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Boston University is taking a major step towards sustainability with its 19-story, 350,000 square-foot building planning to be finished in 2022. The building, which will be the tallest on BU's campus, will combine the math, statistics, and computer science departments. Plans for the building are in line with the university's climate action plan, which was approved in 2017. The plan revolves arou...
The proptech sector has been experiencing tremendous growth in Europe. New companies are coming forward from all corners of the continent, and introducing new technologies that aim to transform the traditional real estate processes. Their collective goal is to incorporate innovation and a customer-focused approach into one of the oldest industries in the world. So far, they have been showing signi...
The ginormous losses unveiled by WeWork during its IPO process last year linger long in the mind. But new research shows that a large majority of flexible offices around the world are actually turning a profit. However, how you configure your flexible office makes a big difference to revenue, according to the global annual flexible office benchmark report compiled by Workthere, the flexible of...
Jeff Bezos will have an investment in Long Island City after all. Sonder, which counts Bezos’ family funds, Alex Rodriguez and Elon Musk’s fund among its investors, is taking over its first Long Island City hotel rooms. The tech-enabled hotel company has leased all 100 of the apartment/hotel units at the Z NYC Hotel at 11-01 43rd Ave., Long Island City, from Merchants Hospitality. “This c...
Elevators and escalators get little fanfare in the commercial development space, but some new technology may make you sit up and pay attention. From cableless elevators that go every which way, to escalators that spiral up to top floors and elevators designed exclusively for use by robots, the future is on the rise.
Jamie Hodari, CEO of the co-working company Industrious and an avowed night owl, actually begins his day an hour before the clock does — planning out each workday starting at 11 p.m. the night before. That helps Hodari, 38, remain confident about prospects for the company he co-founded in 2012 even after last year’s sudden and dramatic downfallof co-wor...
Airbnb lost hundreds of millions of dollars last year as the home-sharing business attempted to address widespread safety and security issues on its platform. The news comes as investors and executives gearing up for a planned public offering this year. The company lost $322 million in the first nine months of 2019, a drastic swing from the $200 million profit it generated during the same time pe...
The $800 billion grocery industry is keeping a sharp eye on a strip mall in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. There, sandwiched between a nail salon and a bank branch, Amazon.com Inc. is working on the first in a new chain of grocery stores set to open this year. The company has kept const...
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Unprecedented growth in many cities has made affordable housing a challenge around the world. A 2018 study revealed that of 200 cities polled globally, 90 per cent were considered unaffordable when applying the standard of average house prices being more than three times the median income. The United Nations has flagged housing affordability as an issue of strategic importance for “development,...