Terrorism: Protecting Your Mall
Our April cover story on the federal backstop for terrorism insurance focused exclusively on office buildings, but all property sectors are vulnerable...
Technology: Back to Basics
The celebrated rise and precipitous fall of dot-coms in commercial real estate and other industries has been well documented. So many companies folded,...
Retailers Have New Resolve: Pare Down or Perish
Chicago's travel guides often refer to FAO Schwarz as an institution in the toy business. What Michael Jordan is to basketball, FAO Schwarz is to toy...
Sarbanes-Oxley is onerous
CEOs of publicly traded companies are pulling their hair out these days trying to muddle through the laundry list of mandates included in the Sarbanes-Oxley...
New office supply is like rubbing salt into the wound
Whenever I pose a question to brokers, developers or lenders about the underlying causes for rising vacancies and declining rents in the office market,...
Disaster planning expert warns of another attack
Grim. There's no other way to describe those words voiced by Curtis Massey, president and CEO of Massey Enterprises Inc., whose expertise is helping commercial...
Rebuilding New York: A Monumental Challenge
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel Burnham THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER and the debate over how to redevelop...
High Anxiety
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE OF US WHO DON'T WORK IN SIGNATURE, high-rise office buildings to fully comprehend the feelings of anxiety and vulnerability...
