BUILD UP. STAND OUT.
Creating community and a lifestyle that promote the well-being of our residents through progressive design and customer service.
Core Spaces is a vertically integrated company focused on acquiring, developing, and managing the best real estate in every market.
Core Spaces is a collective of individuals. We’re a culture. We put everything we've got into our work—and it shows.
We’re thought leaders and rule breakers. We’re researchers and architects, engineers and designers, financiers and builders. We’re hard workers and creative visionaries. We’re the first there and the last to leave. We’re independent and autonomous. We’re team players. We collaborate and critique, compete and encourage. We’re left-brained and right-handed. We’re vice versa. We bring passion and professionalism to everything we do.
Develop
Our goal is to identify, design, and build the best real estate in every market.
DEVELOP
We believe that to build what people want, you must be immersed in the places where people want to be. From purpose-built and conventional apartments to hospitality, mixed-use developments, and single-family homes, we tailor all our projects to each market by drawing inspiration from the local architecture, residents, and culture. Our design and development expertise keeps us nimble and innovative, while our extensive construction management experience ensures successful execution, on time and on budget.
ACQUIRE
We identify and create value in fatigued properties through creative brainstorming, physical renovation, and professional management.
ACQUIRE
Core Spaces is one of only a few firms with the design, development, construction, management, and marketing capabilities required to reinvigorate distressed assets. Despite physical obsolescence, a lack of amenities, managerial miscues, or just missed opportunity, we are positioned to help assets realize their full potential. As handy as we are at working with concrete issues (in every sense), we also excel at creative problem solving. We identify and unlock hidden value in existing properties through creative brainstorming, physical renovation, professional management, and rebranding.
MANAGE
Our customer-focused service, operations, and involvement throughout the development process ensure a successful transition, long-term tenant satisfaction, and asset performance.
MANAGE
An exemplary lifestyle experience is built from more than just bricks and mortar. It’s made just as much from service and care as amenities and floorplans. Core Spaces consistently leads the industry in property operations, while staying customer-centric and service-oriented. By leveraging a decentralized leadership structure and local market knowledge, we remain deeply involved in the development process, ensuring a seamless transition throughout. We understand that development doesn’t end with the building, but with constructing a place to live that truly feels like home.
CORE VALUES
Push
INVENT BETTER PLACES TO LIVE
We look beyond the safe ideas to where the game-changers live. We rack up the possibilities by making innovation part of the job, no matter your role. And we zero in on the right things to build by knowing what our residents care about. That’s how we revolutionized student housing, and how we keep inventing better places to live.
Shine
BRING YOUR FULL SELF
We’re a unique cast of characters with backgrounds from all kinds of industries. To fit in you have to be your full, authentic self. That energy brings us together. Walls dissolve. Ideas flow. Titles and hierarchy mean less. We laugh more and win more. And more places where people can live their best get built.
Grow
ALWAYS GET BETTER
Mistakes are jet fuel for growth. We live that mindset by empowering people to act. We encourage experiments and discourage freak- outs when things go bad. When the dust settles, we cut out what didn’t work and double down on what did. It takes guts to work this way. But it keeps us at the top of our game and fuels us to grow beyond it.
Grind
ROLL OVER OBSTACLES
We charge straight toward our vision for the best resident experience. We get scrappy with our resources, figuring out new ways to use what we’ve got to get things done. And we train ourselves to work the problem in front of us until it’s beat. Then we get to work on the next one.
Lift
HELP EACH OTHER WIN
We constantly look for ways to make the people around us look good. What emerges from that behavior is our kind of teamwork. People rising up and doing good for each other. Building relationships deeper and stronger than mere colleagues—inside and outside of Core.
Uphold
NEVER BREAK TRUST
When we do a deal, we make sure it’s good for everyone—our residents, investors, and our-selves. We keep stakeholders informed with transparent communications. And we care for residents like they’re the most important people in the world. That integrity is why partners love working with us and residents love living with us.
OUR PROJECTS
Awards
Year after year, Core Spaces is continually honored with numerous awards for our projects and we will continue to redefine housing in every market.
2013
ENR Southwest Best Projects 2013 - Best Residential/Hospital Project
Hub Tempe
2015
SHB Innovator Award for Best New Development, Grater than 300 Beds
Hub Tucson
SHB Innovator Award for Best Package and Offering of Amenities
Hub Columbia
SHB Innovator Award for Best Renovation of an existing Project
Hub Columbia
Student Housing Platinum Award Winner by the National Association of Home Builders - Best Living in America
Hub Madison
Best In Region Winner - Midwest by the National Association of Home Builders - Best Living in America
Hub Madison
2016
SHB Innovator Award for Best Package and Offering of Amenities
Hub Madison
Best of Design - Silver Award from the Association of Licensed Architects
Hub Madison
2017
SHB Innovator Award for Best New Development, Fewer than 400 Beds
Hub Tucson II/Urbane
2018
SHB Innovator Award for Best New Development
Hub Seattle
SHB Innovator Award for Best Architecture/Design, Greater than 400 Beds
The James
Finance and Commerce Award for Top Projects of 2018
Hub Minneapolis
2019
SHB Innovator Award for Best Package and Offering of Amenities
Hub Tuscaloosa
SHB Innovator Award for Best Implementation of Mixed Use
Hub Minneapolis
SHB Innovator Award for Best New Development 400 Beds or Fewer
Hub Ann Arbor
SHB Innovator Award for Best New Development 400 Beds or More
Hub Minneapolis
Best of Design - Merit Award from the Association of Licensed Architects
Hub Ann Arbor
2020
SHB Innovator Award for Best Architecture and Design 400 Beds or Less
Hub Tucson Speedway
SHB Innovator Award for Best New Development 400 Beds or Less
Hub Tucson Speedway
SHB Innovator Award for Best Implementation of Mixed Use
Hub Lexington
SHB Innovator Award for Best Architecture and Design 400 Beds or More
Hub Lexington
2021
Best Implementation of Mixed-Use in New Development or Renovation (in partnership with Up Campus Properties)
ōLiv Tucson
Best Marketing & Lease program
ōLiv Tempe
Best Bandwidth/ Connectivity Solution
Lifestyle Mobile App
News
Aug 3, 2021
Core Spaces Closes Out Q2 with Groundbreakings, Acquisitions and Property Expansions Across 14 Markets in the U.S.
Jul 20, 2021
Core Spaces Wins Across Three Categories at the 11th Annual 2021 Innovator Awards
Jul 15, 2021
‘Power Panel’ at InterFace Event Provides Positive Outlook for Student Housing Sector Post-COVID-19
Apr 27, 2021
