Could An Office Building Keep You From Getting The Flu?
With flu season and open/flex office designs both at the height of popular Google searches, worlds are bound to collide. It has been proven that open office and shared workspaces contribute to more days of sickness-related absence.
The flu is even starting to impact the health of companies. Chicago REIT Ventas closed last week at a two-year low and attributed it partially to the flu, according to Crain's Chicago Business. Irvine, California-based HCP said its senior housing portfolio was compromised by the flu season as well, according to Senior Housing News. The flu is accelerating the timeline of senior housing residents moving out and also keeping them from moving in, investors said.
With flu-related deaths in 46 states and a vaccine said to be only 36% effective this season, things are not much better in the office sector. Yet, Jacob White Development President Jeff Mickler said there are ways to keep offices healthier.…
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Everything You Need To Know About Healthy Offices
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From Baseball To Boardroom: Office Development Swings Big In Fort Mill
South of Charlotte in the home of peach orchids, horse farms and a strawberry festival, the office sector is heating up in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Southbridge, a Lincoln Harris mixed-use development off Interstate 77, is preparing 4.5M SF of…
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Paces Properties Gears Up For More Food Halls Across Southeast
Had fate gone another way, Krog Street Market would have been just another new apartment complex in Atlanta's trendy Inman Park neighborhood. But then a neighborhood activist asked Paces Properties CEO David Cochran a question that changed everything.
“'Hey, have you ever really looked at the building? Have you ever looked at the bones?'" Cochran recalls being asked. “And I really hadn't. I wasn't wired that way."
One of the pioneers of adaptive reuse in Atlanta, Paces Properties also is one of the first champions of the food hall craze, with its successful Krog Street Market off Edgewood Avenue in Inman Park.
Now, Paces is looking to…
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Investors Still Aren't Worried About Risks From Natural Disasters, But That Could Prove Costly
Last year was the costliest on record, with 219 weather disasters causing $1.5 trillion in damages, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. Sixteen weather events exceeded $1B in damages, tying 2011 for the record in billion-dollar disasters.
Despite these record-breaking numbers, investors continue to place bets on real estate, because so far, property's profitability has been worth it. But as the damage toll goes up, the safety net of insurance may be pulled back, and CRE may no longer be worth the risk.
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The Fabulous Real Estate (And A Few Modest Digs) Of Past Presidents
The real estate owned or occupied by the presidents of the United States since George Washington have been as varied as the men themselves: some as cherished as Washington's Mount Vernon or Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, others as obscure as William Henry Harrison's Grouseland or Herbert Hoover's two-room cottage.
With Presidents Day at hand — officially George Washington's Birthday (observed) — here is a look at some of the fabulous residences that U.S. presidents have called home, before or after their stints in the White House. Excluded are the two best known, Mount Vernon and Monticello, in favor of equally interesting or architecturally significant places that are not as well known.
Also thrown in are a few more modest residences that might not be fabulous, but they are presidential all the same.
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8 Things You Need To Know About The Real Estate Retreat Redefining Dealmaking
Once a year, a carefully curated group of commercial real estate's best and brightest converge to build bonds, share experiences and explore conversations beyond the industry.
Welcome to Escape.
What began as an answer to the lack of networking platforms…
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