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Lauren August 25, 2020
This summer, executives at health-care-technology firm Epic Systems announced a plan: Most of the 9,500 employees at its 1,000-acre campus in Wisconsin would be expected back in the office in September. The company, like many others, says its employees do their best work when they can collaborate in the same space. But blowback to the mandate was swift. Employees expressed fears about safety and s...
Lauren August 25, 2020

This morning MURAL announced it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperate and brainstorm. MURAL announced it had 

Lauren August 25, 2020
Situational awareness: At the end of today, unless an appeals court grants Uber and Lyft's request to further suspend a recent ruling ordering them to immediately reclassify drivers as employees, the companies plan to suspend their ride-hailing services across California until at least November's election.
Lauren August 25, 2020
As of 9 AM this morning in New York, over 435 of you have registered from over 60 organizations and two dozen countries, and more are joining every hour. Over the next two weeks, we expect those numbers to more than double, as over 100 projects will be formed to tackle some of the most pressing problems in the world’s real estate industry. Welcome to the CREtech Reimagining Real Estate Challenge...
Lauren August 24, 2020
A deep-pocketed venture-capital firm run by Jared Kushner’s brother watched some of its tech startups rake in millions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief loans — despite the fact that it urged them not to take the cash, The Post has learned.
Lauren August 24, 2020
This year for many of us has brought ups and downs. Although we’ve spent the better part of it working from home, I am optimistic that the future is bright for the commercial real estate industry. People are comin...
Lauren August 24, 2020
Yac, the digital voice messaging service that launched last year, has raised new money from the Slack Fund as it continues to gain ground among companies looking to give their employees new communication tools f...
Lauren August 24, 2020
Granite Properties, a commercial real estate investment, development and management company, has launched “Inspire Wellness,” a $10 million comprehensive program to enhance the health and safety of its office buildings and new development projects in response to the pandemic. As part of the “Inspire Wellness” initiative, Granite has retrofitted touch...
Lauren August 24, 2020

Commercial real estate executive focused on ESG strategy and implementation, climate change, renewable energy, healthy buildings and urban ecosystems.

Lauren August 24, 2020

Catie McKee was nervous. It was last October, and the 31-year-old hedge fund analyst, who had been scrutinizing the mortgages on the nation’s malls, was convinced that some of those malls would default on their loans. She and her colleagues had even bet a substantial amount of money on that likelihood.