Tom Kucharski

Aug 4, 2023 | naiop.org | Matthew Goelzer |Maribel Barba |Tom Kucharski |Shaun Adams

Sound bites from NAIOP’s CRE.Converge, held October 15-18, 2018, in Washington, D.C.:“Technology is causing a huge shift in value from physical assets to user experiences.” Chase Barbarino, co-founder, HqO“What talent wants, landlords need, developers must build.”  Chris Kelley, co-founder, Convene“We are not in a marathon of an expansion.

Jul 26, 2023 | naiop.org | Matthew Goelzer |Maribel Barba |Tom Kucharski |Shaun Adams

623,000 sq. ft. Ridgeline Property Group’s newest development, Chariot Logistics Center, will be a three-building, 623,000-square-foot industrial project in Melrose Park, Illinois. Scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2019, it will offer 32-foot clear height, modern building designs, ample parking and flexible sizing. Buildings will range in size from 135,000 square feet to 252,000 square feet.

Jul 12, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Shawn Moura |Tom Kucharski |Brandye Merriweather |Ken Simonson

Each CRE property type experienced growing construction activity, led by manufacturing. The NAIOP Research Foundation’s annual “Economic Impacts of Commercial Real Estate” report reveals that the industry’s importance to the U.S. economy continued to grow in 2022. New commercial real estate development and the operations of existing commercial buildings contributed a record $2.3 trillion to U.S. GDP and supported 15.1 million jobs.

Jun 21, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Ken Simonson |Tom Kucharski |Brandye Merriweather |Christopher Lee

Products such as concrete and flat glass are seeing record-setting price increases. Headline figures for consumer and producer prices have been reassuring compared to the numbers from a year ago. However, the data provides cold comfort to developers still experiencing heated construction costs. By March, the year-over-year change in the consumer price index (CPI) had chilled to 5.0% from a torrid 9.1% in June 2022, the Bureau of Labor Services (BLS) reported in April.

Jun 15, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Eric Aderneck |Tom Kucharski |Brandye Merriweather |Ken Simonson

Profiling the tenants in an innovative industrial building in Vancouver, British Columbia. Multilevel industrial developments have generated buzz in the commercial real estate industry for some time, but how well do these buildings accommodate tenants? As more “stacked” industrial structures advance from drawing board to finished product, the story shifts from the developer to the occupier.