“The president struck the right tone in his State of the Union on Tuesday night,” said Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) in an address to the NAIOP Board of Directors during their annual meeting on Capitol Hill. “He’s right that more things unite us than divide us, […]
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“The way you view the future shapes how you act, and how you act shapes the future,” opened technology and innovation futurist Daniel Burrus in his keynote presentation to CRE.Converge 2018 attendees. Sure, there are cycles in every industry, including commercial real estate, but there are […]
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Remember the story of the Harvard students who created that online social network? No, not that one. The original one. Few people know that a half decade before Mark Zuckerberg formed Facebook, another group of freshmen entered the university looking for a way to meet new […]
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A tidal wave of tech startups, optimizing every square inch of real estate, data from smart buildings and how to best use artificial intelligence (AI) are all influencing commercial real estate from every angle. Some say the that CRE is no longer a fixed asset, it’s […]
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When the first Google data center was built in Oregon a dozen years ago, it’s fair to say that the future demand for and impact of these behemoth facilities was understood by few. Now, ballooning data storage needs and the expectation for instant access to everything […]
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Every session at NAIOP’s I.CON: The Industrial Conference has mentioned e-commerce, and the conference’s closing panel was no exception. U.S. e-commerce sales increased 16 percent in 2017 and, according to research and advisory firm Forrester, U.S. e-commerce sales will rise by 9.3 percent annually over the […]
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Four retail and industrial experts took to the stage at I.CON: The Industrial Conference to discuss the intersection of retail and industrial. Here are the top 10 soundbites from this jam-packed session that tried to answer the ultimate question: Is retail dead? There has never been […]
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A packed panel of last-mile logistics experts came together at NAIOP’s I.CON: The Industrial Conference to tackle the crucial last mile and share strategies on how to overcome logistics challenges in New York City. JLL Vice Chairman, Northeast Industrial Region, Rob Kossar led the panel and […]
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How are different funding sources looking at the industrial market? This was the question of the day in a session on capital flows at NAIOP’s sold-out I.CON: The Industrial Conference this week in New Jersey. Five investment experts, led by moderator Erik Foster, Avison Young principal […]
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Generation X, our day has finally come. Sandwiched in between the conventional boomers and the trend-bucking millennials, my generation (those born between 1965 and 1981) is emerging as an important connection between our noisy bookends. Gen X now accounts for 51 percent of leadership roles globally, […]
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