Lessons from Inside
the Development World

Technical. Tactical. Story-driven.
Everything you wish someone told you when you started.

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Why the Wood Podium Product Worked So Well

This project used a wood podium building typology, and it remains one of my favorites.

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This lesson was highly jurisdiction-specific, but the implications are broadly applicable.

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Early in the project, power felt like a solvable detail rather than a defining constraint.

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On this project, we made a deliberate decision to reuse building plans from a previous development in another state.

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