Industry Insight
These posts include my insight on the meaning and significance of recent events and changes in how we live, work, learn and shop. You can read by topic or key word, as shown at right.
Just How Big A Bite Will On-Line Take out of The Bricks-and-Mortar Apple?
Statistics from the Census of Retail Trade make it look like online retailing had only about a 14% share at the end of 2020. However,...
Using the Roller Coaster Theory to Predict Real Estate Values In A Recession
If you're planning to take money out of the market (problem loans) or put new money in (vulture funds), how do you know where we...
Who Will Cities Appeal To?
This is an interesting op-ed piece on whether cities make themselves high-culture destinations, especially for visitors and affluent suburbanites, or more habitable for a broader...
Will Ford’s Renovation of the Michigan Central Create An Island of Corporate Privilege?
The Michigan Central is located 1.5 miles from the city center and getting there is a scary walk across a freeway and past empty buildings...
Robert Moses Meets the Transit Station
We underfund transit, but when the money comes it seems to be in dollops. Here's an access ramp leading to the University light rail station...
Why Most “Innovation Districts” Are Neither
The concept has spread like wildfire since 2014, and now Green Bay, Sheboygan, Sioux City, Rapid City, Allentown and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma are talking it...