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Brookfield has signed a 360,000 s/f lease at Brookfield’s Five Manhattan West. The firm, which recently announced a search for its “second headquarters,” finalized a deal to take the entire sixth and seventh floors and a portion of eighth and tenth floors. The deal boosts occupancy in the 16-story tower to 99 percent. Aside from the lease, Amazon also announced that it will create 2,000 jobs...
The startup was roasted on social media for cultural insensitivity after it said it planned to obliterate bodega and mom-and-pop shops. But can the concept survive? Author By Corinne Ruff @corinnesusan • Published Sept. 21, 2017 Share it post share tweet Last week, a San Francisco startup shook the retail industry with a bold claim — it plans to make bodegas and corner mom-and-pop shops obsole...
How Amazon pulled off its biggest Prime Now launch ever 403 Shares Share Tweet Share What's This? Amazon staff in Singapore at the Prime Now warehouseImage: victoria ho/mashable By Victoria Ho2017-09-21 09:27:39 UTC People were surprised when Amazon launched its two-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Singapore last month. Unlike other countries where it launched Prime Now, the e-commerce gi...
Emerging CRE tech tools empower industrial investors to conduct more thorough market research, find better properties, and ultimately land bigger deals. While industrial properties may not be, at first glance, as enticing as other commercial property types, they’ve long been considered extremely safe assets. With an average annual total return of 12.8 percent over the past five years — higher ...
Pointy, an Irish start startup that lets local retailers put their stock online so that they can be discovered via search engines, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round is being led by Frontline Ventures, alongside Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Draper Associates and a number of notable angel investors. The latter includes Matt Mullenweg, founder of ...
Lyft says it may have a solution to the traffic mess that is Wilshire Boulevard. The ride-hailing company is partnering with designers at Perkins+Will and Nelson/Nygaard on a conceptual project to redesign Wilshire Boulevard, Engadget reports. The proposal includes reducing the street to just three traditional lanes to help reduce traffic. That counterintuitive move would be paired with two autono...
The affinity consumers have toward technology impacts how they want to engage with companies, and will ultimately determine where and with whom they do business. Mortgage lenders and independent agents with tech services that cater to millennials will clearly have the competitive advantage in housing. At which point do you, as a real estate agent, reevaluate how you're engaging with your clie...
Earlier today at Disrupt, Kirsten Green, founder of the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firm Forerunner Ventures, sat down for a quick conversation about her work. Green has become one of the most sought-after e-commerce investors in the country, thanks to bets on companies like Jet.com and Bonobos (both sold to Walmart), Dollar Shave Club (sold to Unilever), as well as numerous popular, ...
FitCade, the new business that plans to offer virtual reality fitness games, has signed a lease for a space in the Westfield Galleria at Roseville. The business will fill 1,800 square feet in a second-level spot previously occupied by a sock store, according to Stephanie Ringey, the Galleria's senior marketing director. It could open in October. Last month, entrepreneur Kristoffer Granger con...
Google Inc. has offices all over the world, but it wants visitors and employees at its new downtown Austin regional hub to know exactly where they're standing: hundreds of feet off the ground in the Texas capital. There are rooms named after South by Southwest and other local festivals, as well as an entire floor dedicated to famous Austinites. Then there is the "greenbelt staircase,&quo...