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Author: Marie Ruff

Gateway District Tour

Inside Salt Lake City’s Gateway District

At NAIOP’s recent National Forums Symposium, held in Salt Lake City, participants stepped out of the meeting rooms and into the streets for a firsthand look at one of the city’s most significant redevelopment stories. A walking tour of the Gateway District offered commercial real estate professionals a closer view of how a legacy retail center has been repositioned into a vibrant, experience-driven mixed-use destination.

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Will McIntosh, Ph.D.

Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets Enter a Transitional Phase

Commercial real estate professionals gathered for a capital markets briefing hosted by NAIOP Utah during NAIOP’s National Forums Symposium in Salt Lake City last week. Will McIntosh, Ph.D., senior visiting Fellow of the NAIOP Research Foundation and CEO of ArcBridge Research Group, LLC, shared his assessment of where the market stands and what risks remain.

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Construction crew

Developing Leader Spotlight: Blueprint for Success

Many children are drawn to busy construction sites with lumbering excavators digging deep piles of dirt – but not everyone gets to see a construction site up close. Growing up, MaryVictoria Montanari, a recipient of the 2025 Developing Leaders Award, spent her childhood exploring construction sites wearing a hard hat and tool belt.

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Adaptive reuse

Office-to-Apartment Conversions Accelerate as Adaptive Reuse Reshapes the Rental Pipeline

A record 90,000 apartments are now in the U.S. pipeline of office-to-apartment conversions, according to RentCafe’s latest analysis of Yardi data – a sign that each year shifts adaptive reuse even more from niche strategy to mainstream development tool. The surge comes as office vacancy persists under hybrid work and housing demand remains strong in supply-constrained cities.

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Perspective

From Strategy to Practice

Translating the real-world complexity of buildings, their materials, sourcing, manufacturing, transportation, installation, use and eventual replacement into a model we can measure and analyze is one of the most complex challenges we face today. We rely on layers of abstraction: mathematics, coding, algorithms and databases to simulate multiple iterations and scenarios. And this modeling process is still evolving.

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Unified advocacy

Building Influence: Winning Policy Fights Through Unified Advocacy

If you work in commercial real estate in California, you know that successful advocacy in this environment takes more than tracking legislation. It takes organized chapters and steady relationships that open doors when it matters. That was the clear throughline of a recent advocacy session at NAIOP’s I.CON West in Los Angeles.

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Mass timber project

Finding Success with Mass Timber for Net-zero Construction

Graycor’s two-decade relationship with Amazon led to our construction firm taking on an unconventional and pioneering project — the company’s first net-zero-carbon delivery station, DII5 in Elkhart, Indiana. To achieve net-zero certification, the 39-acre site features mass timber construction as opposed to the traditional precast or tilt-up concrete and structural steel.

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Women in CRE

The State of Women in Commercial Real Estate: Key Takeaways from the 2025 CREW Network Study

The commercial real estate industry continues to evolve in response to economic cycles, shifting workplace expectations, and the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding how these changes are shaping talent, leadership and compensation is essential for firms competing in today’s market. The 2025 CREW Network benchmark study offers valuable insight into these dynamics, with a particular focus on women in the industry.

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