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COVERCY EXPANDS ITS BOARD AS PART OF US CRE CHALLENGER BANKING STRATEGY

Lauren May 10, 2021

Covercy, the only platform for commercial real estate investment firms to combine commercial real estate banking and investor management, has appointed Konrad “Chip” Kruger as chairperson and Dana Roffman as an advisory board member as part of its US CRE Challenger Banking Strategy.

At its Silicon Valley outpost, Microsoft is putting the park in office park

Lauren May 10, 2021

At Microsoft’s Silicon Valley office complex, each desk is no more than 25 feet from nature. Some employees might walk a few feet to step out a door into a courtyard; others might walk out onto a three-acre living roof planted with native flowers designed to bring back butterflies and hummingbirds that were once more commonly found in the area.

Material Bank Raises $100 Million Series C to Fuel Continued Growth Across its Technology and Logistics Platform

Lauren May 10, 2021

With funding from a consortium of strategic investors, co-led by General Catalyst and Durable Capital Partners LP with participation from BOND, Lead Edge Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Raine Ventures, Material Bank is powering a new state-of-the-art, robotics-enhanced logistics center and furthering technology innovation across its ecosystem

Google’s 3-Word Plan for Returning to Work Is the Best I’ve Ever Seen

Lauren May 10, 2021

As we get closer to what all of us hope is the end of the pandemic, companies are faced with a new challenge: how to bring people back to work. It's not a small thing to consider when and how to get your team back in the office safely--or whether th...

E-Commerce Mega-Warehouses, a Smog Source, Face New Pollution Rule

Lauren May 10, 2021

Southern California is home to the nation’s largest concentration of warehouses — a hub of thousands of mammoth structures, served by belching diesel trucks, that help feed America’s booming appetite for online shopping and also contribute to the worst air pollution in the country.

Procore Acquires Construction Artificial Intelligence Company, INDUS.AI

Lauren May 10, 2021

CARPINTERIA, Calif., May 6, 2021 – Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of construction management software, today announced it has acquired INDUS.AI, makers of an artificial intelligence-powered analytics platform for the construction industry. This acquisition adds computer vision capabilities to...

This origami-inspired shelter is designed for fast post-disaster housing

Lauren May 07, 2021

SoftBank leads $15M round for China’s industrial robot maker Youibot

Lauren May 07, 2021

SoftBank has picked its bet in China’s flourishing industrial robotics space. Youibot, a four-year-old startup that makes autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios, said it has notched close to 100 million yuan ($15.47 million) in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the Seoul-base...

No room in the warehouse: Amazon fuels shortage

Lauren May 07, 2021

Amazon takes up warehouse space — a lot of it. It's to the point where the vacancy rate is so low in some North American cities that their economies could be throttled, according to Colliers International Group and CBRE reports cited by Bloomberg News. ... That's the lowest among major North American markets.

SL Green to offer flex offices at One Vanderbilt

Lauren May 07, 2021

One of Manhattan's biggest office landlords is hopping on the flex-office bandwagon. SL Green will dedicate the entire 54th floor of One Vanderbuilt, its 58-story Midtown East skyscraper, to flexible offices that will be known as Altus Suites, Crain's reported.