Parking structures
Consistently the best value on any property. Enormous, passed daily, usually grim, and expectations are low enough that real artwork transforms them.
Real estate and development
Murals for
buildings and
developments
For developers, owners, property managers and boards. Facades, parking structures, lobbies, amenity spaces, courtyards and hoardings, across one building or a whole portfolio.
Why property teams paint
Identity
before the
landscaping
A mural is one of the few improvements that changes how a building is read on the day it is finished.
A new development opens as a set of renderings made real, and for the first year it competes on finishes and location alone. A painted wall gives it a face: something people photograph and describe when they explain where they live or work.
For an older asset, a tired lobby or a grim parking structure can be transformed for a fraction of a renovation budget, and the change is visible from the sidewalk. For lease up, it is one of the few investments that reads as complete on day one and photographs well before the building is full.
Several cities in the region ask larger developments to fund public art, and in some of them a permanent on-site artwork can count toward that requirement instead of a fee. Worth raising with your consultant before the art budget goes elsewhere.
Where it pays on a property
Ranked roughly by what each surface returns for the money.
Building exteriors
The biggest statement, and what makes a building a landmark in its neighborhood.
Lobbies and leasing offices
The first room every prospect sees and the backdrop of every tour photo.
Amenity spaces
High traffic, heavily photographed, and where a painted wall replaces the standard decal look entirely.
Courtyards and pool decks
Exterior work that has to survive sun, chlorine, sprinklers and constant use. A specification question more than an artistic one.
Construction hoardings
Temporary by design, so they can carry the project name and brand freely.
Occupied buildings
Residents
keep their
access
Amenity spaces cannot close for a week and corridors have to stay passable.
We work in sections rather than closing whole rooms, screened and floor protected, with low odor products so a space is usable again the next day. Parking structures are painted level by level so nobody loses a space.
You get a schedule precise enough to put straight into a resident or tenant notice, and we keep to it, because that notice is the property manager credibility and not just ours.
Common area walls take abuse a private office never sees: carts, bikes, furniture, cleaning chemicals, weather and the occasional tag. Exteriors get UV resistant paint and an anti graffiti coating, so a tag is washed off rather than painted over.
Running several buildings?
Portfolios are planned as one program rather than quoted one at a time.