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Construction death toll continues to rise despite year of safety reviews

REW December 20, 2017 December 20, 2017

by REWDecember 20, 2017December 20, 20171326

The number of construction workers killed on the job in 2017 hit nine this week, after a worker died at a job site in Chelsea on Monday. 34-year-old Przemyskaw Krawczyk was struck on the head by a piece of metal that fell from scaffolding at 61 Ninth Avenue December 18....

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Architecture firm nabs three floors in One Willoughby Square

REW December 20, 2017 December 20, 2017

by REWDecember 20, 2017December 20, 20171395

FXFOWLE enjoyed its latest project, a 34-story office building in Downtown Brooklyn, so much that it’s decided to lease space there—three full floors, to be exact. The Chelsea-based architecture firm signed a 15-year lease for at total of 40,000 s/f at One Willoughby Square, a half-million square foot high-rise being...

Debt & Equity Featured Residential

Federal tax bill boosts New York real estate, hurts home ownership

REW December 19, 2017 December 19, 2017

by REWDecember 19, 2017December 19, 20171662

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is supposed to make filing tax returns easier but it seems poised to have the opposite effect on businesses.

Featured Retail

ICSC: Demise of retail has been greatly exaggerated

REW December 12, 2017 December 12, 2017

by REWDecember 12, 2017December 12, 20171193

Shopping center campaign aims to dispel fake news about the retail sector and promote its evolution instead

Featured Retail

E-commerce strategies click with brick and mortar operations, too

REW December 12, 2017 December 12, 2017

by REWDecember 12, 2017December 12, 20172158

Data and infrastructure give online brands an advantage over traditional retailers as they set-up shop in brick and mortar establishments.

Featured Residential

In New Rochelle, the strategy is: if you zone it they will come

REW December 7, 2017 December 7, 2017

by REWDecember 7, 2017December 7, 20171494

When Amazon launched its search for a second home, the usual suspects all came out of the woodwork but so did at one notable headscratcher: New Rochelle.

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US opioid crisis putting focus on construction sector drug testing

REW December 6, 2017 December 6, 2017

by REWDecember 6, 2017December 6, 20171588

Drug testing remains a tension point between organized labor and merit shop workers.

Featured Retail

Industry welcomes NYC retail tax cut, but warns more to be done to revive flagging high street

REW December 6, 2017 December 6, 2017

by REWDecember 6, 2017December 6, 20171372

New tax code gives businesses below 96th Street that pay less than $500,000 in annual rent a break

Construction & Design Featured Residential

Sutton Place rezoning sets stage for potential legal battle

REW December 6, 2017 December 6, 2017

by REWDecember 6, 2017December 6, 20171542

City council adopted a text amendment to the area’s zoning that requires at least 45 percent of a building’s square footage to remain below 150 feet tall.