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As a growing population of older adults emerges, timeworn notions of aging no longer fit. Older adults are staying in the workforce longer and anticipating more meaningful "golden years." New attitudes about work, health, housing, education, transportation, and other needs are evident. Millions of aging adults are upending convention, seeking to remain active and contributing members of their communities. A revolution in the "culture of aging" is underway.
Visit http://successfulaging.milkeninstitute.org/2014/best-cities-for-successful-aging-report-2014.pdf to view the full article online.
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Enter the Center for Advanced Urbanism (CAU) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is determined to make designers think about the suburbs, and to think about them in a particular way. The center’s biennial research theme is the "Future of Suburbia," and in late March/early April it hosted an exhibition and a conference by that name at the university’s Media Lab. The culmination of the effort—which has involved a dozen MIT faculty and more than 100 experts from around the globe—will be Infinite Suburbia, a 1,200-page tome that Princeton Architectural Press will publish in fall 2017. All in all, CAU is making a concerted bid to reposition suburbia as a serious subject of design inquiry. It couldn’t have come soon enough.
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Local News
The $289 million expansion of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has gotten underway, with crews closing Gate 4 last week. The nine-gate addition will add 70,000 square feet of terminal concourse space and expanded flight capacity. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. is the general contractor and Gensler is handling the architectural design for the addition, which will boost the number of ABIA gates to 33.
Visit http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/real-estate/2014/02/austin-eyes-200m-airport-expansion-who-wants-to.html to view the full article online.
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National News
Currently, industrial supply isn’t coming close to meeting the appetite from new tenants. The e-commerce boom and port growth have helped shrink industrial vacancy to near zero percent in popular markets. Rents have increased at a record pace, with per-month costs for logistics centers increasing 5.6 percent in the Americas year-over-year, according to a recent report from real estate services firm CBRE.
Visit http://nreionline.com/industrial/conversion-wars-industrial-users-battle-office-developers-available-sites to view the full article online.
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