In a recent episode of NAIOP’s Inside CRE podcast, NAIOP President and CEO Marc Selvitelli, CAE, spoke with Leo Addimando, managing partner and cofounder of Alterra Property Group, about the evolution of Industrial Outdoor Storage from an under-the-radar property type into one of commercial real estate’s fastest-growing sectors.
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.
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.
Noticing the growing popularity of live-work-play (LWP) developments, buildings that combine residential with office, retail and occasionally even industrial areas, CoworkingCafe’s latest report focuses on identifying the top U.S. cities with the most LWP developments completed over the past 10 years and tracking their evolution during that time.
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.
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.
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.
A RentCafe analysis of 97 U.S. metropolitan areas – each with at least 15,000 Gen Z households – reveals where the youngest generation of renters and buyers is choosing to live and which markets are recording the sharpest gains.
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.
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.