Ted Smith in downtown San Diego operates The RED Office from West Beech Street, an architecture-development practice founded in 1973 as Smith & Others Architects. Each multifamily infill project bundles financing, permitting, construction, and long-term asset management under one entity, with site grading and planting coordinated through landscape consultants such as KDA Landscape Architects on the firm's tight urban parcels. The 1989 Richman-Poorman Building on Cortez Hill combined subsidized micro-suites with luxury townhouses in a single structure, and the Essex Lofts on Kettner Boulevard eliminated underground garages entirely by relocating parking to the roof deck. That same density-on-leftover-lots strategy drives the GoHome concept, which packs six compact suites per building at rents comparable to the mid-rise wood-frame projects that Creative Builds Construction frames in the same corridor. Work from Smith & Others was selected for the 2008 Venice Biennale as part of the US Pavilion. Current development includes a micro-unit tower modeled on an alternative housing prototype the firm exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York's "Making Room" show.