Since 2015, the amount of creative space in the region has increased by about 100,000 square feet almost every year, according to JLL Research. Creative developments such as Armour Yards in Buckhead, Ponce City Market alongside the Atlanta BeltLine and Georgia Tech’s CODA development are prime examples of how Atlanta’s office market is respo...
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It was mid-June, three months after the Covid-19 crisis had forced the top executives in a fast-growing tech startup to leave their offices and work from home. Executives had believed this “work from home thing” would last a few weeks, one of the company’s vice presidents told me, so they treated it like a brief emergency that required all hands on deck, all the time.
I’m back for a second installment of analysis and commentary on the buildings sections of emerging Climate Action Policy Plans. Maybe you’re a buildings person and you want to know what lawmakers are thinking, maybe you’re a lawmaker looking for insights from the buildings world. Either way, welcome, I hope you get something out of this.
When sports fans return to watch their teams play live again, many of them may not need a ticket. Several pro sports teams, including the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Football Club, are testing facial-recognition technology in stadiums. The idea is to admit fans for entry by authenticating their faces, to make the process as touchless as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.
As Boris Johnson, the prime minister, urges a return to work, could the smart office be the coronavirus-proof solution the UK government has been looking for? Thanks to social distancing sensors, air quality monitors and fever detection lanes, the new normal can operate as efficiently as the old, advocates argue. But does the latest approach to master-systems integration really offer the chance to...
Technology can enable a host of innovations to make buildings cleaner and more efficient. Office properties will see a host of changes over the coming months and even years as the world adjusts COVID-19.
In April, as the nation was in the thick of lockdown, Zillow CEO Rich Barton tweeted that his “personal opinions about WFH have been turned upside down over the past 2 months.” He’s now ready to reflect that thinking in long-term company policy.
Plexiglass dividers and floor decals might not be permanent, but the pandemic will bring lasting change to offices. Experts from the architecture and real-estate industries share how they are getting back to work and what offices will look like in the future. Photo: Cesare Salerno for The Wall Street Journal
It’s been a roller-coaster of a year for proptech with a new wave of unicorns, WeWork’s implosion, and a global pandemic. And Brendan Wallace and Brad Greiwe, the co-founders and managing partners of Fifth Wall Ventures, have been at the forefront of it. In the last 12 months, the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm raised $503 million for its second g...
I’m not sure if it is the fact that many of them are calling in from the familiar comfort of their own homes or whether the camaraderie that comes from fighting a common battle has given people more confidence to speak from the heart, but the result is the same either way. CREtech and Future PropTech’s Reimagining Real Estate event is about so much more than a series of discussions on the futu...