St. John Properties: Developing with a Long View

Qualified Opportunity Zones will capitalize on rural America’s “can-do” attitude.      

Listening to clients and employees has resulted in consistently high occupancy rates for this Maryland-based CRE developer.      

City leaders should be more proactive in crafting municipal policies that capitalize on the e-commerce changes transforming commercial real estate and their tax bases.      

A global facilities master plan informs the company’s real estate decisions.      

Buildings with direct fiber-optic internet connections will benefit from strong demand as information continues to be stored in the cloud and big data takes off.      

A written agreement in place from the outset can avoid most potential problems.      

Environmental diligence must be customized for each property.      

An assortment of brief facts and figures about new and noteworthy development projects.      

A growing industry creates a major capital opportunity.      

A Gensler study quantifies that the right design can result in great experiences, which in turn are great for business.      

In lease negotiations, urgency trumps precision, and the need to accommodate the other side trumps the desire to get it all.      

Are you planning a project in the Mid-Atlantic? Whether you seek an investment partner, an interior designer, a contractor or a great location, you'll find a contact in the NAIOP guide in this issue.      

To keep buildings hip, landlords are making capital expenditures earlier than budgeted.      

Big data and integrated cloud-based retail platforms enable retailers to provide customers with seamless, secure, personalized shopping experiences, both in stores and via computers and mobile devices.      

Interior design driven by how employees use their space, rather than by general workplace trends, will produce more effective, productive workplaces.      

Will professional video gaming be the next great urban entertainment real estate anchor?      

Commercial real estate companies face big challenges in attracting and retaining exceptional professionals.      

The answers to five simple questions reveal the benefits of these systems for businesses.      

The next game-changer will speed delivery times and improve use of warehouse space.      

Nonrecourse credit tenant financing can be used to fund build-to-suit projects involving properly structured long-term net leases with investment-grade tenants.      

Incorporating best practices for policies, strategies and procedures can make smaller developer-operators appealing to institutional investors.      

The president of this New York City-headquartered real estate firm applies lessons learned in the military, business school and two decades in the industry.      

For the third year, NAIOP has awarded scholarships to graduate and undergraduate commercial real estate students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the industry.      

This year, NAIOP’s perennially successful industrial conference, I.CON, reached new heights when the event was officially sold out (with a waiting list).      

Sound Bites from NAIOP’s I.CON: Industrial Conference, June, 2018, in Jersey City, New Jersey and National Forums Symposium, May, 2018, in New York City.      

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