By Drees Stribling | Bisnow | May 19, 2020 As the construction industry in Boston is poised to reopen completely, the challenge of operating efficiently while social distancing are only going to intensify, experts said this week. According to the speakers at Bisnow’s recent webinar, How to Get Boston Construction Back Underway, it has already been a struggle. […]
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19May
Boston Construction Struggles To Adapt To Social Distancing – And How To Pay For It
Capital Markets
By Dees Stribling | Bisnow | May 13, 2020 “What keeps you up at night?” a Bisnow webinar audience member asked Ron Druker, Boston commercial real estate luminary and president of The Druker Co. “Right now, my dog keeps me up at night,” Druker said. “The answer is — I can only control what I […]
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07May
The Recession Will Hurt, But Boston’s Multifamily Market Is Poised For A Quick Recovery
Capital MarketsBy Drees Stribling | Bisnow | May 8, 2020 The initial shock of the coronavirus pandemic might be past, but that doesn’t mean landlords, tenants, developers or prospective renters and buyers aren’t still trying to cope. A cornerstone of operating multifamily buildings as safely as possible has been “communicate, communicate, communicate,” Samuels & Associates principal […]
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By Paul Singer | WGBH | May 4, 2020 Whenever non-essential offices reopen, here’s the first thing to remember: About two-thirds of us probably won’t be going back in. At least not for a while. Gov. Charlie Baker has assembled a team to begin talking about reopening the economy, and of course everybody is anxious […]
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30Apr
CRE Deals Are Still Closing. Here’s How Three of Them Got Done During the Pandemic
Downtown OfficeBy Catherine Carlock – Real Estate Editor, Boston Business Journal | May 1, 2020 On a mid-April webinar to the Commercial Brokers Association in Boston, office broker David Martel gave a sobering statistic: between 90-95% of active real-estate deals are either on hold or dead amid the coronavirus pandemic. “To say it’s unprecedented is an […]
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