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David Gorelick’s office at Cushman & Wakefield’s headquarters on Sixth Avenue remains pretty stark two months after he took the job as head of the brokerage’s retail division in July. Aside from a few family photos and mementos of earlier deals, there’s a reminder of his first job in retail: a poster of Sam’s Loans pawn shop in Detroit, where he worked as a 15-year-old. “It was kin...
Amazon is not the only retail giant gaining a new headquarters. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been quietly planning a move to another location in the company’s Bentonville, Arkansas, hometown, Bloomberg reports. The company has a number of corporate offices scattered across northwest Arkansas, but the move is intended to consolidate all of these in a corporate campus on J Street. According to Bloombe...
Gin Wong, Who Designed Futuristic Buildings in Los Angeles, Dies at 94 By RICHARD SANDOMIRSEPT. 17, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Continue reading the main story Photo Gin Wong and Ron Wagley, the chief executive of Transamerica, with a model of the company’s pyramid-shaped building in San Francisco. Mr. Wong supervised its design. Gin Wong, a Chinese-born architect whose ...
Twitter users across the country howled in rage on Wednesday after getting wind of Bodega, the startup whose internet connected pantry boxes want to replace your local corner store. Many observers criticized the choice of the Bodega name — which traditionally refers to Mom and Pop convenience stores in large American cities — and the notion that two former Google employees could potentially pu...
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When Amazon announced last week its intent to build a second headquarters, in addition to Seattle, it set off a frenzied round of speculation regarding which city would ultimately land the tech behemoth and the 50,000 new jobs it is promising.A number of articles were promptly published touting a wide range of North American cities, including Denver, Chicago, Boston and Austin, Texas. Curiously, N...
A new hotel concept is ditching reservation staff for self-service tablets. Manhattan's Public Hotel is owned by Ian Schrager, also the creator of nightclub Studio 54. With this concept, Schrager aims to push back against the ever-growing Airbnb by developing a tech-fueled hotel that obliterates the need for staff such as bellhops and front-desk attendants, thereby keeping costs low, the Wall...
Whole Foods has had quite the ride. CEO and co-founder John Mackey took it from a small natural foods store in the hippie haven of Austin, Texas to an international behemoth. It was only 10,500 square feet with 19 employees. But the idea of natural food stores was only beginning, and as one of the first in the country, the seed that Mackey planted blossomed. Through acquisitions of natural food st...
Eight million square feet of space equates to 185 acres, or 138 football fields. More important for the metropolitan area’s real estate market, it’s the total the local industrial sector absorbed last year. The record amount, which represents total square footage leased minus the square footage of space no longer occupied, illustrates just how hot central Indiana’s industrial segment is righ...
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