A podcast examining every facet of the international commercial real estate industry — from the murky future of retail and office to real estate’s reckoning with diversity to the effects of climate change on the built world, and so much more. Produced and hosted by Miriam Hall.
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Speeches and interviews with leaders of today’s worldwide African liberation struggle. On reparations, building the African nation, combatting police violence, community control of education, health care, African women, the U.S. counterinsurgency, neocolonialism and winning freedom and independence for African people everywhere. Featuring African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Luwezi Kinshasa, Dr. Aisha Fields, Kalambayi Andenet, Akilé Anai, Yejide Orunmila and more.
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Cantor Azi Schwartz is the Senior Cantor of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, and is a world-renowned vocal performer and recording artist whose music reaches Jewish and interfaith audiences internationally. His craft of Jewish liturgical music has been described as emotionally moving, spiritually uplifting, and artistically dynamic. Azi grew up in a traditional community in Israel. His grandfather, also a cantor, inspired Azi to pursue his passion and inclination for singing and music. Aft ...
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Black August and slavery inside U.S. prisons
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Black August is a month of remembrance and resistance dedicated to our African warriors imprisoned for their heroic stance fighting for African liberation. It's also a month-long salute to the African liberation struggle, recognizing such historic milestones as the Haitian Revolution, the birth of Marcus Garvey, and the deaths of Jonathan Jackson a…
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Black Music Month and the Revolutionary Music of Miriam Makeba with Dr. Martin Boston
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June is Black Music Month. On this episode of Black Power Talks, we uplift Miriam Makeba. Miriam Makeba’s music played an important role in the African Revolution by building bridges across the colonial borders that divide African people. We discussed the role of Makeba's music and feature three of her songs: "Into Yam", "Pata Pata", and "Malcom X.…
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On this episode of Black Power Talks, we observe African Martyrs Day. At the first Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party in September 1981, APSP designated February 21 as “The Day of the African Martyr.” Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 by agents of United States repression and counterinsurgency. Amidst the historical impo…
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Behind The Numbers Of Bisnow's DEI Data Series
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Bisnow has released the fourth installment of the annual story tracking the levels of gender and racial diversity among commercial real estate leaders. On this episode, we break down the latest figures, and examine the current threats that diversity programs in the U.S. -- as well as talk about how backlash and the Supreme Court rulings on affirmat…
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Asland Capital's Jim Simmons, speaking at Bisnow’s New York State of the market, on the importance of mixed use developments, raising money from diverse sources and getting affordable housing built in a challenged economic environment. Read more: More Uncertainty Means Lenders, Developers Need More Partners To Get Deals Closed Former Ares, Apollo E…
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No Thanks to Colonialism! Celebrating African and Indigenous Solidarity and Anti-colonial Resistance
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In this episode, we say NO THANKS TO COLONIALISM. We expose the colonial mythology of Thanksgiving as the ideological support for Manifest Destiny and European/White North American colonial-capitalist domination; namely but not only the project of settler-colonialism. We speak with two activists and educators about the long history of anticolonial …
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John Kim, BMO Capital Markets senior analyst covering U.S. REITs, speaks about the third quarter earnings season. Read more: Vornado Pulling Out Of New York City Casino Sweepstakes Despite Outperforming Sector, SL Green Stock Being Heavily Shorted SL Green's Sluggish Leasing Sends Stock Tumbling As REIT Readies For Turnaround…
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Distress in real estate is prevalent in industry chatter – and in the headlines, but when it comes to sales, it is still not much of a factor. bIn fact, less than 2% of sales are distressed asset sales in the U.S., according to Jim Costello who is the chief economist at investment research firm MSCI’s Real Assets team. Read more: CRE Loan Distress …
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JLL's CTO Yao Morin on JLL's generative artificial intelligence model, JLL GPT, and how she thinks AI can improve the lives of brokers and help them do their job. She also discusses the widespread angst about AI, its dangers and the concerns that it will push people out of employment. Read more: ‘There’s A Degree Of Wonder’: Why New AI Tools May Fi…
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What A WeWork Bankruptcy Would Mean For Office Landlords
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Bisnow's U.K. Editor Mike Phillips talks about the possibility of a WeWork bankruptcy, and the impact on office landlords. Read More: WeWork President, COO Heads For The Exit WeWork Skips $95M In Interest Payments WeWork Assembles Team To Avoid Bankruptcy As NYSE Starts Delisting ProcessBy Bisnow
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Danielle Lombardo, the chair Lockton's global real estate practice, on how the cost of insurance is killing deals, and how this "inflection point' will force the industry to work together to find a solution. Read more: ULI: CRE Insurance Availability, Affordability At 'Crisis Levels' Insurance Costs Jump 26% For U.S. Multifamily Properties As Hurri…
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On this episode, CBRE's Richard Barkham, who is the brokerage's global chief economist and global head of research. He is talking over why the brokerage has moderated -- but not removed -- its recession prediction and his view on the where interest rates are headed. Also on the episode, distress in office and the impressive turnaround of retail. Mo…
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Thomas Yoo, the CEO of Willow River Capital Management, talks about the shifts in Asian investment into USA real estate, managing different cultural approaches to business – and the environment for loan sales. Read more: CRE Awaits Signature Bank Loan Sales For Desperately Needed ‘Pricing Signals’ Loan Backed By Manhattan Office Tower Blackstone Ga…
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Rudin CEO Bill Rudin talks about office occupancy, the decision to turn 55 Broad into housing, doing deals with Ken Griffin and the migrant crisis. Read more: 'A Million Things Can Go Wrong': City, Developers Outline Challenges In Office-To-Resi Conversions Another Labor Day Came And Went Without A Spike In Office Occupancy…
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Marilynn Joyner talks about Her Workplace
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Marilynn Joyner, the founder of Her Workplace – a startup that offers physical coworking space, in person events and a digital networking and career resource platform – all tailored for women and nonbinary people, at this moment in the world of work.By Bisnow
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The Story Of CrowdStreet, Nightingale Properties And The Missing Millions
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Jarred Schenke and Ethan Rothstein talk over the Nightingale Properties and CrowdStreet deal that resulted in a DOJ investigation and the disappearance of millions of investor dollars. Read more: Inside Nightingale Properties, The CRE Firm At The Center Of The Missing Millions DOJ, SEC Investigating Nightingale After $40M Of Investor Cash Allegedly…
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Ben Van Leeuwen, the co-founder of Van Leeuwen ice cream talks about building expanding the business overseas, handling inflation -- and why American consumer habits are perfect for a pricey ice cream chain.By Bisnow
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Affording The Texas Miracle Featuring Rick Perry
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Reporters Olivia Lueckemeyer and Maddy McCarty talk over the Texas miracle, and what might be threatening it. We also hear from the former Texas Governor and former Secretary of Energy in the Trump Administration Rick Perry on why he doesn't think government should intervene in the housing crisis. "Government should do a few things, do those few th…
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Hotels Planning For Another Bumper Summer Of Revenge Travel
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Donohoe Hospitality President Thomas Penny speaks on recruiting to deal with the labor crisis, his concern about the debt ceiling and the business to make the most of that so-called “bleisure travel." “At the height of the pandemic, we saw a massive loss of life …a lot of folks throughout the country, their priorities have shifted to realize just h…
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Trepp's Manus Clancy talks over the debt ceiling crisis, the environment of "extend and pretend" and how the banking crisis is affecting real estate lending.By Bisnow
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Shlomi Ronen, of Dekel Capital and Ron Zeff of Carmel Partners talk the banking crisis, investment opportunities and recessions threats. Read More: First Republic Bought By JPMorgan Following Bank's Failure Following Collapse Of Other Regional Banks, PacWest Weighs SaleBy Bisnow
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Jordan Kavana, the CEO and founder of Ark Homes for Rent, talks about the growth of the single family rental market, domestic migration, and SFR's reputation as the destroyer of the American dream, home ownership. Read more: Major Apartment Owner And Single-Family Rental Owner Team Up To Buy $3B In 'Horizontal Multifamily' Newmark Creates SFR Team …
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Fears, Hopes And Gripes Of Real Estate At The REBNY Gala
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Bisnow Reports heads to the annual Real Estate Board of New York's party to talk politics, uncertainty and the complexity of the market. Read More: PHOTOS: REBNY’s 127th Gala, Where Politics Took Center StageBy Bisnow
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JLL's Bob Knakal and Walker & Dunlop's Aaron Appel
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Bob Knakal, head of JLL's New York Private Capital Group, and Walker & Dunlop's Aaron Appel speak about the investment sales market, value resets and the market battle between fear and greed. Read More: Wave Of Distressed CRE Sales Coming: Colliers The Long-Awaited New York City Office Repricing Wave Is Here Bisnow Reports is hosted and produced by…
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Salute to the late Calypsonian Black Stalin with Trini Trent Part 1
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On this episode of Black Power Talks we lift up the memory of late Calypsonian Black Stalin of Trinidad and Tobago. Black Stalin passed away in December 2022 at the age of 81. Black Stalin was a five-time winner of the Calypso Monarch competition and was donned Calypso king of the world in 1999. Still, Black Stalin was not merely a calypso singer, …
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[Bonus Episode] Inside Bisnow's Investigation Of The Climate Policies Of The World's Largest Real Estate Investors
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In this bonus episode, Bisnow reporters unpack the findings of a multi-story investigation into the real estate industry's approach to reducing emissions.By Bisnow
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On this episode, Alicia Glen, the former Deputy Mayor for Housing & Economic Development who now runs MSquared, a real estate development and investment platform. We’re talking about housing policies before the legislature right now, the political climate under Gov. Kathy Hochul versus Andrew Cuomo, good cause eviction and advancing women and peopl…
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On this episode, Kevin Fagan, the head of CRE Economic Analysis at Moody’s Analytics, talks about the Federal Reserve's decision to raise rates, the state of the CMBS market and how commercial real estate may be less exposed to regional banks than many think. Read more: From Bad To Worse: Bank Failures Thin Ice Under Expiring Office Loans JPMorgan,…
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Sonny Kalsi, a co-CEO of BentallGreenOak to help make sense of the banking crisis that has already led to two U.S. bank failures and the takeover of Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse, and to assess what it means for commercial real estate.By Bisnow
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African Internationalists take the Revolutionary discussion of Reparations into the halls of academia
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In 1982, the African People’s Socialist Party formed the African National Reparations Organization (ANRO). ANRO was the first mass organization created to forward the reparations struggle and make reparations a household topic. ANRO’s reach was wide and even garnered the support of people like Michael Jackson who signed an ANRO certificate demandin…
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CREtech CEO Michael Beckerman on why he thinks the desperate need for a greener, more sustainable built environment will be a “gold rush” for Proptech.By Bisnow
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DOJ and FBI place economic sanctions on the African Liberation Movement
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In this episode, we address current FBI and Department of Justice economic sanctions against African self-determination. As Black History Month 2023 drew to a close, the U.S. government and its partners in the financial sector escalated its campaign against the right of today’s Black Power Movement to freedom of speech and association. The DOJ and …
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Madison Realty Capital's Josh Zegen talks about the state of the financing markets, and the opportunities to provide leverage to other lenders.By Bisnow
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Salute to our African Martyrs! Hands Off Uhuru!
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On this episode of Black Power Talks, we observe African Martyrs Day. At the first Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party in September 1981, APSP designated February 21 as “The Day of the African Martyr.” Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 by agents of United States repression and counterinsurgency. Amidst the historical impo…
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Black Power radio fights back against Florida censorship
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"We put these people in the same camp of what Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, is doing here with the banning of black history from education. By taking out history; by taking out the actual voice and opinions and the world view of black people from the public eye, they're trying to prevent what is even able to be communicated to our people a…
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Developer Bruce Teitelbaum talks about One45 Harlem, his proposed mixed-use housing development in Harlem that has received vehement opposition from the local council member.By Bisnow
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Samir Tejpaul talks over how company is approaching modifications with their borrowers, why the company will bel be patient – depending on the circumstances -- and why he thinks location of an office asset is more important than its age or class.By Bisnow
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BRP Cos. Managing Partner Meredith Marshall
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'Beyond Crisis Mode': NYC Housing Development Crippled By Red Tape And Political Backlash https://www.bisnow.com/new-york/news/multifamily/state-of-the-market-116486By Bisnow
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Industrious CEO Jamie Hodari on 'Branding' The Office
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Nuveen Taps Industrious To Create Tenant Network Across National Portfolio https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/office/nuveen-taps-industrious-to-create-tenant-network-across-national-portfolio-117400 Hybrid Work Adoption Driving Rush Of Coworking Consolidation https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/coworking/coworking-flex-office-hybrid-work-wework-…
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How To Turn Office-To-Residential Conversion From Great Idea To Reality
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New York City Office Adaptive Reuse Study: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans-studies/office-reuse-task-force/office-adaptive-reuse-study.pdf A Conversation With The Developer Behind The Country’s Biggest Office-To-Resi Conversion: https://www.bisnow.com/new-york/news/construction-development/brian-steinwurtzel-gfp-25-water-conv…
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FBI attacks Black Power leaders in St. Louis, St. Petersburg
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In the early morning hours of Friday, July 29, 2022, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), aided by local police, raided the offices and homes of members of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida and St. Louis, Missouri, seizing computers, hard drives, phones, office equipment and files. They temporarily detained APSP Chairman Omal…
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Episode #120: The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin surveilled by COINTELPRO for 40 years; the arts are not refuge; African culture workers urged to get involved
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Just months after the FBI's brutal assault against the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement, a report surfaced showing that the FBI surveilled the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin for four decades. In today's program, we will turn the spotlight on some of the popular African artists who have been surveilled, harassed and targeted b…
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Episode #119: Russia releases Griner; Biden called to release Africans still in U.S. penal colonies on marijuana charges
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In this episode, we talk with Angelika Mueller-Rowry about her husband, Robert Rowry, an African man who died chained, inhumanely chained to a prison bed in 2014. This story is extremely relevant in conversation with contemporary discussions about mass imprisonment in the US. On Thursday December 8, 2022, the Women’s National Basketball Association…
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Episode #118: The Colonial Origins of Santa Claus
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On this episode of Black Power Talks, we learn about the colonial origins of Santa Claus, also known as Sinter Klaas or St. Nick, the patron saint of shipping. Colonial ideology purports the Christmas holiday to be a celebration of the birth of Jesus. In fact, the Christmas holiday season is centered around the obsessive pursuit and aspiration to p…
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Bisnow Reporters Reflect on Rate Hikes, ESG and Office Real Estate
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Bisnow U.K. editor Mike Phillips, L.A. reporter Bianca Barragán and Dallas Fort Worth reporter Olivia Lueckemeyer join Bisnow reports to talk over some of the dominate issues of the year, what is top if mind for their sources and the challenges and opportunities facing the industry in 2023.By Bisnow
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Episode #117: Free Our Brothers! Wrongfully convicted Africans fight for justice
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Today on Black Power Talks we examine the case of two wrongfully convicted African men and the organized pushback they are waging against the system that stole almost thirty years total from them. The US prison system plays a significant role in the colonial mode of production. Chairman Omali Yeshitela notes that “Massive prison building projects w…
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NYU's Arpit Gupta On The 'Office Real Estate Apocalypse'
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NYU's Arpit Gupta talks over the findings of a report he co-authored entitled 'Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse'. Read more on the return to office: * * * Return To Office For Thee, But Not For Me: C-Suite Stays Home As Employees Expected Back https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/office/return-to-office-for-thee-but-not-for-me-c…
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Episode #116: No Thanks to Colonialism! Celebrating African and Indigenous Solidarity and Anticolonial Resistance
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In this episode, we say NO THANKS TO COLONIALISM. We expose the colonial mythology of Thanksgiving as the ideological support for Manifest Destiny and European/White North American colonial-capitalist domination; namely but not only the project of settler-colonialism. We speak with two activists and educators about the long history of anticolonial …
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Avison Young's Mark Rose, Project Destined's Cedric Bobo and Roosevelt University's Collete English Dixon
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Avison Young's Mark Rose, Project Destined's Cedric Bobo and Roosevelt University's Collete English Dixon talk diversity in commercial real estate, and examine Bisnow's 2022 analysis of gender and racial breakdown at the top levels of the industry. * * 'The Hardest Job In Business': CRE's Chief Diversity Officers On Their Roles 2 Years Post-George …
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JLL's Americas Work Dynamics and Industry Research Platform Leader Amber Schiada talks implementing hybrid, generation Z's approach to the workplace and some managers' view of the office doesn't match up with their employees.By Bisnow
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