by RENTV
Esperanza at Duarte Station, a new Class A 344-unit, five-story apartment community in the San Gabriel Valley city of Duarte, has been completed and is now open to the public. The project is a development of MBK Rental Living and Haseko Corporation.
by the Editors of Multi-Housing News
Multi-Housing News held its 16th annual Excellence Awards ceremony, hosted at Resource Furniture in New York City. The celebration was the first in-person event since 2019. At the ceremony, MHN awarded gold, silver, and bronze awards to properties, projects, and professionals in 34 categories.
by Bruce Greenfield, Partner, AO | Hotel Executive
The hospitality industry is defined by its ability to reinvent to fit the requirements of travelers the world over. As the industry evolves, many design trends that were in motion prior to the shutdown quickly accelerated with health and flexibility at the forefront.
by Bailey Schulz | USA Today
Despite launching five Las Vegas restaurants over the past decade, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay isn’t done expanding his footprint along the Strip. Ramsay’s Kitchen joins Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay Steak, and Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill in the chef's Las Vegas portfolio, all located within Caesars Entertainment property thanks to a partnership inked with the casino operator 10 years ago.
Orange County Business Journal
Bob Dollar has spent the majority of his architectural career specializing in Hospitality, Casino & Gambling, Entertainment, and Mixed-Use projects for more than thirty years. Read more
by Bruce Greenfield | Surf Park Central
As architects, we are fueled by a creative drive to design built environments that deliver extraordinary experiences for people while adding value to the city, clients and communities they serve. The rise of the surf-anchored resort has paved the way for immersive, aspirational and intensely experiential developments that are surprisingly sustainable - a key element that is more important that ever.
Work Design Magazine
Brendan Farrell and Ruba Younan of AO reflect on the new changes and trends they are seeing in post-pandemic office design. The pandemic has taught us many things and has undeniably reshaped how we behave and interact. It made some people enjoy the solitude that comes from being distant while others grew to dread it...
by Samantha Gowen | Orange County Register
Skyloft Apartments recently installed "Mercury Falling," a 60-foot sculpture that looks like shiny liquid pouring from atop the building's roof to the ground below. Next time you're at the corner of Jamboree and Main in Irvine, loop up...
by Jillian Vaughn | Iconic Life
Talk about bossing up? Have you seen the new homes of Bosscat Kitchen & Libations and TEN Sushi + Cocktail Bar in their two, new restaurants at Lakeshore in Irvine? Constructed from the ground up by Daily Dose Hospitality and their partners Platinum X Construction and AO...
MFE Staff
Palm Desert, California, is renowned for its location as a retirement destination. The 164-unit Revel Palm Desert community, from developer The Wolff Co. and architect AO, delivers a fresh perspective to the market by curating a living experience focused on choice, personal freedom, curiosity, and fun for residents seeking an active, independent-living environment.
by AO
This week Governor Newsom signed AB 2011, the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022. Becoming operative on July 1, 2023, the law brings forth several implications including a mixed bag of new development opportunities and challenges. We sat down with RC Alley, Managing Partner at AO, and land-use attorney Sean Matsler, Partner at Cox Castle Nicholson, to interpret AB 2011 and shed some light on what California’s multifamily developers need to know right now.
by Nellie Day | California Centers
This trend expands beyond the newer and growing cities like Menifee, notes Rob Budetti, managing partner at AO in Orange. "The most in-demand retail concepts are those driven by experience, merging entertainment, dining and shopping all under one roof," he says...
SD Metro Magazine
San Diego-based Pacific Building Group has been awarded the Harbor Island West Marina project involving a complete demolition and renovation of the current marina at 2040 Harbor Island Drive. HIW Associates, who has owned and managed the marina since 1982, awarded the contract.
Los Angeles Business Journal
Joey Ali brings to AO more than 20 years of professional experience leading high-performance design teams on a range of developments including multifamily residential, mixed-use, and hospitality assignments. Read more
by Joseph Geha | San Jose Spotlight
A few gray, nondescript commercial buildings in the northwestern corner of San Jose will be replaced by nearly 600 condos and hundreds of hotel rooms, as part of a project several years in the making. The San Jose City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the latest version of a development from Los Angeles-based Miramar Capital known as Stevens Creek Promenade.
By Katie Murar | OCBJ
One of Orange County's largest architecture firms has plans to get even larger. Despite its already diversified portfolio, Orange-based AO is ramping up service lines and expanding into new markets, especially those it considers "recession-proof."
By Joe Gose | Western Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business
"In addition to influencing investor demand, the Covid-19 pandemic is also affecting the design of apartments as well as functionality and amenity packages. Most changes are subtle, architects say, and in some cases, the virus and lockdowns simply opened the door to ideas that had been discussed for years. AO Multifamily Studio Managing Partner Ed Cadavona comments on some of these design trends implemented in recent projects."
BD+C Staff
Gensler, Perkins and Will, HKS, and Perkins Eastman top the rankings of the nation's largest architecture firms for nonresidential and multifamily buildings work, as reported in Building Design+Construction's 2022 Giants 400 Report.
AO Release
Richard Yen & Associates (RY+A), a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is pleased to announce that they have entered into a strategic partnership with AO, a leading full-service architecture firm with design expertise spanning the full commercial real estate spectrum, to form RY+AO.
East Bay Times
With more than 20 years of architecture experience, Nickolos joins the Oakland AO studio to lead in multifamily, and affordable housing, with a focus on prefabricated construction methods. Read more