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  • Real estate tech SPAC RXR Acquisition files for a $250 million IPO

    Nasdaq

    RXR Acquisition, a blank check company formed by RXR Realty targeting real estate technology, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise up to $250 million in an initial public offering. The Uniondale, NY-based company plans to raise $250 million by offering 25 million units at $10. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and one-fifth of a warrant, exercisable at $11.50. At the proposed deal size, RXR Acquisition would command a market value of $313 million.

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  • An Architecture Firm’s Push to Build Net-Zero Apartments

    Wall Street Journal

    The shiny, onyx-colored building appears alien in its drab, postindustrial Philadelphia neighborhood—the love child of a “D-volt battery and the Death Star,” as one local architecture critic put it, admiringly.

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  • Smart building tech provides a path to energy savings, sustainability

    Real Estate NJ

    Look no further than a server that “allows us to manage hundreds if not thousands of devices within our building in real time at all times,” said Joel Shandelman, the property’s chief technology officer, providing data from across the 2 million-square-foot campus. He notes that artificial intelligence software from BuildingIQ, a cloud-based platform, then uses that data to help the HVAC system operate both effectively and economically.

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  • Shots Aren’t Luring Workers Back to Offices

    Wall Street Journal

    U.S. workers have failed to return to the office in greater numbers this month, frustrating hopes that the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and falling infection rates would start to lure employees back and help revitalize city economies.

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  • Sobering Report For Landlords: 59% Of Businesses Expect Office Square Footage To Shrink

    Bisnow

    Nearly 60% of real estate professionals embedded in corporations surveyed by CoreNet Global say their businesses will shrink their office square footage in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • How One Dallas Landlord Helped Lure Employees Back to the Office

    GlobeSt

    Office is the biggest question mark in commercial real estate. Most office-using companies are still operating remotely through the pandemic, and many are considering long-term or permanent remote work policies. This has some landlords concerned that office demand could diminish significantly. However, property owners can help implement policies that will encourage workers and companies to step back into the office….

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  • Kargo raises $6M to smarten up loading docks for the coming wave of autonomy

    TechCrunch

    When Sam Lurye looks at a loading dock he sees both a bottleneck in the world’s supply chain and an opportunity. The opportunity — driven by a tension between the digital and physical infrastructure at warehouse distribution centers and factories today and the push toward autonomy — prompted Lurye to found Kargo, a smart loading dock platform startup that recently raised $6 million in seed money from Founders Fund, Accomplice, Sozo Ventures and other unnamed investors….

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  • NAVEX Survey Finds Companies Adopting ESG Practices, But Lack Confidence in Sustainability Performance

    ESG Today

    A survey of managers and senior executives at companies with 500 employees or more, released by risk and compliance management software company NAVEX Global, found the vast majority of companies have put ESG initiatives in place, but many lack confidence in their sustainability performance.

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  • Regus Owner IWG Buys Majority Stake in Office Startup The Wing

    Bloomberg

    Switzerland-based IWG, which pioneered flexible offices more than 30-years ago under the Regus brand, has injected an undisclosed sum into the company to facilitate its growth, according to an emailed statement Thursday. The deal gives IWG a majority stake in the New York based startup, people familiar with the terms said, asking not to be identified as the details aren’t public.

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  • Israeli Investor Looks To Supercharge Last-Mile Logistics Portfolio Aggregation

    Bisnow

    Faropoint CEO Adir Levitas claims his company can leverage a combination of its own data and under-development software tools to rapidly aggregate portfolios of warehouses too small for large investors to buy individually.

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