Commercial Real Estate Techology
Strategies: Technology
Corporate Environmentalism Surges
Pizza Fusion, a restaurateur based in Deerfield Beach, Fla., is gearing up at 50 new franchises to install features such as bamboo flooring, countertops...
Wind Power Blows Hot in Real Estate Community
The propeller-like blades of wind turbines are finding their way to the rooftops of corporate headquarters, high-rise residential towers, government structures...
Site Selection: The Secret Sauce
Marco's Pizza is hungry for a bigger slice of the $37 billion U.S. pizza industry. By the end of 2011, the Toledo, Ohio-based chain of pizza restaurants plans to operate 1,500 store locations in 40 states....
Always Low Energy
The greenest retailer in the U.S. is Wal-Mart? Known for its superstores, stringent supply-chain economies and always low prices, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is considered by many the most influential retailer in the world....
3D Problem Solvers
After General Motors Corp. opened its 2 million sq. ft. Lansing Grand River vehicle manufacturing plant in 2001, a vice president at the automaker issued a challenge to GM's Worldwide Facilities Group: Improve factors such as cost, speed and safety by 25% on the next big project...
Wooing Hotel Customers Online
Like consumers of all kinds, guests of Hilton Hotels Corp. are getting in the habit of shopping on the Web. More than 20% of the hotel company's bookings come online....
Google Sets Sights on Solar Power
Spurred by declining solar power costs and an increase in state and federal incentives for adopting the energy source, search-engine giant Google Inc. and other property owners are turning to the sun for their energy needs....
Enter the Virtual War Room
The commercial real estate community is feeling the need for speed. Second only to achieving the highest possible price in today's frothy investment sales market, the ability to act quickly is the new necessity for sellers....
High Expectations for Tech Sector
Silicon Valley office landlords are still wincing from the sweeping technology bust that emptied their buildings in 2001 and 2002 as quickly as the technology...
Torto Wheaton, Moody’s Partner to Produce New Real Estate Credit Risk Software
Moody’s Investors Service and Torto Wheaton Research will team up to develop software analyzing the risk of commercial mortgage whole loan portfolios....
Owners Put Energies into Finding Alternative Power
In the wake of last summer's blackout in the Northeast, some landlords are refusing to be left in the dark again. They are turning to co-generation a...
The Skinny on Super-Flat Floors
There's no doubt that warehouse/distribution facilities are in favor among investors. In the premier markets Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and...
Developers Learn the 3-Ds
What happens when the creative teams behind Finding Nemo, Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Dragon Ball close shop for the day? Real estate developers sneak...
Battening Down the Hatches
Fingerprint scanners and optical turnstile technology may sound like a scene from Mission Impossible, but these new technologies could be headed for an...
A Technology Lull, You Say?
A weak economic recovery, war with Iraq and fears of another economic downturn have crushed capital spending. Purchases of new equipment, computers and...
Software Giants Buying Into Real Estate Niche
Commercial real estate looks like an attractive target for major software companies in search of new markets. So, they're snapping up independent software...
The Science of Site Selection
In just a few short years, the site selection process for Columbus, Ohio-based Steiner & Associates, a developer of lifestyle and entertainment centers,...
Unlocking Technology's Potential
IN THE LATE 1990s, many firms confidently predicted technology would revolutionize apartment marketing and operations. Four years later, most firms are...
An e-blueprint for Success
WITH MORE THAN 60 construction projects under way at any given time, Clayco Construction needed a way to check the torrent of paper that was flooding...
Despite dot-com failures, real estate tech sector remains optimistic
Despite the failure of numerous transaction-oriented Internet companies, the general mood of the real estate technology sector remains optimistic, if...
