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Will Workplace Flexibility Be A Blessing Or A Curse In A Downturn?

CRETech June 25, 2019
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...
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Argo.ai and Carnegie Mellon to found driverless vehicle research center

CRETech June 25, 2019
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...
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Common Announces International Expansion to Canada in Partnership with Dream

CRETech June 25, 2019

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Why building walkable cities is the key to economic success

CRETech June 25, 2019

What if I told you there was a way to develop U.S. cities that was better for social equity, created more jobs and economic activity, resulted in better transit access, and improved the environment, all while guaranteeing better economic returns for developers and investors?

According to “

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The Collective Unveils $210M Miami Project

CRETech June 24, 2019
MIAMI—Following up projects in New York City and Chicago, The Collective has announced a $210-million plan to bring its first co-living project here at 2825 NW 2nd Ave. in Wynwood. The acquisition marks the company’s fifth in the US in the past 12 months, with three sites under its belt in
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The Wild Variety Of Pop-Up Hotels

CRETech June 24, 2019
Entrepreneurs are taking the pop-up concept in hospitality and running with it in all directions. Pop-up hotels are appearing in recently completed apartment buildings — that's the model of the growing WhyHotel — and around the world in tents, yurts and other temporary or remodeled structures.
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How Camber Creek Vets Its Proptech Investments

CRETech June 24, 2019
NEW YORK, NY—Venture Capital firm Camber Creek has been focused on the real estate market since its inception in 2011, with many of the companies it has backed now a fixture in the industry. “I owned, operated and managed a CRE company where, in the course of doing business, I noticed that a lot of the processes were old-fashioned and awkward. I then realized that there wasn’t much techno...
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A.I. May Not Take Your Job, but It Could Become Your Boss

CRETech June 24, 2019

When Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of the insurance giant MetLife talks to a customer over the phone, he keeps one eye on the bottom-right corner of his screen. There, in a little blue box, A.I. tells him how he’s doing.

Talking too fast? The program flashes an icon of a speedometer, indicati...

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Robots are already farming crops inside this Silicon Valley warehouse

CRETech June 24, 2019
Inside a cavernous warehouse in South San Francisco, 16-foot-tall walls of kale and other greens stretch down aisles twice the length of a bowling lane. Matt Barnard, CEO and cofounder of Plenty, the startup that designed and built the indoor farm, points to two types of mustard greens called mizuna and tatsoi. “This is one of the blends that we are working to position against junk food...
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Accenture Retrains Its Workers as Technology Upends Their Jobs

CRETech June 24, 2019
Five months after Dorian Twiggs packed up her life in Detroit and moved to Charlotte, N.C., to work as a mortgage underwriter for Accenture ACN -0.51% PLC, a mana...
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