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Virtual reality helping provide glimpses of Denver’s real estate future
Picture this: You’re interested in buying a new condo but the building is still being built. The drywall isn’t even hung yet. Before you sign on the dotted line and commit to a major investment, you want to see more. What will the countertops look like? How’s the view?
Forget two-dimensional renderings and floor plans. Just pick up a tablet or strap on a pair of virtual reality goggles and get a complete 3-D look around the condo that could be yours. Switch between floor plans and finishes to get a sense of what you’re getting down to the digital inch.
That process is playing out every week in the sales office for the forthcoming Lakehouse condo building at 4202 W. 17th Ave. in Denver.
The first condos in the 196-unit building from Denver-based NAVA Real Estate Development won’t be move-in ready until the second half of 2019, but, thanks to the Lakehouse’s specially developed virtual reality tech, 3-D tours have been available in the sales office and online for months.
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Check out new HQ plans for Expedia, owner of Austin’s HomeAway
The online travel company plans to move into the new campus in fall 2019.
Readers name The Chive winner of Austin’s Coolest Offices contest
Readers have spoken: The Chive is the ultimate winner in our first ever Coolest Offices contest.
The headquarters office of the digital media company — Chive Media Group is the parent organization — received about 64 percent of more than 9,000 votes cast. The final round followed three previous rounds, with more than 18,000 votes recorded in all.
Over the past few months Austin Business Journal took readers inside 30 of the most interesting workplaces in Austin, including Google Inc.'s sky-high…
St. Louis’ top 10 payers of property taxes
A recent analysis by a St. Louis lawmaker says 40 percent of the city's 62 square miles are exempt from property tax.
Alderman Scott Ogilvie raised alarm because, he said, “St. Louis stands almost alone nationally as a low real-estate value central city with scarce land available to tax, separated from the surrounding county.”
Nonprofits such as hospital systems and universities, with substantial real estate holdings, are exempted from paying property taxes. The city in 2017 floated making nonprofits…
Why commercial real estate is front and center in the chase for talent
We have a U.S. talent shortage now that will get worse over time. Korn Ferry, an international global consulting organization, issued a report this past spring that predicts if left unchecked, the U.S. talent shortage will be over 8.5 million, the worldwide talent shortage will be greater than 85 million people by 2030 resulting in over $8 trillion dollars in unrealized revenue. In the short term, the chase for talent in the U.S. is being exacerbated by limitations on access to visas and, our immigration…
Developers paid $36M for Kapiolani parcels, may be planning redevelopment
Evershine III LP, which is owned by Moana Pacific developers Fred and Annie Chan, acquired the land, which is located between the nearly completed Kapiolani Residence and the planned Mandarin Oriental Honolulu site, last month in three separate transactions.
Health care giant McKesson packing HQ bags for Texas
McKesson Corp., the giant health care distribution company at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic, will move its headquarters from downtown San Francisco to suburban Dallas
The decision, disclosed Friday afternoon, isn't a big surprise: The low-profile company (NYSE: MCK) last year sold its high-profile headquarters building at One Post St. for more than $300 million. What's more, incoming CEO Brian Tyler lives in Las Colinas, an upscale Irving enclave, about 15 miles northwest of Dallas,…
Developer planning 432-unit apartment complex in south Minneapolis
The project is the second phase of the L&H Station development (it lies near the Lake Street/Midtown Blue Line station). The first phase, a $150 million mixed-use building, is opening to residents this Saturday.
Office Deal of the Year: Anthem Technology Center takes top NAIOP Georgia honors
A construction start on a new Midtown office tower for the technology unit of a major national healthcare company has been awarded NAIOP Georgia chapter’s Office Deal of the Year.
McKesson move bolsters Irving-Las Colinas’ prowess as ‘Headquarters of Headquarters’
Irving calls itself the “Headquarters of Headquarters,” and with good reason. Irving’s Las Colinas development is a magnet for Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 corporate HQs, with more headquarters per capita than any other city.
On Friday, Irving reinforced its title when McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK), the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributor, announced it will move its headquarters from San Francisco to Las Colinas in April.
McKesson, with more than 75,000 employees globally and revenue of…