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CRETech March 28, 2019
The U.S. has long been the land of the automobile. We design cities around parking lots, create suburbs “within driving distance” of major metropolises and have highways that span coast to coast. The car is an undeniable part of America’s history and has shaped how much of it looks today. But as more and more people move to cities—the UN predicts that
CRETech March 28, 2019
In Martín Amengual’s office in Los Angeles, he held up a tiny, 64GB digital memory card. “Imagine every thick roll of architectural drawings for a 1.5M SF mixed-use project, all being replaced by this — a data-rich 3D file in the cloud,” he said. When Amengual was a young man working in construction and development in Argentina, he saw the inefficiencies in the design process: Build...
CRETech March 28, 2019
Dvele, a San Diego prefab home builder, has just raised a $14 million Series A from Crescent Real Estate. While the prefab home concept isn’t new, the number of investors putting money into companies focused on the sector is increasing at a rapid rate as of late. In an exclusive interview, CEO and Co-founder
CRETech March 28, 2019
New breakthroughs in robotics could hasten the arrival of automated distribution centers faster than was previously thought possible. In 2018, about 4,000 robotic warehouses were in operation around the globe, but by 2025, that number could spike as high as 50,000, according to a report by ABI Research. That would equate to about 4 million robots, the technology research firm wrote in a summa...
CRETech March 28, 2019
WeWork is growing rapidly, and while they are relatively new to the market, they are taking a long-term view of the office industry. At the annual CRETech conference in Los Angeles yesterday, WeWork leaders opened the event with a look inside the company’s business model and perspective, including its growth, the future of office and how WeWork is impacting the ...
CRETech March 27, 2019
A Brooklyn landlord intends to install facial recognition technology at the entrance of a roughly 700-unit rent-stabilized complex, raising alarm among tenants and housing rights attorneys about what they say is a far-reaching and egregious form of digital surveillance. Citing concerns over the potential for privacy and civil liberties violations, tenants at Brownsville’s Atlantic Plaza Tower...
CRETech March 27, 2019
Bisnow has a new podcast series, Let’s Have A Drink, where we sit down with the personalities who shape New York City real estate — the most cutthroat, challenging and thrilling market in the world. Hosted by Bisnow reporter Miriam Hall, we examine the deals, the disappointments and, of course, drinks of choice. You can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud.
CRETech March 27, 2019

From the moment StreetEasy debuted in New York City 14 years ago, it was clear that the listings portal was a game changer.

But after an information tug-of-war with the brokerage world, it became something of a de facto multiple listings service for an industry that was too territorial to create a pro...

CRETech March 27, 2019
PITTSBURGH, March 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Commercial real estate industry veteran Kim Ford, LEED AP, announces the formation of Coeo, a tech-enabled online marketplace that will redefine how people find and share commercial real estate.