Reading Time: 4 minutes At Spatio Metrics, we’ve seen that workplace design has a significant impact on human health, productivity, and wellbeing. As we adapt to new ways of working and staying healthy amidst the pandemic, the role of physical office space needs to adapt as well. It has never been more important to have a thoughtful approach to …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Guest Blog by Haven Diagnostics With cases of COVID-19 continuing to fluctuate across the United States, employers are struggling with the question of how to bring employees back to the workplace. Though the CDC produces a one-size-fits-all checklist for office re-entry, many commercial real estate (CRE) landlords are taking an extra level of precaution by …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes With Halloween right around the corner, the world has been indulging in all things make-believe. We’ve seen the emergence of costumes, decorations, and candy galore — all of which wouldn’t exist without the storytelling traditions that bring the holiday to life. We all love a good urban legend; they can pique our interest, excite us, …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes This past August marked the 25th anniversary of Microsoft’s formal launch of Windows 95, which introduced the broader population to the concept of an operating system for the very first time. At its launch, only about 30% of American homes had computers, and less than 10% had any form of internet access. Now, it’s incredibly …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes My boss walked into my office, as he so often did, after navigating the long, narrow rows of desks and file cabinets that comprised the spine of our department high above the auditorium at Radio City Music Hall. His gaze was set in a far-away fog of intense frustration. We had been awarded the contract …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes We recently shared a few tenant experience program ideas that commercial real estate landlords and property teams could utilize to engage tenants remotely. In a similar vein, we’ve been taking a closer look at suburban commercial office properties, which have the opportunity to capture increased demand due to the current market’s unique set of circumstances. …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Due to the changing needs of the workforce, there has been a larger focus on the suburban tenant experience as more and more tenants are considering switching up their workplace strategies and moving outside of central business districts (CBDs). This sudden shift in the commercial real estate (CRE) landscape presents an opportunistic moment for landlords …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes From the moment they wake up until the moment they fall asleep — and even for those several hours in between — your tenants are tech-enabled, using multiple technologies to collect data on and improve every aspect of their day. If you’re not facilitating that convenience in the office as well, why should they stay …
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Reading Time: 7 minutes When times are changing, adaptability is key. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a curveball into every major market, particularly impacting those which include the public realm, such as the commercial real estate (CRE), retail, entertainment, and food industries. Several months ago, this was the situation for Roxbury, Massachusetts-based distillery, Bully Boy Distillers. The distillery — …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The introduction of a “new normal” – a wholesale change in how we navigate through our daily lives and how industries alter the way they conduct business – is just not that exceptional. In fact, the emergence of a new normal from time to time is, well, pretty normal. Sometimes, the new normal is a …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes In one of the early days of my then-new job at HqO, I walked into the lobby of our office building particularly tired. I was still getting used to my new commute, which had more than tripled in distance from my previous job, and that morning’s drive had particularly drained me. It had taken nearly …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes During the height of the cold war, Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union’s Air Defense Forces, and his job was to monitor the Soviet satellite system responsible for detecting nuclear missile launches from the United States. On September 26th, 1983 — just a few weeks after the Soviet Union had shot …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was working on the 46th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper on August 14, 2003, when the lights went out across most of the U.S. and Canadian east coast. Within a half hour, it became clear that the power would not be restored anytime soon. With evening approaching, there was no sense of panic, only …
Frank Talks CRE: The Crucial Importance of Building Communities Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes In early 2019, coming off of JLL Spark’s investment in HqO, I spent most of my weeks traveling the country and getting to know a number of impressive JLL executives. This was a large undertaking — JLL has 75 offices in the United States, and after months of what now feels like a blur of …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes No two ways about it, the competitive environment has changed. An imposing new contender has swiftly entered the arena with swagger and clout that was unimaginable just a few short months ago. The challenger – remote working – is hardly new to the game. But when the pandemic began, the robust meeting solution technologies that …
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