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CRETech July 13, 2018
Katerra, a self-described end-to-end provider of building services that is valued at over $3 billion, today announced plans to open a new advanced manufacturing factory in Tracy, California. The factory is expected to begin production in 2019 and to employ 500 people. Founded in 2015, Menlo Park-based Katerra most recently raised an
CRETech July 13, 2018
Pointy​,​ the​ ​startup​ ​that​ offers tech to help ​bricks and mortar​ ​retailers, put their stock online so that it can be discovered via search engines, has picked up $12 million in new funding. The Series B round is led by Polaris Partners and Vulcan Capital, and brings total funding for the Irish company to $19 million. Founded on t...
CRETech July 13, 2018
WeWork, the shared and flexible workspace giant that opened its fourth Atlanta location Wednesday, expects to have as many as 20 centers in the city within two years. That's what WeWork Southeast General Manager Bobby Condon told a group of Atlanta dignitaries, real estate executives and WeWork employees at the opening of its Terminus location. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who told the c...
CRETech July 13, 2018
It has been one of the pillars of modern office design and workplace theory: open offices, with fewer walls, doors and spatial boundaries, encourage interaction and collaboration between workers. A central tenet of the coworking phenomenon is the prevailing assumption that mingling with co-workers will expose you to a bounty of new ideas — and large corporates in all fields have taken the b...
CRETech July 13, 2018
Serial entrepreneur Rob Finlay, who has been launching commercial real estate-oriented companies for nearly 20 years, kicked off his latest venture this week with the public launch of Lyra Intel. The Lyra Intel platform, which attaches to existing property management systems, collects data about properties and tenants and offers it in a dashboard format. That kind of easy-to-grasp presentation...
CRETech July 13, 2018
Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it has opened virtual reality kiosks in 10 shopping malls to promote its upcoming Prime Day shopping event. Now you can see the Amazon VR experience for yourself. Prepare to be impressed: It’s signi...
CRETech July 13, 2018
Shared workspace provider Convene plans to more than triple its current footprint over the next two years, adding more than 1 million square feet in new space. The New York-based company, known for its emphasis on landlord partnerships, operates 19 locations for a total of 560,000 square feet. By the end of 2018 it expects to have 23 locations spanning 700,000 square feet, and it plans to have ...
CRETech July 13, 2018
Congratulations! Either you’re already investing in smart technology for your properties, are considering investing while weighing your options, crunching numbers and listening to value propositions of the various companies competing in the space, or you’re a property manager tasked with selling an additional amenity to provide a leg up on the competition. In the end, this technology will not ...
CRETech July 12, 2018
Austin, Texas, July 11, 2018Accruent, the world’s leading provider of physical resource management solutions, announced today the global launch of the Accruent Academy Learning Center, a continuous training resource for customers. The Ac...
CRETech July 12, 2018
CHICAGO–JLL has recruited talent from Google whose goal is to guide the broker into becoming its own proptech shop. Former Google executive Vinay Goel has been tapped as Chief Digital Product Officer, a new position for JLL. Goel’s first day was Tuesday. Goel’s intent in this new role is to refocus JLL’s tech initiatives around products instead of the service orientation the company has...