A Message from the Chief Executive Officer Over the course of my career, I have found myself frustrated by the endless changes that occurred within the organizations in which I was working. Whether it was within my role as a Legislative Assistant for a U.S. Congressman, or as an underwriter at the National Equity…
Robinson Lapp: A Celebration of Life Friends: As you may know, Robb Lapp, our beloved Board Chair and Co-founder of Archway, passed away last Friday. Robb had surgery on Tuesday (May 3rd) to repair his shoulder which he had badly injured in a fall a few months ago. While the shoulder repair went well, he experienced…
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer – May 2022 Like so many things in life, organizational development is not linear. Some days there are breakthroughs and progress we can all see. Other days, there is progress that is less visible. And still other days, there are setbacks, some highly visible and others less so. This is certainly…
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer Just as it’s unusual for a baby to be brought home from the hospital without a name, it’s equally uncommon for a real estate project to close financing and begin construction while remaining nameless. And yet, that is where we found ourselves until recently with our newest…
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer Friends: “If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.” So says retired Retired Navy Admiral William McRaven, whose accomplishments are too many to fit in this newsletter. He even wrote a book called “Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life… And Maybe the World.” In…
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer Friends, I have always resisted New Year’s resolutions (and diets for that matter) because I have found them to be unsustainable. Or perhaps because, as Oscar Wilde famously put it, “I can resist everything except temptation.” The bottom line is that resolutions have not worked too well…
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer Friends, Welcome to our final newsletter of what has been a most interesting year! Notwithstanding the challenges we have faced over the past months, at Archway we have worked to keep ourselves looking ahead to imagine/reimagine a new Archway and think about how we can be better. How can we…
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer Last month I wrote about the affordable housing crisis in Colorado where we face a growing deficit of housing units of all types, the impact of which falls most heavily on lower income families. Like so many of the challenges we face as a society, the…
Message from the Chief Executive Officer – October 2021 Colorado is in an affordable housing crisis. A recent study concluded that we have a statewide housing deficit of approximately 175,000 units. Over the next 5 years, we will need over 54,000 units of new housing per year to keep up with population growth, while the current…
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer – September 2021 As youngsters, most of us view the built environment almost as the natural world. The places we spend our time – home, school, parks, roads, shops – are just sort of “there”. Generally, we don’t think much about how they got there, if we ever do,…