Tom Acitelli

Cambridge

Co-Deputy Editor, News and Features at Commercial Observer

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Articles

Did the Super Bowl’s Pumpkin Peach Ale Ad Age Well?

2 months ago | 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.
A Cancer Warning on Beer Packaging? Nobody Panic.

2 months ago | 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.
New York’s Top CRE Owners On Interest Rates in 2025

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.
CRE Owners Prefer an Indicted Mayor Eric Adams Over the Alternatives

Dec 9, 2024 | commercialobserver.com | Tom Acitelli

CRE Owners Prefer an Indicted Mayor Eric Adams Over the Alternatives Mayor Adams in November 2024.
Biotech-Ville U.S.A.: The Story Behind America’s Fastest-Growing Life Sciences Hub

Nov 12, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Tom Acitelli

Share One morning in May of this year, the principal behind two life sciences companies parked his car in front of a six-story building in the final throes of construction a little ways inside the border of Watertown, Mass. Jonathan Davis, founder and CEO of Boston-based developer the Davis Companies, awaited him.
Biotech-Ville U.S.A.: The Story Behind America’s Fastest-Growing Life Sciences Hub

Nov 12, 2024 | commercialobserver.com | Tom Acitelli

One morning in May of this year, the principal behind two life sciences companies parked his car in front of a six-story building in the final throes of construction a little ways inside the border of Watertown, Mass. Jonathan Davis, founder and CEO of Boston-based developer the Davis Companies, awaited him.
Data Centers Lean Into Four Strategies for Filling Labor Gap

Jun 9, 2024 | commercialobserver.com | Tom Acitelli

SEE ALSO: Sunday Summary: Baby, You Can Drive My Car (Below 60th)Solving the labor shortage, then, is a major challenge for data center developers, investors and operators. The work comes as the asset class commands the sort of interest and numbers that used to define investment in the market in office skyscrapers, which, of course, has slowed pointedly amid higher financing costs and hybrid work.
Real Estate’s Got Talent

May 13, 2024 | commercialobserver.com | Tom Acitelli

“If you start me up, I’ll never stop,” sang Mick Jagger in a 1981 Rolling Stones hit. Jagger turned 80 in 2023, and, far from slowing down, he turned his lissome frame loose on another world tour following a brand-new studio album. SEE ALSO: Power 100 2024In the same way, a few regular names on past Commercial Observer Power 100 lists started themselves right back up over the past 12 months following sudden late-career pivots.
‘The Backstory’: Commercial Real Estate’s Turnover

Mar 1, 2024 | commercialobserver.com | Max Gross |Cathy Cunningham |Tom Acitelli

‘The Backstory’: Commercial Real Estate’s Turnover HOBOKEN, NJ - FEBRUARY 19: The sun sets on the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City as people walk on a pier in the Hudson River on February 19, 2024, in Hoboken, New Jersey.
New York's Hotels Could Reap $380M From Short-Term Rental Rules

Feb 26, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Tom Acitelli

Illustration: Giordano PoloniA few months ago, New York City started cracking down in earnest on short-term rentals through sites such as Airbnb. The move was always going to be a positive for the hotel industry. Just how positive it’s already turned out to be is kind of remarkable. The law is expected to result in 2.2 million additional hotel room nights in 2024 that otherwise would not have been booked.