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St. John Properties: Developing with a Long View

By: Ron Derven

Listening to clients and employees has resulted in consistently high occupancy rates for this Maryland-based CRE developer.

Fall 2018 Issue

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The Municipal Benefits of Urban Fulfillment Centers

By: Camille Galdes

City leaders should be more proactive in crafting municipal policies that capitalize on the e-commerce changes transforming commercial real estate and their tax bases.

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Boston Scientific's Global Customer Fulfillment Center

By: Paul Donhauser and Marc Margulies

A global facilities master plan informs the company’s real estate decisions.

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The Value of Downtown Data Centers

By: Marc Gittleman

Buildings with direct fiber-optic internet connections will benefit from strong demand as information continues to be stored in the cloud and big data takes off.

Must-Read Articles

Real Estate Demand From Cybersecurity Firms

By: Kevin Imboden, John Redeker and Elisa Konik
A growing industry creates a major capital opportunity.

Tenants Ponder: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

By: Spencer Levy
To keep buildings hip, landlords are making capital expenditures earlier than budgeted.

Agree to Disagree: Resolving Property Disputes with a Partition Action

By: John Vukmanovic, Esq.
A written agreement in place from the outset can avoid most potential problems.

Designing Spaces to Create Great Experiences

By: Andy Cohen
A Gensler study quantifies that the right design can result in great experiences, which in turn are great for business.

How to Attract Institutional Capital Through the Development of Operating Guidelines

By: John Mackel
Incorporating best practices for policies, strategies and procedures can make smaller developer-operators appealing to institutional investors.

Networked Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

By: Michael Jones
The answers to five simple questions reveal the benefits of these systems for businesses.

RELATED RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Industrial Space Demand Forecast, Third Quarter 2025

By: Hany Guirguis, Ph.D., Manhattan University and Joshua Harris, Ph.D., CRE, CAIA, Fordham University
Given this continued uncertainty and persistently high interest rates, the current NAIOP Industrial Space Demand Forecast projects that net absorption will be nearly flat over the second half of 2025 (2.8 million square feet).

Economic Impacts of Commercial Real Estate in Canada, 2025 Edition

By: Altus Group
The NAIOP Research Foundation commissioned this report to examine the economic benefits of commercial construction across four distinct CRE asset classes, namely industrial, retail and hospitality, office, and institutional multifamily housing during 2024. The report also describes the benefits of commercial brokerage, property management and landlord operations.

The NAIOP Market Monitor

By: Maria Sicola, Elle Saling and Charles Warren
The NAIOP Market Monitor provides insights into shifting market conditions and capital flows across the United States. The report’s findings can help investors and developers identify regional trends and identify markets that align with their risk and return objectives or warrant further examination. The 2025 NAIOP Market Monitor identifies a resurgence of sales activity in office markets that likely reflects investors acting on the stabilization in overall demand for office space.

PERSPECTIVES

CEO on Leadership: Daniel J. Moore, President and CEO, Rockefeller Group

By: Ron Derven
The president of this New York City-headquartered real estate firm applies lessons learned in the military, business school and two decades in the industry.

Six Students Receive NAIOP Diversity Scholarships

By: Hannah Buckles
For the third year, NAIOP has awarded scholarships to graduate and undergraduate commercial real estate students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the industry.

Industrial Properties Continue to Sizzle

By: Jim Neyer
This year, NAIOP’s perennially successful industrial conference, I.CON, reached new heights when the event was officially sold out (with a waiting list).

Sound Bites from NAIOP’s I.CON: Industrial Conference


Sound Bites from NAIOP’s I.CON: Industrial Conference, June, 2018, in Jersey City, New Jersey and National Forums Symposium, May, 2018, in New York City.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES

Download the Fall 2018 Issue of Development


Download the Fall 2018 Issue of Development

Unified Commerce: The Future of Retail?

By: Julie D. Stern
Big data and integrated cloud-based retail platforms enable retailers to provide customers with seamless, secure, personalized shopping experiences, both in stores and via computers and mobile devices.

Retail Leasing: Minimizing Time, Cost and Risk

By: Ellen Sinreich
In lease negotiations, urgency trumps precision, and the need to accommodate the other side trumps the desire to get it all.

Autonomous Trucking's Effect on Industrial Real Estate

By: Jon Pharris
The next game-changer will speed delivery times and improve use of warehouse space.

How to Future-Proof the Workplace

By: Janine Grossmann
Interior design driven by how employees use their space, rather than by general workplace trends, will produce more effective, productive workplaces.

Creditworthy Tenants Yield Financing Alternatives

By: Turkia Mullin
Nonrecourse credit tenant financing can be used to fund build-to-suit projects involving properly structured long-term net leases with investment-grade tenants.

Invest in Opportunity: Invest in Rural America

By: Rep. Ron Kind
Qualified Opportunity Zones will capitalize on rural America’s “can-do” attitude.

Cookie Cutter Environmental Diligence Doesn't Cut It Anymore

By: Tom Mounteer
Environmental diligence must be customized for each property.

New & Noteworthy Projects


An assortment of brief facts and figures about new and noteworthy development projects.

Esports Arenas Have Entered the Game

By: Adam Ducker
Will professional video gaming be the next great urban entertainment real estate anchor?

ARCHIVED ISSUES

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Development’s summer 2025 issue explores experiential retail and the brick-and-mortar resurgence. Also featured: a modern warehouse campus in Toronto that honors its manufacturing heritage; a coalition of Oregon real estate organizations working to revitalize downtown Portland; and the creative capital stack strategy behind a mixed-use project in West Baltimore.
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The spring 2025 issue offers insights about where the office market might be heading over the coming year, explores the complexities of mission critical development, and provides detailed looks at two transformative mixed-use projects: The Bowl at Ballantyne in Charlotte and Baltimore Peninsula in Maryland.
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Development magazine’s winter issue delves into the evolving uses of artificial intelligence in the commercial real estate industry, from lease management and building operations to portfolio assessment and data analysis.  
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