Swift was born with a culture of creativity and community. Today, Swift has grown to over 70 employees and while strong within our growth, we also recognize the importance of maintaining our entrepreneurial roots and creative culture. It is this very culture that encourages our employees to give back as we strive to serve our community. Our employment practices, which celebrate diversity, are reflected in the ways in which we recruit, promote and train employees.
Additionally, Swift believes that our assets should tread lightly on the environment. Our sustainability program includes innovative ways of purchasing renewable electricity to methods of promoting honeybee populations. We are proud of our ESG program but also recognize that our program must continue to adapt to the world’s evolving needs. Here at Swift, we take our roles as fiduciaries seriously and believe our responsibilities extend to stewardship for the environment and our communities as well. Please visit our ESG program for additional information.
The Swift Honey Project was conceived during a landscape project meeting in 2015. Several of our landscaped environments in the Bay Area were far from thriving. Our landscape architect attributed the sub-optimal growth to a lack of honeybees. Honeybees are a necessary part of our ecosystem and are dying at an alarming rate. Swift decided to start a sustainable and environmentally conscious effort that would be an example for our tenants and the larger real estate community. Swift now partners with local groups to install hives at office projects in the Bay Area, Southern California, and the Pacific Northwest. These hives are producing an amazing amount of honey and our landscaping has never looked better. Happy bees, happy tenants! We like to say, “the proof is in the honey”!
