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BOMA Austin
Last week, hundreds of BOMA members met with more than 200 U.S. Representatives and Senators to discuss the most pressing issues facing the commercial real estate industry, as part of the Winter Business Meeting & National Issues Conference. Members took to the Hill to advocate for infrastructure investment, ADA lawsuit reform and the preservation of ENERGY STAR. These meetings provided lawmakers and their staff with first-person insight into how these issues are affecting building owners and managers on a day-to-day basis.
Learn more about BOMA's priority issues and access materials used during the conference on BOMA's 2018 Legislative Priorities and the Tax Reform Bill Analysis webpages. BOMA staff will be following up on these meetings in the coming weeks to help further our industry's priorities. And, if you participated in the congressional visits, it's not too late to submit your feedback online. For additional information, contact BOMA International's Manager of Government Affairs and PAC, Meg Novak, at mnovak@boma.org.
BOMA Austin
Get first choice! We will be opening the sponsorships to the waitlist in the next few days so register today!
April 5 at Onion Creek — don't miss it!
Sponsors:
BOMA Austin
How does Austin Compare? The 2018 Office EER and Industrial EER surveys are open at eer.boma.org. Please share your data now. Unaudited figures are acceptable. All data is kept in strictest confidence. Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2018. For more information, email us at eer@boma.org.
BOMA Austin
"Achievement Now!" Joint Luncheon with AAFAME
This is our 2nd Annual Joint Luncheon with AAFAME featuring the ARCH (AAFAME Recognition of Champions) Award & a keynote presentation with valuable information you can use in your daily life.
Craig Krause, owner and founder of Direct Development Training, will be presenting.
Find out how you can achieve record-breaking success in your own life and career, while staying connected to what matters most to you.
- Do you find yourself doing the same things year in and year out, and getting the same results or even less results?
- Have you "learned" to settle and accept what you have and who you are, but deep down wanting something else?
Attend this luncheon for a chance to do something about it!
Sponsor: Hull Supply and Seam Team
BOMA Austin
Contingent Opposition to Proposed City of Austin Mandatory Paid Sick Leave Ordinance in its Current Form. More study is needed before implementing a new mandatory paid sick leave ordinance that will affect every company in Austin. Read a recent Statesman editorial co-written by two Chamber board members.
BOMA Austin
Downtown Austin Alliance is hosting this forum with SXSW organizers, Austin City Events (ACE), and the City of Austin Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. In this special two-hour session, SXSW and ACE will provide detailed information on SXSW 2018 and other upcoming events, including schedules, road closures, transit routes and schedules, parking, loading access, and downtown safety.
Sponsor: Downtown Austin Alliance
KVUE News via Culture Map Austin
Amazon's Super Bowl ad has people wondering if the company dropped a big hint about which city it will pick for its second headquarters.
The ad featured during the Super Bowl shows Amazon's personal assistant device "Alexa" losing her voice while delivering the weather in Austin. In a Texas Monthly article about the ad, they speculate that the peacocks Anthony Hopkins is feeding could reference the peacocks roaming wild at Mayfield Park in Austin. They also note that perhaps it's not illness but Central Texas' loathed cedar fever that's causing Alexa to lose her voice.
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Austin American-Statesman
World Class Property Co. has closed on the purchase of 3M's 1.3 million-square-foot campus in far Northwest Austin.
The price was not disclosed.
The campus sits on 158 acres off RM 2222 and RM 620 in Austin's high-tech corridor, making it a rare office campus in one of the fastest-growing cities in America, Nate Paul, president and CEO of World Class, said in a written statement.
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REBusiness Online
The San Antonio City Council has approved the sale of 10 acres on San Antonio's east side for the development of Echo East, a $65 million mixed-use project. The council also awarded a $450,000 grant for the project, which will be developed by Michigan-based Foremost Development Co. According to San Antonio Express-News, the project will include roughly 500 residential units and 25,000 square feet of retail space. A timetable for construction has not yet been established.
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Commercial Real Estate
Advances in technology in the fields of virtual reality, augmented reality and data analytics are set to usher in the biggest change in the commercial property industry in a generation, a top industry expert believes.
Millennials have grown up with sophisticated gaming equipment and expertise, and now, as both real estate insiders and consumers, they're driving much of the transformation.
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BuildZoom
In "The Great American Single-Family Home Problem," The New York Times reporter Conor Dougherty drives home the point that the high cost of housing in America's expensive coastal cities can be addressed by densifying the suburban landscape. At first glance this may seem obvious; combatting price appreciation calls for building more homes, and better to do so through infill than by exacerbating sprawl. But the notion of densifying the suburban landscape is a more radical departure from the status quo than it may seem.
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Entrepreneur
In 2017, it's projected that more than 1.1 million people went to work, backpacks and big ideas in tow, at 13,800 coworking spaces worldwide, according to the 2017 Global Coworking Survey. To put this in perspective, if every coworking space was owned by the same company, it would have more worldwide locations than Walmart. Coworking memberships have enjoyed steady growth since the idea became a reality.
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Building Design + Construction
As more building owners, managers and tenants incorporate environmental stewardship and sustainability into their real estate operations, the concept of green leasing has moved into the mainstream.
A green lease is a lease for a commercial or public building that incorporates an agreement between a landlord and a tenant as to how a building is to be occupied, operated and managed in a sustainable way.
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HR DIVE
Workplace culture — where employee behavior meets business outcomes — changes constantly. Think about it: as employees come and go, each brings or takes their beliefs and behaviors. As company or departmental goals change and as industry landscapes shift, workplace culture changes in response.
But when it comes to larger culture overhauls, the driving force is usually one of three situations, says Shawn Overcast, partner at Gotham Culture, a boutique consulting firm.
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