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How Existing Technology Can Support a Safe Return to Work

How Existing Technology Can Support a Safe Return to Work SPONSORED CONTENT As Chicagoans return to the workplace, keeping employees safe won’t be solved by handing out keycards — it will involve keeping an endless number of surfaces sanitized, limiting the number of people in a single space, screening occupant health status, keeping the infected…

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Open for Business: How Property Managers Can Support Building Retailers During COVID-19

Open for Business: How Property Managers Can Support Building Retailers During COVID-19 While the pandemic of COVID-19 has touched practically every corner of the globe, there are still essential businesses and employees of those businesses keeping our world moving forward. One of those people is Tamala Ballard, who spoke to us from the Willis Tower. Tamala…

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Sign Up for Emergency Alert Program for Business

Sign Up for Emergency Alert Program for Business August 10, 2020   The City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) and Office of Emergency Management and Communication (OEMC) has created an emergency alert program specifically for Chicago’s businesses. Local business owners and managers should text “CHIBIZ” to 67283 or visit www.chicago.gov/chibizalerts to opt-in…

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How to Maintain Parking Lots While Safely Preparing for Re-Entry

How to Maintain Parking Lots While Safely Preparing for Re-Entry Iannessa with Rose Paving The COVID-19 outbreak has left many building owners feeling stuck between a rock and a hard place. After all, the mortgage doesn’t care if your tenants can’t pay the rent because of Coronavirus It’s a bad situation for everyone but there are…

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What Do Lenders Really Want from Property Managers?

What Do Lenders Really Want from Property Managers? By Michael Giese, Executive Director, Glenstar There are times when it seems that lenders, loans and reporting requirements are a mystery, and that one misstep could potentially put your funding in jeopardy.  With so much at risk, how are property managers supposed to know what lenders want?…

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Gold Circle Award Profile: Michael Moriarty, Building Engineer of the Year

Gold Circle Award Profile: Michael Moriarty, Building Engineer of the Year Michael Moriarty, Chief Engineer with CBRE at 353 North Clark, is the recipient of BOMA/Chicago’s 2019 Building Engineer of the Year Award. How did you get involved in the commercial real estate industry? My Dad was an engineer and member of Local 399. He encouraged…

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Four Ways Accurate Square Footage Can Impact a Property’s Financial Position and Accounting Practices

Four Ways Accurate Square Footage Can Impact a Property’s Financial Position and Accounting Practices By Robert Ladner with SDI Presence The responsibilities of a commercial real estate property manager are many and varied, ranging from managing occupancy, tenant relationships, safety concerns and building financials. One common – but often overlooked – source of data used across…

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Congratulations to BOMA/Chicago’s Six North Central Region TOBY Winners!

Congratulations to BOMA/Chicago’s Six North Central Region TOBY Winners! April 9, 2019   Six BOMA/Chicago buildings have won the North Central Region TOBY Award. The North Central Region includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. In the commercial real estate industry, the TOBY Award is the most prestigious and comprehensive award of its kind, recognizing…

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Beeting the Summer Heat at 1KFulton

Beeting the Summer Heat at 1KFulton Next up in our series on sustainable rooftops and initiatives, we talk to Rachael Bruketta, Assistant Property Manager with Sterling Bay, who fills us in on 1000 West Fulton’s rooftop vegetable garden including maintenance, vegetable selection, environmental impact and tenant engagement. What was the motivation to create a vegetable…

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How 20,000 Worms Transformed this Building [Interview]

How 20,000 Worms Transformed this Building [Interview] We’re kicking off a new series of stories focusing on sustainable rooftops and initiatives in a dialogue with AMA Plaza’s Assistant Property Manager Yordanos Ghdey with Riverview Realty Property Management. Yordanos walks us through the ins and outs of the AMA Plaza’s worm composting program housed on the 48th floor…

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