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  • Bill Gates Is Investing In Belmont, Arizona To Become A Smart City

    CRETECH

    Prepare for the future — Belmont, Arizona, located in the southwestern portion of the state, will be a 100% smart city. A group connected to the Gates investment company has invested $80 million in its development. Belmont will be located just outside Phoenix, and be similar in size to Tempe, Arizona (population 182,000). The plan is for a 24,800-acre development filled with residences, public schools, and office, commercial and retail space. Bill Gates, former Microsoft CEO, owns Cascad…

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  • The Rise of the “Urban-Suburban” Office Market

    VTS – Blog

    While the focus has been on the U.S. downtown office market and its recovery for the past several years, it’s time for the suburban office market to step into the spotlight as it continues its comeback. In fact, suburban office construction dominated activity in 2017 and there are no signs of a slowdown in 2018. Overall, developers delivered 48.9 million square feet of new office space in 2017 — the largest amount since 2009 according to CBRE’s new office report. Suburban markets accounted…

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  • Knotel receives investment from Newmark Knight Frank

    New York Post – Real Estate News

    Knotel receives investment from Newmark Knight Frank By Lois Weiss View author archive email the author follow on twitter Get author RSS feed Name(required) Email(required) Comment(required) February 20, 2018 | 10:39pm Modal Trigger The interior of Knotel. Knotel More from: Lois Weiss Financial firm moving into 51 Astor Place penthouse office McMillan's DDG zeroes in on Williamsburg site Brooklyn Lab school adds Dumbo Heights location Underwater housing site in Staten Island set to be forec…

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  • Tech Envisions the Ultimate Start-Up: An Entire City Silicon Valley wants to save cities. What could go wrong?

    New York Times

    SAN FRANCISCO — For all the optimism, innovation and wealth that are produced here, the Bay Area can also feel like a place that doesn’t work quite right. The cost of housing has priced out teachers and line cooks. Income inequality is among the widest in the nation. The homeless crisis never seems to ebb. Traffic is a mess. On bad days, transit is, too. And local governments are locked in conflict. Clearly, the region has not been optimized. “It could be so much better,” said Ben Huh, …

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  • What’s in Store for the Flexible Office Space Trend?

    NREI – National Real Estate Investor

    In a Q&A with NREI, Amol Sarva, Knotel co-founder and CEO, shares his views on flexible office space and the future of office space in general. Amol Sarva is co-founder and CEO of New York-based Knotel, a flexible office provider. But this isn’t Sarva’s first start-up rodeo. After earning a doctorate in neuroscience from Stanford University, Sarva co-founded Halo Neuroscience, which invented a proprietary technology called Neuropriming used in a wearable device to improve the brain’s resp…

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  • Google has been on a real estate rampage. Meet the in-house team that makes it happen

    The Real Deal – New York

    More than a decade before Google put together a deal to buy the Chelsea Market building for $2.4 billion, the head of the tech titan’s in-house real estate team in New York was working on another marquee project. In the early 2000s, Paul Darrah was leading the real estate team at Bloomberg LP, overseeing construction of the company’s new, 750,000-square-foot headquarters at Vornado Realty Trust’s 731 Lexington Avenue. Darrah and his team had to convince Vornado to alter their plans for a primari…

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  • #REBNYTech Hackathon GAUNTLET CHALLENGE Summary.

    Duke Long Blog

    For context and reference, I was one of the esteemed judges at the #REBNYTech Hackathon GAUNTLET CHALLENGE this week. It was the culmination and or finals if you will of a hackathon started by REBNY last fall. I also judged and wrote about that specific event here, #REBNYTECH Hackathon 2017 Will Award A Total Of $75k In Cash And Prizes To Tech Innovators! It was such as positive step forward for REBNY and #CRE/#RETech that a GLOBAL https://www.proptechchallenge.com/ was started and will run an e…

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  • The Trend in Online Shopping: Not Shopping Online

    Wall Street Journal – Technology

    The hottest thing in China’s online shopping world is bricks-and-mortar stores. Inman, which started as an online-only women’s fashion brand but has now opened 450 shops, shows why. The Trend in Online Shopping: Not Shopping Online

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  • Gift Baskets And Apple Watches: How CoStar Courted 1,000 Former Xceligent Clients In 2 Months

    Bisnow

    CoStar’s efforts to court former Xceligent customers after its competitor shut down appear to be paying off. The D.C.-based commercial real estate data company has signed roughly 1,000 former Xceligent client firms since mid-December, CoStar CEO Andy Florance said on the firm’s quarterly earnings call Thursday.  CoStar had been embroiled in a yearlong legal battle with Xceligent before its competitor ultimately filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection Dec. 14. Florance said this left 5,000 c…

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  • Mike’s Weekly Picks

    CRETECH

    Commercial Brokerages Are Racing To Dominate The Real Estate Tech Landscape SOURCE BISNOW – NATIONAL COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE NEWS Technology plays a huge role in powering the $2 trillion machine that is commercial real estate, and major commercial brokerages are scrambling for… WeShop? WeWork preps a retail push SOURCE CNN.COM – LATEST FINANCIAL NEWS WeShop? WeWork preps a retail push by Seth Fiegerman and Sara Ashley O’Brien  Growing CoStar to clos…

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