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 […]
In early 2020, Steven Paynter saw an opportunity. The principal at international architecture firm Gensler had spent a lot of time thinking about resiliency in architecture, focusing on making larger buildings out of wood rather than concrete and steel. But the pandemic, and the glut of empty office space it brought with it, presented a new opportunity […]
by Boston Planning & Development Agency, Research Division. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting business closures caused a sudden unprecedented spike in unemployment in Boston as in much of the country. Boston’s unemployment rate peaked in June 2020 at 16.1 percent, a dramatic increase compared to 2.6 percent unemployment in March 2020. Boston’s unemployment rate fell […]
by Ben Unglesbee | via Retail Dive For supply chains, the pandemic has brought unprecedented levels of disruption. The specific confluence of events was beyond anybody’s ability to foresee. But, at least in a general sense, everyone should have expected something like the year that just passed to happen. Risks of severe stress and even failure are […]
Nearly two years into the pandemic, a street-level survey finds the hub of science and research remains sparsely populated. by Scott Kirsner – via The Boston Globe What is Kendall Square like during the third wave of the pandemic? I wanted to understand how Cambridge’s celebrated cluster of innovation felt and who was working there. […]
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 Petro | via forbes.com Year three of the COVID-19 pandemic begins with the retail industry battle-weary but having weathered and, in some cases, even capitalized on an epic worst-case management crisis. The good news is that the retail apocalypse of 2020, having cleared the field of weak competitors, spurred surviving brands and companies […]
by Lisa McDuffie | via connectcre.com Boston led the country in office market recovery in October thanks to a high number of tenants in the market and strong leasing activity, according to CBRE’s monthly “Pulse of U.S. Office Demand” report. “The life science industry was once again a strong driver in Boston’s recovery, though we are […]
by: Gary Tasman | via NAIOP The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to re-evaluate the ways we conduct business, including remote work opportunities, surface sanitization, social distancing, human resources policies and indoor air quality. For those in the commercial leasing business, the concept of force majeure and how it applies to the pandemic is […]
