The Pandemic Holiday Shopping Season Showed Us What The Future Of Retail Looks Like

For the past 10 months, the real estate world has pointed to the coming of the vaccine as the industry’s salvation. Now, experts say that involving real estate in the distribution process could be the best way to improve the lackluster rollout of the vaccine. 

In order to effectively inoculate enough of the population to reach herd immunity, the federal government must leverage existing supply chains while state and local governments should collaborate with real estate to utilize empty storefronts and offices as vaccination locations, logistics and health experts say.…

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The back half of this year promises chances for private equity to make opportunistic real estate plays, but it won’t be as straightforward as the recovery from the global financial crisis.

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Companies around the country have taken notice of the importance of gender and ethnic diversity, but certain enterprises and governments are doing more than others to mandate inclusion.

In September 2018, California passed legislation requiring every publicly held company with headquarters in the state to have at least one woman on its board of directors by the end of 2019. The mandate has high compliance so far, and additional benchmarks are coming up at the end of this year. 

The push to add women to boards has not only increased the number of female board members but has also potentially created a path for more and broader diversity on boards of directors, experts say. 

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