Bloc House Featured in the Wall Street Journal
Developers Alex Lowe and Jon Hetzel’s upcoming Dallas development Bloc House features studios of roughly 350 square feet. They are supplementing traditional amenities such as fitness centers with co-working spaces and large tables for group dinners in the hope of helping tenants meet each other.
Shared amenities and smaller apartments help drive costs down near Dallas, where housing is expensive but there are relatively few high-rise buildings, Lowe and Hetzel said.
IKEA isn’t the only furniture company creating smaller, modular products for tinier apartments.
Lowe and Hetzel’s development, for example, will be furnished by expandable-furniture company Ori, which builds futuristic home products, including a robotic bed launched in 2020 that rises to the ceiling when not in use. The firm also builds out expandable apartments with moving walls that can create rooms on demand.
