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CRETech May 24, 2019
Welcome to the second episode of the Goodwin Proptech Series, where Blake Liggio discusses the rise of tech-experience in the C-suites and boardrooms of real estate firms. Blake Liggio is a partner in Goodwin’s Real Estate Industry group. Mr. Liggio focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including the representation of acquirors, targets, boards of directors, transaction commit...
CRETech May 23, 2019
Workplace management and staff connectivity have transformed over the past decade. The rise of smartphones and cellular-connected tablets have made the process of tracking, recording and communicating with employees, visitors and contractors effortless. Pair this with geofencing, and you can create the workplace of the future, today. With the capability of geofencing on your side, you can ef...
CRETech May 23, 2019
Amazon.com Inc. has launched many brick-and-mortar experiments in the past few years: bookstores, grocery pickup kiosks, cashierless convenience stores. Yet none of these have shown as much promise as the e-commerce giant’s unlikely partnership with Kohl’s Corp., the very definition of an old-school retailer. Two years ago, Kohl’s agreed to let Amazon customers return packages at stores ...
CRETech May 23, 2019
NEW YORK, May 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Seritage Growth Properties, a national retail and mixed-use developer, today announced a partnership with flexible workspace provider Industrious to bring premium workspaces to five locations in the Seritage portfolio, with the first location to open in
CRETech May 23, 2019
Only twenty years ago, connecting to the internet meant sitting next to a desk and sorting through various cables, when downloading a photo could take ten minutes or more. Today, it seems like everything happens online – it’s where we find our friends and where elections and revolutions are won and lost. But as we spend more and more of our lives in cyberspace, the question is: what’s nex...
CRETech May 23, 2019

If you're trying to stand out in a room full of investors, a little flash doesn't hurt.

That much was clear from the group of 13 startups vying for attention from venture capitalists at the recent Entr...
CRETech May 23, 2019
WeWork Cos. doesn’t seem to quite be working for junk-bond investors. For a moment earlier this month, it looked as if its high-yield debt issued 13 months ago was going to climb back to 100 cents on the dollar, riding a wave of momentum from the company’s April 29 
CRETech May 23, 2019
Billionaire moneymen Peter Thiel, Alan Howard and Louis Bacon have seen plenty of big paydays—but probably none as unusual as this one. A buyback by Block.one, a cryptocurrency startup, will return as much as 6,567% to its earliest investors—in less than three years. That translates into $6.6 million for a $100,000 stake, a stunning result any time but especially in a market that crashed i...
CRETech May 23, 2019
TORONTO–Building technologies, so-called proptech, are advancing exponentially. Indeed, it can be a struggle to keep pace with the new and varying innovations rolling out almost every day. In the midst of this struggle, the Chicago-based Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) is making major strides in the education and timeliness of members’ understanding...
CRETech May 23, 2019
Electric scooters have taken D.C. and other cities by storm over the last year, and now one company is looking to position them as an amenity for commercial property owners. D.C. is one of two cities where scooter company Spin and charging station startup Swiftmile plan to roll out a 60-day pilot to install electric scooter docking stations outside of buildings, the Washington Post reports.