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  • Mocha And Minions: Inside Comcast’s Attempt To Revive Its Image Through Retail

    Bisnow

    Comcast has jumped into the experiential retail trend with two openings of its Studio Xfinity concept, a move Comcast representatives and retail experts say is aimed at repairing the often-criticized company’s image rather than bringing in sales.   Bisnow: Jon Banister The inside of the Studio Xfinity on Seventh Street in D.C. “The company recognized that a lot of the customers felt disconnected,” said Comcast Senior Consultant Vailen Smith, who works in the D.C. location. “They figured a way to…

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  • Unrelated But Living Together: How Co-Living Is Building Communities

    Bisnow

    On a recent Friday, Rose Mark and a friend started cooking dinner mid-morning. She would need to make enough lasagna to feed dozens of people by the evening. Twice a week, community members at Phoenix Commons in Oakland make dinner for each other, but this Friday dinner was special. Mark was celebrating the two-year anniversary of the opening of Phoenix Commons, a four-story, 41-unit senior co-housing facility along the Oakland estuary near the Park Street Bridge. Bisnow/Julie Littman Phoenix Co…

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  • NY-Based Flexible Workspace Provider Serendipity Labs Expands to Hollywood

    Commercial Observer

    Serendipity Labs, a flexible workspace operator based in Rye, N.Y., is planting a flag in Los Angeles, Commercial Observer can first report. For its first L.A. location, the company last night signed a deal to sublease 36,000 square feet on the entire second floor from the defunct indie film company Broad Green Pictures at 959 Seward Street in Hollywood’s Media District for the remaining eight years of the lease. (Broad Green Pictures shut down its production division last August, as the Los …

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  • How Top Cost Segregators Can Leverage Reonomy as a Lead Generation Tool

    Reonomy

    Reonomy is a CRE database tool with information on over 47 million properties nationwide, from property owner contact information to property tax and sales history. The tool’s search filters can be manipulated to produce tailored leal lists containing property owner’s email addresses, phone numbers and direct mail addresses. As a property cost segregator, the true beauty of the tool lies in its ability to allow you to target building owners and property managers who may now or in the future be s…

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  • Walmart reveals why it has robots roaming the aisles in 50 of its stores

    Business Insider

    Walmart’s new robot fleet is having an impact on stores. The retailer has expanded its initial test of its shelf-scanning robots to 50 stores across four states, including Arkansas and California. They’re shaped like six-foot-tall roving towers on wheels and are equipped with cameras that can spot shelving errors. Walmart is working with the fully autonomous robots’ manufacturer, Bossa Nova Robotics, for the program. The robots scan aisles for out-of-stock items, things that were put in th…

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  • Investors hope cryptocurrency raise will buy them the Plaza Hotel

    The Real Deal

    Having trouble locking down enough equity or a fat acquisition loan for your first splashy Manhattan investment play? To hell with banks and funds — why not just do a simple $375 million cryptocurrency offering and get the deal done already? That’s what Shahal Khan and a group of investors under the banner of “Chimera” want to do en route to buying the majority stake in the Plaza Hotel, according to a CNBC report. The news website reported that Khan and company are floating a securitized t…

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  • ACS Cloud by Genea: After Hours HVAC Control for Tenants

    CRETech

    The ACS Cloud by Genea platform offers an after-hours control system that enables commercial building tenants to procure HVAC and lights using any web-enabled device. It rids your tenant and property managers of extra work orders, spreadsheets, paperwork and phone calls. It integrates with virtually any energy management system. Without Genea, tenants often have to submit requests long before they know they will have to stay after business hours. Property managers take on the additional resp…

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  • Ryder to Launch Commercial Vehicle-Sharing Platform

    WSJ

    Ryder System Inc. R -1.94% is developing an Airbnb-like marketplace for transportation assets that puts idle commercial vehicles in the hands of users looking to affordably expand capacity. Ryder, which provides short-term truck rentals and fleet-management services for companies, said Tuesday that during the work week about 25% of U.S. commercial vehicles sit unused for more than a day. The company’s new service, dubbed COOP, was launched in January in the Atlanta metro area. …

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  • Waymo, a Google Spinoff, Ramps Up Its Driverless-Car Effort

    NY Times

    The company says it will buy up to 20,000 electric cars from Jaguar Land Rover as it strives to put a ride service into operation within two years. Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun out of Google, has pushed farther ahead in self-driving cars than any of the automakers or other technology companies trying to pioneer the field. It has been working on its software, sensors and other gear for nine years. It has 600 or more test vehicles operating in at least four cit…

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  • Airborne Alexa? Amazon Patents A Delivery Drone That Understands Voice And Gestures

    CBInsights

    A new patent envisions Amazon delivery drones that respond to human gestures and voice commands. Amazon’s latest drone patent turns UAVs from passive delivery vehicles into sophisticated robots that will respond to human gestures and voice commands. On March 20, 2018 the US Patent & Trademark Office approved Amazon’s July 2016 filing for “Human Interaction with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.” As Amazon pushes its logistics capabilities ever further, drones have become cent…

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