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Culture Insights

Columbia, South Carolina, celebrates the city’s legacy of remarkable women with monument at KBS’ Main & Gervais building

This past summer, thought leaders in South Carolina’s capital city of Colombia gathered to honor the outstanding women, past and present, who helped shape our country’s 18th state. The occasion was the official unveiling of Architecture of Strength, an impressive monolithic sculpture and a daily reminder of women’s profound contribution to the community and beyond.
Industry Trends Insights

How CRE is Transforming Our Surroundings

The pandemic has brought a myriad of changes, much of which will have a permanent impression on commercial real estate (CRE). One of the most notable is the shift in consumer behavior and the impact on the environment around us.
Insights Sustainability

The Role of Commercial Real Estate in Sustainability

Sustainability is both an opportunity and a necessity for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry, which increasingly leverages it to serve people and future possibilities.
Industry Trends Insights

Office Trends: Behind the Rush to Dallas

Texas is the trifecta state, a place with warm weather, a zero-percent state income tax and inexpensive housing. But the “Lone Star State” is more than that: it’s also a major office hub centrally located in the U.S., with Dallas anchoring the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro area — where many of the Nation’s largest tech centers are located.
Industry Trends Insights

Industrial Real Estate’s Rise to the Top

Industrial Real Estate is currently the best performing commercial real estate (CRE) asset type, touting 44 consecutive quarters of positive net absorption. That’s according to recent forecasts, research articles, reports, and other data and analysis presented over the past couple of months. This spotlights an intriguing success story amid a pandemic that crippled so many businesses and industries.
Insights

What does hybrid and flex work look like and how does it impact office space?

Pandemic imperatives ultimately led to increased empowerment for office employees, with hybrid and flex work giving them more choices — and companies more to consider.
Industry Trends Insights

Why commercial office space is expanding in secondary markets

Millions of Americans move each year, but in the post-pandemic era something has changed: the workplace has evolved, and with change there are now new opportunities for both organizations and employees. One result is that people are in motion, moving from one metro area to another, often in search of a better work-life balance. In fact, Redfin reports that in the second quarter more than 30 percent of its website users searched in different metro areas.
Industry Trends Insights

Tenant Satisfaction and the New American Office

Remember when cubicles were all the rage? Office tenant preferences have changed over the years. Today, tenant satisfaction has been redefined as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and dramatic changes in the labor market.
Industry Trends Insights

Office Real Estate and COVID-19: the Great Shakedown

Like most of the commercial real estate (CRE) market, office came under pressure in 2020. Responding to local shelter-in-place health orders, up to 70% of the U.S. workforce was working from home (WFH) in April 2020, transforming once-bustling office buildings into ghost towns. That percentage has decreased to 56% since the beginning of the year, signaling a recovery is underway. The extent of that recovery and what it means for office real estate is still unknown, but there is some speculation.
Insights Thought Leadership

How Consumer and Employee Relationships Will Change in the Post-COVID Era

For many years “maximizing shareholder value” has been a central principle for public companies. Raising share values and increasing dividends for stockholders were paramount. But there has also been a growing push-back and a change in focus towards consumer and employee relationships.
Industry Trends Insights

Envisioning the Future of the Built Environment

Amidst the ongoing crisis, built environments are at the front lines of change and will play a huge role in creating a more resilient world going forward. Office architects are re-envisioning the future of the workplace—where and how we work. Unfortunately, there is no crystal ball to predict exactly what the new future-oriented office will look like, but what we do know is flexibility and adaptability will be key in resilient design.
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