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Pivot Awards presented
September 27. 2018. Recently the Pivot Awards were presented at the annual Commercial Real Estate Summit hosted by the COCAR and the University of Central Oklahoma Real Estate Program.

The emergence of the food hall
September 20, 2018. Food halls are becoming a favorite among real estate developers, who see them as an experiential retail strategy.
2018 Commercial Real Estate Summit
August 30, 2018. It is time to register for the 2018 Commercial Real Estate Summit, hosted at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City on Sept. 20.

Food trucks’ contribution to the built environment
September 13, 2008. I frequently get questions about the impact of food trucks on the built environment and local restaurants. The short answer is positive to both.

Sustaining an industry
September 6, 2018. While I am proud of our progress in our community, I spend very little time talking about what it takes to sustain an educated real estate workforce in our state in order to maintain and continue this progress.

Under Construction & Open for Business
September, 2018. Downtown Edmond is undergoing some much-needed infrastructure improvements. The project includes installation of new storm drainage pipes in multiple locations downtown, along with new streetscape parking along Edwards and Campbell Streets.

Industrial upside
August 23, 2018. The online purchase is important to expanding warehouse activity; however, the local disrupting factor is the passage of medical marijuana in Oklahoma.

Manufactured home communities
August 16, 2918. Jimmy Buffett sings about them, police departments raid them, retired people in Florida live in them, and I have always wanted to own one. I’m talking about trailer parks.

Generational disruption
August 9, 2018. Two separate studies indicate troubled waters ahead for residential real estate because of a generational impasse.

Generational consequences
August 2, 2018, In a recent survey conducted by Bank of the West, 68 percent of millennials (ages 21-34) who had purchased a home stated they felt buyer’s remorse and regretted their purchase.

To BNB or Not to BNB
August, 2018. A few months ago Outlook Magazine’s cover story was on the “gig-economy.” As a real estate guy with two Airbnb properties in downtown Edmond, I suggest to you the ultimate side hustle was left out–rental real estate.

Real estate sign innovation
July 26, 2018.Real estate signage has evolved very little in decades. This may be about to change.

Real estate sales
July 19, 2018. Fewer and fewer today are choosing real estate sales, and those who do are in the job only until they can become an investor, asset manager, or developer.

HGTV’s effect on real estate
July 12, 2018. The effect that reality shows are having on the practice of real estate is significant.
Foreign investment in the USA
July 5, 2018. Foreign investment into U.S. commercial real estate continued to be strong in 2017.

Beautifying the Gateways
July, 2018. 1Those working to revitalize downtown Edmond have long wished to beautify the gateways into downtown. Specifically, the intersection at Edmond Road and Broadway. From the south starting at Fifteenth and from the west beginning at Kelley. These two corridors approaching Edmond Road and Broadway may be the most aesthetically challenging in the City of Edmond.

Public transportation ridership
June 28, 2018. I just spent three weeks in London traveling almost exclusively via their subway public transportation system called the Underground.

When two are greater than one
June 21, 2018. I returned from a month in Europe to find the news that the 42nd Street Candy Co. was going to close. It appears that this tragedy will have a happy ending.

Effects of marijuana
June 14, 2018. I guess we can say legalizing marijuana is having a budding impact on real estate.

Study tour – trains, boats and buses
June 7, 2018. Since last week’s column, the University of Central Oklahoma’s London/Belfast/Dublin Study Tour and Research Extension left London to travel to one of my favorite cities in the world – Belfast.