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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 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 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...