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Creative office market in Atlanta will thrive. Here’s why – Q&A with JLL’s sector expert

Atlanta Business Chronicle
8/3/2020

Since 2015, the amount of creative space in the region has increased by about 100,000 square feet almost every year, according to JLL Research. Creative developments such as Armour Yards in Buckhead, Ponce City Market alongside the Atlanta BeltLine and Georgia Tech’s CODA development are prime examples of how Atlanta’s office market is responding to evolving expectations and work preferences— especially in sectors like technology, design, and certain professional services….

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Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Bosses Better Adjust.

Wall Street Journal
8/3/2020

It was mid-June, three months after the Covid-19 crisis had forced the top executives in a fast-growing tech startup to leave their offices and work from home. Executives had believed this “work from home thing” would last a few weeks, one of the company’s vice presidents told me, so they treated it like a brief emergency that required all hands on deck, all the time.

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What do the new Climate Action Plans say about buildings? by Lindsay Baker

Medium – Lindsay Baker
8/3/2020

I’m back for a second installment of analysis and commentary on the buildings sections of emerging Climate Action Policy Plans. Maybe you’re a buildings person and you want to know what lawmakers are thinking, maybe you’re a lawmaker looking for insights from the buildings world. Either way, welcome, I hope you get something out of this.

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Michael Beckerman of CRETech on Commercial Real Estate Innovation

MillionAcres
8/3/2020

Michael Beckerman is the CEO of CREtech, an event, data, and content platform on all things commercial real estate tech. He also owns other brands, including commercial real estate news aggregator The News Funnel, and is an expert on the real estate tech startup space.

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Facial Recognition’s Next Big Play: Sports Stadium

Wall Street Journal
8/3/2020

When sports fans return to watch their teams play live again, many of them may not need a ticket. Several pro sports teams, including the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Football Club, are testing facial-recognition technology in stadiums. The idea is to admit fans for entry by authenticating their faces, to make the process as touchless as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.

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WATCH NOW: In Case You Missed It, View BrainBox AI’s FULL Tech Demo from Reimagining Real Estate

BrainBox AI
8/3/2020

BrainBox AI is the first autonomous AI technology for HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning); it is redefining building automation and is at the forefront of the Green Building revolution.

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Google (GOOGL) Invests $450 Million for Stake in Home Security Firm ADT

Bloomberg
8/3/2020

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is buying a $450 million stake in home security firm ADT Inc., forming a partnership that could get the tech giant’s smart-home products in front of millions of new customers. The deal gives Google a 6.6% stake in the Boca Raton, Florida-based ADT, the largest home security company in the U.S. with about 20,000 employees and more than 6 million customers. Google’s prowess in hardware design and software will give ADT access to technology it wouldn’t be able to build on its…

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Q&A With Tim Dismond, CBRE’s First Chief Diversity Officer

Bisnow
8/3/2020

Amid the global momentum gained in the past two months by the Black Lives Matter movement, American companies of all sizes have been held responsible by their customers to make their stances known. In the notoriously homogenous commercial real estate industry, a number of CEOs stepped forward with public-facing commitments to improve diversity and inclusion at their companies. Whether they can deliver on those commitments is yet to be seen.

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Group337 Announces the Launch of Inside Multifamily Access Control

Group337 LLC
7/31/2020

BETHESDA, Md., July 30, 2020 (Newswire.com) – Group337 LLC, the parent company of The Inside, Inside Access Control, and Inside Visitor Management, today announces its latest platform: Inside Multifamily Access Control. Included in the launch is a website (www.insidemfac.com), a weekly newsletter (https://www.insidemfac.com/subscribe), and a podcast dedicated to the Multifamily market and the access control industry. Lee Odess, CEO of Group337, shared, “We are excited to create a place for pr…

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Global hackathon focused on the biggest challenges identified by the largest operators

Commercial Real Estate Biz
7/31/2020

In Greek mythology, Prometheus chose to give humans the knowledge of fire and thereby empowered them in the eyes of the Olympians (Zeus was not pleased, but that is another story). When nineteen top operators and wealthy institutions issue a proptech wish list, its like a gift from the tech gods to the startup-mortals made of clay looking with desire upon the Blessed Climbs.

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