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| How are you going green?
Many businesses are becoming environmentally conscious by "going green" -- and for good reason. Initiatives include: partnering with vendors who recycle and use renewable energy or green technology; recycling ink cartridges and toners, and only buying remanufactured replacements; transitioning to electronic filing; telecommuting; replacing incandescent lighting; and participating in recycling programs. Manco Abbott is committed to these important initiatives and partners with employees, property owners, tenants, residents and vendors to save money and natural resources. To find out more about our Go Green efforts, click here. To tell us more about your green initiatives, email radcock@mancoabbott.com, Manco's Energy and Sustainability Coordinator, so we may share the results in a future issue.
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Big-box shrinkage: Retailers embrace sales on a
smaller scale
By Brad Tuttle, TIME Reporter
While the big-box retail model is far from dead, stores such as Walmart, Best Buy, and Cabela's are realizing that the enormous, one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work for all shoppers-nor all locations. To grow, many retailers are shrinking, sometimes with smaller stores, sometimes by introducing smaller, more intimate and approachable locations within larger stores. Here are a few of the retailers that are evolving by going small:
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Rental housing bills still moving through the
California legislature
By California Apartment Association
As the California Legislature is nearing the close of its two year legislative session, there are a number of bills that have survived the hearings and debates. And while there is no guarantee that these bills will survive any final floor votes they face, here is a look at what is nearing the Governor's Desk:
Security Deposits - AB 1679 (Bonilla, D-Concord) - This CAA sponsored legislation allows property owners to deposit any remaining portion of the security deposit directly to a bank account designated by the tenant and allows property owners to provide a copy of the itemized security deposit statement along with supporting documents to an e-mail account provided by the tenant.
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Survey says: Instant gratification, community key to millennial marketing
By Derek Mearns, Multifamily Executive Associate Editor
By 2014, Millennials will make up 36 percent of the country's workforce. Currently, the demographic is on pace to reach 80 million this year.
Figuring out just what this voluminous generation wants is the Rosetta Stone of 21st Century marketers, and some early findings are starting to point the way. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), along with Barkley and Service Management Group, recently surveyed 4,000 Millennials to try to understand what makes them tick when it comes to their consumer behaviors.
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Lighting projects demonstrate true savings
By Robin Adcock, Energy and Sustainability Coordinator
It's been heard over and over that lighting retrofits or replacements can save money and quickly return their initial investment. However, many are hesitant to participate in a lighting change without concrete evidence of savings. The proof is in the project; when done correctly, lighting adjustments can be one of the most cost-effective energy saving changes to make. Recently, water leakages and other problems in a 6-story parking garage provided the opportunity to test this firsthand.
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Victory over vacancy
By Kristin Gunderson Hunt, Contributing Writer
Reposition through Renovation
"With office buildings facing so much competition, real estate owners and managers have to try everything," said Linda Day-Harrison, CPM, and founder of the online commercial real estate professional directory, theBrokerList. "They can't just sit there and wait for the perfect tenant to fill 5,000 square feet of space." Facing a 17.2 percent national vacancy rate at the end of the first quarter, owners and managers are increasingly electing to "pre-finish" and "white-box" empty office suites to market their properties.
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In the Spotlight - CIS Security
By Greg Bethke, VP Business Development
Manco Abbott strives to achieve remarkable results through internal and external collaboration. We recognize that relationships are everything in our business. In this spirit, we'd like to routinely highlight one of our valued business partners. In this first edition, we introduce a long-term, respected vendor of ours, CIS Security, a division of Geil Enterprises. CIS provides standing security, patrol security and alarm response services to clients throughout the Central Valley.
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Celebrating employee experience
At Manco Abbott, we place a great deal of importance on assembling the best team possible. We hire motivated people and train them to perform their jobs superbly. We create a working environment where they can flourish and build a lifelong career that has significant positive impact on their community and a real sense of pride in work well done. Craig Leeds, spotlighted in the photo, is a Maintenance Supervisor at Le Provence Apartments and is celebrating 17 years of exemplary service to Manco Abbott - Thank You Craig!
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