Giving Back: Awareness Camp
TMC Accountant Heather VanKampen took three days off work earlier this month to volunteer for Awareness Camp, a free, fun-filled day camp for first through eighth graders hosted by the Boy Scouts of America,...
Rethinking the retail model post-pandemic
It is now a well-established fact that the retail sector was both broadly and deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, in the US and abroad. Our NAI Global Real Estate Outlook study, Q42020, includes...
Major-League Affiliated Baseball is Back: What this means for Wichita and CRE
Last week saw the official return of affiliated baseball to Wichita. The journey to this point was filled with unexpected setbacks – controversy over a land deal, a pandemic, a change in the team’s...
Thought leadership: CRE as a proxy for financial stability
In late March 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a blog about the “crossroads” that real estate currently finds itself, and warning that this has implications for the wider economies and economic stability....
Eye of the beholder: Tapping into the art of CRE photography
Commercial real estate (CRE) comes alive with compelling photography, and this has never been truer than in this age where most prospective tenants and clients begin and end their search for property online. Of...
Data demonstrates 2020’s brutal construction slump
The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) confirmed this week that construction activity on New York City’s Manhattan Island had – predictably – slumped in 2020, to almost its lowest level in a...
Click-to-collect and e-commerce: a windfall for CRE
Pivoting from in-store sales to tech-enabled sales was one of the saving graces of retail in 2020 when stores emptied out, and shelter-at-home orders dragged one. The data now shows that companies and markets...
CRE trend: Home is where the work is
“Work from home” is the first major trend highlighted in the Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2021 – produced by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and professional services network, PwC. This “trends and forecast...
From Coast to Cowboys: Texas CRE is having its moment
It seems Texas is the darling of commercial real estate (CRE) and tech giants at the moment, as several corporations recently shared their intent to head south-east in 2021. As you know, Silicon Valley...
Green and lean: smart ways retail, and CRE, can clean up its act
Green and sustainable retail has been a talking point for at least two decades, but it has previously been characterized as “unachievable” and even “unaffordable” with some of the big brand retailers detailing how...
