Special Issue – Global Real Estate Published: Spring 2017 By K.C. Conway, CRE One need only reflect upon the headlines of late regarding Brexit, Trans-Pacific-Partnership (TPP), Hanjin shipping bankruptcy, and slowing GDP growth to realize that all is not harmonious in the global economy. The common threads that run through these headlines — as well […]
I met my business partner Dan Gans in 1972 when we were both freshman at Gettysburg College. One year after graduating, we decided to start a development business together. After studying the entire New York Metropolitan area for three years as we completed our post-graduate studies, we came to the conclusion that Hoboken would be […]
Book by: Hugh F. Kelly, Ph.D., CRE (© 2016, Routeledge; 326 Pages) Hugh Kelly reminds us in more than one place in 24 Hour Cities that “a list of ingredients does not constitute a recipe.” In his book, Kelly offers us a full-flavored, sit-down, multi-course meal of form and function, detail and design, ebb and […]
Special Issue – Global Real Estate Published: Spring 2017 Resource Review of The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us by Joel Kotkin (© 2016, Agate B2; 304 Pages) Reviewed by Roy J. Schneiderman, CRE Joel Kotkin is a significant persona and one of the more prolific writers on the non-politically correct side of the “urbanism” […]
The Impact of Submarket Trends on Property Performance I. Introduction Location matters for how commercial real estate will perform over time. This statement will seem painfully obvious to industry practitioners, who may argue that (aside from timing and luck) location is the only thing that matters. However, in an age where capital flows across […]
The underlying goal of this article is to highlight issues in current smart city approaches, find common success factors of established projects and to create a framework based on these findings, which should lay ground for future smart city concepts and research. There are 31,700,000 results on Google if one searches for the keyword pair […]
Special Issue – Global Real Estate Published: Spring 2017 By William P.J. McCarthy, CRE Smart Growth refers to urban design and transportation planning agendas which its adherents believe create vibrant, high density urban centers with an ever decreasing dependency on the automobile. Smart Growth is promoted as a panacea for an increasingly wide range of urban […]
Volume 40, Number 1 Published: Summer 2015 By Hugh F. Kelly, Ph.D., CRE Presented at the 9th RED Business Forum, Athens, Greece, October 13, 2014 It is an honor and a pleasure to be here today in Athens, for this very special conference. I’m taken with the conference’s overall title, “Inventing the Future — Invest in […]
In 2013, a New Jersey appellate court temporarily ended the long standing debate of whether a statute of limitations applies to contribution claims brought under the State of New Jersey law which governs liability for the cleanup of environmental contamination, the New Jersey Spill Compensation & Control Act (the “Spill Act”). In Morristown Associates v. […]
Making a Living, Making a Life By Daniel Rose, CRE (©2014, Half Moon Press, 366 pages) Daniel Rose, CRE, has had an extraordinary business career including developing Pentagon City in Washington, D.C., and One Financial Center in Boston. He developed Manhattan Plaza for the Performing Arts in New York City. He is not only an icon […]
The Counselors of Real Estate®, established in 1953, is an international group of high profile professionals including members of prominent real estate, financial, legal and accounting firms as well as leaders of government and academia who provide expert, objective advice on complex real property situations and land-related matters. Membership is selective, extended by invitation only. The organization’s CRE® (Counselor of Real Estate) credential is granted to all members in recognition of superior problem solving ability in various areas of real estate counseling. For more information, contact The Counselors of Real Estate