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Healthcare Facilities Management – Planning Takes the Cake
Tuesday I attended the Healthcare Facility Managers Association of Delaware Valley’s Fall Conference to better understand the medical spaces Old Forge has grown to support and the regulatory requirements they must continue to meet for patient safety. The day was so...
The Learning Built Environment: Personalized Design Improving Education at Any Age
When you think back on learning to walk or ride a bike, these lessons weren’t best understood through discussion—rather trial and error. This is top of mind as architectural professionals assemble plans for state-of-the-art educational facilities. Is there more of a...
Inflation MythBusters
It seems like everywhere you turn sources are buzzing about the current state of the construction market and what the future holds. Projections of commodity cost increases provide an unstable perspective. The reality is that the construction industry has made a...
How to Reach a Flawless Warehouse Layout
Every warehouse has its intricacies. As a landlord designing a shell for unknown tenants, how do you best accommodate specific uses while a fit-out scope isn’t yet defined? With several of the design/build projects currently being executed by Old Forge, these thoughts...
Your Roadmap to CRE Investment Decisions
Yesterday I attended a NAIOP virtual session, “Researching and Evaluating Market Opportunities: A Two-Dimensional Approach Webinar” that discussed a recent report from their research foundation offering an alternative approach to evaluating commercial real estate...
2022’s Construction Crystal Ball
Before forming predictions for the new year ahead and how commercial construction will look, let’s reflect on 2021 and the major themes, dumpster fires aside. Pressure on general contractor’s bottom lines demanded teams to act smarter and harder at the same time....
The COVID Effect on Industrial
In the suburban Philadelphia market, there is a trend never before known occurring: industrial asset rents are coming exceptionally close to office rates. During a BisNow event yesterday, some of the Mid-Atlantic market’s top industrial real estate players walked...
Taking the Mystery out of Construction Time Management
Time is money. Chances are the average person is no stranger to this statement. In contracts where construction project teams are billed hourly or projected for a contracted duration, this is especially the case. The push towards time management is a worthwhile...
Brownfield Development in NJ: Worth it?
Recently, some development-focused individuals in the New Jersey market came together on behalf of the ULI (Urban Land Institute) to discuss the concept of brownfields in real estate development, and how there is a considerable opportunity to restore and enhance the...