Middle- and last-mile solutions are key for meeting the increasing needs and expectations of customers in urban areas expecting quick turnaround from the click of ordering products online to the knock on their door of final delivery. During a session at I.CON East, Rob Kossar, vice chairman and head of northeast industrial region at JLL; […]
Four industrial real estate experts took the stage in the opening keynote session of I.CON East, held this week in Jersey City, New Jersey. “If there was ever a group of leaders who are doing the deals, deploying the capital, and developing in billions of square feet and dollars, this is the group,” began session […]
Workplace changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are sweeping us forward into an era of hybrid work, giving businesses a historic opportunity to rewrite the workplace rulebook. Given predictions most employees will return to their offices by first quarter 2022, many leaders are considering not just when to invite people back to the office, but […]
The Delta variant of COVID-19 has continued to delay the return-to-work plans of many companies. Still, rising vaccination rates and declining case numbers have provided hope for many companies. Anyone worried about the future of office work can look at the continual investment of big tech into the industry to feel confident that offices are […]
How can organizations best position themselves to effectively respond to behavioral shifts and new generational needs? What changes to the workplace can create a culture of creativity and success? In a recent NAIOP webinar, Mark Bryan, Certified Futurist and director of innovation and research, M+A Architects, addressed these questions, sharing some of the generational shifts […]
It is critical to understand the key factors and takeaways that will shift life as we know it today, so the build environment can appropriately adapt and respond to life post-pandemic. In a recent NAIOP webinar, Mark Bryan, Certified Futurist and director of innovation and research, M+A Architects, shared some key ways to best position […]
When it opened between 2002 and 2004, Pittsburgh’s SouthSide Works was lauded as a retail destination that would revitalize the former brownfield site of the historic J&L Steel Works. It was at the forefront of the live-work-play movement. But by early 2020, the retail space was just 7% leased, although it had solid anchors, including […]
Commercial real estate and construction have been notoriously slow to adopt new technologies. But digital transformation is coming to the industry. At CRE Converge 2021 in Miami Beach, experts discussed how several new technologies are affecting developers, builders, and owners: Reality capture technologies allow you to see and/or record what’s happening at a job site, whether […]
