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Emerald ash borer larvae and galleries discovered under the bark of an ash tree at Arnot Forest, March 2018, marking Tompkins County’s first documented emerald ash borer occurrence. Cornell removing ash trees, as replanting effort launches
December 22, 2020
Cornell will be removing more than 1,700 of its ash trees infested by devastating emerald ash borer insects, mostly between January and March 2021, to reduce potential harm to people and property. At the same time, an initiative has been developed to replant trees.
The university will be sending letters in the coming weeks to notify local municipalities and neighbors of the ash abatements.
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Despite COVID-19, Global Institutions Continue to Increase Allocations to Real Estate, Finds Hodes Weill & Associates and Cornell University
December 10, 2020 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 10, 2020
Uncertainties related to COVID-19 have not dampened global institutions’ confidence in commercial real estate. In fact, investor sentiment increased for the third straight year, reaching a seven-year high in 2020, according to Hodes Weill & Associates and Cornell University’s Baker Program in Real Estate’s eighth annual Institutional Real Estate Allocations Monitor.
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The “Conviction Index” in this year’s survey, which measures institutions’ view of real estate as an investment opportunity from a risk-return standpoint, increased from 5.7 to 5.9. The steady growth in confidence in the asset class reflects the strong returns investors have realized over the last