Presentation Overview

APPEAL: BLUESQUARE Apartments (Blue Square Phase 1 LLC) Proposes The Following to the USU Athletic Department

•       Starting Spring Semester 2014 to offer housing for your incoming and currents student athletes with the opportunity to renew at the end of each leasing term.

 

•       To ensure that a clean, safe, and academically conducive environment is maintained for USU’s Athletes.

BENEFITS:

•       Conveniently located across from Romney Stadium as well as USU’s athletic complexes.

•       Aggie Shuttle and CVTD stop directly in front of our property.

•       BLUESQUARE offers multiple dinning options for tenants and visitors.

•       BLUESQUARE offers around the clock staffing to fulfill tenants needs.

•       We are required to ensure that our tenants live in a safe and healthy environment, this is accomplished with room checks and a skilled maintenance crew.

PROBLEM

•       Student housing is expensive with little to no return on investment.

•       What environment do students have to stay healthy and study hard?

•       Many college students are living on their own for the first time.

•       Because of this they can struggle to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

•       We have to meet strict requirements for occupancy for continued bank investments.

•       How do we get them to succeed off of the field?

SOLUTION

USU handles the sport, we handle the lifestyle!

At BLUESQUARE your rent is an investment, and investment that will pay off %110!

We work to ensure that you make the most out of your independence while at the same time providing support where needed.

We will ensure that our student athletes doing what they need to do to succeed!

We can meet our occupancy requirements!

Our Capabilities

•       Our ownership group are all USU graduates.

•       Want to enhance student life at Utah State.

•       There was no place that was anything like BLUESQUARE when the owners attended USU. We want to create an environment like none other for the students at Utah State.

•       Our Motto is “Built By Aggies For Aggies”

•       Combined with our perfect location in relation to the University, BLUE SQUARE fills the need for new student housing at USU offering amenities that do not exist at any other school in Utah.

•       Our development team has over 20 years of experience with building resorts and managing high end properties.

What You Get – What We Get

•       Currently we are offering to you a negotiable 15% discount on rent if USU Athletics houses their athletes at BLUESQUARE Apartments.

•       We will be offering this discount for our 4 bedroom and 2 bedroom apartments.

4 Bedroom

•       Normal Rent = $575/person/month

•       Discounted Rent = $488.75/person/month

2 Bedroom

•       Normal Rent = $625/person/month

•       Discounted Rent = $531.25/person/month

Rent includes all utilities (heat/water/ac) wireless internet, DIRECTV satellite TV, and full furnishings

•       We will ensure that your athletes are living a healthy and academically conducive environment and will focus on helping them excel at USU

•       We aspire to be an important part of the Utah State community and we believe that by housing the athletes who are very important students we can greatly enhance their college experience.

•       As property managers we understand how difficult it can be to fill every spot available. Since we are new our investors require us to meet certain occupancy rates to continue investments.

•       We also get the prestige of housing the student athletes at Utah State University.

 

 

The Future of Communication

I find it absolutely incredible how far we come with communications technology even within the last few years! I remember when I was a child, around four or five, when my dad bought his first cell phone. It was a simple little Nokia phone that had a tiny display and maybe five ringtones programmed into it. Compared to his pager that he had before, this was an incredible piece of technology! I remember when online video chatting became popular! I remember the when you could buy PDA’s like Palm Pilots that had all of your calendars and information in them. We had a few neighbors who had intercoms inside of their homes and you could talk to people in different rooms of the house! I thought that was pretty cool!

To think that my little iPhone 4 has more computing power than the first space crafts is absolutely astounding! Along with my iPhone I have an iPad and with which I manage much of my digital life! I feel pretty fancy with my current technology but I also wonder what comes next? With all of the competition in the technology world it is exciting and almost scary to see what comes next!

In today’s world, our communications technology is streamlined and widely accessible. I recall driving through the bush of South Africa far from civilization when we came across a herd of cattle crossing the road. Following them was the farmer who was talking on his cell phone! Right there in the middle of a Third World environment was a cattle farmer talking on some sort of smart phone!

The size of cellphones has dropped significantly over the years from the brick sized phones to watch sized phones. However we still have to carry some sort of device with us, we still have to carry some sort of device with us. But what that changed?

The Consumer Xperience Design (CED) team decided take a look into the technology that innovators are saying could be possible by 2033. Using holographic technology and gel interfaces that adhere and blend in with your skin, this future technology will make it so that you will never have to carry a phone or device in your pockets but rather you put these gel interfaces on in the morning like clothing and wear them all day. They can even come with designs if the user wishes to make a fashion statement.

In order to use this technology you simply use hand and arm gestures to make calls and access information. Through this technology, the process of communicating with a person via technology becomes fluid and natural, it becomes a part of the human body.

Furthermore, CED researchers from Japan have also suggested that it may be possible to even implant this technology into the human brain! By doing this, the user can communicate on a whole new level. They can choose to share moments and record events for later playback and even share emotions with the people they are communicating with.

If these technological dreams are realized then the entire way that we view communication will change! Interpersonal communication would change entirely! While yes we can share emotions during a conversation we cannot actually feel what the other persons is actually feeling and in order to really share these emotions conversations we have to speak face to face. With this new communication technology though we don’t have to be in the same room as the people that we are communicating with to share these emotions and moments! An interaction could take place on two opposite sides of the planet and it would feel as if you were in the same room!

By the year 2033

1. Communication will  be always ambient and always on.

2.These devices could be embedded in ordinary everyday objects.

3.Using software would vanish and only human interface and interaction would apply.

4.Device interaction will become fluid and natural!

5.Communications Technology could become molecular.

6. These technologies can access clouds at any time.

http://www.designworldonline.com/what-will-communication-devices-look-like-in-2033/#_