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  • Ferguson Partners Appoints Linda J. Isaacson As Managing Director

    CITY BIZ LIST

    Ferguson Partners is pleased to announce Linda J. Isaacson as the firm’s Managing Director and Global Head of Innovation and Technology. Isaacson, a veteran in the real estate and PropTech industries, will look to empower clients to create innovative cultures that embrace digitization and creativity through Big Data, PropTech, FinTech,ConTech and AI,among other emerging technologies and venture capital opportunities. Leading Ferguson Partners’recruitment of next generation,tech-savvy leaders, sh…

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  • Coworking operator’s Philadelphia affiliate files for bankruptcy protection

    PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS JOURNAL

    An entity affiliated with Joynture, a coworking operator that has 33,000 square feet of space on South Street in Philadelphia, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Joynture 417 South Street Inc. made the filing Sept. 9 in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. It lists assets between $50,001 to $100,000 and liabilities between $500,001 to $1 million. One of Joynture’s shareholders, Faisal Zafar, indicated on the filing that he had also voluntarily filed for Ch…

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  • With 222K SF WeWork Anchor, Rudin Set To Open Dock 72 Office Project

    BISNOW

    Back in 2013, a 3-year-old coworking startup named WeWork came to New York’s Rudin family, local real estate royalty, with an idea. The Brooklyn Navy Yard had approached WeWork about a location in the sprawling redevelopment of the decommissioned shipbuilding facility, and the company approached Rudin Management to gauge the family business’s interest in a major Brooklyn office project.

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  • Construction Tech Unicorn Procore Reportedly Eyeing An IPO

    CRUNCHBASE

    Procore, which has developed cloud-based construction management software, is joining the herd of startups that are headed for the public markets, according to a Bloomberg report. As we’ve reported extensively, construction tech is one of those spaces that has not been considered traditionally sexy. It is, however, an industry that is growing both in terms of the number of companies receiving funding in the space and in terms of more mainstream investor interest. It’s also seeing more exits….

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  • Brokerage Melds to Clients’ Objectives and Evolving Business

    GLOBEST

    DALLAS—Avison Young recently announced the strategic hiring of Charlie Morris. Reporting to the CEO, Morris becomes the leader of Avison Young’s US flexible office solutions practice with a mandate to oversee the management and development of this practice in the US and to expand it across the globe. Morris was most recently director of business development for LiquidSpace, a company that supports the flexible-office economy. In this exclusive, he discusses what type of experience he brings f…

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  • Eden Names Former Vornado Exec Brian Snow a Vice Chairman

    EDEN

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eden, the market leading workplace management platform, has named industry veteran Brian Snow a Vice Chairman. In the role, Snow will report to company co-Founder and CEO Joe Du Bey, and play a key role in providing strategy for the 65-person company. Eden is the first tech-forward facility management company, with all of the services and software needed to manage an experience-first workplace. The company is currently available to over 65 percent of the office…

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  • The 2019 Real Estate Marketing Awards (#REMAS) Are Open! Enter Now!

    REMAS

    NEW YORK, September 23, 2019 – The Real Estate Marketing Awards (#REMAS), an annual creative competition that recognizes and awards the best marketing projects, agencies and marketers in the real estate industry each year, announced today that applications are now being accepted for their third annual Real Estate Marketing Awards (#REMAS). The #REMAS awards are owned and operated by The News Funnel….

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  • Deep-pocketed co-living company wants to make a splash in Austin

    AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL

    A global co-living business is homing in on Austin as part of its big U.S. expansion. Germany-based Quarters plans to open in 2021 a five-story, 120-bedroom co-living facility at 1108 Nueces St. downtown, according to a Sept. 18 announcement — replacing a low-slung office building currently on the site. The company said it would be Austin’s largest space for co-living, usually defined as housing where residents share communal areas such as kitchens….

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  • IKEA is investing $2.8 billion in renewable energy infrastructure

    QUARTZ

    The world’s largest furniture company is determined to go off-grid, and it’s developing an affordable solar energy program to convince you to do the same. Timed for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York next week, IKEA’s holding company Ingka Group revealed that it has invested €2.5 billion ($2.76 billion) in solar and wind energy systems over the last decade to power its global operations. The Leiden-based unit, which controls 367 of IKEA’s 423 retail outlets, already has a stake in two sola…

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  • Startups That Offer New Paths to Homeownership

    WSJ

    People with steady incomes but less-than-perfect credit are often shut out of buying homes because they can’t qualify for a mortgage. A San Francisco startup, Divvy Homes, says it has an answer: It buys homes on behalf of clients, then rents the homes to the consumers as part of a deal that lets them build up equity toward a purchase. Divvy, along with companies such as ZeroDown, Flyhomes and others, are among a wave of startups creating new paths to homeownership at a time when high home …

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