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BUSINESS NEWS OZ ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY IN GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO OZ Architecture , an award-winning, national architecture and design firm, has announced that construction has begun on The Lodge at Grand Junction, a Rocky Mountain Senior Housing and WellAge senior living community in Grand Junction, Colorado. The building site is located across the street from St. Mary’s Medical Center, with frontage along Patterson Road less than two miles from I-70. The location provides easy access to doctors’ offices, shopping, and unobstructed mesa views. Led by OZ Architecture’s senior living team and principal architect Jami Mohlenkamp, the Lodge at Grand Junction is a 38,700-square- foot, 48-unit senior living community. Of those units, 36 units will be assisted living studios and one-bedrooms, and 12 units will be memory care studios.

The Lodge at Grand Junction will feature amenities including a two-story entry lobby and dining facilities – complete with private dining room – served by a full on-site commercial kitchen. Communal living spaces will have televisions, comfortable lounge seating, and fireplaces. OZ Architecture also designed a multipurpose room with a kitchen for resident use, and a theater room, computer room, and library to support social programs and community. Wellness amenities include a gym, salon and spa, and on-site wellness clinic with an on-staff nurse to assist with developing personal care plans. For off-site medical visits, complimentary transportation is provided. Assisted living residents will have use of a greenhouse, which offers residents the opportunity to grow vegetables and flowers all year. Memory care residents will have access to an interior sun room and an enclosed, landscaped garden outside. These

amenities promote a stronger connection to the outdoors, which is an important part of the WellAge senior living model. “It has been really exciting for OZ Architecture and our team to continue our work for older adults on Colorado’s Western Slope,” said Mohlenkamp, head of the senior living practice area at OZ Architecture. “We appreciate the support we’ve received for the project from the City of Grand Junction and its community, and we look forward to this project adding additional care and services for aging adults.” The Lodge at Grand Junction is slated to open in the summer of 2019. OZ Architecture has been at the forefront of design since 1964. The OZ team includes more than 165 architects, designers, strategists, and artists whose broad range of expertise and passions create a variety of project types on every continent.

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Similarly, they expect to be judged based on their contribu- tions and not on gender, ethnicity, or social standing. If you focus on contribution, the true performers within the firm will rise to the top. 8)They want continuous feedback. Millennials crave feedback and want to know what they have done right or wrong as it happens, not during some remote formal review. We might view this immediate desire for input as needy, but correcting bad behavior as it happens tends to stop bad acts just as rein- forcing good behavior will lead toward more positive results. All that is good for you and the firm. 9)They want to know about their opportunities. They want to know how to be promoted, how to get raises and bonuses, how to get on more complex projects, and how they can im- prove firm operations. In our business, ambition and entre- preneurism are good traits so why would we think that their request for opportunities is a threat to the firm? Just because we were scared early in our careers to ask these same ques- tions does not mean these are bad questions for someone to ask. 10) The status quo is to be challenged. Millennials never want to hear that we are doing something just because that is what we have always done. They see rapid changes in everything around them, yet our industry tends to move at a slower pace to develop and adopt new approaches to our work. Let the millennials ask the “what if ” questions as they are probably in the best position to think outside the box. It is then incum- bent upon us to evaluate their input and not simply dismiss their challenges to the status quo out of hand. Highly successful firms revolve around building teams from individuals of character – candidates with natural instincts to be responsive and communicative, to act and speak with respect, to serve our communities, and to seek the same attributes in their work family. Millennials have these traits and it is incumbent on us to recognize and welcome them as the future leaders of our industry. STEPHEN LUCY is CEO of JQ with offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Lubbock, and San Antonio. Contact him at slucy@jqeng.com.

3)Feeling younger is a benefit to us. You are not their age anymore, so you cannot and probably should not act like them. At the same time, they do not feel that you are being intrusive if you can lighten up and just relate. Take advantage of their energy and enthusiasm as it will make you feel young- er and less burdened. 4)They expect honesty. Millennials do not accept imposters, nor do they tolerate people who are fake in how they interact with them. That is a refreshing quality. Regardless of whether the news is good or bad, they just want to know what the news is. I think we would have all benefited from that if our predecessors had been more open and honest early in our careers. “Highly successful firms revolve around building teams from individuals of character – candidates with natural instincts to be responsive and communicative, to act and speak with respect, to serve our communities, and to seek the same attributes in their work family.” 5)They want to give back. Community giveback is very impor- tant to millennials and can be just as important to the firm as it connects the firm with its client base. Facilitating opportu- nities for them to be engaged promotes them and the firm. 6)Respect the golden rule. If anything, millennials expect us to treat them the way we want to be treated – with respect. They know the golden rule of being treated with tolerance, consideration, and compassion. Anything less is dishearten- ing, discouraging, and duplicitous. 7)They expect diversity and equality. Millennials understand that they do not live in a homogeneous world and thus they expect the workforce within your firm to reflect that diversity.

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