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Smart Cities World
District is within Lakeview Village in the city of Mississauga, a 177-acre mixed-use waterfront community, and aims to become the largest hub for technology, innovation and research in Canada.
CREtech
Tony Josipovic of JLL discusses the company’s ‘Future of Work’ model and how it relates to the workforce.
Bisnow
One coworking giant is taking over some of the Downtown Atlanta space vacated by another. Industrious has taken over the operations of 20K SF of WeWork’s former footprint at 101 Marietta St., formerly Centennial Tower, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported. WeWork was part of a contraction of coworking operators in Atlanta last year when it shuttered its 80K SF location at the 36-story, 670K SF tower….
2150
The battle for climate change will be won or lost depending on how well we innovate within our cities and urban environments. Today, cities consume 2/3 of the world’s energy and produce more than 70% of GHG emissions. Urbanization continues to grow and by 2050 it is expected that 70% of us will live in cities.
CREtech
New York (September 21, 2021) CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital Officer, Office of the Mayor of London, will deliver the opening Keynote Address at CREtech London this October 27-28. Formerly known as FUTURE PropTech until acquired by CREtech in 2019, CREtech London is Europe’s most important PropTech networking event. Appointed in 2017 as London’s first Chief Digit…
Wall Street Journal
Walmart Inc. WMT 2.12% is building a new weapon in its war with Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.08% : a fintech startup. The retail giant is helping launch a new company, helmed by two former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -0.37% executives, that aims to provide financial services for its millions of customers and workers. The firm is a joint venture with Ribbit Capital, LEAP 0.30% known for investing in Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD 2.58% and other digital financial businesses….
Hines
Hines, the international real estate firm, has appointed Daniel Chang as Head of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) for Europe. Daniel’s appointment sees the firm strengthen its longstanding commitment to ESG, further supporting its holistic ESG approach globally, and will ensure new initiatives focused on addressing carbon emissions and social equity across the built environment are embedded across Europe and for the benefit of its clients.
JLL Technologies
The faster and easier property managers (PMs), facility managers (FMs), engineers, and maintenance pros can find and order the products they need—especially at preferred prices from top name brands—the better their buildings perform operationally and financially. JLL Marketplace is an ecommerce platform that offers more than three million items curated for property management (PM) and facilities management (FM)—everything from plumbing and electrical products to janitorial and office supplies…
2150
It feels like it was just yesterday that we unveiled 2150 and announced our first close of €130 million. Over the subsequent six months, we were fortunate to receive an unprecedented level of interest from mission-aligned investors -from global financial institutions and mobility groups to leaders in real estate and infrastructure. Their belief in our team and ambition has allowed us to surpass our initial target and raise an oversubscribed fund of €270m (€268.2m to be exact, ± $310m USD today) …
New York Times
The move toward incorporating more outdoor spaces in luxury buildings was underway before the pandemic struck. But life in lockdown has made it a necessity.
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