Q1 2021 | Trade and Industry Development

Q1 2021

Trade & Industry Development Magazine

Q1 2021

Trade & Industry Development’s 15th Annual Corporate Investment/Community Impact Awards (CiCi Awards) issue honors key projects around the country that promise—through extensive capital investment or influential community impact—to help shape the communities in which they are located, and in which they continue to develop and grow. Read about our 30 winners in our CiCi Awards coverage starting on page 12. This issue also has three special reports: finding the best location for a corporate HQ (even in a pandemic), short-term realities and the commercial real estate long game, and workplace flexibility in the twenty-first century.

In this issue

Workplace Flexibility: Getting to the Other Side of COVID-19

BY: Megan Spinos

2020 was a year of relentless uncertainty, and that uncertainty has extended into the real estate world to our expectations about the future of workplace occupancy patterns. The task ahead for property owners and employers is to successfully negotiate an environment that will almost certainly continue to evolve, perhaps returning more quickly than expected to something like a pre-COVID normal. more....