January 26, 2023 Jarred Schenke, Bisnow Atlanta Amazon has tapped a Harvard-educated designer with experience in drafting municipal land use policies as its new vice president of worldwide corporate real estate and facilities. Amazon named Shannon Loew to the position previously held by John Schoettler, who will remain with the company, the Austin Business Journal reported. Loew’s hiring comes as […]
Buck Wargo | Feb 09, 2023 A new firm is trying to create its own version of a commercial real estate dating service with the launch of a tech-enabled platform that matches 1031 exchange buyers with sales brokers. Miami-based nxtCRE, which secured Series A funding from private equity firm Riverlake Partners in late 2022, announced in late […]
Lynn Petrak Senior Editor YouGov, an international data and analytics group that regularly conducts polls on a range of topics, is out with its latest list of the most popular grocers in the United States. The research firm surveyed consumers during the fourth quarter of 2022. What does “popular” mean in this context? YouGov bases that […]
Leslie Cohen, one of the best-known female executives in Boston’s commercial real estate industry, is moving from one major local development firm to another. Cohen has joined The Davis Cos. as chief operating officer after spending more than two decades at Samuels & Associates, including the past six years in the COO role. Cohen has […]
By Anissa Gardizy & Catherine Carlock Firms that signed big leases right before COVID are trying to design an office worth coming back to. After repeated false starts during the pandemic for returning to the office, the future of in-person work for white-collar professionals around Boston is becoming slightly more clear. In many industries, the […]
By Jane Dollinger via Nareit During Nareit’s REITwise: 2022 Law, Accounting & Finance Conference, Nareit spoke with several REIT finance veterans about what they love about the REIT industry and why young finance professionals should pursue a career in real estate. Find their answers below, and follow #REITjobs on LinkedIn to find your next position at a […]
by Boston Planning & Development Agency, Research Division. Driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for biomedical research has strengthened growth trends in the life science industry in Boston, impacting both real estate and employment. According to CBRE, the city of Boston has over 12 million square feet of life science lab space, with […]
by Lauren Shanesy – via CoStar If there are three words real estate professionals should consider heading into the next year, they are flexibility, convenience and resiliency. Those are the defining themes that came out of the annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2022 report, released last week by PwC and the Urban Land Institute. So, […]
by Greg Ryan| via bizjournals.com Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. plans to construct three buildings with a mix of lab and office space at the Watertown Mall, according to a recently unveiled proposed master plan for the property. The proposal includes 500,000 square feet of lab and office space at the mall site, along […]
by Andy Medici| via bizjournals.com Restaurants that did not receive grants from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund are more likely to declare bankruptcy in the coming months — and the industry as a whole has suffered due to the Omicron variant. The bleak findings are from a January survey of 1,200 restaurants and bars by the […]
