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The Wall Street Journal
Investors are pumping money into real-estate startups that are pioneering flexible ways to rent apartments on the belief that remote working trends and new forms of housing demand will remain long after the pandemic is over.
CRETECH
HqO Will Unpack the Future of the Office in Cutting-Edge Event Devoted Entirely to the Tenant Experience at Prestigious CREtech New York Conference on October 12 New York, NY (July 22, 2021) — CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, and HqO, the premier end-to-end tenant experience provider for office buildings, today announced that HqO is debuting its marquee conference EXPERIENCE this fall at CREtech New York. Open …
The Real Deal
It’s finally happening. After 16 months, people are peeling off the loungewear, suiting up, and cautiously stepping back into the long-abandoned office. A recent CNBC survey found that 45 percent of major US companies will be implementing a hybrid work model for the second half of 2021, while 32 percent are going right back to an in-person office mode. Regardless of the approach, employers and their employees will return to an office dynamic that has been changed forever….
TechCrunch
Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion, putting together a deal is still mostly manual, paper-heavy and complicated.
Axios
For the last decade or so, malls have been dying. Surprisingly, the pandemic may save them.
Axios
Exploding demand for curb space in urban areas has inspired new technologies like “digital smart zones” that help cities manage those narrow but increasingly valuable tracts of real estate.
Axios
Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure finance and development firm, this morning announced a $2 billion fundraise from major institutional investors, Ben writes.
Crunchbase News
Joanna Smith, the founder of edtech startup AllHere, recently raised an $8 million Series A after bootstrapping her company first. A former middle school math teacher, Smith opted to go through two accelerator programs to learn how to pitch investors and develop a repeatable sales and operational process….
Axios
Face-recognition tech is coming to a store near you, if it’s not there already, and that’s sparking a new wave of opposition.
Fast Company
The stop light was a design inevitability. As cars grew in popularity around the turn of the 20th century, several inventors developed a glowing box filled with round, incandescent lights to tell people when to stop and go. Which is why, since the traffic signal was first installed in Cleveland in 1914, the design has gone largely unchanged.
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