Vacation Rental Revenues Halved Amid COVID-19 Crisis, Entire Industry to Lose $35B in 2020
By Jastra Kranjec
Over the years, the vacation rental industry became a huge business, with millions of tourists choosing fully furnished homes or apartments instead of a traditional hotel or...
Let Clint Eastwood Rightsize Your Real Estate Footprint
By Gabe Burke
Corporate real estate is headed for a showdown. A fear once deemed insignificant is now impossible to ignore. Many leaders worry that their portfolios will remain vastly...
Do Amenities Still Matter in a Post-COVID-19 World?
Over the past decade, amenities in and around office buildings had grown in quantity, popularity and creativity. The proliferation of office amenities was the outcome of several trends coalescing...
At Long Last, A Truly Final 2021 Energy Code
By Lauren Urbanek
It’s been a long time coming, but we now have a final 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) for new residential and commercial buildings, following the uncertainty...
Despite Disappointing Legislative Session, Existing State Laws Can Change the Game for Housing Developers
By Alan Murphy, Perkins Coie LLP
This year’s legislative session was disappointing for all those who understand that California’s dire shortage of housing is largely due to cumbersome entitlement processes...
Why San Francisco Needs Prop H, and Formula Retail, to Succeed
By Hans Hansson
This November, we need to vote to help save our small businesses, which are closing at record numbers due to the pandemic. Just last month, Yelp reported...
Can the Shopping Mall Survive COVID-19?
By Richard W. Latella & Barrie Scardina
There are currently more than 1,000 malls struggling to re-engage a consumer distracted by the convenience of digital offerings. With the continued growth...
Ghost Kitchens: Cooking up a Response to COVID-19
By Garrick Brown
Ghost kitchens (also referred to as cloud, commissary, dark, delivery or shadow kitchens) are delivery-only restaurants that, with the rise of third-party delivery app services like DoorDash, GrubHub and Uber...
The End of the Great Compromise
By Nash Hurley
The era of the great compromise of work space has come to an end. For the better part of the last century, work space has served two...
The Hospitality Industry Post-COVID: Finding a Path Forward
By Sam Newman and Gabrielle Cuskelly
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has wrought dramatic economic disruption affecting the business and leisure travel markets. Occupancy rates throughout California hotels collapsed, and occupancy...
