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  • HB Reavis CEO: The Reason You Don’t Like WeWork Is Because It Makes You Look Lazy

    BISNOW

    WeWork and the current wave of flexible office providers haven’t just disrupted the existing office real estate world: They have shown it to be lazy and out of touch with the reality of the way people use buildings. That was the challenging assertion of HB Reavis UK Chief Executive Steven Skinner in opening remarks at Bisnow London’s Creative Office Bash, held at the company’s 33 Central building in the City.

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  • WeWork is coming to Times Square

    THE REAL DEAL

    Hipster-ish office workers will soon be joining the costumed characters in Times Square. WeWork has inked a lease for about 45,000 square feet at 1410 Broadway in Midtown, the company announced on Wednesday. The office-leasing arm of the We Company will occupy space on the eighth, ninth and 16th floors of the building, taking an average of about 15,000 square feet on each floor. Its new location will open over the summer….

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  • Real Estate Crowdfunding Firms Push Further into the Mainstream

    NATIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTOR

    When the first real estate crowdfunding firms launched about five years ago, they were met by plenty of skeptics. Yet the sector has continued to shake off uncertainty and win over a growing base of sponsors and investors. “The initial stigma of crowdfunding is long gone and everyone in our industry, even the largest groups, recognize it as a viable source of capital raises,” says Stephen Cassidy, president at Denholtz Associates, a Piscataway, N.J.-based private investment company that has b…

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  • See inside downtown Orlando’s latest co-working space

    ORLANDO BUSINESS JOURNAL

    An international co-working space officially opened in downtown Orlando this month, adding to a handful of similar office space for local small businesses. West Palm Beach-based Venture X added the finishing touches last month to its 21,000-square-foot co-working office at 100 E. Pine St. and cut the ribbon on April 4. The co-working space occupies the entire first and fifth floors of the building and has 292 desks and 56 private offices for its members….

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  • Google adds vacation rentals to booking platform

    DAILY BEAT NY

    Google has added vacation rentals to its hotel booking platform, according to Skift. The tech giant is partnering with Expedia, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, and others to list short-stay apartments, cabins, villas, and houses in search results. These vacation rentals are geared toward travelers looking to settle into a new location….

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  • Announcing the 17 New Startups in Dreamit Ventures’ SecureTech, HealthTech, and UrbanTech Programs

    DREAMIT

    NEW YORK CITY, NY — April 2, 2019 — Dreamit Ventures, an early stage venture fund and growth-focused accelerator, announced its latest batch of startups this week. Dreamit works with top healthcare, cybersecurity, and urban technology startups, providing access to extensive customer, industry, and investor networks during its 14-week acceleration programs. Dreamit incorporates the intelligence, data, and new relationships gained during acceleration into its venture investment process to build…

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  • Disrupting the Massive Commercial Real Estate Market – Tom Smith / Co-Founder of Truss

    TECH IN CHICAGO

    Tom Smith is the Co-Founder of Truss, a commercial real estate platform that helps small businesses find office space. You can think of them as Airbnb for commercial real estate. The company’s marketplace allows one to find, explore, compare, lease and tour office, industrial and retail space, immediately receive feedback on tours and spaces, manage all documents in one place, among others, providing small and medium businesses with a cost-effective way to lease space for their business….

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  • Co-Living Large: Inside the Growing Co-Living Sector

    COMMERCIAL OBSERVER

    Quarters, which bills itself as the largest co-living company in the United States and Europe today, launched from a new spin on an old business model: the company town. Just as firms of yore used to provide housing for workers to lease or buy into—think Hershey, Penn., synonymous with the chocolatier—Quarters grew out of a technology company in Berlin wanting to draw and retain talent in the German capital….

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  • Amazon acquires autonomous warehouse robotics startup Canvas Technology

    TECHCRUNCH

    Amazon has acquired Boulder, Colo.-based warehouse robotics startup Canvas Technology, TechCrunch has learned. The deal makes a lot of sense from the outside, adding another important piece to Amazon Robotics’ growing portfolio of fulfillment center machines. Amazon confirmed the acquisition with TechCrunch. “We are inspired by Canvas Technology’s innovations, and share a common vision for a future where people work alongside robotics to further improve safety and the workplace experience,” a…

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  • Home-Buying Startup Opendoor Courting Miffed Brokers

    WSJ

    Opendoor, a real-estate startup that broke new ground by enabling users to buy or sell homes online with the click of a button, is moving to work more closely with the brokerage industry. The San Francisco-based company said it is launching this week an agent partnership program, which will refer customers to real-estate agents vetted by Opendoor. It is also testing a co-listing arrangement with an agent in Phoenix, and it has tweaked its website design to give agents a more prominent role….

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