More Hyperscale Demand On The Way For Dallas-Fort Worth Data Center Market
More hyperscale users are on their way to the Dallas-Fort Worth data center market in 2018 and 2019, according to CBRE's Data Center Solutions team. Excellent fundamentals, room to build, prime geography and low costs of electricity/development put DFW on shortlists for developers and investors everywhere.
“We hear about this all the time, [when] a client is on a search for data center space, and they don't know exactly where they want to be, they don't have to be in Northern Virginia for instance, Dallas is 95% of…
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D.C. Region Widely Seen As Favorite For HQ2, But Local Officials Are Ignoring The Hype
In the two months since Amazon selected its 20-city HQ2 shortlist, including three D.C.-area jurisdictions, the hype around the nation's capital has continued to grow, with numerous analysts, oddsmakers, journalists and others pegging the Washington region as the front-runner.
Local officials and stakeholders remain confident about their chances in the $5B sweepstakes, but they say they are drowning out the noise and keeping their eyes on the prize.
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This Alphabet-Backed Startup Wants Cities To Make Better Use Of Curbs
A new startup backed by Alphabet and funded by Sidewalk Labs could help cities leverage their curbs.
Named Coord, the startup uses technology to map cities in order to provide municipalities and transportation companies like ride-hail, bike-share and car-share providers with a detailed guide of how curbs can be used, Fast Company reports.
Rather than using street imagery,…
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Most Real Estate Chief Execs Are Complacent About Tech And Social Disruption
Disruption may be the most overused word of the modern business environment. But the message does not seem to have gotten through to those leading real estate companies across the globe.
A new report from the Urban Land Institute and PwC contains a data point highlighting the potential complacency still exhibited in real estate about the impact technological and social change will have on the industry.
PwC surveyed 1,300 CEOs across the globe on a range of topics, including how concerned they were about disruption to the business.
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Blackstone Co-Founder Peter Peterson Dies At 91
Peter Peterson, who founded private equity giant the Blackstone Group with current CEO Stephen Schwarzman, died at home in Manhattan. He was 91.
Peterson began his career at a Chicago research firm called Market Facts. At the age of 34…
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Patriotism And Property Seizures Could Force Russians Out Of London After Spy Poisoning Row
There are not many property markets around the world that have to worry about the fallout from the extra-judicial poisoning of former spies and their families.
But London's luxury property market is so inextricably intertwined with Russian wealth that it cannot help but be influenced by the ongoing row between the U.K. and Russia over the poisoning earlier this month of former military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Both are still in a critical condition in the hospital after being exposed to a nerve agent.
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