Connected Buildings, Connected Things and Security Concerns
By Scott M. Wornow
Is your “smart building” connected? Is your high-tech office, residential building or entertainment facility, with embedded sensors, wireless networks, remote monitoring devices and internet-capable security cameras, now...
The Grocery Store Experience: How to Design Safe, Adaptable Shopping Environments
By Kara Eberle (Retail) of Cushing Terrell
As we continue to settle into the economic and psychological realities of COVID-19, businesses are evaluating what response tactics worked well in 2020...
Can I use my IRA to Buy Real Estate?
By Bruce Ferry
A common question from clients, or often times from people at dinner parties, is “Can I use my IRA money to buy real estate?” The easy answer...
McNellis: Is the 1031 Exchange Panacea or Placebo?
By John McNellis
Upon selling a supermarket last week, we deposited our proceeds into a 1031 exchange account. Call this maneuver the triumph of hope over experience, because we have...
Cheaper AND Greener?
One builder’s small steps yield big results to the triple bottom line
By Kara Overaa Gragg
We know that the construction business is waste and energy-intensive, so as general contractors, our...
McNellis: A Vaccine for Retail?
By John McNellis
Retail has the virus. Just as with people, different retailers are reacting to this infection very differently. Ailing merchants with comorbidities are suffering — or dying —...
Urban to Suburban: The Growing Shift to the Suburbs as COVID-19 Changes the Way...
Suddenly, the suburbs are all the rage.
By Ken McCarthy & David C. Smith
After a decade that increasingly focused on central cities, it feels like everything has been turned inside...
A Proposal Off The Rails
California’s Fill and Dredge Policy
By J. Tom Boer and Samuel Brown
In June, with little warning, the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) reissued a proposal to impose...
McNellis on Spring Rituals: A Full Accounting
By John McNellis
Like daffodils, if not quite as lovely, accountants are among the earliest signs of spring. When ours called the other day to ask for details about a...
McNellis: WeWork Until WeDon’t
By John McNellis
When was irrational exuberance upgraded to the first class lounge? When did delusional insanity take over the valuations of start-up companies? For WeWork Companies, Inc., the old-fashioned...
