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Uanderson Benedetti, managing director, Millbrook Realty Capital

A Good Time for Bridge Lenders

Millbrook Realty Capital’s Uanderson Benedetti discusses how market conditions favor flexible lenders and why smaller investors are key for business growth.

Smaller Workplaces: An Employee-Centric Shift

Employee satisfaction can impact any company, but it can be a challenge for smaller businesses to achieve. There are affordable ways, however, to create a workplace that will keep employees happy and productive. David Diaz of JLL South Florida offers tips on how to meet expectations.

Joseph Coradino is Transforming PREIT and the Mall Industry

The chairman & CEO of Pennsylvania Real Estate Trust is transforming its malls with elevated shopping choices and increased dining, entertainment and cultural offerings and adding co-working, office, residential and hotel mixed uses.

CPE Asks … About Green Office Amenities

Incorporating sustainable energy strategies, and how tenants are responding.

Real Estate and Innovative Tech: A Love Story

NOOS Lab’s Matthieu Merchadou Melki and Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Louis Archambault evaluate how emerging technologies influence the industry. The two also share their predictions for the future of real estate development.

New Calkain Division Targets Institutional, Private-Market Clients

Founder, President & CEO Jonathan Hipp, describes how existing relationships and shifting market dynamics led him to start the brokerage’s capital markets group—NetCMG—in June, along with his plans for growing the new business line.

The Architecture of the Exotic: Designing Luxury Resorts

Nunzio Marc DeSantis Architects specializes exclusively in hospitality design. In a conversation with CPE, he delves into the current meaning of luxury and whether the architecture of holiday resorts grows organically from a sense of place.

Michelle Burrell, manager, Servcorp

Inside a Female-Led Global CRE Business

Michelle Burrell, Servcorp’s center manager at One World Trade Center, discusses her evolution from receptionist to executive in a company that employs 90 percent women. Servcorp has made it a goal to help women advance in a male-dominated industry.

The Tech Office Saga: Silicon Valley vs. San Francisco

Transwestern’s Derek Cuschieri and Jack Seymour touch on the expanding tech presence in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, and the price companies and employees pay to stay cool in the sector’s hottest hubs.

Bill Dandy, COO and Bruce Quisno, VP, CR architecture + design

Cincinnati Architecture Firm Expands Leadership Team

CR architecture + design’s two hires, Bruce Quisno—as vice president—and Bill Dandy—as chief operating officer, bring extensive market expertise to their new positions.