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Moving on up: 2022 VMWP promotions

Please join us in congratulating our promoted colleagues at Van Meter Williams Pollack. Due to their leadership and dedication to VMWP’s mission, we have steadily grown during this challenging year. We are grateful for each of these accomplished co-workers for their resiliency, passion, and expertise. […]

Celebrating Tim Van Meter’s retirement

What a night! We had a wonderful evening celebrating Tim Van Meter's career with friends, family, and colleagues in Downtown Denver. Stories, memories, and laughs were shared among the crowd, recollecting the depth of Tim's work and the resounding impact it has had on our […]

Project Feature: New APA case study – Luna Vista at 950 El Camino Real

Source: APA Engineering Solutions for a More Inclusive Community A California nonprofit creatively incorporates engineered wood into a new, affordable housing complex to keep costs low, tackle a public predicament and give rise to a stronger, more inclusive community. A housing crunch was mounting in the City of […]

Big news: Tim Van Meter is retiring

We have big news. Tim Van Meter, a founder of Van Meter Williams Pollack, is beginning a new adventure which some might call retirement but Tim calls an "Activation". Tim will begin his “Activation” with several passion projects that will become his primary focus in […]

VMWP Denver’s current affordable housing work

VMWP plans, designs and builds a wide variety of affordable housing from high-density urban communities to small-lot single-family housing. Our work has received numerous design awards in national and local design competitions. As cost and quality of life are primary concerns in our housing, we […]

Staff Feature: Elitsa Shepherd and Elaine Uang present “Residential Units Trilogy”

At its core VMWP believes in the “learn one, learn all” philosophy. Our very own Elitsa Shepherd and Elaine Uang led a three-part lunch and learn called the “Residential Units Trilogy” that covered just about everything we needed to know about designing residential units. The […]

Project Homekey converts underutilized office space into housing for people experiencing homelessness

Source: Marin Independent Journal In July 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was making available $600 million to fund to purchase and conversion of hotels, apartment buildings and other structures for use as permanent housing for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The initiative was a […]

VMWP is proud be a sponsor of Housing Colorado 2021

VMWP is proud to a sponsor of Housing Colorado this year. Please come visit the VMWP table, join the workshop presented by Michael Kloefkorn, Brett Jacques, Chris Jedd from Denver Housing Authority, and Michael Levinson from Group 14, on "Four Projects, Four Paths to Tax-Credit […]

Balboa Reservoir has won a California Chapter APA California State Merit Award

Balboa Reservoir Design Standards and Guidelines has been selected for an Award of Merit for the 2021 Urban Design Award. The Virtual Awards Ceremony is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, September 15, 2021 as part of the 2021 APA California Virtual Conference: Changing Plans; Changing Planning. Actual […]

SAP Feature: VMWP’s Jeremy Stock has earned Living Future Accreditation

Congratulations to Jeremy Stock on becoming the first member of the VMWP team to earn Living Future Accreditation. LFA is the professional credential that recognizes proficiency in the world’s most ambitious, advanced, and holistic sustainable design standards, and supports VMWP's commitment to Architecture 2030 in pursuit […]

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