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The Future of Office in San Francisco: How Will the Office Market Recover?

Join Pillsbury’s Noa Clark as she moderates Bisnow’s “The Future of Office in San Francisco: How Will the Office Market Recover?” webinar on March 25. What You’ll Learn: How office spaces are evolving to accommodate for changing workforce needs, such as changing layouts, offices in residential buildings, hybrids, etc. Tenants’ perspective…

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Federal Judge Strikes Down CDC’s COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium

A federal judge in Texas has declared the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium unconstitutional, holding that Article I’s power to regulate interstate commerce and enact laws necessary and proper for such regulation does not include the power to suspend residential evictions on a nationwide basis. While…

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A Court-Side Seat: A Poultry Defense, a Houston Highway and a CERCLA Consent Decree that Won’t Budge

February saw the usual array of significant environmental decisions and federal regulatory notices. THE FEDERAL COURTS U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Luminant Generation v. EPA The court will be grappling with a difficult venue case governed by the Clean Air Act (42 USC Section 7607(b)). In…

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Smart Technology in Commercial Real Estate

“Hey Siri…” “Alexa…” “Okay Google…” These are just some of the buzzwords and phrases that have entered day-to-day vocabulary as a result of the explosion of smart technology. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are in our cars, in our workplaces and on our bodies. But nowhere is smart technology more…

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The Real Estate Market – Warehouses, Ports and Addition by Subdivision

In episode #26 of Industry Insights podcast, Steve Hamilton joins host Joel Simon to discuss certain segments of the real estate market and related financing that remained robust in the midst of the pandemic. Joel Simon: I’d like to kick off our discussion today with some optimism. We all know the real estate sector took a beating…

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Insolvency Issues, Real Estate and COVID-19

Over the past year, our attorneys have explored numerous insolvency topics affecting real estate. Together, the alerts in this series tackle many facets (and potential applications) of the Bankruptcy Code as potential balm and bane for owners, landlords and lenders trying to navigate a landscape made exponentially more treacherous by…

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What New Corporate Disclosures Mean For Real Estate

The control and beneficial ownership of real estate in the U.S. has been relatively easy to conceal. Christian A. Buerger, David L. Miller, and Andrew J. Weiner discuss how this disclosure regime is about the change dramatically in “What New Corporate Disclosures Mean For Real Estate.”

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ABA/IPT’s 2021 Advanced Property Tax Seminar

Pillsbury partner Breann Robowski will present during ABA/IPT’s 2021 Advanced Property Tax Seminar on March 18. Breann will present on the topic, “Valuing the Fee Simple Interest for Tax Purposes in Situations Not Involving ‘Dark Stores.’” For more information and to register, please click here.

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Carbon Emissions and the NYC Climate Mobilization Act

The Climate Mobilization Act constitutes a profound shift in the regulation of commercial real estate in New York City—and all stakeholders including building owners, investors, sellers and purchasers, tenants, and lenders will need to consider how to quantify and allocate the costs of compliance (or non-compliance). In “Sustainable Buildings and…