Six Key CRE Issues Being Debated At The Texas Capitol
Texas legislators are on the back nine of their latest session. With hundreds of bills making their way through the Capitol, we broke down the key issues with the biggest effect on commercial real estate.
The State Budget
Much of the drama in Austin has been focused on the proposed $218.3B budget approved by the House last Thursday. The Senate approved an altered $212.7B budget two weeks ago. The difference is only about $500M in spending, and the rest is…
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Sutton Cos. chairman Mac Pike can summarize all of Austin's population growth statistics in three words: Austin got discovered.
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Santikos Sells Off Houston Theaters, Will Focus On San Antonio
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Why You Might See A Lot More Teslas In Texas After This Legislative Session
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Activist Investor Pressures Whole Foods To Quicken Turnaround Plans, Pursue Possible Sale
Whole Foods Market is under pressure from an activist investor that wants the chain to speed up its turnaround plans and to explore a tentative sale to combat stagnant growth.
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How Breather Is Cornering The On-Demand Event Space Industry
A growing tech company is on its way to carving a niche within the on-demand meeting industry.
Montreal-based Breather may double its number of available locations by the end of 2017 and is coming off a new round of Series C funding having raised $40M. Breather provides rentable meeting space for anywhere between a couple of hours and a few days.
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CRE Tech Has Advanced So Far It Can Now Manage A Building
It was only a few years ago that the commercial real estate industry behaved as Luddites when it came to embracing technology. Today, tech is being used to manage buildings.
Property Markets Group uses a proprietary smartphone app at "L," its state-of-the-art luxury apartment building in Chicago's Logan Square, to open doors instead of keys or fobs. It also allows tenants to set up temporary entry codes for visiting guests, dog walkers and maintenance calls during specific times of the day, tracks the length of those maintenance calls, allow tenants to RSVP for building events and even allows tenants to pay rent and interface with package delivery firms to make deliveries at times when tenants will be home to receive them.
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