Live and Work Anywhere with Colin O'Donnell of Kibbo

00:01:12 Getaway Origins & Ethos00:02:54 Growth in the Pandemic00:06:47 The Intersection of Mindfulness and Technology00:08:52 Incorporating Wellness Into the Hospitality Industry00:20:04 Startup Culture as Inspiration00:22:41 The Future of Work: Remote vs. Hybrid vs. In Office 00:32:09 Designing to Disconnect 

00:03:12      The Modern House origins and success 00:08:27      The Modern House buyers and sellers00:10:36      The value of good design00:16:02      Building a different kind of real estate agency 00:23:45      Storytelling & curation00:28:52      Post 2020: The retreat to the rural space and nature00:31:05      Post 2020: Distributed Offices & Remote Work00:39:32      A return to the traditional with Inigo 00:44:49      The future of The Modern House00:49:11      Lessons from 15 years of The Modern House

00:01:34 Vipp Origins & Success00:05:23 Design Ethos & Guiding Principles00:12:08 Post Pandemic Shifts & Changes00:14:30 From Products to Physical Experiences00:20:23 Communication Consistency and Branding00:22:42 Vipp & the US Market00:39:09 Whats Next?https://vipp.com/en/story/marie-moma-enhttps://vipp.com/en/hotelhttps://vipp.com/en/story/vipp-pencil-factoryhttps://vipp.com/en/story/vipp-studio-nychttps://issuu.com/vippcph/docs/kitchen-book-e-pages-low?e=13565147/63938196

00:02:00 Tacombi origins and launch 00:05:30 Visual branding & restaurant design 00:07:50 Scaling place-specific authenticity00:12:00 Building for a sense of place & community outreach00:14:37 COVID-19’s impact on Tacombi00:19:08 Productive adaptations post-pandemic  00:23:24 The ‘ghost kitchen’ model & customer experience00:28:08 Experimentation in hospitality   00:31:30 In five years, what does success look like for Tacombi?00:36:15 Plans for Tacombi expansion, new markets & places Tacombi.com

00:02:20 Future Cities Collective Origins 00:06:24 Regenerative Cities 00:10:55 The Value of Rewildling00:12:10 Examples & Frameworks00:17:50 Regenerative Development Process00:25:37 Development & Community Building00:26:53 Coronavirus & Post-Pandemic Cities00:30:47 Cities & public/private partnership   00:33:48 Trends & Advancements00:39:06 How to get involved with Future Of Cities Organization focities.commetro1.comchozenretreat.com

0:01:39 Kibbo’s origins and the “Responsive City” concept 00:09:19 Branding Kibbo, and building a #vanlife brand.00:10:15 The difference between a smart and a responsive city00:12:40 Making cities anywhere: new and old models00:16:04 Marian Goodell’s lessons for Kibbo: pop-up cities00:19:08 How kids and families fit into the Kibbo model 00:23:23 COVID-19’s impact on Kibbo 00:25:58 Real estate functionality of Kibbo membership platforms 00:29:14 O’Donnell’s tech background as an influence on Kibbo00:34:13  Kibbo in 5 yearsKibbo.comInvest in Kibbo Colin O’Donnell: Freedom + Community

01:06 Defining “new luxury” 03:15 Coldwell Banker’s report on the “New Affluent Trailblazers”04:26 The Wellness trend and real estate08:20 Rethinking luxury for the other 99%09:35 New luxury innovations in low- and middle-income housing12:04 What new luxury means for the broader real estate industryColdwell Banker Luxury ReportWELL Building StandardKnight Frank 2020 Wealth Report Factory_OSCommon Co-Living

[9:20] On vernacular design: “… For us, the clear place to go was the local vernacular, the farm buildings, the barns, the sheds. … It was a matter of taking that and detailing around it, inserting all that glass to create a sense of modernity and openness to nature and differentiation from the historic buildings.”[23:18] On branding: “When marketing takes on storytelling, in a genuine sense, when the people telling the stories are involved in and genuinely interested in the story that they’re a part of, and they’re inviting other people to come on the journey with them, that’s when it can work really well. ” [26:10] On Lang’s nontraditional development model:“I think when some profit is given up, that’s when the anti-development comes in. It’s maybe in a sense sacrilege to give up profit if you’re a real estate developer, except is it? We don’t think it is. We think that over time,  it’s something that’s going to pay a lot of dividends, including financial dividends. There are of course environmental considerations, social considerations, considerations of aesthetics that affect one’s well being, one’s everyday experience. These are the things that we value in addition to valuing profit.”[29:00] On COVID and urban living: “ … I think cities are here to stay. I just think there’s going to be more of a place for rural living and connectivity with nature, and I think it’s really exciting because it means that people are going to be living a lot better, and they’re also going to be experiencing it with some interesting architecture, and it’s going to translate into lots of interesting opportunities for people in the profession coming together with the demand that’s out there in the marketplace.”[38:50] On advice for other nontraditional developers: “All you really have to have is the will. The desire and the will, and a lot of that is a willingness to stumble and to fail and to face rejection. There’s a lot of rejection that I had to face before reaching this success. Even when I was well into the process I was still stumbling and running into walls: there’s no way around it. I think it’s really exciting that there are non-developers taking on real estate development work, I think that the built environment and the consumer public is going to be very well served as a result.” Learn more about Lang Architecture, Hudson Woods and Brick & Wonder.

Redfin Data: https://www.redfin.com/blog/pandemic-causes-rural-suburbs-home-price-increase/NY Post: https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/new-yorkers-flee-nyc-in-droves/NPR, 'Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas':https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americasHBR, 'Do we really need an office': https://hbr.org/cover-story/2020/07/do-we-really-need-the-office Morgan Stanley, 'How Work From Home May work for Investors':https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/coronavirus-work-from-home-trendNational Park Visitation records: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/2019-visitation-numbers.htmLuxry Portfolio,The Great wellness surge: https://issuu.com/turpinrealtors/docs/lpi_thegreatwellnesssurge_lrAirbnb, August Company message: https://news.airbnb.com/work-from-anywhere-how-airbnb-guests-are-approaching-remote-working/Real Dea, 'Only 8% of NYC back': https://therealdeal.com/2020/08/14/whos-returning-to-the-office-almost-no-one/We Work On Demand: https://www.wework.com/workspace/on-demandBreather: https://breather.com/Kibbo: https://www.kibbo.com/WSJ, 'Putting Urban commuters on Bicycles':https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-accelerates-plans-to-put-urban-commuters-on-bicycles-11596208490Serenbe: https://serenbe.com/Agritopia: http://agritopia.com/Hudson Woods: https://hudsonwoods.com/Splinter Creek: https://splintercreekms.com/NYT, 'Something Special is Happening in Rural America':https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/opinion/rural-america.htmlNYT, 'A New Style of Country House takes root':https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/realestate/sustainable-design-hudson-valley-connecticut.html