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An 800-acre project led by Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, is officially moving forward in Toronto. Waterfront Toronto issued an RFP in March and this week declared Sidewalk Labs' proposal the submission they would move forward with — a process that begins on November 1 with the project's first town hall. The project centers on creating an intercon...

A majority of Seattle City Council members sent a letter to Amazon earlier this month, seeking to “hit the refresh button” in their relationship. And a good thing, too. Most other places would kill to have a hometown startup become one of the nation’s largest companies, generate thousands of well-paid local jobs, and build a green footprint in the heart of the city. All this during an era of...

The Guaranty Building on Monument Circle for years was known as the home of one of the city’s top tech companies—first ExactTarget Inc. and then later Salesforce.com Inc., which gobbled up the former in 2013. Now, Salesforce has left for its namesake tower across the Circle as part of a big downtown expansion, and the nearly emptied historic Guaranty is making a quick comeback and attracting p...

Chicago submitted its bid this week to land Amazon’s second North American headquarters, and on Friday Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner announced the 10 locations they pitched to the tech giant as a possible spot for HQ2. The locations include two places in the “city core,” six areas within the city that are outside of downtown, and two locations in the suburbs. The ...

There was a moment in recent history when regular mail was renamed snail mail. Email had emerged as the fastest, most efficient method of delivering written communication, and it left snail mail in the dust. But, if you’re still emailing like it’s 1999, you’ve got some catching up to do. Using modern tools and technologies, you can streamline your email prospecting to reach people 10x faster...

A very strange way to woo Amazon By Post Editorial Board View author archive Get author RSS feed Name(required) Email(required) Comment(required) October 20, 2017 | 7:30pm Modal Trigger Erik Thomas/NY Post see also De Blasio submits bid for Amazon but doesn't want you shopping there Just hours after the city put forth a proposal to... Does Mayor de Blasio really want Amazon to choose New Yo...

Why 2K? William (Billy) Riggs on the 20th of October 2017 This fall we are providing a $2,000 registration refund to one Urban Land Institute (ULI) Fall Meeting attendee. You might wonder why we would offer a refund. While we look forward to this event every year and the dialogue it fosters, the answer can be summed up by two words- Community and Conversation. The community of real estate professi...

The city has released details of its official bid for Amazon's second headquarters, offering up four potential sites across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens ahead of today's deadline for proposals. The locations on offer are Midtown West, which would include space at Hudson Yards, Manhattan West and the Penn Plaza towers; Lower Manhattan, anchored by 1 World Trade Center; Long Island City;...

By Will Anderson  –  Digital Editor, Austin Business Journal As Amazon.com Inc. considers where to build its second headquarters, there is little indication of where the company is leaning. CEO Jeff Bezos and his fellow executives have made it a very open, highly competitive process. But one thing is clear: Over the past two years, the Seattle-based retail and technology giant has built its Au...

Now that hundreds of cities across North America have submitted their proposals to Amazon.com Inc.'s HQ2, those same cities may want to start prepping for the cost increases that would come with the $5 billion campus and up to 50,000 high-earning tech workers. Rental listing aggregator Apartment List took a look at HQ2's top contenders around the U.S. and projected how much apartment ren...