Reno Seeks to Purchase Motels as Affordable Housing Instead of Letting Developers Demolish Them
The mayor of Reno did little to stop the razing of motels that housed low-income residents or to replace lost units. Following a ProPublica investigation, that may change.
Anjeanette Damon,...
How Do We Create Meaning in Today’s Office Spaces?
By Sascha Wagner, AIA IIDA LEED AP
As commercial real estate costs continue to climb in tech-focused urban markets, competition for the right space remains high and for talent it’s...
Transwestern Startup Stories: Jay Farber – Juniper Square
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.
Juniper Square is the leader...
Opinion: Corporate Real Estate Has Become a Black Hole That Devours Money. Time to...
Written by Gabe Burke. Edited by Sharon Simonson.
Real estate portfolios must be restructured. To delay no longer makes sense. When the pandemic began, no one could predict the future...
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...
Blockchain Technology Is Changing Real Estate Transactions
This article also appears in The VIEW, the quarterly publication jointly curated by the three Bay Area chapters of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW)—CREW San Francisco, CREW East Bay,...
Tax Cuts to Bring New Regulations to Real Estate Businesses
By Robert Keasal
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 will be the most complex re-writing of tax codes for flow-through business income since Congress gave us the passive...
McNellis: So This is Christmas
By John McNellis
We all need to believe.
Whether hard-wired into our genome or learned from our first breath, this universal hunger manifests itself in different ways, but at heart it’s...
McNellis: Goodbye Yellow Cab Road
By John McNellis
If you’re a nostalgia fan, nail a selfie in front of a Yellow Cab because in a few years the only place you’ll find one is Guatemala...
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...
