Safety, Technology, and Learning Design: How Virtual Reality is Improving Safety
By Marc Kinsman and Will Adams
Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that has a wide appeal because of its capacity to immerse its users in a virtual world. The...
Leone: What Lies Beneath
By Nicholas B. Leone
I received an interesting call the other day from Michael Gibbons, a property manager for a mid-size multifamily investment firm in San Francisco. I’ve done some...
Tomorrow is Another Stay: First Impacts of COVID-19 on the Hotel Industry
By Jena Thornton
The Black Swan has arrived.
Definition of black swan: An event or occurrence that deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and that would be extremely difficult...
McNellis: Oh, Lucky Man
By John McNellis
As the red-staters in Congress gather yet again this week to disembowel the Affordable Care Act, it may be worth considering why it is that so many...
An Open Letter To Mayor London Breed About Zoning Reform
Dear Mayor Breed,
I just attended the National Association of Realtors (NAR) convention at San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week. While I was there, I met many people who shared with...
Electric Charging Stations Are Next Commercial Property Frontier
By John Kalb
Consumers are buying electric vehicles in greater numbers and beginning to create demand for charging stations in workplaces, public places, shopping centers and apartments. The famously progressive...
WeWork Goes to Zero
By Dan Mihalovich
First, the disclosures:
This article will take longer than 60 seconds to read. My apologies. Stop now, perhaps.Sorry, but I’ve puked over reading several analysts’ epitaphs about WeWork....
The Foreclosure Crisis and Legal Change
By Karl E. Geier
With the “housing collapse” and the ensuing “foreclosure crisis” behind us, it is time to assess the myriad changes in the law of mortgage lending and...
Transwestern Startup Stories: Viet Tran – Elevate Security
By Victor Valenzuela
This series profiles innovative companies and how they are adapting to the challenges of Bay Area Shelter-In-Place orders in the wake of COVID-19.
Elevate Security is making waves...
McNellis: Working the Recession
By John McNellis
Recession: a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.
GDP dropped...
