The Owners' Manual - Issue 9 - Winter 2017

Shortest escalator in North America!

capital improvements I’m typically engaged in assorted duties including: solicitation of design consultant services, coordinating and reviewing deliverables from multiple teams of varied disciplines, corresponding and meeting w/ clients, tenants, code enforcing representatives and managing their expectations, scheduling, verifying existing conditions, approving submittals, finishes and installations, filing permit applications, monitoring budgets, minimizing conflicts/ oversights/etc., and ensuring integrity of design intent from concept through closeout.

Alterations are non-stop at GSP which is reportedlyWestfield’s highest revenue producing center in their north American portfolio; it features 300+ stores (including 5 anchors) and curiously also boasts the shortest escalator in North America, with a total rise of only 3’-4” high. GSP attracts a broad range of shopping tourist internationals as attested by the wide variety of multilingual & heavily accented conversations I routinely catch portions of and the diversity in manner of dress observed on my rounds about the center, and is further borne out by the presence of a currency exchange retailer.

When did you join BL Companies? Jan 7, 2013 What made you decide to work at BL Companies? Joining a team withall design-services integrated within one company appealed to me as a great opportunity for better understanding of the many considerations specific to individual professional disciplines, some of which I previously had little interaction with. What is a “day in the life” of Paul Graebener look like for you at BL Companies? On-site at Garden State Plaza mall in support of (client)Westfield’s wide-ranging