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  • Doug Curry out as Xceligent CEO

    The Real Deal – Miami

    UPDATED, Oct. 24, 6:27 p.m.: Doug Curry was fired as Xceligent CEO Monday as the data company’s legal battle against rival CoStar is heating up. On Tuesday night the company announced that Frank Anton, former CEO of media company Hanley Wood, will take over the company as executive chairman. Chief people officer Erin Curry is also out, the company said. COO Jody Vanarsdale will serve as acting CEO. It wasn’t immediately clear why Curry was fired, but sources said it was unrelated to the CoStar l…

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  • Lord & Taylor sells its flagship Manhattan store to WeWork

    Seattle Post Intelligencer – Business News

    NEW YORK (AP) — Lord & Taylor's flagship store in Manhattan, known for its holiday displays along Fifth Avenue, is being sold to the office space sharing company WeWork. The nearly 100-year-old building will be converted to WeWork headquarters, with less than a quarter of the space remaining for a Lord & Taylor store. Ten of the building's 11 floors are now devoted to retail. WeWork attracts millennials who are looking to share office space, a consumer segment that Lord & T…

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  • How Innovation Leads to Economic Segregation

    The Atlantic CityLab

    The urban revival of the past two decades has led to a striking contradiction. As high-tech talent and industry have moved back to many cities, increasing their economic output and lowering unemployment rates, these cities have become increasingly unequal. Now a new study documents in meticulous detail the extent to which rising innovation and deepening economic segregation in cities are two sides of the same coin. The study, by economists Enrico Berkes of Northwestern University and my Universi…

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  • Online overtakes in-store holiday spend for the first time

    Retail Dive

    Author By Daphne Howland @daphnehowland • Published Oct. 24, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: It was a surprise last year when Deloitte found that holiday consumers expected to spend as much online as in stores, but this year that’s gone even further: More than half (51%) of holiday shoppers expect their budgets to go to online spending, compared to 42% who expect to spend in stores, according to Deloitte’s 32nd annual holiday survey, which was emailed to Retail Dive. More than half (5…

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  • New Food Hall to Open at Coda Development in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square

    REBusinessOnline

    The Collective at Coda in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square will include eight to 10 eateries with communal seating areas opening up into a 20,000-square-foot outdoor space. ATLANTA — The Collective, a new food hall concept, is set to join the forthcoming Coda development underway at 771 Spring St. in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square. The Collective will include eight to 10 eateries with communal seating areas opening up into a 20,000-square-foot outdoor space. The historic three-story Crum & Forst…

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  • WHAT OUR CRE // TECH MID-YEAR REPORT REVEALS THAT EVERYONE IN THE INDUSTRY SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO…

    Michael Beckerman

    After several months of intense research by our team and leading industry experts, we have released our 2017 Mid-Year CRE // Tech Report which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the CRE tech industry as well as profiles on the hottest startups in the space. It`s a report that is considered to be the “go-to” analysis and update for much of the industry. How do I know, because it always has been for me and my own network. And that`s just one of the main reasons why our company, T…

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  • WeWork is buying Lord & Taylor’s Fifth Avenue flagship

    New York Post – Business News

    Lord & Taylor’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue is getting sold to WeWork, the New York-based tech unicorn that markets shared office space. Hudson’s Bay, the owner of Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, is selling the century-old Lord & Taylor flagship for $850 million, the companies announced on Tuesday. WeWork will convert the 11-story building at Fifth Avenue and 38th Street into its headquarters while making a $500 million investment in Toronto-based HBC along with Rhone Capital…

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  • Linesight Unveils the Future of Data Center Evolution

    Business Wire Commercial Building & Real Estate News

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Linesight, a Dublin-based global specialty construction services company specializing in data center development, today released a comprehensive white paper entitled Hyperactive Hyperscale that explores the exceptional growth in the data center space. Hyperscaling refers to the development of data centers that are much larger than traditional facilities and have thousands, rather than hundreds, of servers. According to the report, data traffic, one of the main dri…

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  • Lord & Taylor Building, Icon of New York Retail, to Become WeWork Headquarters

    New York Times – Real Estate News

    As the flagship store shrinks, the deal is an acknowledgment that even grand shopping spaces of old may now be more valuable as offices.

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  • Podcast #157 Vishu Ramanathan Ceo Buildout.

    Duke Long Blog

    What is the past and future of #CRE and #Tech? How important is data, your data? Is integration just a dream or is it actually happening? Why should you care? Do you understand why the cost of adding incremental functionality will go down with access to data? Everyone has an opinion about AI, Driverless cars, and VR but do they relate it to #CRE and #Techonology in realistic terms? All of this and so much more. The Evolution of REX. Prototypes, Seed Rounds, and Beta. Startups in San Francisco ar…

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