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Zoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.
Dror Poleg • Dror’s Substack | Substack
Meredith Clausen similarly describes the Roth’s in her history of the Pan Am building:
A large measure of the firm’s success was due, as Richard Roth was later bluntly to explain in his essay, “High-Rise Down to Earth,” to their aim “not to create masterpieces” but to provide buildings that worked efficiently and economically for their clients: buil... See more
Brian Potter • Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Alfred Lin, former COO and CEO at Zappos,
Joseph Michelli • The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and WOW
Hodari was the CEO of Industrious, a WeWork competitor with a large presence in the second-tier American cities that Neumann was only just getting into.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Equity firms will do ‘co-living rollups’ to form networks. Branding, booking, accounting and other services will be consolidated.
drurly • Co-Living: Sharing Economy, Downsizing, Experiences
Shlomo Silber, who ran a coworking space called Bond Collective—
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
On affordable housing