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The monthlong public courtship to become Amazon’s second headquarters has focused on what cities are prepared to offer the retail giant. A coalition of community groups is trying to reverse that dynamic, publishing an open letter on Tuesday that asks Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos to forgo tax breaks and invest in the civic health of whichever city the company chooses for HQ2. “We’re expe...
New York offices are getting swankier to lure millennials By Lois Weiss View author archive email the author follow on twitter Get author RSS feed Name(required) Email(required) Comment(required) October 17, 2017 | 2:52am Modal Trigger Aetna is moving to the Meatpacking District's 61 Ninth Ave. 61 Ninth Ave. As gateway cities like New York continue to outperform suburban leasing markets, the...
The growth of the flexible workspace industry, particularly in London, isn’t just opening new opportunities for serviced office and coworking operators. It’s also paving the way for niche workspace suppliers to identify, and meet, an ever-evolving catalogue of untapped requirements. One solution that has just hit the scene is Bold, a new brand of meeting spaces in London with a very precise fo...
By Jim Dallke – Chicago Inno, Chicago is now officially in the running to land Amazon’s second North American headquarters. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Bruce Rauner said today in a joint statement that the Chicago area has officially submitted its bid for Amazon’s HQ2. The bid was submitted electronically on Monday, the first day of the four-day window where Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is acc...
While Expedia and Priceline roll out ways to encroach on Airbnb’s space with their own private home listings for travellers, the $31 billion venture-backed Airbnb is also looking at new ways to boost its own traffic and bookings. Airbnb is now rolling out a new call for affiliate partners, where high-traffic sites with over 1 million visitors can embed Airbnb property listings and make commissio...
Real estate execs and business leaders say they are confident New York will be on Amazon's short list after bids for its second headquarters are submitted this week. After all, the metropolitan area is Amazon's No. 1 sales market, and it's a priority for the company to grow its footprint here. The e-tailer last month leased 360,000 square feet at 5 Manhattan West on top of the 470,0...
Big StoriesSidewalk Labs is in final negotiations with Toronto to build a smart city from the ground up on a 12-acre site.This is what America's eco-city of the future looks like. The GuardianUber and Lyft lead to more vehicle usage in urban areas, leading some to call for congestion pricing. CurbedWhen big cities thrive, smaller cities are often left behind. NYT Georgetown, Texas, a city whe...
Born out of a frustration with recruiting within the peninsula-trapped City of San Francisco, Terminal is a platform allowing companies to tap into talent abroad. Starting with campuses in Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal and Vancouver, the startup aims to plant physical flags in as many of the world’s global talent centers as possible. Terminal is being run by 8VC‘s Joe Lonsdale, Atomic‘s Jack ...
To build or to buy? It’s a question that often arises when companies are assessing their software needs. One company that has experience in both approaches is global commercial real estate brokerage firm, JLL. Over the past couple of years the firm, which manages dozens of company-wide applications, has significantly shifted its technology strategy, going from a primarily build to a buy-focused ...
If developer Michael Harrah gets his way, Santa Ana will become home to Amazon’s enormous new second headquarters, repurposing three proposed development sites in the city into a 10 million-square-foot, high-tech hub. The Santa Ana real estate tycoon recently unveiled plans to join Irvine and dozens of other suitors nationwide in wooing the online retail giant and the 50,000 well-paying jobs suc...