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DOY 2025

Building with Purpose: Vulcan Real Estate’s Five Core Values

  • October 6, 2025
Vulcan Real Estate was recently named NAIOP's 2025 Developer of the Year, the association's highest honor for leadership and innovation. Leading the company's success is Ada Healy, Chief Real Estate Officer. Healy joined NAIOP’s Inside CRE podcast to share what it takes to deliver developments that truly change communities – including the core values that drive Vulcan’s success.
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New Jersey state capitol

NAIOP New Jersey: Leading CRE Into a New Era of Opportunity

  • September 3, 2025
As the commercial real estate industry navigates a rapidly shifting economic landscape, NAIOP New Jersey continues to confront a wave of legislative and regulatory proposals that could significantly impact the sector’s financial and operational dynamics. This November, New Jersey will hold what may be its most consequential gubernatorial election in three decades. Additionally, every seat in the New Jersey Assembly is up for grabs. While New Jersey remains a reliably blue state, recent trends suggest a shift toward purple – and we’ll soon see just how purple.
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Solar Landscape tour

Lighting the Way: How Community Solar is Transforming Neighborhoods

  • June 5, 2025
The U.S. is facing an energy crisis, with not enough power generated by the grid to feed the ever-growing demand. On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump declared this issue a national emergency. One effective solution to help address this expansive problem: transforming unused commercial rooftops into sources of solar power that can then be fed back into the energy grid.
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Data centers

Targeted Incentives and Key Challenges in Data Center Development

  • October 9, 2024
"We're in a really unique point in history in the sense that we have this huge demand curve for data centers at a time when we also have some constraints in power,” said Elissa Wilson, attorney, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, LLP, to begin a panel discussion on data center development at NAIOP’s CRE.Converge. “But the reason data centers are so important is they are fundamental to our modern economy. They're fundamental to our way of life. They're fundamental to every single transaction that happens online."
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Woodlawn Central rendering

Being Heard: Developing from the Inside Out

  • November 30, 2023
If real estate developers overlook or fail to adequately engage with a community’s unique needs and historical context, the effects can be deleterious. The most effective developments get to the heart of resolving economic disparities and transforming lives. These developers treat community members as true partners, not bystanders or obstacles. Even for developers with the best intentions, this is easier said than done.
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Tour of the Spring District

Here Comes the Neighborhood: Bellevue’s Spring District

  • October 18, 2023
What was once 36 acres of warehouses (including a former cold storage warehouse where Amazon beta-tested their Amazon Fresh home grocery delivery service) and surface parking has been transformed into the newest urban neighborhood in Bellevue, Washington: the Spring District.
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Kim Synder chapter visit

Working with Communities: The Importance of Partnerships in Our Industry’s Success

  • October 2, 2023
NAIOP's 2023 chair talks about four topics that often arise during his visits to chapters across North America: community relations, e-commerce, EV trends and designing policies with communities.
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Downtown Minneapolis

Best Cities for Gen Z: Minneapolis Triumphs as No. 1

  • September 5, 2023
To help Gen Zers identify cities that align with their priorities, CommercialCafe analyzed major U.S. cities across a variety of key metrics. These included the Gen Z population share, educational attainment, affordability, eco-friendly commuting and park density. The results of this analysis created a comprehensive guide for Gen Zers who are looking for a city that values community, cost-effectiveness and sustainability.
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