Taking Steps to Improve Your Property’s Walkability

Across commercial real estate sectors, various amenities rise and fall in prominence each year as investors track what attracts top-tier tenants and drives business. In the face of increasing urbanization where city center locations are in high demand, one property trait that’s been steadily gaining attention is walkability. But what does it look like when […]

Bolstering Your Portfolio with Mixed-Use Properties

They’ve been popping up more and more in downtowns everywhere, and it’s no surprise. Mixed-use properties, or properties that incorporate more than one asset type – often with both residential housing units and commercial units – seem to be one route investors are turning to for answers to an inconsistent and unpredictable real estate market. […]

The Rise and Fall of Ghost Kitchens: A Post-Mortem Reflection

From time to time a trend pops up in commercial real estate that’s interesting or strange enough to get a conversation going. Throughout the pandemic, when businesses were struggling everywhere, the trend that captured the imagination of entrepreneurs in the midst of a chaotic restaurant industry was “ghost kitchens” (we wrote about it, too!). While […]