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The millennial generation attended college in a golden era for student housing, as investors poured money into luxurious off-campus communities packed with resort-style amenities: rooftop pools, golf simulators, tanning beds, climbing walls.
May Al-Karooni just couldn’t get her head around it.
The office of the investment bank at which she worked was being refurbished, and she asked the facilities management team what was happening to everything that was being ripped out: the fixtures, fittings and furniture. Basically, she was told, the vast majority was being thrown away. It was just the easiest thing to do.
Access is the foundation of people’s lives. You leave home and lock the door. Swipe your Metrocard to enter the subway. Scan your badge at the front desk, and again at the elevator. Frictionless access drives how people engage with each other and the world around them.
As you set foot inside, the mall knows where you’ve come from. Once you leave, the mall knows where you go next. The mall knows where you live. The mall knows where you work. The mall knows the kinds of shops you visit. The mall knows if you tweeted about that shirt you bought. The mall probably knows where you’ll eat lunch.
As the largest consumer group in the country, millennials are changing the face of retail.
As major employers like Facebook, VF Corp. and Panasonic have opened shop in Colorado, millennials have followed in pursuit of high-paying jobs, and they have gravitated toward the urban neighborhoods where those companies are.
“That workforce wants to live, breathe and eat everything right next to t...
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs today unveiled its draft Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP) for Toronto’s eastern waterfront. The 1,524-page plan proposes thermal energy grids, factory-based construction of timber buildings, and a mobility network with heated bike lanes and adaptive traffic signals. You can download the full plan, titled Toronto Tomorrow: A New Approach for Inclusive Growt...
Most experts agree that the economic downturn will eventually come, and it is a matter of when and how severe, not if. One thing's for sure: the office leasing world looks very different to what it did a decade ago.
Tenants now demand a host of pricey amenities, and a flood of new construction in New York City has forced landlords to make significant investments in older buildings to stay c...
Argo.ai, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based driverless car startup founded by former executives from Google’s and Uber’s autonomous technology divisions, today announced that it’s teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University to form a new center for autonomous vehicle research: the aptly named Carnegie Mellon University Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research...