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Employees are adjusting well to working from home during the pandemic and remain amazingly productive.

COVID, with casual dining and a lot of other sectors, has accelerated the problems that the weaker players had to a large extent, says Boulder Group president Randy Blankstein.

Sean Raft will utilize his work with Urban Catalyst to assist the group in addressing the legislative and economic issues, relevant to Opportunity Zones.

According to Cushman & Wakefield, the downturn will be intense and short-lived, bringing a certain but nominal decrease in office activity.

Completing a $1.5 million lease expansion, the company will occupy Gladstone Commercial Corporation's entire 103,000-square-foot, class-A office building.

The new report from KPMG predicts that bankruptcies by retailers will at least double in 2020, as the COVID-19 closures "intensify the Darwinian struggle for survival that has already been under way."

The car repair giant's initial focus for adding new locations will be in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Georgia, Texas and Arizona.

The company's head of global real estate says that Microsoft isn't in any rush to get employees back into offices. But when they do return the goal is to work in team rooms and "neighborhoods," with appropriate social distancing.