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  • Why NYC probably won’t win the $5B Amazon HQ prize

    The Real Deal – New York

    Amazon likes low prices. That’s a good thing for Whole Foods shoppers, but a detriment to New York City’s chances of landing the retail giant’s new second headquarters. That prize should go to Denver, according to an analysis by the New York Times of Amazon’s requirements for a spot to land its “2HQ,” which will bring 50,000 new jobs and as much as $5 billion worth of investment to the winning city over the next two decades. Following Amazon’s guidelines, the newspaper started with a list of 52 …

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  • 5 Pieces of Advice for New Managers

    Jonathan Schultz Blog

    Crack open the beers and call your mom to celebrate —you’ve been promoted to a managerial role. Congrats! But, if there’s a little voice in the back of your head saying “what in the world do I do next” … you’re not alone. According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, “the irony for most newly appointed managers is that the skills and qualities that earned them the promotion are very different from those that will serve them well as a leader, and they're often left to figure it out …

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  • Automated Parking Promises To Transform U.S. Cities. Here’s How

    Bisnow – National Commercial Real Estate News

    Automated parking is not a new concept, but technological advancements in parking systems and vehicles, combined with cities’ further densification, have made American developers and city planners reconsider it as a viable, eco-friendly, space-freeing solution. After World War II, surface-level parking came with suburban sprawl, permitted by America’s relative land abundance and the luxury in many places of building out rather than up. In cities, developers favored underground garages. Overseas,…

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  • The downside of writing up demo days

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Tech writers are invited to a lot of demo days, as you might imagine. Sometimes, these presentations are very long, with many startup teams taking the stage to pitch to investors and the media. Sometimes, they’re shorter, featuring a more concentrated group of founders. But always, the pitches are concise. In fact, most incubators or accelerators take their cue from one of the original incubators, Y Combinator, which gives each of its startups less than three minutes to dazzle the crowd. As a re…

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  • Realogy Bets on AI With OJO Virtual Assistant Partnership

    Phoenix Association of Realtors

    Realogy has entered into an agreement with OJO Labs, Inc., to provide OJO, its virtual assistant, to its brands' real estate agents in select markets, the company recently announced. Participating brokerages from the Realogy Franchise Group and NRT will be determined in the next several months as the partnership moves from the planning phase to execution. “We are committed to a strategy of leveraging the power of Realogy to make our affiliated sales agents more productive and their business…

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  • A Tour of Wearable Technology Company Offices in San Diego

    Office Lovin

    A Tour of Wearable Technology Company Offices in San Diego Michal Tech 6 hours ago

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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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