"We have also added additional cleaning staff to disinfect all areas of the building multiple times throughout the day, focusing on high-touch areas," says Magellan Development's Brian Gordon.

The firm developed the guide based on its experience in moving 10,000 companies and nearly a million workers back into 800 million square feet of buildings in China.

In the current changing market, "normal" expectations are changing day by day.

Quisno says he is drawing on his previous retail and hospitality work for the sports and entertainment projects HPM is handling.

The venture has closed on its first land acquisition for the development of a proposed Class A, 429-unit apartment community in The Woodlands, Texas area

"Eventually, if we give them enough rope, they will be able to recapture some of that lost revenue and pay us back for the time we gave them," says Pebb Capital's Todd Rosenberg.

"We are weathering the storm right now and moving forward."

The principals at George Smith Partners knew that there would be very few deals at that juncture, so it was critical to their survival to be positioned as one the few capital market advisers that were still doing deals.