Weekend Wrap-Up: CRE's Go-To Economist, NYC's Housing Commissioner On New Development, Fighting Rats With Trash Bins, and More

    [How Sam Chandan Became the Go-To Economist for CRE’s Elite]( [The New York University academic — with a degree in epidemiology to boot — has also cut a trail for LGBTQ professionals in the field.](   [NYC Housing Commissioner Adolfo Carrión On Development, the Migrant Crisis and More]( [The head of Housing Preservation and Development says incentives similar to 421a are essential for satisfying New York's demand for housing.](   [Rat-Weary NYC Orders Trash Bags Inside Containers. Restaurants Ask ‘But How?’]( [New rules that would eliminate the city’s festering mounds of trash bags piling up outside food establishments are set to take effect soon.](   [Sports Attorney Irwin Raij On How Messi’s Big Move Is ‘Electric’ for Miami]( [Sidley Austin partner Irwin Raij discusses the Inter Miami negotiations for the Miami Freedom Park development, the team's future stadium.](   [Three Major Life Sciences Projects Charging Along Despite Headwinds]( [New York City’s life sciences industry still has a lot of runway even with a slowdown in leasing and financing challenges.](   [Inside Architecture Firm FXCollaborative’s New Brooklyn Office]( [Airy, collaborative and bright: Here's what happens when the architect is on both sides of the blueprints.](   [Commercial Real Estate Gets Some Good News in City Council Primary]( [Two of the biggest impediments to real estate development in the New York City Council will be out of office next year.](   [Shifting Dynamics and Missing Political Figures in New York Real Estate]( [A new episode of "The Back Story" examines why elected officials did not feature prominently on Commercial Observer's Power 100 this year.](   [Sandy Sigal On Retail’s Resiliency and the Data Boom for Shopping Centers]( [‘Blockbuster was great until it wasn’t.’](   [Can Proptech Prevent Rental Scams?]( [Tech platforms are tackling the escalating fraud in the growing single-family rental space.](   To forward this newsletter to a friend, [click here](. To manage your email preferences or unsubscribe [click here](. Visit the [Commercial Observer]( for the latest commercial real estate news. For advertising information, [download the media kit](. © Copyright 2023 [Observer Media]( 1 Whitehall Street, Floor 7, New York, NY 10004 This newsletter was published 07/01/2023. [View this email in a browser](.