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Amazon to close book on 68 brick-and-mortar stores
Amazon, which has done nothing but grow since its founding in 1994, will shutter all of its brick-and-mortar bookstores....
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After helping kill off department stores, Amazon plans to open its own
After amassing an e-commerce empire by disrupting brick and mortar retail for the better part of three decades, Amazon...
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Single Amazon warehouse to file for IPO
Another Bay Area startup is planning to cash in by going public, but it’s not an e-commerce firm or a social network — it’s a warehouse an hour west of San Francisco. ROX Financial...
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Bulk warehouse rent surges 13% in a year as industrial boom powers on
While commercial real estate vacancies persist, the warehouse boom is still going strong. A CBRE analysis found that from...
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How Marc Ganzi bet Colony Capital’s future on the next-gen economy
Entering an office building in the future, according to Marc Ganzi, will look something like this: “There won’t be...
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Earnings up, stores down: Why successful retailers close locations
By the look of things, Best Buy had a great winter. Domestic revenue surged 11 percent in November, December...
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Data centers poised for record year of leasing
Data centers appear poised for record growth this year. A recent CBRE report found that demand is strong, and...
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Simon Property Group suffers billion-dollar earnings hit
In April 2019, amid a war with e-commerce, mall magnate David Simon told investors, “I think most of the...
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Amazon’s real estate footprint ballooned in 2020
It’s a new era for Amazon. Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of the company and transitioning to...
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KKR in talks for massive warehouse buy
Investment firm KKR & Co. is in talks to buy a portfolio of warehouses valued at more than $800 million, as a surge in e-commerce is driving investor interest in industrial space. The deal...