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CRETech May 06, 2019
One development in Milwaukee just proved how powerful crowdfunding can be for commercial real estate — when the right project comes along. This week, J. Jeffers & Co. posted a request for equity investment on the platform CrowdStreet for The Huron, an 11-story, new construction office building in Downtown Milwaukee's Third Ward. Investors poured in $10M over the course of J. Jeffers' 80...
CRETech May 06, 2019

Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchful eye from above.

But what happens when that data leaks? One such database was open for weeks for anyone to look inside...
CRETech May 06, 2019
WeWork is one of the world's most valuable startups, though just how its business works is widely misunderstood. We look at how WeWork makes money, where it spends it, and how its flywheel operates.
CRETech May 06, 2019
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc dismissed the idea of running a fully automated warehouse in the near future, citing the superior cognitive ability of humans and limitations of current technology. Scott Anderson, director of Amazon Robotics Fulfillment, said technology is at least 10 years away from fully automating the processing of a single order picked by a worker inside a warehouse. ...
CRETech May 06, 2019
The consolidation of the coworking industry took another step forward Thursday. Industrious is expanding its reach by acquiring TechSpace, a flexible workspace provider that will add seven new locations to its portfolio. The sale price was not made public, and the acquisition, announced in a morning press release, brings TechSpace locations in California, Texas, Virginia and New York under the...
CRETech May 06, 2019
If it ultimately pursues an initial public stock offering, shared office space provider WeWork has the choice of strategies such as paying down debt, trying to make acquisitions and retaining employees with stock grants. Those possibilities will be offset by enhanced regulatory scrutiny, higher compliance costs and shareholder pressure to meet quarterly results.  
CRETech May 06, 2019
PALO ALTO, CA—Cushman & Wakefield has a new partnership with Stanford University’s Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities program, a collaboration aimed at identifying, developing and launching transformative technologies within the commercial real estate space. The par...
CRETech May 03, 2019

Monitoring a space is about a lot more than security cameras. Awair is trying to help businesses and consumers more deeply understand the environments in which they live and work.

CRETech May 03, 2019

Eric Wittman joins JLL Spark as chief growth officer

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2, 2019 – JLL Spark, an independent division of JLL (NYSE: JLL) that operates a $100 million global venture fund to invest in proptech companies transforming commercial real...
CRETech May 03, 2019
The owner of the New York Stock Exchange is betting on further digitization of the U.S. mortgage market with the $335 million acquisition of Simplifile, a firm that facilitates electronic processing of mortgage records.