Original reporting and visual analysis about the deals, technology, and operating systems reshaping commercial real estate.
Same Walls. Different Lives.
Loray Mill survived child labor, the 1929 strike, Firestone, abandonment and a $52 million second phase. The deeper question is what adaptive reuse preserves besides brick.
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The Factory That Refused to Become Obsolete
A century of real photographs, named people and changing uses: Ford factory, Army depot, repatriation center, missile plant, pharmaceutical campus and living district.
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When Construction Equipment Becomes Software
Built Robotics is automating solar construction. The larger story is what safer, faster and more predictable execution could mean for real-estate feasibility.
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ATOMS Is Building Real Estate for AI
Why Travis Kalanick’s new operating company treats land, buildings, software, and machines as one physical computer.
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The Virtual Tour Is Becoming the Property Database
CoStar’s Matterport acquisition may be less about better listing media and more about teaching software to understand buildings.
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