers working virtually simultaneously within miles of each other, none with a clear topographical advantage or any relative budget constraint. Similar architectural flurries happened in locales like Westchester County (New York), Los Angeles and Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, but those were slower and the result of population growth and city expansion. It’s also different from contemporary epicenters like Bandon Dunes or Kiawah Island that are each owned or operated by single entities. The Martin County properties are starting independently from nearly the same point, all blank canvases with only minor variations. Each architect and team will be attempting to not just produce a style of course that outclasses the typical Florida golf stereotype but outclasses each other. By sometime in late 2025, all nine courses may be complete, each product primed for consumption and scrutiny. It’s like asking Monet, Degas, Renoir and Manet to each paint a riverside garden using only four colors of paint.

Read the full article in Golf Digest.

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America’s Best Small Spa and Wellness Town Is a Lakeside Gem in Upstate New York 1024 681 Madison Silvers

America’s Best Small Spa and Wellness Town Is a Lakeside Gem in Upstate New York

Aurora, New York, is so small it doesn’t have a stoplight, but this waterside village in the heart of the Finger Lakes has an outsized reputation, thanks to its fabulous hotels and a new wellness center.

When it comes to small towns with big reputations, lakeside Aurora, New York, is top of the class. The 724-person village, hugging the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, is probably best known as the headquarters of MacKenzie-Childs, the homewares retailer that still paints its distinctive serveware by hand in the blissful quiet of this stretch of Cayuga County. But it’s also becoming a destination for wellness thanks to the Inns of Aurora Resort & Spa, a collection of six small lodgings and one stunning hilltop retreat that T+L readers recently voted among the very best resorts in New York state. Throw in the fact that this stretch of the Finger Lakes is filled with gorge hikes, tap rooms, farm stands, and low-key beaches, and Aurora starts to look like not only the best small town for wellness, but for just about anybody’s idea of what the chilled-out good life should be.

The hospitality project that helped put Aurora on the map, the Inns are today a collection of six distinct lodgings, all designed with impeccable taste by owner Pleasant Rowland, an alumna of Aurora’s own Wells College, and her team. The 10-room Aurora Inn is the centerpiece of the resort, which is spread restored buildings across the village; other similarly sized lodges, such as Wallcourt Hall and Zabriskie House, round out the portfolio. The newest, Orchard Cottage, opened in May 2023, as a stand-alone two-bedroom that, unlike the rest of the Inns, welcomes both kids and pets.

Spa + Wellness

You’re here for The Spa, as Inns of Aurora refers to its ambitious stand-alone wellness retreat that’s open to guests of the resort as well as day visitors who book in advance. On a ridge, with views of Cayuga Lake, it’s an expansive facility that runs year-round, with an extensive array of treatments and programs that includes things like massage, skincare, bodywork, hydrotherapy, and Reiki. In 2023, the Spa achieved Well Certification at the Gold level for its holistic approach to not only building operations but also community and staff engagement; it’s the only spa in the United States that’s achieved that lofty mark.

Read the full article in Travel + Leisure.

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America’s best small spa, wellness town is in Upstate NY, review finds 1024 767 Madison Silvers

America’s best small spa, wellness town is in Upstate NY, review finds
white barn house inspired building with a pool and plantings in the foreground

Aurora, N.Y. — Upstate New Yorkers have long known that the tiny village of Aurora is a quiet, lakeside gem.

Now, the rest of the nation is finally starting to take notice.

Aurora, a community in Cayuga County that’s home to fewer than 800 people, has been named America’s best small spa and wellness town by Travel + Leisure. The ridiculously scenic village on Cayuga Lake earned the distinction thanks to the Inns of Aurora Resort & Spa — a widely lauded group that includes five stately inns, a farm-to-table restaurant and a hilltop spa that the magazine’s readers recently voted as New York’s best resort.

The Spa also has an on-site cafe with a “complimentary grazing table” for guests, who can sip kombucha, wine or espresso while snacking on soup and salad.

This year, the “ambitious” wellness retreat received a gold-level Well Certification — making it the only spa in the U.S. to so far achieve the honor, Travel + Leisure wrote.

The magazine encouraged travelers to stay at one of the Inns of Aurora’s residences, like the historic Aurora Inn hotel on Main Street or the private, pet-and-kid friendly Orchard Cottage. Hungry visitors can grab a meal and drink at Aurora Brewing Company, Travel + Leisure said, or Fargo Bar & Grill.

Read the full article in New York Upstate.

Learn more about Hart Howerton here.

Tom Doak’s New Golf Course Design In Scotland Features A Very Rare Routing Element 1024 711 Madison Silvers

Tom Doak’s New Golf Course Design In Scotland Features A Very Rare Routing Element
aerial map in an illustrative, pirate map style.

Tom Doak and the Cabot team have unveiled plans for the new course being built at Cabot Highlands in Inverness, Scotland. The 18-hole layout, which will join the existing Castle Stuart course designed by the late Mark Parsinen and Gil Hanse, is situated near the property’s 400-year-old castle and will meander through hillsides and expansive open land, with a handful of holes on or along the water.

Tom Doak and the Cabot team have unveiled plans for the new course being built at Cabot Highlands in Inverness, Scotland. The 18-hole layout, which will join the existing Castle Stuart course designed by the late Mark Parsinen and Gil Hanse, is situated near the property’s 400-year-old castle and will meander through hillsides and expansive open land, with a handful of holes on or along the water.

Read the full article in Forbes.

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Hart Howerton is ranked one of ENR’s Top 225 International Design Firms this year. 400 156 Madison Silvers

Hart Howerton is ranked one of ENR’s Top 225 International Design Firms this year.

Distinct geopolitical challenges frequently are the major force behind revenue changes for the Top 225 International Design Firms. Yet as climate change, energy transition and decarbonization goals drive forward a global shift to sustainability, firms are distinctly reconfiguring operations to generate more sustainable solutions.

This year Hart Howerton charts at 167, up from 217 last year. Read the full list of firms HERE.

Retreat-style Collier Rod and Gun Club at the Preserve approved by planning commission 1024 536 Madison Silvers

Retreat-style Collier Rod and Gun Club at the Preserve approved by planning commission
white logo overlaid on a green, lush golf course with live oaks and vibrant pink, orange and yellow skies in the distance

Those with dreams of wilderness-style living in the Everglades could soon make them a reality after the Collier County Planning Commission voted unanimously in favor Wednesday of the proposed Collier Rod and Gun Club at the Preserve.  

The project is planned southwest of Oil Well Road and State Road 29 and east of Ave Maria. The main goal of the project is to provide a recreational retreat in the wilderness of eastern Collier County, away from booming development in most parts of Southwest Florida.  

The property is within the Rural Lands Stewardship Area district, which encourages property owners to protect their environmentally valuable land, known as stewardship sending areas, in exchange for stewardship credits to be used in a stewardship receiving area.  

There are three separate projects planned for the property—the stewardship sending area project, a conditional-use project and a baseline development. San Fransisco- and New York-based architecture firm Hart Howerton is designing the project and is partnering with local developer Barron Collier Cos. Hart Howerton has experience with similar projects around the country, such as Santa Lucia Preserve in California and Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina.  

“We firmly believe that together Hart Howerton and Barron Collier have a deep understanding of developing sensitive environments and design these projects to respond to a unique set of conditions in the existing landscape,” said Louise Le Gardeur, associate principal at Hart Howerton.  

The 260-acre stewardship sending area project is where 225 single-family homes will be placed on the northeast corner of the property, accompanied with a compact rural development called The Homestead that will provide services, such as dining, a general store and educational amenities. 

“As with the residential aspects of the property, the dining experience at Collier Rod and Gun Club at the Preserve is woven into the natural environment,” Le Gardeur said. “For example, we intend to employ low-light designs that conserve energy and protect night skies when dining under the stars.”  

Read the full story in Gulfshore Business.

Meta and Signature Development move ahead on Menlo Park urban village 1024 704 Madison Silvers

Meta and Signature Development move ahead on Menlo Park urban village

Master-planned project would include more than 1,700 homes on 59 acres

Meta Platforms and Signature Development Group have moved forward with plans to turn a former tech campus into a 59-acre urban retail village in Menlo Park.

The Facebook parent, based in the city, and the Oakland-based developer have won Planning Commission approval for four architectural plans at 1350-1390 Willow Road, 925-1098 Hamilton Avenue and 1005-1275 Hamilton Court, SFYimby reported.

The so-called Willow Village will replace the Menlo Science and Technology campus, which includes 19 low-slung offices from the 1970s. The City Council gave a green light late last year. 

Construction of what some call “Zucktown” is expected to take several phases and years to complete.

Hart Howerton is master planner, with Ankrom Moisan Architects responsible for the residential design. Pickard Chilton is the office architect and Safdie Architects has designed a meeting and collaboration space.

Read the full article in The Real Deal.

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