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March 14, 2024

Wu's Policies Have Moved The Needle On Developer Diversity, But Minority Firms Still Face Growth Hurdles

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Rev. Jeffrey Brown, a Black developer and co-founder of My City At Peace, was part of a team selected in late 2022 to develop a city-owned site in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood.

Brown, in partnership with HYM Investment Group, plans to redevelop the Parcel P3 site in Roxbury with life sciences space, affordable for-sale and rental units and retail. The partnership is one of 11 teams that the city has selected since it began requiring teams to disclose their diversity when bidding to develop on city-owned land in 2018. 

In August 2022, Mayor Michelle Wu expanded that policy to ask development teams to share their diversity metrics for all project proposals going through the Boston Planning & Development Agency. Since then, 46 teams have submitted such disclosures, a BPDA spokesperson tells Bisnow.

Wu's Policies Have Moved The Needle On Developer Diversity, But Minority Firms Still Face Growth Hurdles

The BPDA is in the process of analyzing these disclosures to understand how it can make the greatest impact, a spokesperson said. Wu described the goal of the policy in 2022 as helping the city "think carefully and intentionally about building teams and the representation and reflection of our community."That policy…

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Blackstone’s Real Estate Co-Heads On Their Next Big Investment Bet, The Market Recovery And Career Lessons Learned

Blackstone upended the real estate world once.

It spotted the opportunity in logistics early, at the bottom of the market, buying hundreds of billions of dollars of industrial assets and reaping huge profits.

Now the company is looking to repeat the trick by capitalising on the digital revolution. 

“The scale of the data centre opportunity is immense,” Global co-Head of Blackstone Real Estate Nadeem Meghji told Bisnow in an interview. “It's the single most exciting strategy we have globally today.”

Earlier this year, Meghji stepped up from his role as head of North American real estate at Blackstone to lead the world’s largest real estate manager — $337B of assets under management and counting — alongside co-Head Kathleen McCarthy, as the sector emerges from a trough created by sharply rising interest rates. 

Blackstone’s Real Estate Co-Heads On Their Next Big Investment Bet, The Market Recovery And Career Lessons Learned

With $65B of capital to spend on real estate, McCarthy and Meghji sat down to talk with Bisnow in their first joint interview, a deep dive into the bellwether firm's strategy and processes.On the agenda: Why the firm thinks 2024 will be a great year to invest, the huge push…

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TikTok Continues Its Real Estate Push Despite House Passing Bill To Ban It In U.S.

TikTok Continues Its Real Estate Push Despite House Passing Bill To Ban It In U.S.  

Even as Congress moves closer toward banning TikTok from operating in the U.S., the company’s real estate plans in the country continue to take shape. The tech giant is moving forward on building out 57K SF across two full floors in the Moore Building at 827 19th Ave. on Nashville’s Music

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Dogged By 'Mistakes,' $1.2M Fine, Lawsuits And A Short Seller, Hotel Chain Shakes Up Leadership

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A Miami-based hotel operator was fined $1.2M by New York City last week for illegally operating short-term rentals in New York City for more than three years, but its potential troubles are far from over.

LuxUrban Hotels, which bills itself as an "asset-light" hotel chain because it master leases hotel buildings rather than buying them, has been hit with several lawsuits from landlords and vendors alleging it skipped out on bills. It is also the subject of a short-seller report that takes aim at the publicly traded firm's financial statements. 

Bisnow also found two instances of the company announcing it has signed deals to take over hotels, reporting the leases in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission but then later admitting the deals were never finalized. 

LuxUrban announced last week, a day after the $1.2M fine was announced, that founder Brian Ferdinand would be stepping back from his role as co-CEO of the firm. 

Ferdinand told Bisnow in an email that relinquishing his co-CEO title — he had been sole CEO until November — was part of a long-term plan to hand over the reins of the company to co-CEO Shanoop Kothari, who is also acting chief financial officer. The announcement of the CEO…

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