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Though both originally hail from Long Island, Chris Papamichael (B '96) and Matt Schwartz (B '99) have always felt near at home at Tulane and New Orleans. And this July the pair are returning the favor for the Tulane community. Their existent estate development and investment house, The Domain Companies, will serve every bit the management company for Tulane'southward newest residential development — Thirteen15.

Located in the downtown campus area, Thirteen15 offers an ideal location for students, staff, kinesthesia, postdocs, residents, researchers and other university affiliates with Tulane'southward downtown campus buildings just a two-to-10-minute walk abroad. Tulane worked closely with the New Orleans Redevelopment Fund to renovate the former Warwick Hotel at 1315 Gravier St. into a mod flat building with retail and amenities.

And now, Tulane has something else heady to offer — the Domain divergence. The Domain Companies take fix themselves autonomously in the highly competitive development world in part through their focus on community and hospitality.

"We are very focused on the residential feel," says Schwartz. "The level of hospitality in our properties is something that I think makes our residential properties very different from any others in the market. The residential experience is informed past that hospitality approach, then bringing that to this project informs elements of space planning, amenities and design. I remember all of those tie into how the make is built, how it is marketed. We accept a marketing group and besides a branding and pattern grouping that became involved too. A lot of the elements of our platform that are just outside of the managing and operating element of what we do, we tin can bring to deport to assist get Tulane what they were looking for."

Thirteen15 is unique in the New Orleans market place, offering an upscale, fully furnished flat community created by and for the Tulane Community. The Thirteen15 community allows residents to enjoy turnkey apartments with all utilities and high-speed internet included. Inspired by iconic mid-century modern architecture of the 1950'due south, the beautiful furniture package was curated by local pattern studio Ferrand Design.

Housing 154 fully furnished apartments catered to the Tulane community, the 12-story building includes a mix of studios and 1- and two-bedroom apartments. The ground flooring offers boosted retail civilities for residents including a coffee shop and market.

"Nosotros've ever felt that Tulane expanding its presence in downtown and growing in general was one of the near exciting opportunities for downtown and really for New Orleans. Information technology was something I ever advocated for, and we're encouraged by the enthusiasm and support that the administration has for pursuing projects downtown," says Schwartz.

He adds, "Coming to New Orleans [as a Tulane student] gave me the opportunity to get very closely tied to the city and the community in a fashion I don't think you quite tin in most other places. My experience was actually equal parts New Orleans and Tulane. That connectedness and so the closeness with the metropolis is certainly what drew us dorsum postal service-Katrina."

Though the Domain Companies have helmed countless successful initiatives in New York and Utah in particular, there has always been something special about New Orleans for the pair. It's what led them to jump on the first commercial flight back to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, intent on helping their honey city rebuild — stronger than ever. And today information technology's part of the company's vaunted delivery to community.

Papamichael recalls vividly how they developed the "My Domain" program specifically to partner with local businesses mail-Katrina. As the metropolis rebuilt, residents ofttimes didn't know what businesses had survived the storm, how to accomplish them or even what their hours might exist in such a time of uncertainty. My Domain was created to warning residents to local businesses in shut proximity to Domain Companies developments. Businesses offered discounts to incentivize residents to shop local, and in the process, closer-knit residential communities developed. Information technology's a plan the Domain Companies proceed to this mean solar day.

"Building that sense of community within our buildings and among our residents is strongly important to us," Chris Papamichael (B '96)

"Building that sense of customs within our buildings and among our residents is strongly of import to us, so we spend a lot of fourth dimension doing that and holding events for residents," says Papamichael.

He'due south cognizant of the unique needs of the Tulane community likewise. "Sometimes the needs of students are different than what conventional housing may provide. Someone coming [equally a graduate student] to this market may not have a lot of knowledge of where to alive or why. Past having an in-house option, I recollect information technology provides a product that maybe more closely matches what [Tulane's] student base needs."

Schwartz is every bit enthusiastic about Thirteen15's potential impact for Tulane and New Orleans. "I've always idea of the fate of Tulane and New Orleans every bit intertwined. In helping to see New Orleans become a improve and more prosperous metropolis, so goes the development of Tulane. I think that Tulane expanding its presence downtown is i of the nearly heady opportunities facing the city, and i of the reasons we were excited to participate in that," he says.

"I've always idea of the fate of Tulane and New Orleans every bit intertwined," Matt Schwartz (B '99)

Papamichael adds, "I recollect [Thirteen15] could human activity every bit a goad for further evolution. Certainly, with more of a Tulane or student-based population, I think that will only atomic number 82 to farther evolution downward that route, and nosotros're excited well-nigh that."

And the Tulane community can look forward to more of the Domain Companies' tailored approach to designing spaces that foster vibrant communities. The Domain Companies are developing the new residential quad in the former Bruff Commons space on uptown campus.