This sketch is based on the continuing trend and recent news about major retailers continuing to shutter stores. It will be interesting to see how our CRE industry addresses this shift to online retail and how relevant some of the former retail giants will be to […]
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Last month, the contentious battle over Judge Neil Gorsuch’s appointment to the Supreme Court was finally put to rest, fulfilling a key campaign promise made by President Donald Trump. Ironically though, in confirming Judge Gorsuch, the GOP may have fast-tracked the implementation of former President Barack […]
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Consumers have fully embraced the reality that just about everything their hearts desire is only a click away, so it’s no surprise that real estate deals for e-commerce fulfillment centers are surging. And so is demand for labor to keep them running. Over the last two […]
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” was always an easy question to answer for Sarah Covington, leasing and project management coordinator with DCT Industrial Trust, Inc., and a recipient of NAIOP’s 2016 Developing Leaders Award. Thanks to her parents’ involvement in the […]
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If you’re not planning for how autonomous vehicles are going to impact your business, now’s the time. Disruption and transformation of cities will be enormous. It’s not going to happen immediately – the disruption comes as driverless cars are on the road at the same time […]
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Overall U.S. employment continued its five-year run of momentum into 2017, yet a reduction in commercial real estate jobs hints at uncertainty and a looming potential pullback in hiring. Commercial real estate hiring tends to be a leading indicator of the larger employment market, and just […]
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Comic courtesy of REsimplifi, Inc.
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Congress is in the middle of a two-week spring recess, after having spent the first three and a half months discussing different tax reform ideas and speculating about how the Trump White House and Senate Republicans will approach several controversial proposals contained in the House GOP’s […]
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Seventy percent of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. This is a dramatic change over one and a half generations, and it will require us to rethink how we build our cities. At the same time, many tech companies — Amazon, Tencent, Google, […]
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NAIOP’s second Advantage Series webinar took place this week, providing a legislative update to members on key priorities for the association and the industry in 2017: tax reform, infrastructure, and the availability of capital and credit. Aquiles Suarez, NAIOP’s vice president for government affairs, who led […]
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