AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (AvalonBay), an equity REIT in the business of developing, redeveloping, acquiring and managing apartment communities, unveils a new concept in apartment living with the introduction of Kanso Twinbrook. Opening in Rockville, Maryland in November, the 238-unit apartment community is designed with self-serve technology and large apartment homes with modern finishes and features that provide comfort, convenience and easy access to customer service when needed. 

Located at 12503 Ardennes Ave., just off of Rockville Pike and proximate to the Twinbrook metro, Kanso Twinbrook promises residents the ability to “Live simply, without sacrifice” by removing physical amenities and daily onsite staff. Customer service is offered virtually through AvalonBay’s call center, while maintenance support is scheduled a few times a week with emergency support also available. The investment and operating savings are passed along to residents, resulting in lower rent without compromising a luxury apartment home.

“Kanso Twinbrook is our company’s first fully-automated concept community that offers a digital resident experience with limited staff onsite. We understand that apartment communities must evolve as trends and demographics shift, and recognize that, even pre-COVID-19, there was a missing supply of more value-priced new apartment stock,” said Karen Hollinger, AvalonBay’s senior vice president, strategic initiatives. “The thoughtful and deliberate deployment of technology is what makes our first-ever Kanso community possible.”

Powered by technology and supported by strategic partnerships, AvalonBay has teamed up with industry-leading brands such as Google, Latch, Amazon and Boingo to provide Kanso Twinbrook residents with best-in-class features. Kanso Twinbrook is one of the first apartment communities to implement the recently announced Works with Latch partner program between Latch and Google. The program, LatchOS, enables owners and operators like AvalonBay to integrate smart devices into one platform. It also allows residents to manage their Google Nest products, making for a more seamless and connected home experience. Residents can also unlock their doors from their smartphones with Latch electronic locks. 

Other amenities such as package delivery, internet access and service requests are also automated. Kanso Twinbrook features Amazon Hub Lockers with a self-service kiosk that allows residents to pick up their packages at a place and time that's convenient for them. The new community will also offer Amazon Key for Business, which streamlines Amazon deliveries to multi-unit residential buildings so residents can easily receive packages in the package room or locker, whether they're home or away, without the need to buzz drivers in. Residents can also opt into the community’s pre-installed Boingo Wi-Fi for immediate access to high-speed internet without a separate service appointment, additional equipment or another bill. Renters can pay their rent and submit maintenance requests online through the AvalonAccess web portal.

The resident experience is also supported by partnerships with Ikea, Goodspeed, ParkMobile, TF Living, Tide Cleaners, YouTube TV, WhipEV and others. In addition, residents receive discounted access to the pools and fitness centers at other nearby AvalonBay communities through the company’s new AVB Passport program.

Kanso Twinbrook offers studios, one, two and three-bedroom units with rental rates starting in the $1,300+ range. The average one-bedroom unit is more than 800 square feet with nine-foot ceilings and includes large well-equipped kitchens and apartment layouts suited to work from home. The spacious layouts feature higher-end, energy-saving components including LED lights, quartz stone countertops, stainless steel Whirlpool® appliances, Moen® fixtures, hard-surface flooring, large in-unit washer/dryer and walk-in closets. The building includes automated covered garage parking for direct-entry to each apartment floor; this parking also allows for easy automated guest parking.

Pre-leasing is available now for move-in later this month. Leasing is completed onsite in a self-serve showroom that is opening in November. For more information, visit www.kansotwinbrook.com

AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (AvalonBay), an equity REIT in the business of developing, redeveloping, acquiring and managing apartment communities, unveils a new concept in apartment living with the introduction of Kanso Twinbrook. Opening in Rockville, Maryland in November, the 238-unit apartment community is designed with self-serve technology and large apartment homes with modern finishes and features that provide comfort, convenience and easy access to customer service when needed. 

Located at 12503 Ardennes Ave., just off of Rockville Pike and proximate to the Twinbrook metro, Kanso Twinbrook promises residents the ability to “Live simply, without sacrifice” by removing physical amenities and daily onsite staff. Customer service is offered virtually through AvalonBay’s call center, while maintenance support is scheduled a few times a week with emergency support also available. The investment and operating savings are passed along to residents, resulting in lower rent without compromising a luxury apartment home.

“Kanso Twinbrook is our company’s first fully-automated concept community that offers a digital resident experience with limited staff onsite. We understand that apartment communities must evolve as trends and demographics shift, and recognize that, even pre-COVID-19, there was a missing supply of more value-priced new apartment stock,” said Karen Hollinger, AvalonBay’s senior vice president, strategic initiatives. “The thoughtful and deliberate deployment of technology is what makes our first-ever Kanso community possible.”

Powered by technology and supported by strategic partnerships, AvalonBay has teamed up with industry-leading brands such as Google, Latch, Amazon and Boingo to provide Kanso Twinbrook residents with best-in-class features. Kanso Twinbrook is one of the first apartment communities to implement the recently announced Works with Latch partner program between Latch and Google. The program, LatchOS, enables owners and operators like AvalonBay to integrate smart devices into one platform. It also allows residents to manage their Google Nest products, making for a more seamless and connected home experience. Residents can also unlock their doors from their smartphones with Latch electronic locks. 

Other amenities such as package delivery, internet access and service requests are also automated. Kanso Twinbrook features Amazon Hub Lockers with a self-service kiosk that allows residents to pick up their packages at a place and time that's convenient for them. The new community will also offer Amazon Key for Business, which streamlines Amazon deliveries to multi-unit residential buildings so residents can easily receive packages in the package room or locker, whether they're home or away, without the need to buzz drivers in. Residents can also opt into the community’s pre-installed Boingo Wi-Fi for immediate access to high-speed internet without a separate service appointment, additional equipment or another bill. Renters can pay their rent and submit maintenance requests online through the AvalonAccess web portal.

The resident experience is also supported by partnerships with Ikea, Goodspeed, ParkMobile, TF Living, Tide Cleaners, YouTube TV, WhipEV and others. In addition, residents receive discounted access to the pools and fitness centers at other nearby AvalonBay communities through the company’s new AVB Passport program.

Kanso Twinbrook offers studios, one, two and three-bedroom units with rental rates starting in the $1,300+ range. The average one-bedroom unit is more than 800 square feet with nine-foot ceilings and includes large well-equipped kitchens and apartment layouts suited to work from home. The spacious layouts feature higher-end, energy-saving components including LED lights, quartz stone countertops, stainless steel Whirlpool® appliances, Moen® fixtures, hard-surface flooring, large in-unit washer/dryer and walk-in closets. The building includes automated covered garage parking for direct-entry to each apartment floor; this parking also allows for easy automated guest parking.

Pre-leasing is available now for move-in later this month. Leasing is completed onsite in a self-serve showroom that is opening in November. For more information, visit www.kansotwinbrook.com

AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (AvalonBay), an equity REIT in the business of developing, redeveloping, acquiring and managing apartment communities, unveils a new concept in apartment living with the introduction of Kanso Twinbrook. Opening in Rockville, Maryland in November, the 238-unit apartment community is designed with self-serve technology and large apartment homes with modern finishes and features that provide comfort, convenience and easy access to customer service when needed. 

Located at 12503 Ardennes Ave., just off of Rockville Pike and proximate to the Twinbrook metro, Kanso Twinbrook promises residents the ability to “Live simply, without sacrifice” by removing physical amenities and daily onsite staff. Customer service is offered virtually through AvalonBay’s call center, while maintenance support is scheduled a few times a week with emergency support also available. The investment and operating savings are passed along to residents, resulting in lower rent without compromising a luxury apartment home.

“Kanso Twinbrook is our company’s first fully-automated concept community that offers a digital resident experience with limited staff onsite. We understand that apartment communities must evolve as trends and demographics shift, and recognize that, even pre-COVID-19, there was a missing supply of more value-priced new apartment stock,” said Karen Hollinger, AvalonBay’s senior vice president, strategic initiatives. “The thoughtful and deliberate deployment of technology is what makes our first-ever Kanso community possible.”

Powered by technology and supported by strategic partnerships, AvalonBay has teamed up with industry-leading brands such as Google, Latch, Amazon and Boingo to provide Kanso Twinbrook residents with best-in-class features. Kanso Twinbrook is one of the first apartment communities to implement the recently announced Works with Latch partner program between Latch and Google. The program, LatchOS, enables owners and operators like AvalonBay to integrate smart devices into one platform. It also allows residents to manage their Google Nest products, making for a more seamless and connected home experience. Residents can also unlock their doors from their smartphones with Latch electronic locks. 

Other amenities such as package delivery, internet access and service requests are also automated. Kanso Twinbrook features Amazon Hub Lockers with a self-service kiosk that allows residents to pick up their packages at a place and time that's convenient for them. The new community will also offer Amazon Key for Business, which streamlines Amazon deliveries to multi-unit residential buildings so residents can easily receive packages in the package room or locker, whether they're home or away, without the need to buzz drivers in. Residents can also opt into the community’s pre-installed Boingo Wi-Fi for immediate access to high-speed internet without a separate service appointment, additional equipment or another bill. Renters can pay their rent and submit maintenance requests online through the AvalonAccess web portal.

The resident experience is also supported by partnerships with Ikea, Goodspeed, ParkMobile, TF Living, Tide Cleaners, YouTube TV, WhipEV and others. In addition, residents receive discounted access to the pools and fitness centers at other nearby AvalonBay communities through the company’s new AVB Passport program.

Kanso Twinbrook offers studios, one, two and three-bedroom units with rental rates starting in the $1,300+ range. The average one-bedroom unit is more than 800 square feet with nine-foot ceilings and includes large well-equipped kitchens and apartment layouts suited to work from home. The spacious layouts feature higher-end, energy-saving components including LED lights, quartz stone countertops, stainless steel Whirlpool® appliances, Moen® fixtures, hard-surface flooring, large in-unit washer/dryer and walk-in closets. The building includes automated covered garage parking for direct-entry to each apartment floor; this parking also allows for easy automated guest parking.

Pre-leasing is available now for move-in later this month. Leasing is completed onsite in a self-serve showroom that is opening in November. For more information, visit www.kansotwinbrook.com

The Class A, garden-style multi-housing property totals 216 units 

MORRISTOWN, N.J., May 19, 2020 – JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has closed the sale of Avalon Tinton Falls, a 216-unit, Class A garden-style apartment property in Tinton Falls, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

JLL marketed the property exclusively on behalf of the seller, AvalonBay Communities, Inc. A private investor purchased the asset free and clear of existing financing.

Avalon Tinton Falls is situated on 35 acres at 100 Autumn Drive less than one mile from Exit 100B of the Garden State Parkway, which offers unmatched regional accessibility. The community is also near affluent beach communities, including Spring Lake, Sea Girt and Avon-by-the-Sea, and more than 3.3 million square feet of Class A corporate office parks within a 10-mile radius. Completed in 2008, the property has been institutionally maintained and comprises contemporary amenities, including a clubhouse with a modern fitness center, swimming pool with sundeck, playground, car care center, lounge, grilling stations and dog park. Units include a diverse mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans averaging 1,101 square feet. Apartments feature in-unit washers and dryers, private patios or balconies, crown molding and spacious walk-in closets. 

The JLL Capital Markets team representing the seller included Jose Cruz, Michael Oliver, Kevin O’Hearn, Steve Simonelli, Mark Mahasky and J.B. Bruno. 

“Multifamily continues to be a safe haven for investment capital in the suburban New York area given all the challenges that the markets are currently facing,” stated Cruz.

MORRISTOWN, N.J., July 29, 2019 – JLL announces that it has closed the sale of AVA Stamford, a Class A, 18-story, luxury residential tower in downtown Stamford, Connecticut.

JLL marketed the property on behalf of the seller, AvalonBay Communities, Inc. West Coast-based Pacific Urban Residential (“PUR”) purchased the asset. The transaction represents PUR’s second investment in the East during the past 90 days.

Located at 50 Forest Street, AVA Stamford offers panoramic city views in a transit-oriented, urban infill location in the heart of downtown Stamford. The property boasts a Walk Score® of 94 due to its proximity to numerous restaurants and shops as well as the Metro North and Amtrak train stations. Completed in 2001, the institutionally maintained tower features a diverse mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units averaging over 1,000 square feet. Residences are equipped with in-unit washers and dryers and walk-in closets with some units also outfitted with dens and patios or balconies. Community amenities include an outdoor heated pool, fitness center, resident clubhouse with TV lounge and kitchen, covered parking and an attached 1.1-acre private park with tennis courts. The property was 95 percent occupied at closing.

The JLL Capital Markets team representing the seller included Jose Cruz, Stephen Simonelli, Kevin O’Hearn, Andrew Scandalios, Michael Oliver, Mark Mahasky and Grace Braverman.

“AVA Stamford attracted multiple investors, including both institutional capital and private buyers given the strategic location and potential upside of the asset,” Cruz stated.