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  • Flank plans timber office buildings in BK

    The Real Deal – New York

    New York City isn't quite ready for a timber tower, but Brooklyn is about to take a crack at low-rise office and retail buildings made of wood. Flank, an architecture and development firm, is building two timber-filled commercial buildings at 320 and 360 Wythe Avenue in South Williamsburg. The firm is billing the projects as the first wooden structures to be built in the city in nearly a century. Not that others haven't tried: Two years ago, SHoP unveiled renderings for a 10-story timb…

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  • Knotel Passes 500K SF Under Lease With New Deals in FiDi, Midtown

    The Commercial Observer – Commercial Real Estate

    Startup office provider Knotel is continuing its prolific rate of expansion with two new deals for office space in Downtown and Midtown Manhattan, pushing the company’s portfolio to more than 500,000 square feet under lease. In the Downtown deal, Knotel agreed a 10-year lease last week for 23,429 square feet at 123 William Street in the Financial District, it announced Monday. The company will occupy the entire 14th floor at the 27-story, roughly 540,000-square-foot building between Fulton and J…

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  • Retailers Already Placing Orders For Tesla’s Electric Semitrucks

    Bisnow – National Commercial Real Estate News

    Retailers are putting in orders for Tesla’s electric semitrucks even before they hit the market. Though the vehicles will not start shipping until 2019, the environmental and cost benefits have Walmart and Loblaw Cos. signing up to be among the first to add the trucks to their delivery fleet. The push to order the trucks is in line with Loblaw’s goal of reducing its emissions impact by 2030. The Canadian grocer aims to have 350 zero-emission trucks in its fleet by then, which would reduce its ca…

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  • Where #CREtech Has Been And Where It’s Going. Guest Post Vishu Ramanathan, CEO of Buildout.

    Duke Long Blog

    Buildout CEO Vishu Ramanathan discusses how far CRE technology has come in the last decade and where it’s going in the years to come. Duke and I recently sat down for his podcast to talk about how far CRE technology has come in just the last decade and where it’s going in the near future. The old cliché that the CRE industry is behind the times may have been true 10 years ago, but it’s not the case anymore. Some of the most exciting applications for cutting-edge technology like virtual reality a…

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  • Which of these high-tech utopias would you live in?

    The Real Deal – New York

    Smart cities with high speed internet functioning at a city-wide level are popping up from the deserts of Saudi Arabia to suburban Phoenix and Melbourne. Along with these built-from-scratch cities, the market for the technology that holds them together is projected to be worth $34.4 billion per year by 2020, according to Curbed. Most cities are incorporating the technologies within pre-existing infrastructure or designating dedicated districts to implement the systems, but six cities are strikin…

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  • Why one expert isn’t optimistic about China’s new smart city

    The Real Deal – New York

    Smart cities are all the rage; everyone wants one, but can they truly sustain one? One Chinese researcher says no. Xiongan was envisioned in April by Chinese President Xi Jinping as a smart city with high tech amenities and an economy that would run off green technologies instead of its historic industry. But an expert affiliated with the state planner recently stepped forward to cast doubt on the vision for Xiogan unless free market reforms take place, according to the South China Morning Post….

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  • Pilot store relies on mobile app, tech

    Arkansas Online – Business Headlines

    For the past year, Amazon employees have been test driving Amazon Go, an experimental convenience store in downtown Seattle. The idea is to let consumers walk in, pick up items and then pay for them without ever standing in line at a cashier. Amazon is vague on the mechanics, but the store relies on a mobile app and some of the same sensing technology that powers self-driving cars to figure out who is buying what. Employees have tried to fool the technology. One day, three enterprising Amazonian…

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  • Concentrated Tech Talent Pools Emerge In New Markets

    Bisnow – National Commercial Real Estate News

    Pools of young tech talent are flocking to burgeoning tech cities beyond major U.S. metros, a new report by JLL reveals. As more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) graduates enter the market, a large portion of the highly skilled talent is emerging beyond traditional tech hubs to markets like Indiana, Idaho and Alabama. While San Jose remains a leader in attracting the most talent and boasts the highest number of STEM degrees, Columbus, Indiana came in second. The city, whic…

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  • Tesla Plays the Long Game With Semi Truck

    Wall Street Journal – Technology

    Elon Musk is taking on the commercial truck market with an approach that defies conventional expectations: all-electric vehicle capable of traveling for hundreds of miles on a single charge.

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  • Inside the New York City offices of $45 billion hedge-fund firm Two Sigma

    Business Insider – Tech

    What do you picture when you imagine a hedge-fund office? A noisy trading floor full of hedge-fund guys in fleece vests? Two Sigma, a $45 billion hedge-fund firm that uses advanced technologies to find investment opportunities, is a little different. The firm, which says it has seen head count grow by more than 400% in the past seven years, is as much a technology company as it is a finance company, analyzing over 10,000 data sources to find patterns in markets. That approach seems to have paid …

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