Blue Haus Group

10/29/2024

The 2025 Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Report is here!

Curious about the top real estate trends, data insights, and key metropolitan areas to watch? This comprehensive report by PwC and the Urban Land Institute highlights the market dynamics that will shape the commercial real estate landscape in 2025 and beyond — featuring insights from over 2,000 industry experts.

12/12/2023

Recently held a program on Office to Residential conversions and was featured in “The Real Reporter” which covers most of the Boston Market.

We had a great panel from organizations including Leggat McCall, Synergy, BPDA and Gensler.

BOSTON – With Downtown Boston office occupancy hovering around 20% and offices half-filled as the flexible work model becomes more deeply entrenched in the workplace, much of Boston’s older Class B and C stock appears doomed to become “zombie” buildings. This is not only bad news for owners ...

12/11/2023

Happy to have Blue Haus Group featured in ICSCs recent article for our work in Hartford.

Retail property has had its reckoning with oversupply, and after decades of apocalyptic narratives, brick-and-mortar retail has emerged, well, in demand.

12/11/2021

happening today 12/11/21!
Head down to see 3rd show…Blossom 3 at on Allyn Street in Hartford.

12/10/2021

Nine years after Hurricane Sandy, residents of Lower Manhattan are still vulnerable to rising seas. The fight over a plan to protect them reveals why progress on our most critical challenges is so hard.

11/30/2021

An expansion (structurally) on what we were working to create on Pratt Street with our WiDistrict concept.

With the laptop revolution in the early 21st century, the way people work, study, and communicate has changed radically. If in the past most of the work took place inside offices and studies in classrooms, today work meetings in cafes or studies for exams in public gardens are a matter of routine. M...

11/28/2021

What factors make pedestrian only streets more/or less successful? Read more here.

Car-free shopping streets swept many U.S. cities in the 1960s and ’70s, but few examples survived. Those that did could be models for today’s “open streets.”

11/28/2021

Floor plans and Urban history…a good thread for a chilled evening.

Sign up to get an email every time we publish a new story in this series by clicking “Follow This Storythread” above. To understand a city, start with the foundation. Floor plans from homes around the world explain how the way we live has shaped the design and architecture of urban neighborhoods...

11/11/2021

We are all in on this concept. Who wouldn't want to live near an "inner forest"...

Cities and forests may seem like unlikely allies but their futures are becoming increasingly more interlinked. Here’s a look at how cities across the world are managing forests across multiple scales to improve the quality of life for their residents.

11/09/2021

The question persists.

Decades ago, the federal highway boom tore apart historically Black neighborhoods across the U.S. The legacy of this racist federal transportation policy continues to define urban spaces, even as some cities look to reconnect these communities.