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Shopping Mall Development Trends: Are Ghost Kitchens the Answer for Vacant Mall Space?

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CRE developers and owners are continuing to think creatively about filling vacant shopping mall space, and recently the idea of bringing in “ghost kitchens” to fill obsolete retail square footage has started to gain traction. From our perspective, bringing ghost kitchens to malls certainly isn’t a bad use of vacant retail space.

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3 Critical Questions to Ask Before Starting an Adaptive Reuse Commercial Construction Project

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Englewood Construction is in the midst of two adaptive reuse projects right now – one a former meatpacking facility in Chicago that we’re updating for office, retail or restaurant use, and the other a former convent we’ll be converting into a senior living community. An adaptive reuse project is a creative blend of old and new.

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Top 5 Construction Strategies to Consider Before Purchasing an Underperforming Shopping Mall

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As the economy improves and prices hit bottom, these transactions have become more realistic for commercial real estate investors when compared to past years. Perhaps the most important aspect in this process will be engaging a national retail commercial contractor for advice and feasibility studies.

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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A better solution to increase the occupancy of downtown urban-core office towers could be to attract more professional services and businesses that are currently working in-office throughout less-dense urban and suburban areas in half-empty low-rise and inefficient office buildings, ubiquitous in every city’s commercial corridors.

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3 Reasons to Reach Out to Your General Contractor During the Commercial Construction Process

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For the most part, a commercial construction firm’s job is pretty straightforward. Here are three examples of when you should reach out to your commercial construction general contractor. Here are three examples of when you should reach out to your commercial construction general contractor. Before You Select A Site.

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Pennsylvania Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Uses include machinery/equipment; job training; infrastructure; land and building improvements; environmental assessment/remediation; acquisition of land, buildings, right-of-ways; working capital; and site preparation, demolition and clearance. . Grants shall not exceed $5 million and have a term of not more than five years.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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That meant proximity to transit, jobs, schools, retail, public access to parks and recreation, and other social infrastructure. The community will be home to offices, schools, services such as daycare, and retail/dining. He found the most successful ones had a sense of community that went beyond the buildings.

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