NELSON Worldwide Integrates Swivel’s 3D Visualization Technology to Enhance the Office Leasing Experience
Global architecture, design, and strategy firm NELSON Worldwide have announced its partnership with Swivel, an Austin-based digital leasing platform for office space. The partnership enables NELSON to supply Swivel’s enhanced 3-D visualization technology to assist prospective clients to explore and interact with commercial land virtually. The platform offers best-in-class features like design option toggles to showcase different build-out options and style schemes, which vary in price and aesthetic. Landlords and leasing managers can effectively showcase their spaces to a broad audience and simply collaborate online with customers to see what an area will appear as if after a build-out.
“We are excited to figure alongside NELSON Worldwide to assist landlords and property owners showcase the complete value of their commercial spaces,” said Scott Harmon, CEO, Swivel. “We are confident that NELSON’s world-class client base will enjoy the moment value that such a visible and dynamic tenant interaction platform brings to the leasing process.”
With the onset of COVID-19, lockdowns and social distancing compelled many companies to embrace a work-from-home strategy and rethink their office utilization. Now, given an increasingly competitive leasing environment and rising vacancy rates, companies are trying to find ways to draw in employees through a more appealing use of space. Reaching beyond the established order of traditional digital tours, Swivel shows users what an area will appear as if upon completion with several layout options to settle on from, also as fully-built-out suites during a virtual experience. the convenience of the operation of Swivel’s innovative digital technologies will reduce vacancy times by improving tenant confidence that an area will meet their needs.
Accesso, an integrated investment manager and operator of multi-tenant office buildings and a customer of both companies, understands the depth of advantages this partnership provides for its customers. “I expect that leasing managers and landlords will love how convenient it's to make and showcase excellent commercial spaces through this integrated service offering,” said Paul Gaines, director, Asset Management, Accesso. “In this new, digital-first leasing environment, the mixture of NELSON’s design expertise and Swivel’s best-in-class space visualization helps us accelerate leasing timelines and improve long-term tenant satisfaction and retention.”
“There has never been a far better time to collaborate with Swivel,” said John “Ozzie” Nelson Jr., Chairman and Chief military officer, NELSON Worldwide. “We are hooked into what's yet to return for the longer term of the workplace,” “Living during a digitally-forward environment, Swivel is paving the way alongside our diverse market sectors to see what's possible in spaces of various sizes and locations.”
At NELSON, using state-of-the-art technology has always been a staple—breathing life into realistic models of architectural design concepts during a big selection of digital mediums. Today, the firm’s design visualization services include pre-viz to photorealistic, interior, and exterior renderings, stylized imagery, video and animation, and virtual and augmented reality.
About NELSON Worldwide
NELSON Worldwide is an award-winning firm, transforming all dimensions of the human experience through architecture, interior design, graphic design, and brand strategy services. With quite 800 teammates spread across 20 offices, the firm’s collective network provides strategic and artistic solutions that positively impact where people work, serve, play, and thrive. The team combines industry knowledge, service expertise, and geographic reach to deliver projects across the country and around the world. Client partnerships across the NELSON network include Hilton, Macy’s, Comcast, Simon Property Group, Prologis, Yum! Brands, Boston Consulting Group, T-Mobile, Emory Healthcare, SAP Fieldglass, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Kroger, Hyatt, Bayer, Target, and lots of more.
About Swivel
Founded in 2019 and backed by Breyer Capital, JLL Spark, and Floodgate, Swivel may be a digital leasing platform for office space that empowers property owners and their teams to flexibly market, design, and lease tailored workspaces to deliver a superior office experience. Swivel provides property owners with sophisticated applications that employ together to urge leases signed faster at less cost. Swivel may be a trusted digital leasing platform for quite 70 properties and portfolios operating across major markets nationwide including Brandywine, Cousins, and JLL.