A partnership between Harvard University and local developer Graffito SP is using Harvard s resources to promote economic activity along a sleepy corridor.
In order for innovation to matter, the idea needs to be followed by doing the work.
The coworking sphere has particularly come under fire for being consumed by the idea of work rather than its practical application. And the entire real estate industry has been under unprecedented scrutiny over the last year for how relatively few companies are doing the work of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Shervonne Cherry is no stranger to doing the work in any sense, and she is working to tackle problems both in coworking and in diversity and equity in real estate. She has lived the startup life, having started her tech career at Mindgrub as one of five employees in her CEO’s basement. She later served as program director for DreamIt Health, overseeing a 16-week accelerator program in a proto-coworking space within a Cordish Cos. office building in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor neighborhood.
In this series, Bisnow highlights people and companies pushing the commercial real estate industry forward in myriad ways. Click here to read Q&As with all the innovators Bisnow has interviewed so far.
Before the crisis, health and well-being in the workplace fell into the buzzy amenity category. These days, they are considered crucial.
While many landlords have rushed to revamp spaces to encourage office workers return, most people are continuing to work remotely. In New York City, for example, only 10% of companies have come back from remote work even as the ramped-up vaccine rollout and loosened restrictions have brought back some of the city bustle.
In this series, Bisnow highlights people and companies pushing the commercial real estate industry forward in myriad ways. Click here to read Q&As with all the innovators Bisnow has interviewed so far.
Officials from multifamily and student housing developer Jackson Dearborn Partners say they have found the key to quickly raising the equity needed to break ground on projects in federal opportunity zones. Instead of spending months dialing for dollars and tapping into established networks of institutional investors and family offices, the company uses CrowdStreet, an online commercial real estate investing platform.
Designed to steer $100B a year into a vast stretch of areas that cities and state governments consider underserved, the opportunity zone program was created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Governors designated thousands of low- to moderate-income census tracts, along with a handful of more affluent tracts, as opportunity zones, and investors who fund projects