Walraven explained, “If we had a choice,
we prefer incentives versus mandated.”
She closed the webinar by pointing out
that larger Fortune 500 firms are embracing
green. “They are committed to sustainability
for recruitment, retention, HR strategy, and
cost savings from operations and from the
people side of the business,” she said. “They
are not waiting for studies to support that.
They see that it makes more sense.”—With
reporting by Natalie Dolce, GlobeSt.com
C&W Launches
Healthcare Group
Cushman & Wakefield has launched a
healthcare practice group, in response to
the evolving landscape of one of the
world’s largest and fastest growing industries. Based in New York City, the practice
brings together the experience of existing
C&W professionals from a variety of service disciplines—business consulting, valua-
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tion, investment sales, capital markets,
property management and brokerage—
who specialize in the various sectors of the
healthcare industry. Last year, C&W’s
healthcare valuation team alone performed
more than 1,200 valuation and consulting
assignments for property totaling more
than $2 billion in value.
C&W has structured the practice as an
association of four client service areas: senior housing and healthcare investments;
hospitals and healthcare practice groups;
healthcare payors, plans and specialty services; and medical/academic properties.
“When a $2.2-trillion industry experiences this degree of upheaval, the players
are challenged to maximize all economic
and operational efficiencies,” says Richard
Taylor, a member of the practice group’s
executive committee who is based in
McLean, VA. “When properly aligned with
a healthcare client’s business goals and requirements, real estate can be very effective
in mitigating some of the pressures associated with such changes.”
Along with Taylor, the eight-member executive committee includes Michael Berne,
based in Manhattan; Mark Gallagher,
based in Vancouver; Gary Glatter, also
based in McLean, VA; Gary Hooper, based
in Richmond, VA; Bryan Johnson, based in
Phoenix; Norman LeZotte, based in Atlanta; and Frank Nelson, based in Boston.
Further information on the practice group
can be found on C&W’s website at
www.cushmanwakefield.com/healthcare.
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BOROUGHS
By Natalie Dolce
Atlantic Yards
Case Goes To
Supreme Court
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, which
has brought more than a dozen lawsuits
against the Atlantic Yards mixed development project, has taken its case to the US
Supreme Court. Eleven property owners
and tenants have filed a petition asking the
court to hear their eminent domain appeal,
which was dismissed on Feb. 1 by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. DDDB says
