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How Can An Office Building Embrace The Concept Of Placemaking?

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The term “Placemaking” is certainly not a new term, but it’s now influencing commercial developers in new ways.  According to the Project for Public Spaces, placemaking is inspiring people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community.  In this week’s blog, we feature an article from Bisnow.com that talks about placemaking, and how Rosslyn City Center, in Rosslyn, Virginia is utilizing placemaking with its development planning.  If Cresa can help with your development plans, let’s talk – www.tenant-broker.com .  How Can An Office Building Embrace The Concept Of Placemaking? Bisnow Washington DC Office May 10, 2022 Rosslyn City Center Julia Troy, Studio B Editor Placemaking is a word that has popped up often in the last few years in reference to community development, but it’s an idea that is still lost on many developers.  The Project for Public Spaces defines placemaking as a concept that “in...

Cresa's Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging 2021 Report

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Cresa’s DIB Committee members are committed to change. We acknowledge that our current workforce does not meet our own standards for diversity, nor does it accurately represent the communities in which our offices are located. To change this, we’ve established actionable goals to bring us into a more diverse and inclusive future. Our formal Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB) program was launched in 2018 with the creation of our Diversity Council. In June 2020, the 45-member Council was spurred into further action. We split up into 4 committees, each with its own specific focus and target objectives. By making our efforts measurable, “embrace diversity” becomes more than a core value – it’s ingrained in our business model. The creation of these committees was prompted by the Black Lives Matter protests spreading across the U.S. and around the world, illuminating the injustices black people still face each and every day. Together we strive to encourage, support and celebrate ...

Hybrid Culture Forcing Change

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Hybrid work and offices are here for the foreseeable future.  This Cresa article talks about how real estate brokerages are dealing with both commercial and home offices.  Some highlights: "People can see this is the way the world is going," Jason Jones, the Atlanta-based managing principal and lead of hybrid workforce services at Cresa, which focuses on tenants or occupiers, told CoStar News. "Our competitors are doing things to deal with hybrid working but not the way we are embracing it. We have been one of the early leads on this and it's because of our model." With workplace strategy at the top of its agenda, Cresa made a move this year to buy Ottawa-based Agile Work Evolutions, which has technology that allows companies to analyze potential occupancy strategies and adopt hybrid and flexible workplace solutions into their leases. In the United States, a Gallup survey released in March makes it clear hybrid work is the future of most office workers. The fir...

Cresa's Insights & Tools

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When you work with Cresa, we bring to bear insights and tools to allow you to find out what’s shaping the space of occupiers around the globe. Cost reduction, real estate trends, regulatory updates, technology, design and beyond — our insights are as diverse and deep as our integrated services and the industries we support. In our blog this week, we will feature some of these insights & tools available to your company.   If you would like to learn more about what Cresa offers, please reach out to me at 240-485-4800 or visit www.tenant-broker.com .   Insights Blog Cresa offers a searchable blog (location, industry, service, category) where our top experts explore topics about CRE across the globe.   The blog is updated often with useful and relevant information about commercial real estate topics that can help you understand new trends and the direction of markets.   View our Blog here - https://www.cresa.com/Blog . Whitepapers Cresa’s whitepapers ar...
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This week we share a viewpoint from Cresa about “The State of the Workplace”. In this short, recent article, we talk about how we got here, the war for talent, the fits & starts of coordinating workplace re-entry, and where we think the future of the office is going. As always, if I can answer any questions about the information in this article, or you have questions or concerns about where your workplace is going, please contact me – www.tenant-broker.com The State of the Workplace – Cresa Viewpoint Spring 2022 How We Got Here It’s hard to overstate the transformation that work has undergone during the pandemic. While some progressive organizations had implemented remote work policies previously, the vast majority of professional employees were in a routine of traditional commuting and in-office working, and found their lives and schedules upturned in 2020. The national shutdown in March 2020 was abrupt and unsettling, and we’ve seen significant effects on both sides o...

Cresa Statement of Qualifications Part 2

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Last week, we presented some information from Cresa’s Statement of Qualifications about who we serve, where we serve, and why we are different.  This week, we present information from our SOQ about the variety of services that Cresa offers to help you with your commercial real estate strategy.  We will cover: -           Transaction Management Services -           Workspace Solution Services -           Project Management Services -           Consulting Services -           Lease Administration Services -           Technology Services -           Investment Banking & Capital Markets Services -           ...