15
Apr
2021
The Post-pandemic Career Shuffle
Posted On April 15, 2021  By Kathryn Hamilton, CAE  And has No Comment

Employees – office workers, in particular – have firm expectations about returning to the workplace as vaccines become more widely available and companies begin bringing the team back together. At the top of their wish lists: hybrid work schedules, says start-up workforce platform Envoy’s Return to […]

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09
Mar
2021
5 Workplace Changes Here to Stay Post-COVID
Posted On March 9, 2021  By Kathryn Hamilton, CAE  And has 1 Comment

Think back to how and where you worked one year ago, before the pandemic began and hastily upended it all. Chances are that many of your work habits and activities pre-COVID look very different from the workplace “new normal” that will emerge post-pandemic. While city, state […]

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02
Mar
2021
Industrial in an Investment Revolution
Posted On March 2, 2021  By Paul Fiorilla  And has No Comment

Buoyed by changing social and technological trends and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, industrial real estate has evolved in recent years from a slow-moving and stable asset class to one with dynamism and rapid growth. That has drawn the attention of the largest and most opportunistic […]

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22
Feb
2021
How Supporting CRE Construction Could Drive the US Economic Recovery
Posted On February 22, 2021  By Linda Strowbridge  And has 1 Comment

Despite the severe economic downturn of 2020, the U.S. construction industry grew. Direct expenditures for building and nonbuilding construction climbed $51.7 billion to reach $1.4 billion for the year. Total jobs supported by construction grew by 400,000. And construction’s percentage of total U.S. GDP rose from […]

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04
Feb
2021
NAIOP January Coronavirus Impacts Survey: Light Appears at the End of the Tunnel
Posted On February 4, 2021  By Shawn Moura, Ph.D.  And has No Comment

In January, NAIOP conducted its seventh survey of its U.S. members on the impacts of COVID-19. Since April, the association has examined the pandemic’s effects on commercial real estate and how firms have responded. The four months since the last survey witnessed significant events, including federal […]

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03
Feb
2021
Benchmarking Development Approvals Processes Across the U.S.
Posted On February 3, 2021  By Brielle Scott  And has No Comment

Many municipal approval processes tend to be opaque and provide developers with limited information. To help address these issues, the NAIOP Research Foundation commissioned Distinguished Fellow C. Kat Grimsley, Ph.D. cantab, director of the Masters in Real Estate Development Program at George Mason University, to create […]

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25
Jan
2021
Technology is Changing the Shape and Value of Warehouses
Posted On January 25, 2021  By Linda Strowbridge  And has 3 Comments

From robotic picker systems within warehouses to fleets of autonomous delivery vehicles to artificial intelligence that generates extraordinarily precise strategies to manage supply chains and anticipate consumer demands, technology is transforming the warehouse/distribution sector. In a new report, “The Evolution of the Warehouse: Trends in Technology, […]

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12
Jan
2021
The Forces Shaping Office Space Demand
Posted On January 12, 2021  By Brielle Scott  And has No Comment

In a recent webinar, the authors of the NAIOP Office Space Demand Forecast provided insights and data from the latest report covering the fourth quarter of 2020, including overall economic trends and factors influencing demand, and their predictions for when the office sector could recover in […]

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05
Jan
2021
Consumer Trends Plus New Technologies Create Alternate Uses for Vacant Properties
Posted On January 5, 2021  By Linda Strowbridge  And has No Comment

In “The Evolution of the Warehouse: Trends in Technology, Design, Development and Delivery,” authors Steve Weikal and James Robert Scott detail the industry advances, consumer trends and emerging technologies that are driving a rapidly growing sector. Although their work at the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab […]

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