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  • Amazon closes 360,000 s/f lease at Brookfield’s Five Manhattan West

    Real Estate Weekly

    Brookfield has signed a 360,000 s/f lease at Brookfield’s Five Manhattan West. The firm, which recently announced a search for its “second headquarters,” finalized a deal to take the entire sixth and seventh floors and a portion of eighth and tenth floors. The deal boosts occupancy in the 16-story tower to 99 percent. Aside from the lease, Amazon also announced that it will create 2,000 jobs in New York City. “Amazon’s expansion is the latest example of a leading company drawn to Manhattan West …

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  • Is Bodega the next retail disruptor?

    Retail Dive

    The startup was roasted on social media for cultural insensitivity after it said it planned to obliterate bodega and mom-and-pop shops. But can the concept survive? Author By Corinne Ruff @corinnesusan • Published Sept. 21, 2017 Share it post share tweet Last week, a San Francisco startup shook the retail industry with a bold claim — it plans to make bodegas and corner mom-and-pop shops obsolete.  In an interview with TechCrunch, Bodega co-founder Paul McDonald argued that there are only two opt…

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  • A Simple Way to Implement New Technology in Old Properties

    CRETECH

    Did you know 90% of America’s rental stock was built before 1999, according to a 2011 Harvard University housing study? That’s before the iPhone, Blackberry, cellphones, even PCs. Most people received TV via antenna! Yet now people expect all the conveniences of modern life: high-speed internet, mobile pay, push notifications, and more. Implementing all this shiny new smart-building tech in Class B or C properties may take some time, something property managers or owners don’t have if they want …

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  • How Amazon pulled off its biggest Prime Now launch ever

    Mashable

    How Amazon pulled off its biggest Prime Now launch ever 403 Shares Share Tweet Share What's This? Amazon staff in Singapore at the Prime Now warehouseImage: victoria ho/mashable By Victoria Ho2017-09-21 09:27:39 UTC People were surprised when Amazon launched its two-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Singapore last month. Unlike other countries where it launched Prime Now, the e-commerce giant didn't have a retail presence here to begin. So going from no Amazon at all to the ultra hi…

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  • UBER AND CRE TECH… A Q&A WITH MAX CROWLEY, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AT UBER FOR BUSINESS

    Michael Beckerman

    I have always been fascinated with Uber. I`ve been a long time customer and been following their company`s progress literally from day one. As the CEO of a  growing startup myself, I have always been obsessed with understanding the “network effect” of how companies like Uber (platforms) grow so fast and scale. Both of my own sites,  The News Funnel and CRE // Tech are largely based on the concept of a platform as a business model and so companies like Uber, AirBnB, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify …

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  • How Industrial Investors Can Harness Technology to Make Smarter Business Decisions

    SIOR Pulse Blog

    Emerging CRE tech tools empower industrial investors to conduct more thorough market research, find better properties, and ultimately land bigger deals. While industrial properties may not be, at first glance, as enticing as other commercial property types, they’ve long been considered extremely safe assets. With an average annual total return of 12.8 percent over the past five years — higher than any other asset class — it’s no wonder investors continue to flock to these massive, evergreen faci…

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  • Pointy, a startup that lets local retailers easily put stock online with a simple gadget, raises​ ​$6M

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Pointy​,​ ​an Irish start​ ​startup​ ​that​ lets ​local​ ​retailers put their stock online so that they can be discovered via search engines, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round is being led by Frontline Ventures, alongside Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Draper Associates and a number of notable angel investors. The latter includes Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps, Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of Transferwise, and Michael Birch, co-fou…

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  • Lyft Wants To Reduce Traffic On Wilshire Boulevard And Add Autonomous Cars

    Bisnow – Los Angeles Commercial Real Estate News

    Lyft says it may have a solution to the traffic mess that is Wilshire Boulevard. The ride-hailing company is partnering with designers at Perkins+Will and Nelson/Nygaard on a conceptual project to redesign Wilshire Boulevard, Engadget reports. The proposal includes reducing the street to just three traditional lanes to help reduce traffic. That counterintuitive move would be paired with two autonomous bus lanes and a loading zone for car-sharing pickups. There would also be two bike lanes and wi…

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  • Utilizing Technology to Enhance Your Business

    Phoenix Association of Realtors

    The affinity consumers have toward technology impacts how they want to engage with companies, and will ultimately determine where and with whom they do business. Mortgage lenders and independent agents with tech services that cater to millennials will clearly have the competitive advantage in housing. At which point do you, as a real estate agent, reevaluate how you're engaging with your clients? What benefits can you offer to streamline the home-buying process? What's more, the rate o…

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  • Disrupt SF 2017

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Earlier today at Disrupt, Kirsten Green, founder of the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firm Forerunner Ventures, sat down for a quick conversation about her work. Green has become one of the most sought-after e-commerce investors in the country, thanks to bets on companies like Jet.com and Bonobos (both sold to Walmart), Dollar Shave Club (sold to Unilever), as well as numerous popular, standalone brands like Warby Parker and Glossier. Certainly, her job — funding and helping to grow n…

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