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Build-to-suit or Settling for Low Cost Alternatives
Real estate professionals, architects, engineers, builders and owners can find themselves faced with a dilemma in an environment of economic uncertainly. It has always been true that buying exclusively based on lowest price is a dangerous way to do business. Catering to such clients can be hazardous as well. [...]

The Design-Build project delivery method is gaining popularity, and it looks as though continued growth can be expected. The process, by definition, is so collaborative it is likely that more segments of the A/E/C marketplace will embrace it. This method provides the following:

Mission Control - Design Build will grow in popularity as will trends toward [...]

In compiling my research for a client that is looking to purchase retail properties in my market (10-50,000 Sq. Ft.), I uncovered the following facts:

There have been more sales in the 1st & 2nd quarters of 2011 (30) vs all of last year (29).
The average price per square foot so far this year is already 2% [...]

In late March, I toured One Haworth Center located in Holland, MI, the global headquarters of the Haworth Inc., one of the big five workplace solutions/systems furniture companies here in the U.S. Office Environments, the local Haworth Dealer, organized the day long tour for local facilities personnel, architects and interior designers.
As an architect engaged in the [...]

As I listened to Billy Joel’s “Summer, Highland Falls” last night I couldn’t help but compare it to the political climate of today. We live in a world of no compromise. Neither side wants to give, they only want to get. When Billy Joel sings this song in concert he usually dedicates it to “All the Manic Depressives in the audience.” Is that what our society has become?

So, as I’m reading through my daily feeds on what is happening in the residential real estate market in Arizona, I see how one could easily become confused about what is happening! For instance, here are all of the headlines just from today regarding our residential real estate market.

Empty houses taking toll on Valley

Drastic home-value [...]

I was recently sent a survey asking for my thoughts on the retail market out here in the desert. Here are the questions and my comments:.

Are you seeing an uptick in retail investment activity in your market? Absolutely! It feels like it has been a long time since Lehman collapsed which started the cascade down.

What types of [...]

Benefit from the tremendous amount of time that we have spent modeling in excel with the information we have condensed into our blog!

I attended the New York ad:tech conference (a great show for both the advertising world and the social media sphere, www.ad-tech.com) and several of the sessions brought an old dilemma back to the surface.  Specifically,  what is the next evolutionary jump for location-based services? Over the last year, the social media scene has exploded with [...]