Tom Acitelli

1 month ago | commercialobserver.com | Tom Acitelli

Suddenly, Washington’s a Much Bigger Factor for Commercial Real Estate A Hooverville in Seattle during the Great Depression.

2 months ago | commercialobserver.com | Tom Acitelli

Manhattan’s Top Class B Office Buildings Face a Space Crunch bablab - stock.adobe.com Could it actually happen? Could Manhattan run out of quality Class B office space? It’s long been agreed that America’s premier office market is running low on Class A space, thanks to the so-called flight to quality everybody goes on about. Now it looks like the buildings just below in terms of age, location and amenities — call them B-plus/A-minus buildings — might be filling up for years to come. SEE...

Feb 4, 2025 | allaboutbeer.com | Tom Acitelli

On Feb. 1, 2015, an audience of more than 114 million were able to watch craft beer get insulted over and over. It was during that secularly sacred national coming-together known as the Super Bowl, where 30 seconds of advertising cost sponsors an average of $4.25 million. Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, had that kind of money, and it hired advertising house Anomaly to help it train an especially snarky attack on craft beer.

Jan 27, 2025 | allaboutbeer.com | Tom Acitelli

On Nov. 18, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law a requirement that alcohol producers slap a 41-word label on their packaging warning consumers that their product could cause accidents and health problems, including birth defects. By the end of the decade, every producer would comply. And why not? The initial law carried a daily fine of $10,000 for noncompliance, a penalty that’s only grown through cost of living adjustments to $25,561 a day.

Dec 9, 2024 | commercialobserver.com | Tom Acitelli

New York’s Top CRE Owners On Interest Rates in 2025 Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in November 2024.