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Special Report: Across the Generations
While Baby Boomers and Gen Y sit at opposite poles, that doesn’t make it necessary to choose between them as targets for housing or retail. In fact, according to analysis at last week’s Urban Land Institute Spring Meeting in San Diego, the two groups complement each other.…
Continue reading →Special Report: Gen Y Goes Shopping
As retail strives to recreate itself for the post-recessionary market, investors and developers are targeting one group in particular, and they are an opinionated and fickle bunch. The good news is that Gen Y loves to shop, the Urban Land Institute found in its most recent study of the generation’s…
Continue reading →MHN Interview: SyndicIT Services’ Lauryn Schimmel
SyndicIT Services Managing Director Lauryn Schimmel shares digital document management insights with MHN.…
Continue reading →For Apartment Developers Investing in ‘Living’ Concrete, the Future is Now
Structures completed with living concrete will actively work to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The plant life that grows on the concrete system absorbs CO2 while creating fresh oxygen. This features makes living concrete an ideal material for buildings in urban settings where carbon dioxide levels are often…
Continue reading →Green Apartment Design: ‘Animated Apertures’ Blur the Divide Between Indoors and Outside
A team of Los Angeles architects hopes to make a few drastic changes to the edifices that we call apartment buildings. Strangely enough, they are starting with the windows.…
Continue reading →Special Report: Opening Speakers at ULI Emphasize Need for Innovation
Can developers be innovative? While it’s not the priority since developers need to focus on what their customers want and therefore what makes development profitable, they can benefit from use of innovation, affirmed James Waring, executive chairman of CleanTECH San Diego, during the 2013 ULI Spring Meeting in San Diego.…
Continue reading →‘What Renters Want’ with Jessica Fiur: Should You Allow Residents to Occasionally Break Lease?
Is there ever a valid reason to let a renter out of a lease early?…
Continue reading →Special Report: How to Make Mixed-Use Development Work in Neighborhood Revitalization
At the New York State Association for Affordable Housing’s 14th Annual New York State Affordable Housing Conference in New York in the session “Financing Mixed-Use Development," speakers discussed why mixed-use buildings could be critical to neighborhood revitalization.…
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