NAIOP Corporate hosted two meetings in Las Vegas last month designed to bring chapters together to highlight common legislative and policy challenges, and to share successful advocacy strategies and approaches. The first meeting was a policy summit for NAIOP chapters located in the western United States, with chapters from New Mexico to Washington state invited […]
By working together, Prologis and ML Realty Partners, along with brokerage firm Cawley Chicago, were able to complete a particularly challenging site acquisition of a neighborhood of 108 homes and move forward with industrial development on the site. Attendees at NAIOP’s CRE.Converge 2022 in Chicago had the opportunity to visit the newly constructed warehouse projects […]
How does the labor supply impact investment, site selection and development at a time when workers have become more of a scarce resource than at any time in recent memory? Panelists grappled with that question in a CRE.Converge 2022 session moderated by Bret Swango, CFA, senior vice president at Colliers. Swango set the stage by […]
Midway into a panel discussion at CRE.Converge, a quip about the Federal Reserve behaving like a novice teenaged driver – “way too much gas, way too much brake, way too much gas” – drew laughter from many attending the jampacked session. But palpable nervousness tinged those chuckles at the metaphor by moderator Bart Johnson, president […]
Pressure to satisfy environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals among companies in the commercial real estate sector has intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to panelists at CRE.Converge. External pressure is building as local governments establish environmental benchmarking ordinances. But even where regulatory demands and tenant awareness are lacking, boards and investors are asking their […]
“We are now at a point in history where there is more invention and innovation happening worldwide than there has ever been before in the last thousand years of human history,” said Mike Steep, the executive director of the Stanford Engineering Center for Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities, during his keynote remarks at CRE.Converge 2022. […]