Kathleen McCormick

Kathleen McCormick, principal of Fountainhead Communications LLC in Boulder, Colorado, is a writer and editor focused on sustainable design and the environment.

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Property Types
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Architecture – Design
Smaller Floor Plans, Focus on Customer Experience Help Reinvent Retail in Denver
Retailers are focusing their physical presences on offering excellent customer service and curation of products, said panelists at a ULI Colorado event in Denver. The event itself was held at the Dairy Block, an example of new retail projects that are animating both commercial and public spaces with experimental and experiential places for people to shop, eat, drink, be entertained, and find community.
September 4, 2018
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Kathleen McCormick
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Design and Planning
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Residential
Building Homes for the “Missing Middle” in Denver
High construction costs and low inventories are driving home prices ever higher in some of America’s fastest-growing cities, said panelists speaking at a recent ULI Colorado event.
April 16, 2018
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Kathleen McCormick
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Resilience and Sustainability
Making Multitenant Net Zero Work in Colorado
A 100,000-square-foot (9,300 sq m) project in an emerging transit district in Boulder, Colorado, is making the business case for net-zero-energy (NZE) multitenant leased office buildings, including lower operating costs, higher profits, reduced carbon emissions, better recruitment and retention for tenants, and happier, healthier, and more productive employees. The new $40 million Boulder Commons, a mixed-use office/restaurant/retail project in two adjacent buildings, is one of the largest NZE multitenant commercial buildings in the United States, according to New Buildings Institute (NBI) data.
April 9, 2018
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Kathleen McCormick
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Design and Planning
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Residential
Orange County: Where Master-Planned Communities Reign
With extensive parkland, trails, mixed uses, housing variety, and amenities, the county’s MPCs draw buyers from nearby—and across the sea.
October 23, 2017
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Kathleen McCormick
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Development and Construction
Remaking Greater Los Angeles as a Transit-Oriented Region
Supported by a new half-cent tax that could fund an estimated $120 billion worth of public transit improvements over the next 40 years, the region is ramping up the creation of TODs not only in downtown, but also along transit lines further out.
September 11, 2017
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Kathleen McCormick
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Development and Construction
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Mixed-Use
Transforming Inner-Ring Suburbs with Walkable Mixed-Use Development
U.S. suburbs are changing in cities such as Denver, where new transit lines and placemaking efforts around walkable mixed-use neighborhoods are creating communities more similar to the urban core, said speakers at a ULI Colorado event.
August 21, 2017
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Kathleen McCormick
Development and Construction
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Retail/Entertainment
Legalized Marijuana Sector Creates Opportunity, Special Requirements
Commercialized marijuana is big business and is expanding as a new asset class at an astronomical rate, according to a ULI Spring Meeting panel of industry investors, operators, and legal experts on the state of the cannabis business and real estate opportunities being created in the sector. Twenty-eight states have legalized the sale of medical marijuana, and eight states plus the District of Columbia allow recreational marijuana to some degree.
May 12, 2017
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Kathleen McCormick
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Development and Construction
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Industry Sectors
The Housing Paradox: Why Can’t Cities Build Enough Housing to Match Job Growth?
Why do cities with the fastest-growing economies—including Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, and Austin--suffer from a growing imbalance between job growth and housing supply? A panel at the ULI 2017 Spring Meeting in Seattle examined why hot-market cities are failing to build enough housing for new workers, often by staggering ratios.
May 10, 2017
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Kathleen McCormick
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Development and Construction
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News
Three Projects Helping to House Seattle’s Growing Population
Seattle developers are trying to keep pace with the demand for urban living with an explosion of new multifamily projects.
April 27, 2017
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Kathleen McCormick
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Design and Planning
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Emerging Trends
Six Noteworthy Developments Changing the Face of Seattle
Cranes fill the sky and construction crews complicate navigation through Seattle’s streets as development projects downtown and in other close-in urban neighborhoods usher in a higher and denser city.
April 24, 2017
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Kathleen McCormick
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