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Industrial Goes Electric As Investors, Tenants Call For Sustainability

Bisnow
4/20/2022

Trammell Crow announced in late March that it will partner with Altus Power to bring solar panels, battery storage and electric charging stations to 35M SF worth of industrial assets in its pipeline. The move, which is expected to generate 300 megawatts of building-sited solar power over the next three to four years, is in line with Trammell Crow parent company CBRE’s commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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JPMorgan’s New Manhattan Headquarters to Be All Electric Powered

WSJ
4/20/2022

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s new Manhattan headquarters will rely on a hydroelectric power source, making the 1,388-foot skyscraper the tallest and largest New York building to go all electric.

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Proptech VC Funding Hits Record $4B in First Quarter

The Real Deal
4/20/2022

Rising interest rates and market volatility have whipped up headwinds for real estate technology in recent months, but venture capitalists didn’t get the memo.

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Featured Investors | April 2022 – Nicole Friedman of Blue Collective and Cedric Char of Fifth Wall

EVCA
4/19/2022

Nicole Friedman is an investor at Blue Collective where she invests in early stage companies (pre-seed and seed) in all sectors. Prior to joining Blue, she was an early employee at a proptech startup. Nicole graduated from Williams College where she majored in Psychology and played on the varsity squash team. She currently lives in NYC.

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Customer Story: Livly and SALTO Integration Streamlines Smart Access for CA Ventures

livly BLOG
4/19/2022

For CA Ventures multifamily properties such as 270 Hennepin, managing keys for over 300 apartment residents – for everything from move-ins, to guest visitors, vendors, packages, and amenity spaces – was daunting. The team needed a solution that was operationally easy for staff to adapt to while providing access control to tenants for a more convenient resident experience.

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Will the SEC Cancel Real Estate? Dissecting the Impact of the SEC’s Proposed Climate Regulation

Shadow Ventures
4/19/2022

It logically follows that the world’s largest contributor to greenhouse gasses has sensitive ears around the topic of climate change. Try using the words fossil fuels, carbon emissions, or green/sustainability in a conversation with a developer, owner-operator, or construction manager today. The odds are it elicits an emotional response on the other side of the table. Which way the energy pendulum swings for any one individual is anyone’s best guess. We’ve walked this conversational tightrope ov…

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NYC Could Soften Local Law 97’s Controversial Fine Structure

Bisnow
4/19/2022

New York City may be about to create additional flexibility for buildings unable to comply with Local Law 97’s requirements before the 2024 deadline.

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Proposed Rule Changes Could Chill Already Cool SPAC Market

Crunchbase
4/19/2022

When it comes to the market, there are many differences thus far between the early part of this year and last—perhaps none more pronounced than the dearth of companies going public.

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The Compliance Network Powering the Built World

Proptech Espresso
4/19/2022

How is technology evolving the full value chain of real estate assets? What are the technology categories that make up the built world? How do the unique needs of different real estate asset classes increase the complexity for developing vertical software solutions? Why have paper processes and human errors traditionally made insurance compliance the bane of property owners and operators? How does the friction from insurance compliance reduce transaction volume in and around real estate? Omri St…

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Startup Flips Difficult Onsite Housing Construction Process On Its Head

Forbes
4/19/2022

Picture this. You are on a job site building a new home. One room has three windows. For each window you have to flip through 40 pages of paper designs to get the installation instructions. One part of the critical information to install just one window is on page 3, another on page 8, more on page 11, and yet even more on page 23.

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