Jeffrey Steele Contributor

JLL released its Construction Trends and Mid-Year Outlook several days ago, updating its 2023 Construction Outlook published in March. The new report, with its updated set of projections, highlights several hurdles the industry faces during a time of enormous economic uncertainty. Specifically, the report examines general construction industry health, along with the state of the

Given the size of their enormous cohort, Millennials wield incredible clout to change society. Since maturing into young adults, they’ve been fingered as culprits behind the demise of a great many societal habits and norms, from the donning of business suits and the shopping of department stores to the use of banks and golf clubs.

It hasn’t been too long since the world reeled at the first news of existential threats to bees and other pollinators. Addressing the problem by cultivating bees and beehives started as a pandemic-era passion, and has since generated a lot of buzz across North America, from major corporate employers in Denver to residential high-rise rooftops

Many developers and design firms have looked to the adaptive reuse of underutilized office buildings as an answer to today’s dearth of affordable housing. But a superior solution may be found in converting the schools of yesteryear to much-needed housing. That is the conviction of architects at Moody Nolan, the nation’s largest Black-owned architecture firm,

It’s a painful reality: The cost of homes is putting homeownership beyond the reach of a growing share of Americans. A new bill called The Neighborhood Homes Investment Act (NHIA) strives to address this problem, encouraging affordable home building and spurring renewal of distressed neighborhoods through the creation of a new tax credit. By supporting

Had you perused the list of amenities in an upscale newer condominium building at the end of last decade, you might have seen mention of a business center or conference room. For that era, those were nice — but hardly make-or-break — amenity suite extras. In between then and now, a minor little blip called

Those who have savored Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, collectively known as Los Cabos, understand the appeal of this Mexican vacation wonderland at the tip of the Baja Peninsula. The destination enjoys 350 days of sunshine yearly, is within a three-hour drive of 24 U.S. cities and has seen tourism boom by

The nation faces a critical shortage of not only affordable housing, but workforce housing. Nowhere is that shortfall more pronounced than in America’s top ski towns. Playgrounds of the ultra-rich, these hamlets have endured an ever-worsening dearth of housing for the people who work in the hotels and restaurants, as well as the folks who

If the U.S. is to turn around its critical dearth of rental housing units, experts are agreed adaptive reuse projects must be part of the answer. According to a new Adaptive Reuse Report from RentCafe, there is good and bad news on that front. First, the bad news. The number of buildings that underwent conversion

Colorado State University’s Institute for the Built Environment (IBE) and NAVA Real Estate Development have completed a three-year research study of Lakehouse, the first WELL-Certified multifamily residential community in Colorado. The result: Evidence of enhanced satisfaction and heightened physical and emotional well-being among Lakehouse residents. The multifamily community is a 12-story, 196-unit property in Denver’s