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Kevin Newell and the school that became a second chance
He went to class at Phillis Wheatley. Years later, he returned as its developer. For Royal Capital founder Kevin Newell, the route from a childhood address to a real estate deal runs through the people who made room for him.
Brian Murray and the business of staying put
From Peace Corps service in Bulgaria to factory workshops in Kensington, Brian Murray has built a real estate career around a difficult question: who gets to stay when a neighborhood starts to prosper?
RIOS designs the reasons people stay
A pink chair, a loading dock, a backstage corridor: RIOS treats the overlooked parts of a place as the main event. Its work shows how architecture earns its keep after the opening photograph.
The Architects Who Made Small Spaces Do More
Design, Bitches built a serious practice out of an unserious-sounding name. Its real trick is making restaurants, houses, clinics, and classrooms behave like invitations.
Amor Architectural knows where buildings go wrong
A retail rollout is a promise to repeat yourself in places that refuse to be identical. Amor Architectural brings an unusual preparation to the job: years spent examining what happens when buildings go wrong.
JK & Co. knows what to keep
A storage building becomes an art gallery. A working winery becomes a place to linger. Inside the Los Angeles studio finding new uses for buildings that already have a past.
Rapt Studio knows why your office feels wrong
A noisy corridor, a rescued floorboard, an owl in a reading room. Rapt Studio uses the small details of working life to ask a bigger question: what should a company feel like from the inside?
ONE NINE Architecture Has Plans for the Leftovers
The California design firm connects office renovations, custom interiors and nonprofit work. Even its fabric scraps get another assignment.
RRA Capital Waited for Banks to Say No - Then Originated $2.46 Billion in CRE Loans
The Phoenix firm began by cleaning up other lenders' real-estate mistakes. Its more useful trick was knowing when not to buy - and when to turn that workout education into a nationwide bridge-loan business.
Stuf Storage
Stuf is a New York-based, tech-enabled self-storage company that partners with commercial and multifamily real estate owners to convert underused space - basements, garages, mechanical floors, vacant retail - into remotely managed, hospitality-inspired storage for the people and businesses nearby. Founded in 2020 by CEO Katharine Lau, Stuf runs a lean, app-driven operation across dense urban markets and shares revenue with landlord partners rather than owning or building traditional storage facilities.