Environmental Stewardship

Trademark works with industry-leading environmental consultancies to continuously monitor our portfolio’s sustainability KPIs, takes deliberate steps to reduce our impact on the environment, and participates in annual GRESB submissions to monitor progress. Trademark’s data-driven approach to portfolio benchmarking enables us to be better stewards for our stakeholders and take concrete steps to improve our portfolio’s longterm sustainability.

Social Equity

Socially diverse companies are proven to be more successful in decision making, capital stewardship and risk mitigation. Our corporate culture is one of caring about the communities in which we operate and serve.

We consider it our honor and obligation to enhance the customer experience and lifestyle by creating beautiful places for people to gather; curated to honor the way our customers live.

Trademark’s IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) committee is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity.

Corporate Governance

Trademark’s governance framework is designed to ensure that corporate initiatives are effectively managed, that legal obligations are met and that the culture of personal and corporate integrity is achieved.

Partner Organization

Trademark is proud to partner and participate with organizations that promote corporate sustainability and prudent ESG principles. To learn more about Trademark’s involvement, send us a note in the contact form below.

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Our People

• Continue to offer two paid days off for every Trademark employee to volunteer in their community each year.
• Increase employee volunteer hours each year with a goal of 10,000 hours per year by 2025.
• Continue to offer monthly engagement initiatives via our Trademark University and Lunch & Learn webinar series to introduce relevant sustainability and portfolio topics to our employees.
• Continue to offer an annual satisfaction survey to all employees with a goal of 100% participation by employees.
• We have developed an Employee Engagement Committee who will develop actionable goals to increase employee engagement and satisfaction. By 2021, we will expand this committee to include representatives from our field offices.

Our Portfolio

We strive to make the planet a better place for all our stakeholders by responding to climate change and managing our impact to the environment.  Specifically, we will:

• Improve GHG reduction by a minimum of 0.5% to 1.0% annually, for a total reduction of at least 5% by 2025.
  • Goal Progress: 3% reduction (2020)
• Improve portfolio-wide energy efficiency by a minimum of 0.5% to 1.0% annually, for a total reduction of at least 5% by 2025.
  • Goal Progress: 3% reduction (2020)
• Improve portfolio-wide water efficiency by a minimum of 0.5% to 1.0% annually, for a total reduction of at least 5% by 2025.
  • Goal Progress: 5% reduction (Goal Achieved 2020)
  • Revised 2021 Goal: Improve portfolio-wide water efficiency by a minimum of 3% annually, for a total reduction of at least 12% by 2025.
• Investigate additional opportunities for renewable energy at select properties by 2025.
• Investigate IREM certification at additional select properties by 2022.
• We will endeavor to place resilience at the forefront of our strategy by continuing to offer emergency preparedness programs and guides at 100% of our properties.
  For properties most directly affected by climate change risk, we will investigate and implement portfolio management metrics to reduce risk from a weather-related standpoint.

Our Stakeholders

• Increase Conscious Place elements at select properties, with robust offerings such as property Wi-Fi, custom music playlists, curated art offerings, creative seating and customer relaxation areas.
• Expand Trademark’s Elevate program, which takes traditional customer service to a new level with six-star service, unique amenities, and customized experiences throughout our properties. Elevate is a personal ambassador, ready to help customers with complimentary services such as hands-free shopping, curbside pick-up and much, much more.
• Add transparency to our sustainability efforts by delivering an annual sustainability report by 2023.

Our Community

• Increase employee, community and client engagement in the Trademark Make A Difference Foundation, which raised $80,000 in 2019 for non-profit organizations in our community.
• Continue to offer engaging, relevant community engagement activities at 100% of our properties.