How Industrial Projects Can Spur Economic Growth

A large tire-storage facility in a small Indiana town offers lessons for developers on how to work with communities.

How to Set Up a Private Equity Real Estate Fund

How does one go about creating a partnership to raise equity for ongoing real estate investment?

Building Talent From Within: Tenure Strategy in Construction

A general contractor developed an in-house training program to build its own pipeline instead of competing for the same shrinking talent pool.

Spotting Opportunities to Transform Underutilized Sites

The elimination of parking minimums in Eugene, Oregon, opened the door for development of new student housing on a former single-family lot.

Examining Development Approvals Across North America: An Analysis of Site Plan and Building Permit Review Processes

The brief examines development approvals processes across 100 jurisdictions from 30 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario, and builds on The Development Approvals Index: A New Tool to

Findings from the Development Approvals Index

The NAIOP Research Foundation released The Development Approvals Index: A New Tool to Evaluate Local Approvals Processes (the Index). The Index provides a systematic method to evaluate and compare