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"In times like these, it is helpful to recall that there have always been times like these." - Paul Harvey

It can be said that it is both a unique time and just like old times. Ask Bono at the World Economic Summit in Davos and he'll tell you its a critical time for change. What is your answer to the Davos Question?

As commercial real estate professionals trying to put forth efforts toward making a better world, Adam thinks its with design of form, function and finance for flexibility and the future value. How this comes about will challenge our current view on the operating model. Spaces will need more dynamic less episodic uses and be relevant to more audiences. They will certainly need to be less modeled after our one way consumer mentality and more toward regenerative cohabitation. At the very least, they will need to be less wasteful. As the leaders are saying in Davos, its all connected. The butterfly in Georgia flaps its wings and it rains in Hong Kong is matched by lights left on in Cleveland and there are floods in Mozambique. Even if the connecting is hard to prove and the level of crisis is contended, its better that we love our brother, our mother and our pocketbook...they are all connected. They always have been and always will be.

posted by adam commercial @ 10:38 AM