You have taken all the right steps, 12-18 months before your lease is set to expire you have hired your broker (C2 of course!), identified 2-3 options you are happy moving into, negotiated a great deal with a great Tenant Improvement package and signed a lease. Now what??? It is at this point where most … Continue reading Project Management and More
Raytheon @ SkySong 4
Peters Cannata & Moody PLC
Strong Start to 2023
The demise of office space is over exaggerated… If you look at our team’s business, we continued to close a transaction every 2 days over the last quarter. C2 is representing, touring, negotiating, and closing deals. –We would love to work with you. –We know the market….todays’ market. –We have insider information on deal terms … Continue reading Strong Start to 2023
Ten on One- Minority Owned Start-up Business Thoughts from the Front Lines
This week we have an exciting episode of Ten on One with Maria Luna, the fabulous Co-Founder of Famigo, a mobile app for artists and creators. She riffs on starting a business, being a female founder, and how her mother helped drive her to succeed. It’s a conversation worth 10 minutes of your time, but … Continue reading Ten on One- Minority Owned Start-up Business Thoughts from the Front Lines
CRE Terms Everyone Should Know
The world of Commercial Real Estate is complex, and filled with jargon — both serious and comical. To help you navigate, we’ve put together a glossary of Commercial Real Estate terms everyone should know — with an extra fun spin. 🙂 (Don’t worry, we’ve put a little logo on the funny ones in case you … Continue reading CRE Terms Everyone Should Know
LPL Financial, LLC
Development Strategies for Maximizing E-Commerce Demand
No matter what sector of real estate you focus on, E-Commerce affects us all. Its disruption of the commercial real estate world has accelerated exponentially due to COVID-19’s effects on our shopping behavior. This disruption is forcing property owners, especially industrial and retail, to re-think how they “maximize” the sites they own. It’s also spilling … Continue reading Development Strategies for Maximizing E-Commerce Demand
Industrious PHX
Spec Suite Scorecard
It’s happening — companies are doing all they can to get employees back to the office! But at the same time they understand that hybrid work and downsizing is here to stay…or is it? This is a scary unknown for business owners, so how do they hedge their bets? Enter the “Spec Suite.” Over the … Continue reading Spec Suite Scorecard
Comprehensive Hospice at Waterview
Ten on One- Growing a CRE Brokerage Company
Ten minutes with Jeff Rinkov, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Lee & Associates. Our Leader. We sat down to discuss how we are growing our company and what makes us different.–Bigger, publicly traded CRE companies are focused on growing predictable revenue….CRE brokerage commissions are not that predictable. –How is Lee growing: – NFL cities – Diversification … Continue reading Ten on One- Growing a CRE Brokerage Company
1-Minute Phoenix Metro Office Market Update: Q4 2022
The Metro office market continues to trudge along its own path of an extended (up and down, circular) recovery. Direct vacancy actually decreased slightly to 17.5%, 500 basis points lower than our 20-year average. Meanwhile, average asking rates actually increased by $0.46/SF per year between Q3 and Q4. However, net absorption, the most critical indicator of market … Continue reading 1-Minute Phoenix Metro Office Market Update: Q4 2022
Accept the Workplace Change–Flexible Work
It’s no shock that a recent McKinsey study showed that workers want more flexibility in their work. (See below for more) What was shocking is that today 58% of people surveyed are now being offered some flexibility in their work—that is 92 million Americans. This is a structural change in how we work, hire, build … Continue reading Accept the Workplace Change–Flexible Work
Fox Factory, Inc.
Stable Investments LLC
C2 By The Numbers
2022 flew by. Before the year gets away from us, we wanted to say thank you for helping us succeed. Reflecting on our transactions, our relationships, and our business over the past year, I have these few takeaways: –We are blessed to have fantastic clients. While the office market is still in a sandstorm for … Continue reading C2 By The Numbers
Ten on One- Construction (Tenant Improvement) Pricing
In our latest Ten on One podcast, we spend 10 minutes with James Murphy, CEO of Willmeng Construction. Willmeng has been one of the most active general contractors in all of Arizona over the past decade, with incredible data points. Here are a few takeaways from our talk on construction pricing, particularly tenant improvements: — Don’t … Continue reading Ten on One- Construction (Tenant Improvement) Pricing
evolvedMD, Inc.
Semarchy, INC.
Build-to-Suit Development Process
Historically, the Metro Phoenix Office Market would most accurately be describe as a “Field of Dreams” market…”If you build it, they will come.” In this case, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is plowing down cotton fields to throw up Class A office space in the hopes that “Shoeless Joe” aka AAA Credit Tenant comes along to … Continue reading Build-to-Suit Development Process
Brookfield Communities, Inc.
Public Square, LLC
Why Employees are Clashing with their Bosses on One Issue After Another
Over the past 18-24 months, our C2 Voice has been writing about the systemic change in office space working norms. The Wall Street Journal has printed a piece that does a great job summarizing all the issues that face workers, owners, corporations, and managers (see full article below my comments). There is a war going … Continue reading Why Employees are Clashing with their Bosses on One Issue After Another