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An Iterative Approach to Workplace Events and Offerings

Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery commercial real estate (CRE) property, tenant, and employee has different needs.  Driving renewed value to the office requires a unique approach to workplace events and engagement strategies.  Despite recent changes to the workplace, many employees still prefer their company’s physical office for a variety of work functions. 39% of respondents in a recent Gensler …

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Optimizing Engagement with Workplace Experiences | HqO

Optimizing Engagement in the Workplace

Reading Time: 3 minutesExperiences have taken the commercial real estate (CRE) industry by storm. So much so, that a strong focus on personalized workplace experiences is the key behind modern property teams’ ability to attract and retain tenants, increase NOI, and differentiate their properties. With tenant demands and hybrid work constantly evolving, providing unique experiences in the workplace …

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Inside HqO: Palmer Simpson

Reading Time: 6 minutesPalmer Simpson HqO Account Executive, Canada  Palmer Simpson joined HqO in July 2021 to oversee all Canadian accounts and help grow HqO across Canada. Prior to HqO, Palmer worked in Global Investments and Asset Management at Manulife. Focusing on the Canadian market, Palmer oversees HqO’s Canadian accounts and leads its growth across Canada. You have …

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Inside HqO: Anna Kassaraba

Reading Time: 6 minutesAnna Kassaraba Senior Software Engineer at HqO  Anna is a Senior Software Engineer at HqO, reporting to the Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) teams. She is a front-end engineer focusing on mobile development, and is currently working on HqO’s Platform team to perfect the company’s mobile access features.  You’ve been part of our Engineering team …

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The Let’s Go Show Recap: Proptech 3.0: A Conversation with Oxford’s Andrew Baum

Reading Time: 2 minutesProfessor Andrew Baum has been thinking about and studying the real estate industry since 1970. He recently began teaching MBA students and executives at the University of Oxford, soon realizing that his students wanted to learn more about the future of the industry than technical information. Thus, his extensive research reflects a greater understanding of …

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The Let’s Go Show Recap: Better Together with Office App’s Thijs van der Burgt

Reading Time: 3 minutesThijs van der Burgt, CEO of the Netherlands-based tenant and engagement platform Office App, has a long history of technology ventures. Though his prior companies focused on health and parenting, Thijs was inspired to found Office App after a negative experience at an office building. He began to look into the market, noticed that “there …

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Conversations: Patrick Nurse and Nishit Shah form Cadillac Fairview | HqO

Patrick Nurse and Nishit Shah of Cadillac Fairview

Reading Time: 11 minutesPatrick Nurse and Nishit Shah Manager, Tenant Relations and Senior Manager, Smart Buildings At Cadillac Fairview, Patrick and Nishit have very different responsibilities. On one hand, Patrick brings over 20 years of experience with him in his role as Tenant Relations Manager at Toronto’s renowned CF Toronto Eaton Centre Complex. He serves as the liaison …

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Looking Back at EXPERIENCE: Part I

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe HqO team just finished hosting EXPERIENCE in New York City, a first-of-its-kind commercial real estate (CRE) event dedicated completely to the tenant experience. If there’s anything I learned in the past few days, it’s this: despite the challenge of running an in-person event in a post-pandemic world, seeing people excited to be together again …

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The Let’s Go Show Recap: The Office Sector Rebound with Michael Bull, Host of America’s Commercial Real Estate Show

Reading Time: 2 minutesMichael Bull’s real estate career started when he was just eighteen years old. Today, he owns his own real estate firm Bull Realty and hosts the country’s leading video and podcast show on commercial real estate (CRE), America’s Commercial Real Estate Show.  What started as a radio show over a decade ago is now a podcast, …

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Retail at Work and the Experiences Driving Tenant Engagement | HqO

Retail at Work: The Experiences Driving Tenant Engagement

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve been talking a lot about connected retail experiences, but let’s face it: retail is a fairly broad term. It’s made to encompass all forms of selling goods and services to the public. For example, your daily coffee order is considered retail. However, so are your dry cleaning and specialty service needs. For the office, …

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Tenant Communication Apps and the Hybrid Workplace

Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery company has their own unique take on a flexible workspace. Flexible spaces can come in different forms, from the coworking models introduced to us by WeWork to fully tech-enabled spaces controlled by tenant communication apps on our smartphones. Shared amenity spaces like conference rooms and on-site cafes offer new environments to work in, while …

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Conversations: Pennybacker Capital's Pat Rippe | HqO

Pat Rippe of Pennybacker Capital

Reading Time: 9 minutesPat Rippe Managing Director, Portfolio Optimization As a Managing Director for Pennybacker Capital, Pat oversees the private equity firm’s office portfolio throughout the entire development, re-development, and asset management processes. Whether it’s a renovation and reposition or a ground-up project, Pat collaborates with various teams both inside and outside  the organization to create exciting and …

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