Economy, Market & Trends
The city of San Jose, California, is considering encouraging churches and other institutions to convert underused parking lots to create much needed affordable housing. Other cities such as San Antonio and Montgomery County, Maryland, are looking at how other assets or acquisitions could be better used, particularly to accommodate refugees.
The metric acre could fill a missing intermediate scale between square meters and hectares and, like the metric ton, bridge the gap between the imperial and metric systems.
In observance of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Urban Landis highlighting the redevelopment of lower Manhattan.
Chicago’s Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Plan, published in June of this year and driven largely by the mayor’s office and the community collective Elevated Chicago, hopes to close some of the gaps created in the original 2013 ordinance.
JLL’s 2021 Global Proptech Report identifies nearly 8,000 property technology companies around the world with a threefold increase over the past 10 years. But JLL is also betting on further growth in the space with with $100 venture capital fund of its own.
For those fortunate enough to be able to work remotely, “workations” have emerged as a blend of remote work and leisure outside the confines of a home office. A workation in Japan is a remote work arrangement with elements of a retreat, a dose of nature, and perhaps a taste of small-town life mixed in.
According to data provider Apptopia, mobile applications, such as SpotHero and ParkMobile, have now exceeded their January 2020 levels by 6.2 percent in terms of monthly average U.S. users.
After more than four years of planning and construction, operations have begun at the Amazon Air Hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. This $1.5 billion investment in Northern Kentucky will eventually create thousands of jobs for people from various backgrounds, including load planning, management of package sortation, and robotics technology.
At a recent ULI webinar, panelists discussed the advantages of alternative construction technologies, including modular development, panelization, mass timber, and precast concrete. While not necessarily new to the construction industry, each of these technologies is becoming increasingly well known. The webinar was part of a series hosted by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing.
A survey of ULI members suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in commercial building management and operational changes that make occupants’ health and wellness a top priority, according to participants in a recent webinar hosted by the Institute’s Building Healthy Places Initiative.