SWBR was honored at the 2016 NAIOP Upstate New York Chapter Awards of Excellence ceremony for its work on DePaul’s Rochester View Apartments. The NAIOP awards celebrate the high-quality and innovative achievements of regional commercial real estate projects from the Upstate New York area, covering the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse regions. There are several award categories, and each winner represents the challenge that was overcome and realized results that were economically, environmentally and/or aesthetically achieved.
Designed by SWBR, Rochester View Apartments is a first-of-its-kind in New York State, designed to better accommodate income-eligible tenants who are deaf or hard of hearing or use American Sign Language. The community consists of 61 affordable one- and two-bedroom apartments offering enhanced supports. Each apartment is equipped with specific technology to help deaf and hearing-impaired tenants, including open floor plans with high levels of visibility, strategic lighting, safety lights on appliances, vibrating-alarm beds in case of a fire, hard-wired strobe lights for CO2 and fire alarms.
The NAIOP awards ceremony was held November 10, 2016 at The Strathallan in Rochester.