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A future-ready office building for techie workers will soon spring up in New York City

BD+C

The impending demolition of a former retail building in New York City will set the stage for the planned construction of a 240,000-ft, 20-story office building whose design and systems will be flexible enough to support and accommodate this metro’s growing tech and innovation sectors, which are expected to create 100,000 new jobs over the next decade. (..)

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March / April 2016 Issue (Volume 49, Number 2)

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Accelerating Innovation in NY | The Innovate NY Fund, along with the Partnership Fund for New York City, is helping to spur the development of a biotech cluster in the Big Apple. Retail: Shopping for New Jobs | The retail industry has an impact on more than just the clothes in our closets and our daily coffee fix.

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Lessons learned from 70 years of building cities

BD+C

Sasaki is designing for cities to not only be more socially and environmentally just, but more human. Stillness in the City Between Second and Third Avenue in New York City is a hidden oasis called Greenacre Park. As beautiful as it is functional, Greenacre belongs to everyone in New York City.

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Renewable Energy: The Power Of Change

Business Facilities

as measured by retail electricity produced and sold, serving more than 5.6 35 Mules, powered by FPL, is an innovation hub helping startups in the energy, water and energy-adjacent industries bring their ideas to life faster, smarter and at scale. In 2020, the company opened a first-of-its-kind innovation hub called 35 Mules.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

While cities occupy just three percent of global land area, by 2050 they will be home to two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants according to Gensler’s, 75 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to Gensler’s Aleksander Sasha Zeljic in a June 2018 interview with Architectural Products magazine.

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Putting 9 senior living market trends into perspective

BD+C

One of their first facilities was in New Jersey just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. Our firm is in the early phases of planning and designing several such communities for innovative clients. 9. The senior living sector is changing faster than ever.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

Business Facilities

With a diverse population and innovation-driving ecosystem, Atlanta offers a wide range of opportunities for technology companies looking to do business in the U.S. BlackRock chose the region for its new Innovation Hub comprised of 1,000 jobs. AUSTIN, DENVER, NEW YORK CITY HAVE TOP STARTUP ECOSYSTEMS.

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