The synagogue with colorful windows in Detroit's Capitol Park neighborhood is expected to get a big renovation. The Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue at 1445-1457 Griswold St. is targeted for an overhaul to every floor, including opening up the first-floor facade, a new...
How working from Home is Influencing Design
As creative problem solvers, we’re facing what is surely the biggest challenge of our personal and professional lives. Across the globe, we’ve experienced mandatory quarantines, adopted new work-from-home policies and are well-versed in social distancing. The lessons...
What CRE Will Look Like as America Reopens
Even after the worst stage of the COVID-19 pandemic ends, how we use physical spaces will be transformed for the foreseeable future. The United States has had more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, with a death count approaching 70,000, as of Monday. And new...
Michigan Chamber Compiles PPE Resource List as Businesses Start to Reopen
The Michigan Chamber of Commerce has compiled a list of companies that supply personal protection equipment in preparation for another surge in demand as businesses around the state begin to reopen. The 30 companies listed on the chamber's website manufacture or...
Self Storage Less Vulnerable to Economic Disruptions
With continued demand and improving street rates, March proved to be a positive month for the storage industry. After several consecutive quarters of negative rent performance, national street rates for the 10×10 non-climate-controlled units remained unchanged...
In an Uncertain Environment an Analyst Counts the Reasons for Optimism
Uncertainty. That is the key word for those watching the real estate market in the current COVID-19 world. As those in real estate – including regional malls, strip centers, freestanding such as gyms and banks, health care, apartments, industrial and hotels – manage...
Whitmer to Reopen Michigan Construction Industry May 7
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to reopen Michigan's construction industry May 7 after a six-week shutdown caused by the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The governor will sign an executive order Friday loosening her stay-at-home order for the construction industry, Whitmer...
4 Next-Gen Technologies that are Changing Construction Today
For most of the last decade, emerging technologies designed to transform the built environment weren’t much more than fun toys to play with. They lacked sophistication and the ability to promote true efficiency and accountability or analyze data. Not anymore....
Co-Living Was Built Around Sharing Living Spaces with Strangers. Will It Survive Through a Pandemic?
Before the coronavirus hit, co-living projects were attracting more and more investor money. Now, as public officials continue to encourage social distancing, questions are rising about whether residents in co-living buildings can even follow these guidelines, as they...
ASHRAE, WELL Panels to Tackle Revising Standards to Limit Spread of Viruses in Buildings
Both ASHRAE and the International WELL Building Institute have formed panels to address how building standards could limit the spread of viruses such as COVID-19 in buildings. ASHRAE recently formed a committee to update advice and standards that address viral...
Pandemic Uncertainty Hides Strength, but Also a Need to Adapt
SEATTLE & PITTSBURGH—While CRE pros face a lot of unknowns right now during the coronavirus pandemic, they can rely on strong experience, teamwork and market fundamentals. GlobeSt.com reached out to SIOR VP Patricia Loveall, partner and EVP of Kidder Mathews in...
Cash and the Coronavirus: 4 Ways Contractors can Collect and Borrow
A healthy flow of cash is important to contractors, even when there’s not a global pandemic. But now that the spread of the coronavirus has resulted in mandatory project shutdowns in many states, a trade workforce that is scared to show up and skittish owners that...
The Social Paradigm Shift in Airport Terminal Design
DALLAS—Everyone is experiencing the sweeping impact of COVID-19 with each passing day. In preparing for this new normal, undoubtedly there will be a paradigm shift in the collective social experience, according to architectural firm, Corgan. From work to communication...
In Spite of Great Uncertainty, CRE Deals Continue to Close
With all but the most essential small businesses shut down, vast numbers of commercial and multifamily tenants unable to pay rent and no clear date for when the U.S. economy might re-open, it would be easy to assume that commercial real estate investors would opt to...
Virtual Site Visits Help Control Infection on Project Sites
COVID-19 has shut down non-essential construction projects in some areas and slowed progress in others. Where projects are considered essential, they face disruptive physical distancing requirements, schedule delays, and restrictive onsite visits....
IoT System Helps Contractors Keep their Distance on the Jobsite
Many contractors are asking themselves how social distancing can be executed practically on jobsites so their workers can operate safely. As expected, products are starting to emerge that address these concerns. For example, SmartVid.io, according to industry news...
Industry Finds New Innovations to Stay Ahead of COVID-19
The way construction work gets done is rapidly evolving to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. From maintaining social distancing on jobsites to retooling existing manufacturing to meeting new demand for hospitals and sanitation, the industry is having to...
Green Cleaning and the Coronavirus
First: a note about your cleanser – Hydrogen Peroxide kills corona and is more environmentally friendly than bleach. Consider using hydrogen peroxide, if it’s an option. But if you must use bleach, here are the implications for your LEED certification: We are not...
Could Clean Design Protect the Elderly from the Coronavirus?
AUSTIN, TX—At this point, it is quite apparent that life has changed for all Americans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While all age groups are susceptible to contracting the virus, the CDC cautions that older adults are at a higher risk of becoming severely ill from...
Personalizing a Hotel Room: How About a Movable Wall?
An established Swiss hospitality operator is about to take a sizable step into personalized hotel experiences. This summer, SV Hotel will open the first location of its new extended-stay brand, Stay KooooK, in Bern. The second will be opening in 2021 in Nürnberg,...
Will 3D Printing Be an Answer for Building More Affordable Homes?
California’s chronic shortage of affordable housing has been well documented. Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter for the New York Times, states, in his new book “Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America,” that 3.5 million housing units need to be built in...
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