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  • How Southern California can win Amazon’s HQ2

    Orange County Register Real Estate

    So where will Amazon go? The retailing behemoth has basically grown out of its Seattle birthplace and has scrambled the schedules of city planners and developers alike as it very publicly seeks a second corporate home — “HQ2” — to house its growth plans. Deadline is Oct. 19! Let me put the company’s request into perspective. Amazon needs — in a relatively short timespan — to acquire 8 million square feet of office space to replicate its corporate home. That’s loosely equal to what an entire nati…

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  • Do You Have Blockchain Overload? It’s Just Beginning, Are You Sure You Understand Why?

    Duke Long Blog

    In my opinion, we are still at the very beginning of the “crypto/blockchain” era for commercial real estate. The far reaching implications of what that is and will be cannot be overstated. What I have tried to do in the last few weeks is give you a deeper understanding of some of the elements at work today and how they relate to the commercial real estate business. To say that there is so much more to come is just stating the obvious. And with the small chance (how dare) you missed any of the ar…

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  • Can high-cost NYC really compete for Amazon’s HQ2?

    Crains New York – Everything Real Estate

    Within hours of Seattle-based Amazon’s announcement that it was looking to build a second headquarters, cities around the country were tripping over themselves to prove they’ve got what it takes. New York has been less vocal than others, but anyone thinking the city doesn’t need or have the room for a massive new corporate headquarters would be mistaken. On the contrary: Fresh from a spate of development home runs that include Hudson Yards and Cornell Tech, the city is making the case that it ha…

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  • Using Amazon’s criteria for its new headquarters, this city comes out on top

    CNBC – Top Business Stories

    Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui and Claire Cain Miller Published 6 Hours Ago The New York Times SHARES Getty Images Jeff Bezos Amazon has set off a scrum among cities that are hoping to land the company's second headquarters — with the winner getting the prize of a $5 billion investment and 50,000 new jobs over the next two decades. We're offering to help, using Amazon's own criteria to identify a winning city. The company announced…

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  • One Of The Best Examples I Have Ever Seen Of Real Estate and Tech Content…

    The Broker List Blog

    Q&A with Julia Georgules, Director of Research, Local Markets at JLL I have been writing about, studying and promoting the concept of real estate brands becoming media for several years. It’s why I built my first site, The News Funnel, to aggregate and distribute all of this content. To date, I think we have amassed over 1000 blogs on our site, all on different aspects of real estate. I was reading my own customized news feed one day and came upon JLL TechSpec and was blown away! So I reache…

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  • State officials gauging how to attract Amazon’s interest for new HQ

    Seattle Times – Business and Technology News

    OLYMPIA — State officials Friday were still working to understand Amazon’s needs and intentions and gauging if the company would be interested in another headquarters elsewhere in Washington. After Amazon’s announcement Thursday morning that it intended to open a second headquarters somewhere in North America, company officials called David Postman, Gov. Jay Inslee’s chief of staff. While no meeting is yet scheduled, Inslee spokeswoman Jaime Smith said the governor intends to sit down with Amazo…

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  • Cool: $140k “Micro-Home” packed with smart home features

    Seattle Bubble

    The video is packed with quite a few obnoxious buzzwords (and some NSFW language) but I do appreciate the concept of this 352-square-foot home. It's produced on an assembly line and can be "installed" in a wide variety of locations and configurations, plus it's loaded with smart home tech and modular designs… The post Cool: $140k “Micro-Home” packed with smart home features appeared first on Seattle Bubble. The video is packed with quite a few obnoxious buzzwords (and some …

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  • Amazon’s HQ2 options: Here’s how the Bay Area stacks up to the most expensive cities for tech companies

    BizJournal – Commercial Real Estate

    Kristen Mosbrucker SVBJ staff Silicon Valley Business Journal Enlarge Related Content Silicon Valley officials get ready to woo Amazon for second HQ What we know about how Amazon negotiates: move fast, play hardball Amazon solicits proposals for $5 billion second HQ in North America Home of the Day Sponsor Listing Breathtaking Estate with Endless Opportunity! See All Homes of the Day Join us on September 21 for Silicon Valley Structures Register Now VIEW SLIDESHOW 35 photos Silicon Valley leader…

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  • When Even Technology Companies Can’t Afford Seattle Anymore

    Redfin Blog

    We never thought it could happen to us. When Boeing announced in 2009 the opening of a new plant in South Carolina instead of Seattle, manufacturing was heading out of Seattle, but technology companies were flooding in: Google opened its first engineering office in 2004, followed by Facebook in 2010, Apple and Dropbox in 2014, Uber in 2015, and Airbnb in 2016. In the past twelve months alone, Facebook announced plans to double the size of its Seattle presence, Google broke ground on a massive ne…

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  • Amazon’s HQ2 options: Here’s how the Twin Cities compare to the most expensive markets for tech companies

    Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal – Local News

    Minnesota is preparing a bid to convince the Seattle-based technology giant to open a new major office in the Twin Cities. Here's what commercial real estate and labor costs across competitor markets were in 2017 for a 50,000-worker office.

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