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

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Does the idea of repurposing a massive amount of professional and business office space fly in the face of everything the country, and specifically Los Angeles, has been trying to achieve with downtown revitalization over the last 25 years? As the community plan for Downtown Los Angeles—also known as DTLA2040—states, “Downtown is.

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Prologis to Build First Multistory Warehouse in the U.S.

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Growing e-commerce sales are causing retailers to look for faster and more efficient distribution models. Some are locating their warehousing closer to their customer, but square footage for new warehouse facilities is tight in densely populated transportation hub cities such as New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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Kinetic Architecture: New book explores innovations in active façades

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Arup has announced that Russell Fortmeyer, LEED AP, BD+C, an associate in Arup''s Los Angeles office, has co-authored a book on kinetic architecture with industry expert Charles Linn, FAIA, an architect who has specialized in architectural journalism for more than 25 years.

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Tech-Driven Demand, Shifts In Trade Policy Boosting U.S. Industrial Sector

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The industrial real estate sector continues to benefit from many of the technology-driven shifts that are challenging the retail and office sectors, such as rising consumer dependence on e-commerce and mounting demand for data centers to support cloud computing, according to the latest U.S. Los Angeles. Credit: John Foxx.

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Heroic Efforts In California

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Interstate Highways 15 and 215, which connect Murrieta to nearby Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego as well as to Las Vegas and the rest of the continental United States, Canada and Mexico. Murrieta is one of the fastest growing cities in California and is experiencing growth from both neighboring Los Angeles and San Diego.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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These include transportation carriers of all kinds, as well as warehousing, distribution, third-party logistics services, manufacturers’ operations, retailers and distributers who may have their own distribution centers. Sheffi is a professor of Engineering Systems and director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL).

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The Travel & Tourism Game

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billion), Public Transportation ($200.4 billion), Auto Transportation ($166.5 billion) and Retail ($109.6 Other large non-rail served parcels are located along the identified transportation corridors also suitable for development. Total domestic and international inbound traveler spending in the U.S. reached $1.1

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