What working from home does to commercial construction
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
We’ve been hearing a lot about troubled commercial real estate loans, high office vacancy rates and continued remote work. All of these factors and more are feeding back up the food chain to the folks who design and build office towers and other commercial properties. We’ll discuss. Also: $300 million in new military aid to Ukraine, and a virtual fitness company CEO on staying strong in a changing market.
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| 1:10.0 | What working from Home does to the ecosystem of building new retail and office space? |
| 1:19.0 | I'm David Rancaccio. First, the White House is sending $300 million in new military aid to Ukraine. |
| 1:26.1 | That's despite the fact that a bill to provide more to Ukraine is stuck in the House of |
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