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Commercial Construction Real Estate Trends from ICSC 2014

HardHatChat

For one week each year, the commercial construction industry converges on the desert city as national retail construction firms, retail brokers and retailers all get together to make deals and plan for the following year. I felt like this was the largest RECON I’ve attended since 2008, the last year of the retail construction boom.

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ICSC (RECon) Executive Summary: Four Commercial Construction Trends

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The tone of the attendees at ICSC’s “Global Retail Real Estate Convention” (RECon) in Las Vegas last month was as positive and energizing as it was in the commercial construction boom years before 2008. Retail and restaurant sales are steadily increasing and commercial construction space is slowly being absorbed.

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PACE in Maryland is Not Keeping Pace

Green Building Law Update

In 2008 I said Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans “ could be bigger than anything in U.S. million existing commercial buildings in the U.S. real estate since the invention of the glass window.”. But today, despite Maryland having enacted a PACE enabling law in 2014, only one PACE loan has closed in the State.

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Green Building Bonds as a Game Changing New Source of Capital

Green Building Law Update

Department of Energy''s Better Buildings Alliance as an inaugural Green Lease Leader, leading the market by incorporating lease clauses that help overcome market barriers and align tenant and property owner interests to save energy in commercial buildings. exclusively for green building. The bank acted as underwriter on Regency’s deal.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Accounting & Finance. ” Pardon the Commercial Interruption… » Year-End Wake Up Call. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. General Management. Software & Technology.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Accounting & Finance. It seems like every time I turn on the television, I see a commercial for something “in the cloud.” There used to be commercials from a well-known company that proclaimed in a super-hero-like fashion, “To the cloud!” December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Accounting & Finance. There’s a commercial for a local kitchen design company that I often hear on the radio that starts, “The form has to follow the function…” According to Wikipedia, this phrase comes from a modern architecture and design principle that says to base the shape of a building or object on its intended purpose of function.