🌆 ACE Club Digest - Making ACE a Community for You

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us earlier this week for our second ACE Club meetup! We hope that everyone left with a new idea or connection (or both!).

We’re planning to get one more meetup organized before the end of the year. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss it.

Overheard at ACE Club

Of course, the conversation did not disappoint. We heard all about…

• Which billionaires can shut down Broadway for home renovations

• A Bon Jovi vs Post Malone debate we didn’t know we needed

• The need for more professional development resources

• Growing interest in employee resource groups and how to build the right ones

Our number one goal is to make ACE Club programs bigger and better for all of you. Let us know what you’re interested in!

We’d love to hear from you! Please reply to this email if you have an idea for an event or program that you’d like us to help you bring to life.

🏗️ Project of the week

The Atlas (link)

• Development Team

  • Developers: Alpine Residential and Fields Grade

  • Design: MHS Architecture

• Project Overview: A 24-story rental building with 169 units in studio to three-bedroom layouts, just the latest high rise development in a Jersey City market with non-stop development.

• Why it’s interesting: The JC area is red-hot and showing no signs of slowing down. The development also reignited a lively online debate about parking minimums and whether or not they’re needed in an increasingly dense city.

📰 Our favorite articles & podcasts

Articles

• New York YIMBY’s Q3 2024 Construction Report Shows Nearly 19,000 Filed Residential and Hotel Units (link) - New York’s developers filed permits for a total of 1,071 new buildings, measuring a combined 26.8 million square feet with 18,935 residential and hotel units.

• Data center boom fuels demand for nuclear projects (link) - A shift in how tech companies like Google and Amazon meet their energy needs is creating opportunities for construction firms equipped to handle atomic power work.

• Passive House 3.0 (link) - With improved energy codes and more clean electricity coming online, the Phius program is leaning into comfort, durability, resilience, and flexibility for designers and builders.

Podcasts

• Breaking New Ground (link) - John Pugh and Zachary Lamb discuss the multifaceted nature of resilience in communities, emphasizing the interconnectedness of individual, community, and regional resilience

• The Power of Construction (link) - How can we bridge the data gap in construction?

Call for speakers & sponsors

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Until next time,

Emma & Sawyer