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2017 was a great year of incredible growth, lessons learned and lots of #hustle. Whether you’re new to my blog or have been reading my sometimes-crazy thoughts for a while now … you have inspired me to keep exploring this always-exciting world of business and to always share what’s on my mind. I’m looking forward to a 2018 filled with even more collaboration! Here’s a quick recap of some...

Amazon recently opened its first brick-and-mortar grocery store in Seattle, Washington. The store does not use cashiers. Shoppers instead scan their phones at turnstiles, and Amazon charges them automatically. Amazon said the new store will not accept food stamps for the foreseeable future. An expert says Amazon is ignoring a large population of potential shoppers. Amazon pitches its new Go store ...

Amazon Just Announced Two-Hour Grocery Delivery From Whole Foods. Can Other Retailers Keep Up? February 9, 2018 Amazon Ecommerce On-Demand Retail Tech February 9, 2018 Share Amazon Just Announced Two-Hour Grocery Delivery From Whole Foods. Can Other Retailers Keep Up? on Facebook Share Amazon Just Announced Two-Hour Grocery Delivery From Whole Foods. Can Other Retailers Keep Up? on Twitter Share A...

Brooklyn rental and roommate startup Nooklyn raised $825,000 in a round of seed funding, the platform announced Friday. Nooklyn lets users search available rooms, apartments and roommates in Brooklyn. Users can search for an available room in an apartment or match with potential roommates to try to find an apartment together. "Our mission is to fix the experience of finding apartments," ...

Chris Atkinson was appointed CEO of IMS, a Charlotte-based software-as-a-service platform used to manage commercial real estate investments, about a year ago. Today, the company says it has more than 200 clients and posted 150% revenue growth in 2017.

Honest Buildings, one of several high-profile tech startups determined to revolutionize the city’s ultra conservative real estate industry, has raised $21 million in its second round of venture capital investment. New backers include Oxford Properties Group, a major investor in the Hudson Yards Project, and the Durst Organization. They join the Rudin family, Brookfield Properties and a series of...

Coworking represents a small yet growing segment of the office market. A study by Yardi Matrix of coworking leases in 20 major markets found 1,166 coworking sites with 26.9 million square feet of space. Commercial real estate has always evolved in ways that reflect technological and social changes. The most obvious current examples revolve around how e-commerce has altered the landscape for retail...

Community gardens, urban agriculture, or cohousing communities are nothing new. But so-called “agrihoods” certainly are, with developers quickly learning that incorporating healthy food in development projects can pay dividends. The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, a nonprofit founded in 2011, defines an agrihood as an alternative neighborhood growth model that positions agriculture as the c...

In 1996, when Richard Smith took the helm of Realogy, the housing bubble was in its infancy; there was no such thing as Zillow; and the concept of a startup brokerage with unicorn status was both inconceivable and 17 years off. Having weathered all of the above — and then some — the veteran chief executive passed the baton on Jan. 1 to Ryan Schneider, a banking executive who’s vowed to accel...

SAN JOSE, CA – FEBRUARY 1, 2018 – CBRE announced a new build-to-suit office opportunity at Bay 101 Technology Place, a mixed-use, high-rise project at 1740 North First Street in North San Jose. The nine-story Class A tower is currently entitled for approximately 245,000 square feet of office space.   Located at the intersection of Highway 101 and First Street adjacent to the new Bay 101 Casi...