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The housing crunch in the Bay Area is leaving students with few affordable options, and many universities have been pushing for more on- and off-campus housing. Building more housing has become an important recruiting and retention tool to ensure that students can afford to live and study in the costly Bay Area. Just about every local university has plans to add student housing and thousands of new beds will be built by 2020 and beyond. Many private developers also are building sizable off-campus projects. Check out some of the newest student housing developments in the planning stages or in the works: San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Address: 200 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco Capacity: 420 units Expected Completion: 2020 The San Francisco Planning Commission gave the thumbs-up in early February to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's planned 12-story housing project designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects.…
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Game On: Commercial Brokerages Race To Dominate The Real Estate Tech LandscapeTechnology plays a huge role in powering the $2 trillion machine that is commercial real estate, and major commercial brokerages are scrambling for a piece of that pie. Brokerages such as CBRE, Colliers International, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL and Newmark Group have been heating up their tech infrastructure and investment as of late. “I think it's probably the biggest underlying trend that we're seeing in the marketplace,” CRETech.com CEO Michael Beckerman said. “The brokerage firms, in particular the big five I would say, have all now aligned themselves with either a VC accelerator [or] hired their own in-house tech talent. Brokerage firms are waking up to the opportunities that CRE tech offers them.” |
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3 Hidden Costs Of The Furniture RFP Process You Need To Know About
When customers send out a furniture RFP, cost is often the primary consideration. On the surface, a request for proposals satisfies this requirement by creating a price comparison across multiple vendors, but using the RFP process for selecting and evaluating…
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How One Woman's Construction Co-Op Could Solve The Labor Shortage ProblemBoston's building boom has zapped the available construction workforce and sent costs skyrocketing. But a student program at Harvard Business School construction sites could finally replenish the shallow labor pool. “While employers typically go to colleges and do a five-minute interview at a job fair, they have nine months with a young person on this project,” The Compliance Mentor Group President and founder Nicole Richer said. “It's building youth relationships, and it's employers thinking, ‘Oh, this could be a talent pipeline for me.'” |
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LGBT Groups Voice Concern About Amazon HQ2 FinalistsLess than one month after Amazon announced its HQ2 shortlist, a campaign called "No gay? No way!" was launched to urge CEO Jeff Bezos to rule out more than half the cities on the list. 
While Bezos is an active LGBT supporter, most of the potential host cities for HQ2 are in states without nondiscrimination laws. This means the following states in the running for HQ2 do not have laws in place to prevent an employer from firing an employee for their sexual…
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