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brandonlin June 16, 2021
For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an estimated eight parking spaces for every car.
brandonlin June 16, 2021
Meanwhile, Amazon's domination of the way we shop is growing even bigger,
brandonlin June 16, 2021
FedEx says it will test package deliveries using autonomous vehicles under a new multi-year partnership with Nuro, a leading self-driving startup.
brandonlin June 16, 2021
Long-term readers of this column will by now be familiar with Openpath, a trailblazing Los Angeles-based proptech startup specialized in touchless access control and workplace saf...
brandonlin June 15, 2021
The drones are coming. And they’re going to force warehouses to change, according to a new report from JLL. While warehouses have gone through little change over the years, Ashley Smart, EMEA logistics development director at JLL, says that buildings will need to “accommodate drones in just a few years if technical and regulatory progress continues at its current pace.”
brandonlin June 14, 2021
Real estate has a problem, a big one. And no, it’s not what you’re thinking. Even before COVID-19 fundamentally rocked the world of real estate, owners and their brokers were still struggling to leverage low-cost, yet effective marketing tools that other industries have been using for years. In 2019, RealtyAds set out to change that. RealtyAds, a cloud-based software company headquartered i...
brandonlin June 11, 2021
Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., with participation from DB Schenker, Prologis...
brandonlin June 11, 2021
For some residents, the gated community in the Arizona desert is their first go at suburban living. The 222 houses have tile roofs, garages and white-fenced backyards where residents host barbecues and their dogs play. But these aren’t forever homes, or even starters: They are one- and two-bedroom rentals, with rents starting at $1,420 a month.
brandonlin June 11, 2021
What would cities do if they didn’t need so many parking spaces? Architects, urban planners and parking industry experts are now imagining a future in which parking garages are turned into commercial kitchens, fitness cent...
brandonlin June 10, 2021
Companies from Google to WeWork want to help employers cut down on Zoom fatigue with a new approach to communications: holograms for the workplace. Alphabet Inc.’s Google in May revealed Project Starline, an effort to create a video-chat system with screens that give participants three-dimensional...