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Lindsay Baker, the global head of sustainability and wellbeing at WeWork, has joined Measurabl, a software company that produces accurate sustainability reports, suggests improvement opportunities for commercial real estate owners. In the role, Baker will provide a crucial expertise in real estate technology and the sustainability industry.
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NEW YORK CITY—In its 2018 year-end report, CRETech stated $9.6 billion was invested in the commercial real estate tech sector that year. One session at the annual Catalyst event, organized by Honest Buildings and Convene, looked into why the largest global banks are investing in proptech.
More than two years after its founding, The Wing, a coworking provider and social club geared toward women, has continued growing rapidly across New York City and the country.
On the heels of a $75 million funding round led by Airbnb, WeWork and Sequoia, the two-and-a-half-year-old company has recently opened its first outposts in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, with a Boston coworking ...
If you are a multifamily developer or construction firm, get ready to put your wrap-around parking garages on a diet, or at least build them flexible enough to reduce their footprints in the future.
Millennials and to a greater extent Generation Z — the demographic born between 1995 and 2010 — could turn the world into a car-optional one, leaving expensive underground, wrap-around and above...
Flexible office startup Knotel has unabashedly claimed it plans to be "bigger than WeWork" by next year, and its latest funding round is expected to position it as the second office space "unicorn."
Wafra, a New York firm backed by the government of Kuwait, is in talks to lead a funding round that would value Knotel at around $1.5B, the Wall Street Journal reports. Knotel has already taken i...
As one of the country’s largest commercial landlords, Tishman Speyer is doubling down on its co-working model, putting it in direct competition with established players like WeWork and Knotel.
The commercial landlord, which has 165 million square feet across 400 buildings, said Monday that it has opened locations for its co-working business, Studio, in Boston and Los Angeles this month. And t...
CREtech and ICSC announce hand-curated programming from the top industry thought leaders
New York, NY (May 7, 2019) — CREtech (CREtech.com), the largest event, ...
Bill Allen is CEO, and President of EvolveLAB, Disrupt Repeat, and On Point Scans. These firms synergistically help architects, engineers, and contractors optimize the built environment. He has over 14 years of experience managing technology for buildings in the AEC industry.
Allen has worked with the latest technology for...
OYO, the fast-growing budget hotel startup out of India that’s backed by Airbnb, SoftBank, Grab and Didi, has made an acquisition to expand its footprint into Europe, specifically around self-catering home rentals. The company has picked up @Leisure Group from Axel Springer for about $415 m...
Consumers have moved more and more towards online shopping, and physical retail has taken a hit. As a result, retailers have had to reinvent themselves to compete with these online retailers, who have much lower overhead expenses. For example, a brick and mortar retailer, Best Buy, has matched prices with Amazon and has retooled their physical locations to be showro...