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Five Retail Construction Tips from Zara’s New Magnificent Mile Store

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But what I want to do is tell you what you may not know about the retail space construction of this Zara store and how to apply this information to your next retail construction project. 1. Hidden traps in retail construction approval process. Make sure your general contractor has a VIP playbook. 2. The holy trinity.

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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

BD+C

How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel 0 qpurcell Thu, 08/17/2023 - 09:52 Adaptive Reuse Gresham Smith demonstrates the opportunities of adaptive reuse, specifically reusing empty big-box retail and malls, many of which sit unused or underutilized across the country. Updating lighting supports both brand and security.

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Phases of Commercial Real Estate Development

Construction Marketing

Commercial real estate development involves the process of acquiring, designing, constructing, and leasing or selling commercial properties such as office buildings, retail centers, and industrial parks. This includes analyzing factors such as zoning regulations, transportation access, and market demand.

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The programmatic evolution of the lobby

BD+C

For Starters, Tackle the Arrival The lobby has long served as a security gateway, often designed to impress, even intimidate. Office facilities that share urban blocks with retailers and restaurants can create fluid partnerships with those businesses, contributing to their recovery by making space for rotating amenities within the lobby.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. It also creates a new building zone called the ‘mid-doors,’ a term coined recently by Transsolar’s Erik Olsen, in his series “What is Indoors?”

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The benefits and drawbacks of mixed-use development

The Korte Company

As factories got bigger and the consequences of their pollution more noticeable, municipalities adopted zoning statutes that kept residential sectors segregated from industrial districts. Unified fire protection and site security service. That’s aided by the longer-term leases developers can secure from commercial tenants.

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Lawyers' Opinion Matters in Green Building Transactions

Green Building Law Update

The size and nature of a transaction may well affect the scope of the opinion requested and in larger traditional mortgage financing as well as green bond financing, lenders attribute increased value in the security being provided for loans when a building is LEED certified or the like, so they want to know the building is really green.

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