Every click of an e-commerce order kicks off a series of actions that lead to the delivery of your package from a warehouse to your house – and the final stretch of that process is the most expensive part. “People expect to order anything, anytime, and […]
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“Customers don’t want to shop; they want things that help them live a better life to magically appear,” said Ben Conwell, senior managing director and eCommerce Advisory Group Lead with Cushman & Wakefield, quoting Dan Makowski, Walmart’s vice president of design. Conwell spoke about new approaches […]
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As long as you don’t mind cloudy or rainy days – Seattle has more than 200 days on average each year – the seaport city has attractive features to offer many e-commerce businesses, with a strong economy, growing population, low unemployment and quick access to transportation […]
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At the end of 2017, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed a sweeping tax reform bill. For the most part, commercial real estate professionals fared well in the reform process. Many of the provisions they rely on were preserved, while tax rates were reduced and […]
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Skyscrapers are not ordinary buildings but rather “pyramids of our civilization, permanent monuments of our existence,” writes The New York Times. Their construction can reshape the skylines of major cities across the globe in dramatic ways. Take a mini-tour through time of the rise of one […]
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In 2015, millennials eclipsed boomers as the largest adult population in the U.S. According to Richard Fry, Ph.D., a senior researcher with the Pew Research Center, this group will continue to grow with the help of increased immigration and peak in size at 81 million in […]
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Politicians in Washington are struggling to build bridges across the political aisle. But they could improve the political climate if they’d focus on the actual building (and repairing) of bridges. According to a report from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, there are more than […]
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Open ceilings, with their exposed ductwork and industrial vibe have become popular – but trendy rarely equals inexpensive. For many years, omitting the traditional drop ceiling was assumed to be not just cooler but also to cost less. Common sense seemed to be that by choosing […]
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In a recent NAIOP Advantage Series webinar, “The Forces Shaping Office Space Demand,” Dr. Josh Harris of the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate and well-known industry economist Dr. Mark Dotzour provided insights and data from the new NAIOP Office Space Demand Forecast and identified linkages between overall economic […]
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Companies are trying to reduce the stress of long employee commutes, which have become worse as the economy has improved from the dark days of the Great Recession. Indeed, a traffic congestion study, which was produced by INRIX, a big data tech firm, and the Texas […]
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