Brielle Scott

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Brielle Scott

Brielle Scott is Director of Marketing and Communications at NAIOP.
Richmond-Adelaide Centre: High-performance Office in Toronto’s Financial Core
In the heart of Toronto’s bustling financial district, the Richmond-Adelaide Centre (RAC) has established itself as one of the city’s most significant commercial real estate assets. Owned and managed by Oxford Properties Group, this 2.4-million-square-foot office and retail complex is more than just a workplace – it’s a fully integrated environment that blends modern workspace, retail, wellness and public art into a cohesive destination. As part of the CRE.Converge conference this week in Toronto, commercial real estate leaders from across North America toured the center, with spans five interconnected buildings.
Industrial Space Demand Forecast: Signs of Stabilization After a Challenging 2025
The U.S. industrial real estate market is undergoing a period of significant adjustment, according to the newly released NAIOP Industrial Space Demand Forecast, Third Quarter 2025. After years of strong growth, demand slowed markedly in the first half of this year, with absorption turning negative in the second quarter for the first time since 2010. While near-term challenges remain, the report’s authors project a recovery beginning in 2026 as market conditions stabilize.
How CRE is Transforming Toronto’s Skyline and Economy
The commercial real estate industry’s construction spending and ongoing operations in Toronto are a significant driver of the economy, generating $17.1 billion CAD in economic activity in 2024, according to a new report released by the NAIOP Research Foundation and authored by Altus Group. It’s no surprise, then, that city serves as the perfect host to commercial real estate leaders attending CRE.Converge next month for unparalleled networking and valuable industry insights.
Tracking U.S. Economic Trends into 2025
An annual study published by the NAIOP Research Foundation measures the contribution to GDP, salaries and wages generated and jobs supported from the development and operations of commercial real estate in the U.S. One of the authors of “Economic Impacts of Commercial Real Estate, 2025 U.S. Edition,” Brian Lewandowski, executive director, business research division at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, led a NAIOP webinar to share key metrics from the report and a look at where the economy is headed next.
Recapturing Value with Hybrid Reverse Logistics Facilities
If we were to rebuild our supply chain network, how would we rebuild it, knowing what we know now about returns? How would we rebuild a network if we could start over today knowing that backwards flows were going to be as important as forward flows? Chad Autry, Ph.D., Myers Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, shared some key design principles for a reverse logistics network.
Examining Political Narratives and Economic Realities
“The first thing I have to talk about today is what we think is happening in our economy,” began Chris Thornberg, Ph.D., founder of Beacon Economics and keynote speaker at I.CON West this week in Los Angeles. “The other thing I'm going to talk about is what's actually happening in the economy today. That is to say, our objective statistical reality. The world I see in the data on a day-to-day basis.”
SoCal’s Unique Approach to Industrial
There are over 2 billion square feet of industrial real estate in the greater Southern California area, with several aspects that are unique to this dense, almost exclusively infill market. At I.CON West this week, a tour allowed attendees to explore several notable industrial projects in the market, including a newly delivered data center, state-of-the-art trailer yard and the largest port-based EV charging depot in the country.
An Industrial Capital Markets Deep Dive
At I.CON West this week in Los Angeles, panelists discussed critical questions and the external forces that could shape the industrial capital markets in the next 12-24 months. Mike Kendall, vice chair, investment services, Colliers, moderated a panel that included Jeremy Giles, managing partner, Constellation Real Estate Partners; Darren Kenney, head of capital deployment, West region, Prologis; and Brent Steele, chief investment officer, Logistics Property Company.

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