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  • WeWork is buying Lord & Taylor’s Fifth Avenue flagship

    New York Post – Business News

    Lord & Taylor’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue is getting sold to WeWork, the New York-based tech unicorn that markets shared office space. Hudson’s Bay, the owner of Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, is selling the century-old Lord & Taylor flagship for $850 million, the companies announced on Tuesday. WeWork will convert the 11-story building at Fifth Avenue and 38th Street into its headquarters while making a $500 million investment in Toronto-based HBC along with Rhone Capital…

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  • Linesight Unveils the Future of Data Center Evolution

    Business Wire Commercial Building & Real Estate News

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Linesight, a Dublin-based global specialty construction services company specializing in data center development, today released a comprehensive white paper entitled Hyperactive Hyperscale that explores the exceptional growth in the data center space. Hyperscaling refers to the development of data centers that are much larger than traditional facilities and have thousands, rather than hundreds, of servers. According to the report, data traffic, one of the main dri…

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  • Lord & Taylor Building, Icon of New York Retail, to Become WeWork Headquarters

    New York Times – Real Estate News

    As the flagship store shrinks, the deal is an acknowledgment that even grand shopping spaces of old may now be more valuable as offices.

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  • Podcast #157 Vishu Ramanathan Ceo Buildout.

    Duke Long Blog

    What is the past and future of #CRE and #Tech? How important is data, your data? Is integration just a dream or is it actually happening? Why should you care? Do you understand why the cost of adding incremental functionality will go down with access to data? Everyone has an opinion about AI, Driverless cars, and VR but do they relate it to #CRE and #Techonology in realistic terms? All of this and so much more. The Evolution of REX. Prototypes, Seed Rounds, and Beta. Startups in San Francisco ar…

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  • Q & A Feature with CRE // Tech Report Co-Editor, Anthony Dominguez, CEO of AtlasX

    CRETECH

    What does your site software do?AtlasX is the operating system powering real estate firm’s acquisitions, dispositions, and capital raising from start to finish. We enable our clients to focus on deals by automating sourcing, standardizing data, compressing the time for funding decisions, and building our clients institutional memory of the market.Who are your customers?Our clients include owner operators, private equity, REITs, and lenders that are actively deploying capital. To date, we’re work…

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  • Listen: Investing in PropTech and Construction Tech

    Dreamit – Blog

    Listen to our recent discussion led by Dreamit Chief Investment Officer Karen Griffith Gryga and featuring with Chris Mayer, Chief Innovation Officer at Suffolk Construction, and Camille Renshaw, CEO of RenshawCo. Guests discuss trends and tactics for investing in real estate tech and construction tech.  Chris Mayer, Chief Innovation Officer at Suffolk ConstructionAs Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer at Suffolk Construction, Chris Mayer is responsible for introducing and im…

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  • $2.2 Billion Incentives Offered To Amazon Not Raising Alarms For Aldermen

    CBS Chicago – News

    CHICAGO (CBS) — The big incentive package the state and city have offered to Amazon to land its coveted “HQ2” might be raising eyebrows, but not too many concerns among Chicago aldermen. Ald. David Moore (17th) said, if Amazon chooses the Chicago area as the site of its second headquarters, and the campus is built on land not currently generating taxes, then the combined $2.25 billion in financial incentives is not alarming. “You give them that incentive that you were not getting anyway, but wha…

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  • Ultra-thin Macbook-shaped roof tops new Apple Store in Chicago

    Inhabitat – Phoenix

    A new Apple Store has just opened in downtown Chicago—and it’s an architectural beauty. Designed by Foster + Partners, Apple Michigan Avenue follows the tech giant’s new (and controversial) “Town Square” store concept in which stores are meant to serve as community hubs rather than simply commercial spaces. Naming aside, the new Apple flagship is a stunner with wraparound glazing and an ultra-thin carbon fiber roof in the recognizable shape of a Macbook cover. Located along the Chicago riverfron…

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  • The future of grocery shopping is all about data

    MarketWatch.com – Top Stories

    Food retailers are racing to leverage one of the most important weapons in their battle to keep people coming to grocery stores: data. “Data is the new battleground,” says Stuart Aitken, chief executive of 84.51˚, Kroger Co.’s KR, +1.57% data-analytics unit, whose name derives from the longitude of the division’s Cincinnati headquarters and because its 750 employees do so-called longitudinal studies, researching habits of customers over long periods. Working from a small host of research facilit…

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  • Viceroy Chicago Implements InvoTech’s RFID Uniform Management System to Reduce Operating Costs

    Hospitality.net

    Viceroy Opens New Hotel in Chicago with InvoTech RFID Uniform Management System to Increase Efficiency LOS ANGELES, CA – InvoTech Systems Inc. announced the recent implementation of its Uniform System at the new Viceroy Chicago that opened September 1, 2017, located in the Gold Coast neighborhood. InvoTech Systems is the leading provider of advanced Linen Management, Laundry and Uniform Systems that integrate the latest RFID technology to increase profitability for hotels, resorts, casino operat…

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