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Zoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.
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ARNO BRANDLHUBER
In Berlin, the name Brandlhuber stands above all for house number nine – the house in Brunnenstrasse in the Mitte district where you can plug your headphones into the façade. Where the narrow, concrete stairs in the courtyard wind their way up four floors and where the unfinished and the mutable form th... See more
instagram.comApt is creating a nationwide housing development chain by standardizing its products on a building level. If it is successful, it will create thousands of housing units at affordable prices by facilitating the development of low-rise apartment buildings on lots that are currently used for single-family homes. Unlocking those lots means that eight f... See more
Packy McCormick • Apt: The Natively Integrated Developer
The perennial driver of haste is what is called “the time value of money.” To be an attractive investment, a building must earn at a rate greater than the interest paid on its purchase and construction loans. The project has to make money fast. More developers are done in by payments on their loans than by any other cause. This they insist on bliet
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Hodari was the CEO of Industrious, a WeWork competitor with a large presence in the second-tier American cities that Neumann was only just getting into.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
While @oakley founder Jim Jannard just recently set a new California home price record selling his Malibu mansion for a whopping US$210 Million, he's also listed his uniquely built Beverly Hills home for $68 million.
Built in 2016, the contemporary home is outfitted with Oakley's ethos from the exterior to the interio... See more
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