Contributors
Transwestern Startup Stories: Kafi Payne – Gravitational
By Victor Valenzuela This series profiles innovative companies and how they are adapting to the challenges of Bay Area Shelter-In-Place orders in the...
McNellis: A Vaccine for Retail?
By John McNellis Retail has the virus. Just as with people, different retailers are reacting to this infection very differently. Ailing merchants with...
Urban to Suburban: The Growing Shift to the Suburbs as COVID-19 Changes the Way People Live
Suddenly, the suburbs are all the rage. By Ken McCarthy & David C. Smith After a decade that increasingly focused on central cities,...
McNellis: Plagued Retail and the View from the Trenches
By John McNellis “I have two options that are non-negotiable. I’m going bankrupt (chapter 7). COVID happened, and I cannot survive. I’d rather...
Hub and Spoke and Why Every Employer Should be Focused on the Suburbs
By Eugene McGrane As I often do when thinking about real estate and the economy, I found myself reflecting on The Power Broker...
March to June, Where are We Really After 3 Months of COVID Effects on Commercial Real Estate
By Eugene McGrane Well it’s been a long three months of Shelter in Place orders across most of the country. We’ve seen a...
McNellis: The Post-Plague Office
Real Estate in the Plague Year By John McNellis Last week, Mark Zuckerberg said he believes that half of Facebook’s employees will be working...
McNellis: Death of the Elevator
By John McNellis Real Estate in the Plague Year Without the elevator…there could be no downtown skyscrapers or residential high-rises, and city life...
Repurpose, Rezone or Replace
By John Cumbelich The overbuilt US market for retail space was one crisis away from a major correction. That correction is now upon us....
McNellis: Working the Recession
By John McNellis Recession: a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall...
Rent Moratoriums: Impact on Pension Fund Investors
By Stanley L. Iezman, Chairman and CEO of American Realty Advisors COVID-19 has resulted in the unfortunate economic winddown of many businesses as...
May 1: Rent & Occupancy Trends
By Dylan Simon and Jerrid Anderson Collection Loss on 44,000 Seattle Area Apartments We find ourselves in strange times indeed. How does one...
