Services

Corona Partners served as project manager for the build-out of regional office space for the Elwyn Early Learning Services program in the historic Philadelphia property at Huntingdon Mills. The site was designed to meet operational goals and balance the needs of children, families, staff, and funding agencies. Corona worked closely with Elwyn to create a template for future programming and interior design work at other Philadelphia sites to ensure that Elwyn’s investment in real estate directly serves its operational needs.

Corona Partners is the owner’s representative for the renovation and fit-out of 350,000 sf of this historic former Provident Mutual Life building in west Philadelphia. Corona Partners is managing multiple contractors working simultaneously on the base building and the fit-out of four separate tenant spaces. Corona Partners is also supporting the documentation required for a complex funding that includes New Market Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits, and a Pennsylvania RACP Grant.

Corona Partners is the Project Manager for Elwyn at 8 N. Preston St in West Philadelphia. One of the largest human services providers in the region, Elwyn is shifting the emphasis of its business to community-based services. And 8 North Preston represents a smaller footprint for  three programs with medical office spaces and co-working space for a mobile service staff. This is a high performance building energy retrofit project designed for long-term use, occupant comfort and productivity, and operational energy efficiency.

Corona Partners updated the $500 million capital plan for Rebuild Philadelphia. Working with the Rebuild team we identified a significant funding shortfall and developed a tool to facilitate difficult conversations among elected officials and community leaders about how to prioritize investment in underinvested communities. We developed an executable fundraising plan and built a database of new potential funding sources.

Corona Partners, working with Facilities Strategies, LLC is managing the relocation of 800 people into Jefferson University’s new administrative headquarters at 1101 Market. The complex relocation is enabling a consolidation of administrative functions from more than two-dozen sites in dozens of moves as each of the 13 floors are completed. The team is managing the move planning and logistics for Jefferson staff and Jefferson executive leadership.

The team planned, designed and produced a comprehensive communication strategy. Each person moving receives a personalized information packet about the relocation process, during the packing and move process a by name list is maintained to coordinate telephone service and information technology installation and set-up, and upon arrival each employee receives a welcome packet with information about their new offices, including local resources and guidelines for working in an open office. Post move we host a resolution desk to allow people to report any problems or questions that are then passed to the relevant party for resolution.

Corona Partners developed a people-centered energy efficiency program designed to capture easy savings and prepare Northern Children’s Services for long-term financial benefit. Corona Partners conducted an energy audit of Northern Children Services’ seven-acre campus and identified opportunities for efficiency that require minor investment yet provide exceptional payback. We developed a full lighting audit, implemented a heating system repair program, and developed a roadmap for future improvement.

The heart of the program was a facilitated working session for staff designed to identify major areas of staff discomfort and develop an action plan for correcting those efficiencies. That session also served to ensure that building system improvements are paired with staff awareness and behavior.

Corona Partners developed a strategic facility plan for the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Homeless Services (OHS). OHS manages a network of more than sixty providers who together serve 12,000 people a year experiencing homelessness.

The OHS portfolio has been assembled over several decades and is a mix of City- owned, city- leased, and provider-leased assets. Corona Partners developed a program to standardize leasing, budgeting, and property management across the Emergency Shelter portfolio. Tools include standard budgeting worksheets for providers, summary of key lease clauses required for OHS properties, and recommendations for changing internal OHS staffing to support more efficient facility management operations.

In addition to helping implement Real Estate best practices, Corona Partners worked with OHS to identify a path forward for modernizing the leases for assets in its portfolio.

Corona Partners is the Resident Coordinator for a once-in-a-generation HVAC system replacement that touches all units in this iconic condominium building in Center City, Philadelphia. In this role, we are acting as first,  the primary liaison between the HHOA, the other members of the Project Team and the residents of Hopkinson House, and second, the primary liaison between the Construction Team and the residents of Hopkinson House. We have a full-time operation on site.