2026 World Cup
The 2026 World Cup: To Date a Red Card
Read the introduction to this series by our Publisher here. In June of 2026, Canada’s largest city Toronto, and its third largest Vancouver, will host for the first time in this country’s...
Topic: Infrastructure
Perspectives
Energy Transmission is a Real Estate Issue
Background: The Counselors of Real Estate ® announced their Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® for 2024. When presented at their annual conference there was some dismay that Global Climate Change...
Perspectives
Zombie Malls – Part 1: Bringing Dead Shopping Venues Back to Life Through Multifamily Development – The Death of the Local Mall
Abstract: As more retail activity goes online with Ecommerce and given the fact that the U.S. is over retailed, mall owners/developers are looking for ways to revitalize and monetize their real...
Perspectives
Repurposing Commercial Real Estate Impacts Urban Renewal
Urban communities in the United States have been declining in recent years — not in terms of population, but cultural and economic prosperity. The deterioration of housing and public infrastructure...
Perspectives
Collaborative Design and Risk Allocation in Infrastructure Design-Build
How WSDOT Saved $89M With Design-Build Last winter, I had a chance to review a freeway interchange project that was recently completed using the Design-Build style of procurement. I assumed what I...
Perspectives
New Infrastructure Imperatives Emerge
Infrastructure: New Imperatives Emerge was listed as the #5 issue in the 2021-22 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change,...
Perspectives
Viewing Infrastructure Through a Different Lens
Infrastructure was listed as the #9 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Infrastructure, the vital basic physical and social systems...
Features
Think Eminent Domain Doesn’t Apply in a Closing? Think Again
Why a Search of Public Projects Should Be On Every Closing Checklist From title reports to tax assessments and surveys, due diligence checklists provide a comprehensive way to ensure that all the...
Perspectives
Smart Cities: Issues & Opportunities to Consider
Cities have historically delivered services by creating infrastructure networks over, under, and alongside their streets containing water, sewer, utilities, telephone, and cable TV/Internet lines....
