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Benefits of redevelopment of outdated retail centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This paper explores the benefits of redevelopment of outdated retail shopping centers and seeks to identify potential redevelopment opportunities. The focus is specific to sites located in Dallas, Texas, and the overall ...
Toward a greener campus : experiments with sustainable resource management at one Mexican university and two United States universities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Modern society faces a range of difficult resource management problem like climate change, acid rain and soil depletion. To confront problems like these successfully, educational institutions, along with all other public ...
Urban Main Street redevelopment : a comparison of the developer-driven and the community-driven approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The newly found interest of private developers and communities to bring back the urban Main Street has brought with it questions about what the Main Street should be. Private developers see the inner city as the next ...
MapNexus : a framework to derive human intent from architectural space to enable context-aware information exchanges in a wireless intranet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Architectural interior spaces provide a rich syntax for context-aware modeling. In a wireless wide area network (WAN), an urban environment can be geographically tessellated into a series of polygons reflecting the radio ...
Factors influencing German private equity investment in US real estate
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
This thesis identifies and ranks in order of importance the key factors influencing high net-worth German investors' decisions about US real estate private equity investments. Through research and in-depth interviews with ...
Green building technologies : should a developer implement photovoltaics, underfloor air distribution, and natural ventilation?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis explores implications of green, or environmentally sensitive, development in the commercial real estate industry. Developers, as building owners, will respond to ideas that can improve their profits, not ...
Corporate real estate : challenges and practices in Ukraine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Real property has been called the corporation's last undermanaged resource. However, during the past decade, companies have begun to concentrate more on what constitutes 25 to 40% of a typical corporation's assets. US ...
Declining tenant diversity in retail malls, 1970-2000
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
A study of tenant diversity in retail malls was carried out to determine if tenant diversity declined between 1970 and 2000. The study measured tenant diversity by examining the percent of tenants that occur more than once ...
Building skills : a construction trades training facility for the eastern Canadian Arctic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
On April 1, 1999, the Inuit of the Eastern Canadian Arctic achieved sovereignty over a new territory, Nunavut, envisioning economic self-reliance, political self-determination, and renewal of confidence in Inuit community. ...
The determinants of office tenant renewal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This study empirically examines the historical probability of renewal for nearly three-hundred properties across forty-one Metropolitan Statistical Areas throughout the United States. It then investigates the factors that ...