DivcoWest has spent $79 million on The Davenport, a 220,000-square-foot Class A office property in Cambridge, Mass. The firm picked up the property from a client of AEW Capital Management.

While many new-wave technologies are emerging that have potential to help commercial property executives reduce building energy consumption in coming years, some older mechanisms are seeing a revival. One such alternative is exterior insulation and finish systems, or EIFS. By Brad Berton.

Macys.com, the e-commerce-division of Macy’s Inc. department store, has just signed a lease with a joint venture involving TMG Partners and Rockwood Capital to occupy 242,600 square feet at 680 Folsom St. in San Francisco.

Technology is already revolutionizing workers’ relationship to the office, and commercial real estate is going to need to balance the demands of IT and emerging technologies with the benefits of face-to-face interaction.

Commercial window experts have great expectations for a budding technology known as “dynamic electrochromic glazing” for window glass, which allow allows property operators to optimize solar heat gain for prevailing conditions without losing daylighting benefits.

Syska Hennessy Group co-presidents Gary Brennen and Cyrus Izzo discuss the most beneficial solutions being implemented in building design and development today, where shortcomings remain and what owners’ and developers’ priorities should be for the greatest efficiencies in the future.

The commercial real estate industry has long lagged behind when it comes employing electronic automation. Are we finally ready for automated loan processing? By Keat Foong.

Liberty Property Trust chief information officer Steve Messaros spoke with CPE about the integrated, corporate-level approach the REIT has taken to its business strategies, and in particular how technology and real estate work together. By Suzann Silverman.

Commercial real estate is notorious as a lagging adopter of new technologies, but even so, the industry is coming to appreciate the value of software systems integration. By Dees Stribling.

Over more than a decade, commercial property executives in Germany and other European nations have come to rely on an energy-conserving mechanism that has yet to catch on in the United States: exterior sun-shading devices. By Brad Berton.