Mission
Cobalt is a real estate development company dedicated to delivering sustainable, timeless, technology-enabled, residential projects.
Values and Vision
Cobalt is built on core values of respect, originality, and longevity.
Respect: For each other, our partners, and our communities
Originality: In our vision, approach, and design
Longevity: Of perspective, purpose, and commitment
The Cobalt culture can be characterized as honoring context and celebrating vibrancy in all that we do. The team is diligent and resourceful, whether tackling a new project or addressing a design detail.
The firm builds ground-up multi-family assets that respect and enhance their surrounding communities to create mutually beneficial outcomes. Cobalt projects are marked by their holistic approach. Imbued with a focus on place-making and underscored by disciplined financial practices, the firm is committed to delivering high-quality, original buildings with integrity above all else. Cobalt projects feature lasting design, cutting-edge amenities, environmental sustainability, complementary artistic installations, thoughtful landscape architecture, and are supportive of a pedestrian experience.
Our Name
Seeks to bridge the gap between seemingly contradictory elements. It represents harmony between competing forces. As the left and right brains find a balance between analysis and creativity, so too do our projects find equilibrium between achieving superior financial returns and delivering exceptional design. Finding that balance is the most elusive, yet important, goal of real estate development and is the standard that we judge ourselves against.
Super Alloy
Cobalt is a metallic chemical element with remarkable qualities. It is a key ingredient in heat-resistant superalloys and can withstand immense pressure and tremendous temperatures, far beyond the point that most other metals would fail. It is also commonly known for its use in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles. In this way, it plays an important role in decarbonizing our economy.
The company aspires to embody the same qualities as the element it is named after - unwavering strength and resolve even under the most extreme conditions and a commitment to a more sustainable planet.
Color Pigment
Cobalt is also a particular shade of blue. Throughout art history, blue pigment was only used for the most important subjects due to its rarity and expense. In Renaissance painting, blue is often reserved for the principal figure; in the Middle Ages, only royalty could afford to wear blue garments; and in China, prized porcelain was dyed using cobalt pigment. While blue has obviously become commonplace, it was not always so.
Our goal is to make our buildings equivalent to the use of blue in art history. In a word, special. We aim to infuse the areas in which we build with vibrant projects that enliven their communities and create a harmonious composition with their surroundings.