In Case You Missed It, Read Highlights From CREtech Talks: Tech-Enabled Capital Markets

In the post-pandemic era of commercial real estate, there have been wholesale changes to how properties are bought, sold, and financed.  A true black swan event in modern economic history, today’s leaders in real estate capital markets are rethinking and transforming their approach and strategies in today’s economic environment. In a recent CREtech Talks, Tech-Enabled Capital Markets, four commercial real estate capital markets leaders, Matt Reibling of Techsyn, Blake Nucci of Tishman Speyer,…

Augmented Reality platform could help offices during reopening

Thor Brings on Industrious to Manage Midtown Coworking Space

Thor Equities has brought on workspace manager Industrious as a partner to operate the firm’s 36,000-square-foot coworking space in Midtown, Commercial Observer has learned.

Shopify Is Joining Twitter in Permanent Work-From-Home Shift

Shopify Inc. will allow its 5,000 employees to work from home indefinitely, even after the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic fade and cities lift shutdowns. The company plans to keep its offices largely closed for the rest of the year as it re-designs its space for a “digital by default” mindset and adjusts to a remote work environment, Tobi Lutke, chief executive officer of the Canadian e-commerce giant, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. Offices will be limited to 20% to 25% cap…

Covid-19 Tests Come to Work, but Logistics Are Complicated

Covid-19 testing regimes are taking hold at big companies as they try to get back to business and prevent outbreaks on the job. Employees at Smithfield Foods Inc., Ford Motor Co. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH 1.39% have begun reporting to tents and clinics or getting kits in the mail for coronavirus testing. The tests, combined with mandatory face masks and social-distancing practices on the job, are intended to protect staff and provide managers with a real-time sense of the virus’s presence …

TODAY: Preparing the Built World for the New Normal: Part VII presented by Openpath

Hear from thought leaders in the Mixed Use market as we explore how communal space, retail space, office space and residential space use all need to adapt to the new normal. New paradigms in design need to combine with demand to bring retailers and employers closer to their customers and employees. Hear from Gensler and prominent owners & developers who are reacting and adapting in real-time to a post-Covid19 reality.

The Technology Keeping Construction Moving Through the Pandemic

New technologies are keeping construction projects moving through the pandemic. Even in markets like Southern California, where construction was deemed an essential industry, worker safety was crucial to construction job sites. To ensure safety and defend against outbreaks, contracting companies like Suffolk have leaned on tech tools, from touch-less thermometers to monitors that track social distancing.

Matterport Announces Collaboration with Leading Technology and Data Company Propstack

Matterport, the market leader for spatial data capture, has announced a collaboration with India-based leading technology and data company Propstack to provide a range of services including 3D virtual tours for commercial & residential properties. Matterport is rapidly expanding in the Asia Pacific region, across various industries including residential and commercial real estate, property management, architecture, engineering, construction and insurance….

WATCH NOW: When and how should CRE owners “reopen” their buildings and businesses?

Watch Now: CREtech in partnership with NavigatorCRE, a state-of-the-art cloud platform that connects CRE owner’s data and intelligence into a single source, explores the challenges landlords are overcoming and opportunities they are leveraging to “reopen”. Hear perspectives from three key CRE verticals on what their new normal will look like and the innovative technologies they will use to get there.

Survey: U.S. Commercial Real Estate Sector Expected to Be Resilient in Recovery

COVID-19 is a rare and powerful global disease that has led to a devastating spike in infections and fatalities and has effectively shut down large parts of the U.S. and global economies. Enormous uncertainty exists about how and when it will be cured or treated and how and when economies will approach something resembling normalcy.