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  • Tenant Experience Takes Center Stage at the Largest Conference in Commercial Real Estate Tech

    DIGITAL JOURNAL

    HqO, a tenant experience (TeX) software and services company for commercial real estate, is pleased to announce that they are an Innovator Sponsor and exhibitor at the 2019 CREtech NYC Conference, being held on October 16th and 17th at Dock 72 in Brooklyn. Additionally, HqO co-founder and CEO Chase Garbarino will deliver a plenary session at the event. CREtech (cretech.com) is the leading event, content and connectivity platform for the commercial real estate technology industry….

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  • From the Rooftops, Big Box Stores Are Embracing Solar

    NEW YORK TIMES

    Target’s famous bull’s-eye is so cosmically linked with the brand that it’s hard to imagine the retail behemoth ever messing with the logo’s red color. But over the past decade — under pressure from customers, shareholders and employees — Target’s retail future is morphing into a very different hue: eco-green. The Minneapolis retailer best-known for its trendy, private-label brands and its millennial-friendly prices, has very publicly embraced the renewable energy passions of its millennial-hea…

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  • How former Yankee Mark Teixeira became the new voice for real estate placemaking

    SHADOW VENTURES

    Mark Teixeira spent 14 years as a professional baseball player, including a season with the Atlanta Braves and nine with the New York Yankees. In that time, he won a World Series, became a three-time All-Star, won five Golden Glove Awards and three Silver Slugger Awards. These days, he’s turned his eye to real estate, undertaking an ambitious project to revitalize the Proctor Creek area of Atlanta’s west side, turning it into the mixed-use Quarry Yards development. Read on for more about h…

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  • “All Around Town: 360° of NYC” – REBNY Announces Speakers for Annual Fall Members’ Luncheon on Oct 22

    REAL ESTATE BOARD OF NEW YORK

    Get the inside scoop on the “Who, What, When, Where and Why” of upcoming NYC developments and changing demands! The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), the city’s leading real estate trade association, is hosting the most popular event of the season for CRE. The panel of respected industry leaders includes:

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  • Meeting-Space Companies See Big Money in Manhattan

    WSJ

    A British company that builds and rents out meeting space in office properties is expanding in New York City, challenging hotels and other operators for a slice of the city’s more than $10 billion annual conference business. Etc.venues last month agreed to take 30,000 square feet in a Midtown East building at 601 Lexington Ave. The London-based company plans to revamp the space that was an in-house conference center for Citigroup Inc….

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  • Osaro raises $16 million to make warehouse robots smarter with AI

    VENTUREBEAT

    Osaro, a San Francisco startup developing AI-based solutions for industrial robots, today announced that it’s closed a $16 million series B funding round led by King River Capital (KRC), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, Founders Fund, Fenox Venture Capital, GiTV Fund, and existing and strategic investors. It brings the startup’s total raised to $29.3 million coming after a $10 million series A in April 2017, which cofounder and CEO Derik Pridmore said will bolster Osaro’s hiri…

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  • WeWork’s landlords buckle up

    THE REAL DEAL

    For New York City landlords needing a quick fix to fill empty office space, WeWork has been a go-to tenant for years. Now, with the office-space company in turmoil, those property owners suddenly feel a lot less secure. Some are turning to WeWork competitors to line up options in the event they need to suddenly fill space. “Many conversations are high-level,” said Katharine Lau, senior director of real estate at Industrious, an office-space company that enters partnership agreements with landl…

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  • What did we learn at EY’s 2019 REIT Finance and Tax leadership conference

    MARK KASPER

    Last week I hosted our 17th annual REIT Finance and Tax leadership conference where 330 real estate professionals converged in Austin, Texas to participate in our two-day program. It was fantastic to bring together a roster of speakers from all facets of the real estate sector to discuss many of the latest trends. Director of MIT’s Real Estate Innovation Lab, Dr. Andrea Chegut opened the program, sharing insights on the impact of automation on the built environment – we also recently held a w…

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  • Panic at Prodigy

    THE REAL DEAL

    In 2011, Rodrigo Niño was weighing his own mortality. The real estate executive, originally from Colombia, had been diagnosed with stage three melanoma. After two surgeries, his only choice, he later recounted in a heavily produced video, was to “venture into the unknown.” Niño, who is tall and thin with wavy gray hair, flew to Peru and traveled into the jungle, where he spent two weeks taking ayahuasca, a traditional brew and spiritual medicine known to induce hallucinations. He said he felt h…

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  • Andy Florance On Buying STR, WeWork’s Failed IPO And What CoStar Buys Next

    BISNOW

    Andy Florance has had an eye on Smith Travel Research for over a decade, ever since it bought a relative’s research company. “My aunt owned a similar business in Scotland that covered hotels in Edinburgh and Manchester and Glasgow, and I thought it was a fascinating business,” the founder and CEO of CoStar Group told Bisnow in a phone interview Wednesday. “But obviously I was not going to acquire my aunt’s business.”

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