Jeff Vo

CRE Advice: Do your Due Diligence on #HVAC before signing a lease or purchasing a #CRE property. It's an expensive item to repair or replace. #COVID is highlighting health implications of air ventilation + filtration #CommercialRealEstate #DueDiligence

The Office Redesign Has Only Just Begun Plexiglass dividers and floor decals might not be permanent, but the pandemic will bring lasting change to offices. Experts from the architecture and real-estate industries share how they are getting back to work and what offices will look like in the future. https://on.wsj.com/335i9EV... #Pandemic #OfficeRedesign #CRE #CommercialRealEstate #Safety

A North San Jose office/R&D campus has adopted a new name and gotten a new mission as it becomes what the joint venture behind it is calling Silicon Valley's first dedicated life sciences project. Blue Rise Ventures and PCCP LLC are teaming up to convert the Valley Tech Centre into BioSquare Silicon Valley. The seven-building, 464,400-square-foot complex spans one side of Zanker Road between East Trimble and East Plumeria roads. The project has already secured its first tena...nt: San Jose BioCube, a life sciences incubator that has operated since 2004 in South San Jose. San Jose BioCube agreed to a 10-year lease for half of one of the seven buildings in the development, totaling 35,000 square feet. The company received a copy of the fully executed lease on Monday, it said in a Tuesday email. According to the joint venture, the development is intended to be a landing spot for small, medium, and large life science users. But perhaps more importantly, it would offer something that Bay Area life science tenants tend to have a hard time finding: the ability to grow and scale their footprints without needing to pick up and move. #CRE #NorthSanJose #lifescience #realestate #commercialrealestate #siliconvalley #valleytech

Jeff Bezos on why he started Amazon (founded July 5, 1994) to minimize regret: I want to have lived my life in such a way that when I’m 80 years old, I’ve minimized the number of regrets I have. #JeffBezos

If you’re a big #Apple fan as I am, I hope you’re not like me who missed the opportunity to invest in it. #Apple's initial public offering (IPO) was on December 12, 1980 $AAPL sold 4.6 million shares at $22/share on NASDAQ. That’s about 122,000% return today. ... In the biggest tech IPO of its day, 40 out of 1,000 Apple employees become instant millionaires. Steve Jobs ended the day with a net worth of $217 million. #investment #stock #stevejobs

[TECH TRENDS 2021] Covid-19 has rapidly changed the way business is done, from cloud transformation and cybersecurity to artificial intelligence and these trends are likely to continue into 2021. #techtrends #siliconvalley

10 Largest Shopping Malls In The World. These huge shopping malls are in millions of square footage. Imagine the updated Westfield Valley Fair with 2.2M square feet but 3 times bigger. Incredible. I say that’s a lot of exercise to do if you want window shopping. #shoppingmall #retailworld

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. @BillGates This is very important life and business advice. The biggest enemy of future success is arrogance, indifference and the unwillingness to learn, unlearn, relearn, change and grow.... #fridayinspiration

Retail is busy reinventing itself. The pandemic has impacted the global economy. Change is very never easy and smooth. Businesses that embrace the drastic environment see positive lights ahead. The notion that retail is dead is misinformed, said Mike Conway, VP of national accounts & retailer partnerships at the Cincinnati-based REIT. Rather, the industry is rising to the challenge and embracing change at a pace we’ve never before seen. It’s about meeting customers where they are, eliminating friction and creating custom experiences that consumers value. #CRE #Retail #CommercialRealEstate

Investor appetite for global real estate is gradually recovering as investors become accustomed to operating in the COVID-19 environment. #CRE #commercialrealestate #realestateoutlook

Incredibly sad to hear the passing of Tony Hseih of Zappos. He's such a great leader, entrepreneur and a compassionate person. Some years ago, I bought a book about Zappos to learn how Tony revolutionized the shoe industry business. Though I didn't finish, the book is undeniably inspirational. Throughout the years, I also read on articles about Tony, learning the way he run his business, inspired the people he works with in the company and built the customer-based relations...hip culture that become most admirable in the retail industry. Zappos was later acquired by none other than Amazon for an amazing $1.2b. Time to reflect and finish up the book about this amazing human being. Rest In Peace #TonyHsieh Tony Hsieh, Zappos Luminary Who Revolutionized the Shoe Business, Dies at 46 https://www.yahoo.com//tony-hsieh-zappos-luminary-revoluti

Sublease + Direct availability continue to rise... latest #COVID19 #SIP doesn't help either. Reports on #SiliconValley #CRE by Colliers

REPORT: SILICON VALLEY YTD LEASING ACTIVITY 46% OF LAST YEAR. Rise in vacancies near transit; unprecedented 18+ million square feet of space still under development #CRE #RealEstate #SiliconValley #commercialrealestate