Jonathan Rollins

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Jonathan Rollins

Jonathan Rollins is the managing editor of publications for Commercial Real Estate Development Association (CREDA).
Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA - September 12, 2015: Fans await entry into Gillette Stadium for One Direction concert. Gillette Stadium is which is home to The New England Patriots is a premier sports, entertainment and event venue.

Lessons Learned from Sports-anchored Development

October 7, 2026
Yes, a sports venue can launch a district, but only great placemaking, strong market fundamentals and year-round activation will make a sports-anchored development succeed. Those were among the insights shared by panelists discussing the new playbook for sports-anchored development at the CREDA Conference in Denver.  Moderator Yvette Roman, founder and owner of Denver-based Ellipsis Construction, […]
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Flexibility is Key in Confronting Power Constraints in Industrial

October 7, 2026
For most of the past two decades, power was the easy part of industrial deals. Developers could simply obtain a will-serve letter from the utility and move on. As a CREDA Conference session on the ways power constraints are reshaping industrial development made clear, that era is over.   Panelist Mehul Desai, project executive at Saxum […]
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Data Points to Senior Housing as an Emerging Opportunity Within Multifamily

October 7, 2026
Senior housing is entering one of the strongest stretches in its history, but it rewards developers who treat it as an operationally focused business first. That was one of the core messages from a session at CREDA Conference this week discussing why senior living is positioned to offer the next wave of opportunity within multifamily.  […]
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Denver Offers a Tale of Two Downtowns

Denver Offers a Tale of Two Downtowns

October 6, 2026
In 2014, Denver’s iconic Union Station was brought back to life through a $55 million public-private revitalization effort, turning the formerly neglected landmark into a dining and retail hub. Ten years later, $12 million was invested in renovating the station’s Great Hall and the guest rooms in the luxury boutique Crawford Hotel, located on the […]
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Beyond the Core: Investors Eye Emerging Data Center Markets

Beyond the Core: Investors Eye Emerging Data Center Markets

September 10, 2025
“Data centers, for latency reasons, had to be located near certain customers, certain population hubs. So, we saw these markets emerge where there was a lot of data center concentration [such as] Northern Virginia, Dallas, Phoenix,” explained Elissa Wilson during a panel discussion this week at CRE.Converge in Toronto. But the artificial intelligence-driven surge in demand over the past two years has opened opportunities in new markets where power is still abundant and grids are less constrained.
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Connection Is at the Center of CIBC Square

Connection Is at the Center of CIBC Square

September 9, 2025
CIBC Square is redefining the various ways that downtown Toronto connects. The two-tower, 3-million-square-foot office campus has successfully connected the city’s Financial District, South Core and waterfront. This week, a group of NAIOP Research Foundation Governors received an exclusive tour of CIBC Square as part of NAIOP’s CRE.Converge conference in Toronto.
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