Survey – Encore Careers
Lisa Dilts, founder of Compspring, in conjunction with Diane Trees, Ed.D., Associate Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Center for Regional Studies at the University of Central Florida, have developed the idea that as people reach retirement age, they are looking for the next act of their play; they are looking for an “encore career”, potentially in a new city or […]
Systematize Everything
Downtown is a System of Systems. Main street businesses and districts have marketing systems, infrastructure systems, regulatory systems and organizational systems, among others. Accepting this reality, the study of systems and the application systems analysis is useful when addressing the plans, programs, facilities and services provided by downtown private, public and institutional organizations. FacebookTweetLinkedInEmail
Herman Kahn “Futurist”
“Herman Kahn was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation.” Wikipedia The importance of Herman Kahn for cities and towns in America is his thought […]
The Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III
The message of this book still holds today: The earth’s interlocking resources – the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100, if that long, even with advanced technology. In the summer of 1970, an international team of researchers at the […]
Why Obsolete Warehouses on the ‘Last Mile’ Are Attracting Institutional Investors
Why Obsolete Warehouses on the ‘Last Mile’ Are Attracting Institutional Investors, a National Real Estate Investor Article Every $1 billion in e-commerce sales requires 1.25 million sq. ft. of distribution space, said Scott Marshall, executive managing director of advisory and transaction services | investor leasing with CBRE, during a meeting of the Chicago chapter of NAIOP […]
THE ERA OF e-commerce, An NAIOP Article
Today’s industrial users are looking beyond rental rates to consider transportation and inventory carrying costs when making location decisions. THE ERA OF e-commerce began unceremoniously in July 1995, when Jeff Bezos boxed up the first book sold on Amazon.com from his Seattle garage. Over time, nearly all major retailers began selling and shipping items from their own […]
Fastmile Delivery Service
FASTMILE goes the extra mile in last mile delivery services for business and residential packages. We have 2-person teams who can carry and place bulky items such as furniture or cabinetry. With distributions centers in Orlando, Atlanta, and Charlotte we cover the southeastern USA with same day or next day delivery per the customers’ specification. FacebookTweetLinkedInEmail
Robots Take On the Final Mile
Robots Take On the Final Mile Imagine if the next time you place an order for delivery from your favorite local restaurant, you’re greeted at your door not by a person but by an urban delivery robot. It’s an odd-looking little vehicle that resembles a cooler with wheels, but with an antenna and sensors. The […]
Retail Home Deliveries, Ginovus Article
There are few things that have disrupted the retail world more than e-commerce. Online shopping has changed the way Americans shop for everything from clothing to groceries. Well-known retailers like Sears and Toys ‘R Us have dealt with declining sales and bankruptcy, while online giants like Amazon continue to expand. As the online marketplace has […]
Alibaba Robots at work
Take a look inside Alibaba’s smart warehouse where robots do 70% of the work. They can carry up to 500 kilograms above them around the warehouse floor. They have special sensors to avoid colliding into each other and they can be summoned using wifi. When they run out of battery, they can take themselves to […]