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NAIOP's 50th Anniversary

By: Sheila Kelly Vertino, Thomas J. Bisacquino, Margarita Foster, Kathryn Hamilton and Julie D. Stern

NAIOP celebrates 50 years of advocacy, education and professional excellence.

Summer 2017 Issue

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Innovative Financing For Roads and Highways

By: Robert T. Dunphy

New approaches are needed to fix an old problem.

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Beyond 72 Degrees and Sunny Inside: Optimizing the Indoor Work Environment

By: Dan Diehl

The conversation about indoor environments is changing as tenants leverage new technologies to support employee productivity.

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The Future of Family-owned CRE Businesses

By: Ron Derven

How can family-owned businesses stay competitive in the commercial real estate industry?

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The Challenges Of Bringing a Museum to Market

By: Robbie Tarpley Raffish

Museum development requires collaboration among designers, contractors and museum operators.

Must-Read Articles

A Regulatory Framework for a New Administration

By: Alex Ford
Uncertainty about how the Trump administration will fulfill its promises to vastly decrease the number of federal regulations is creating uncertainty for the CRE industry.

Canadian and U.S. National Industrial Trends

By: David Egan
A comparison of these two North American industrial markets offers some interesting insights.

How Retail Flagships Lead the Fleet

By: James Cook
Flagship stores enable retailers to create a physical embodiment of a brand through design and spectacle — and to experiment with new concepts and technologies.

Potential Pitfalls With Letters of Intent

By: Renee Eshelman
What should landlords do when they discover that “nonbinding” really isn’t?

How to Attract Institutional Capital

By: Kelvin Tetz and Greg Martin
Local and regional developers who want to build relationships with institutional investors will need to implement these reporting and operating guidelines.

Cranes and Lanes: The Link Between Transportation Infrastructure and CRE

By: Brian Landes
Transportation infrastructure can have dramatic effects on the value of commercial real estate.

RELATED RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Industrial Space Demand Forecast, First Quarter 2025

By: Hany Guirguis, Ph.D., Manhattan College and Joshua Harris, Ph.D., Fordham University
In the second half of 2024, U.S. industrial net absorption totaled 96.9 million square feet, bringing the annual total to just 170.8 million square feet. This is the lowest annual rate since 2011, as long-term interest rates remained elevated despite the Federal Reserve’s initial cuts to the federal funds rate.

Economic Impacts of Commercial Real Estate, 2025 U.S. Edition

By: Brian Lewandowski, Adam Illig, Ethan Street and Richard Wobbekind, Ph.D.
Development and construction of new commercial real estate in the United States – office, industrial, warehouse and retail – generates significant economic growth at the state and national levels. This annual study, published by the NAIOP Research Foundation, measures the contribution to GDP, salaries and wages generated and jobs supported from the development and operations of commercial real estate.

Office Space Demand Forecast, Fourth Quarter 2024

By: Hany Guirguis, Ph.D., Manhattan College and Joshua Harris, Ph.D., CRE, CAIA, Fordham University
Net office space absorption in the fourth quarter of 2024 is expected to be 9.4 million square feet, with another 10.8 million square feet of positive absorption for the full year in 2025 and 3.9 million square feet of positive absorption in the first three quarters of 2026.

PERSPECTIVES

CEO on Leadership: J. Dwight Bell, President and CEO, Cannon Equities

By: Ron Derven
The president of an Atlanta-based diversified investment and development company offers his perspectives on the industry.

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

By: Jonathan Tratt
As I write this, much is happening politically that impacts each of our businesses.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES

Urban Food Halls

By: Amanda Tran
Food halls offer small-scale opportunities for landlords, operators, chefs and diners.

A More Relevant Measure of Risk

By: Mark J. Eppli
Is the cap rate to U.S. Treasury comparison an “apples-to-oranges” assessment?

Building a Transit Army: How MARTA Army Is Working To Improve Atlanta's Bus Stops

By: Andrew Carpenter
Transit advocacy doesn’t have to move slowly through layers of bureaucracy: in Atlanta, advocates have been mobilizing to improve bus stops in their own neighborhoods.

Co-working Spaces for Health and Beauty Professionals

By: Ken McAllister
A real estate model originally designed to meet the needs of startups and freelancers is customized for the health and beauty industry.

Bringing the Outdoors In With Living Walls

By: Alvaro J. Ribeiro
Living wall systems can be simpler to install and maintain than one might expect — and can have meaningful impacts on building owners and occupants.

Colliers International's Advisor Development Program

By: Katherine Ringrose-Poole
This professional development program has proven to be a sound investment that benefits the company’s brand, professionals and clients.

Five Tips to Avoid Stormwater Headaches

By: Sam Arden, Peyton Nunez and Irene Vander Els
Site work that results in stormwater runoff or erosion can expose a developer to potential liability.

Funding Transit to Industrial Properties

By: Cinda Kelley
Employers in Plainfield, Indiana, are helping fund connector bus service that brings employees to local industrial parks.

The Benefits and Risks of Triple Net Leases

By: Richard R. Spore III
What do office and retail property owners need to know about triple net leases?

Displaying Real-time Transit Information: An Update

By: Ron Derven
Screens that provide real-time transit and other transportation information have become an amenity valued by office and residential tenants.

New & Noteworthy Projects

By: Julie D. Stern
An assortment of brief facts and figures about new and noteworthy development projects.

ARCHIVED ISSUES

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Cover1ArchiveImage Winter 2024/2025 Issue

Development magazine’s winter issue delves into the evolving uses of artificial intelligence in the commercial real estate industry, from lease management and building operations to portfolio assessment and data analysis.  
ArchiveCoverCrescent Fall 2024 Issue

Development magazine’s Fall issue profiles Crescent Communities, explores the growing impact of spaceport real estate around Houston and along Florida’s Space Coast, the commitment to prioritize employee well-being and environmental stewardship in the design of REI Co-op’s latest distribution center, and the innovations involved in the development of EVE (Electric Vehicle Enclave) Park in London, Ontario.

 
Summer Summer 2024 Issue

This issue features a cover story on The Stack, the first high-rise office project in Canada to earn Zero Carbon Building Design certification. Other feature articles examine the new realities of CRE investing across different sectors, the challenges of finding move-in-ready space for advanced manufacturing startups, and lessons learned from Mark IV’s acquisition and master planning of a 4,300-acre Opportunity Zone industrial project in northern Nevada.  
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