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  • Now Available On Demand: The Future of the Office is Human

    CREtech

    Lisa Picard is President and Chief Executive Officer of EQ Office, where she leads vision and strategy for the company that is wholly owned by Blackstone. As CEO, Lisa inspires her team, partners and clients to move past legacy assumptions and seek new pathways toward value. She has a deep focus on the physical nature of real estate assets to maximize community and human potential, particularly in this age of rapid automation and technological change.Lisa joined EQ in 2016 as its Chief Operating…

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  • Europe’s Big Oil Companies Are Turning Electric

    The New York Times

    Late last month, Royal Dutch Shell won a deal to build a vast wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands. Earlier in the year, France’s Total, which owns a battery maker, agreed to make several large investments in solar power in Spain and a wind farm off Scotland. Total also bought an electric and natural gas utility in Spain and is joining Shell and BP in expanding its electric vehicle charging business.

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  • AI Can Almost Write Like a Human—and More Advances Are Coming

    Wall Street Journal

    Last month, software developer Kevin Lacker tested GPT-3, the latest version of an artificial-intelligence language system developed by San Francisco-based software company OpenAI LP. The system isn’t yet public, but it set off a firestorm in tech circles after OpenAI gave select researchers and developers access so they could provide feedback. They observed its uncanny and unprecedented ability to answer trivia questions, generate long passages of coherent text, design simple software applicati…

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  • Michigan announces plans for autonomous vehicle corridor

    Smart Cities World

    The initial phase of the project will test technology and explore the viability of a more than 40-mile driverless vehicle corridor between Downtown Detroit and Ann Arbor.

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  • SURVEY: More Than 70% Of CRE Firms Have Seen Their Revenues Drop Significantly During The Pandemic

    Bisnow

    In early March, Bisnow surveyed hundreds of commercial real estate professionals to find out how the industry was responding to the coronavirus pandemic. At that time, 44% of survey respondents said the effects of the pandemic would be short-term, and that the market would rebound quickly, and only 37% of respondents told Bisnow the pandemic had directly affected their business.

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  • Green Bonds Blossom as Investor Demand Grows

    CoStar News

    More Than $3 Billion in Offerings Launch for Uses Including Property Investments, Improvements. Green-bond issuance is the latest sector of the capital markets to spring back to life after wilting in March and April during the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • Landlords Are Investing Heavily In Coronavirus Detection, Prevention

    Bisnow

    As the coronavirus keeps millions of workers at home across the country, office landlords and property managers are spending big to convince tenants that their buildings are safe. CBRE’s property management arm and office landlords like New Jersey-based Onyx Equities are hiring for positions created specifically to monitor and encourage compliance with social distancing measures, CoStar Group reports. Onyx has already hired four “experience ambassadors” to make sure that no more than two people …

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  • Co-working Operators Try To Lure Students Into Office Space

    The Real Deal

    Quest Workspaces, a co-working operator with 12 locations in Florida and New York, is turning some of its enclosed office space into small pods where groups of students can gather for virtual learning.

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  • Now Available On Demand: Evolving Markets – How Technology and Data Drive Transparency

    CREtech

    I am an innovator and investor working in the real estate industry.I am passionate about doing things better, exploring new ideas, and doing business in a way that is both effective and humane. I believe strongly in the power of women to shift paradigms of leadership and success in the 21st century.

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  • How Technology Impacts Reopening the COVID-19 Workplace

    Openpath

    Not much had changed in how people were accessing their buildings, offices, or campuses in the years leading up to 2020. However, the onset of the pandemic brought a heightened awareness around all the things we touch, and safety concerns with the things we used to do every day: commute, eat out, go to the gym, and go to work. Suddenly, our lives looked very different, as we all tried to adjust to this new normal. With this forced “reset” button, Openpath conducted a survey of tenants, p…

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