Apartments with family values: forget about swingles, designer adds linoleum with kids in mind. (Inside Report: Construction, Architecture & Engineering)

Attention, apartment builders: not all families want two-bedroom townhomes.

There are too many such apartments in the Columbus market and they're built too much alike, said contractor Daniel Terlecki of Commonwealth Capital Corp. The elderly and families with children are being left out, he said.

"Families have been kind of a forgotten market," said architect Joe Sullivan of Sullivan Gray Bruck.

That's why Sullivan and Terlecki are concentrating their efforts to fill these market needs. Their newest project, Cooper Colonies in Westerville, not only was designed for families, it also was constructed under the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program for low and …