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PlaceTech.
Before you re-open your buildings and welcome your employees back to work, you need to be confident that you’ve thought through any space, occupancy or design adjustments. A critical step in developing your re-entry strategy is mapping potential risk points based on typical movements within the workplace and establishing dedensification thresholds. Each decision should effectively balance health, safety and financial implications.
ADWEEK
As businesses begin to reopen in China and life slowly returns to its streets, the retail industry in the U.S. may look to the country for guidance on what the post-pandemic world looks like and how to adapt to the new reality.
openbox
Right now CRE individuals and teams are needing alternative solutions to patch the chasms that have been created from the rather abrupt work-from-home call to action. Some solutions may be turned into a long-term fit, others will be temporary.
REFINERE
We are pleased to announce that on April 1, 2020, RefineRE, Inc. acquired BenchCore LLC and will add its corporate real estate industry-leading benchmarking data and services to RefineRE’s robust platform for corporate real estate occupiers. BenchCore will remain its own company within the RefineRE platform and founders Ron Zappile Sr., Peter Holland, and Raymond Nomizu will remain active with the company. Peter Holland will remain BenchCore CEO.
Bloomberg
In the breakroom at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, a PowerPoint presentation playing on repeat shows people in hazmat suits making their way through the giant facility, spraying disinfectant. The video is followed by an explanation in English and Spanish. Nearby, televisions broadcast messages of thanks from employees and customers.
DUOs Podcast
In this episode we sit down with Nick Romito and Ryan Masiello co-founders of VTS, commercial real estate’s leading leasing and asset management platform that brings landlords, brokers, and tenants together to make deals happen.
Bisnow
WeWork’s flexible office business is asking for rent cuts and battling to cut liabilities, and the company failed in its effort to go public in September 2019, leading to the ouster of mercurial co-founder Adam Neumann. But its property investment arm is still bringing in a lot of cash to make new investments.
CREtech
CREtech (cretech.com), the largest intelligence platform devoted to Reimagining Real Estate, announced today that they are now accepting applications for the 7th Annual Real Estate Tech Awards (#RETAS). Sponsored by JLL Technologies and backed by the leading VCs, Angel Investors, Corporate Investors and Thought Leaders in the commercial real estate tech industry, the awards are open to any startup or technology company servicing the industry….
AXIOS
Apple and Google announced a series of small changes to their coronavirus contact-tracing technology and shared additional technical details ahead of a launch in the coming weeks.
CREtech
Built world and real estate industry experts come together to share actionable advice on what the new normal might look like and how we can prepare for a post-Covid compliant world.
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