Real Property Asset Management

AT&T Case Study: How We Restructured Real Estate Operations by Lyle Garcia, International Director, AT&T Global Real Estate from Site Selection, June 1995. AT&T's retooling improved services while cutting costs.
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AT&T's Gary Decker: In-House Educator on the Fine Art of Corporate Real Estate Investment by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, August 1990. Decker discusses an ongoing educational process regarding corporate real estate at AT&T.
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Business Park Financial Conditions: It's Still a Buyer's Market by Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1991. Concessions galore are still common in many markets, say park officials. Meanwhile, the building of speculative facilities has essentially ground to a halt, and the development of new park space in general is hampered by a lack of funding.
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CRE 2000: Real Estate's New Way of Working by Joel Parker from Site Selection, December 1992. A multifaceted program to respond to the new paradigm in real estate is described.
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Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s Ken Philbrick: Working Smaller, Smarter and Very Internationally by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, February 1990. Successfully utilizing a two-man shop to identify real estate opportunities in over 120 countries, Philbrick sees the international arena as his field of value-added real estate dreams.
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Corporate Real Estate Can Be A Profit Center by Dr. Danny Lam and Dr. John Kanz from Site Selection, September 1998. High-tech veterans know that growth and profitability come in fits and starts until reliable product cycles are in place. One way to ensure future growth once profitability is achieved, is to manage real estate assets in such a way that they don't drain the organization's fuel tanks.
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Corporate Real Estate 2000 -- Management Strategies for the Next Decade by Michael L. Joroff from Industrial Development, August 1992. Joroff outlines the IDRF's research program on the new paradigm in corporate real estate.
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Ford Motor Land's Bob Jackson: High-Horsepower Development Meets High-Octane Corporate Real Estate by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, October 1990. The 33-year veteran of Ford Motor Co. discusses the history of corporate real estate at one of America's industrial giants.
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GE's Andy Karlbergs: Focusing Real Estate inside a Decentralized Corporate Culture by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, April 1991. Astute management of out-sourcing is a must.
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Institutionalization of Corporate Real Estate: What It Means by Mark Arend from Site Selection, September 1998. There is a run on corporate real estate in the world of REITs and other institutional investors, which is mostly good news for companies selling their facilities.
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Keep Your Real Estate Assets on the Right Track by Gerald E. Burg from Site Selection, July 1998. Only a regular, exhaustive review of real estate asset performance will ensure that facilities and their associated costs don't become an unnecessary drain on corporate resources.
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La Salle Partners' Mike Bell: Sharp-Eyed Insights from the Service-Provider Side by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, December 1990. With 17 years' prior experience in real estate at a Fortune 100 firm, Mike Bell brings a distinct dual perspective to corporate real estate services at La Salle.
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Planning the Unplannable: Strategic Facility Planning Models for Turbulent Environments by Joe Akinori Ouye, Ph.D., with Klaus Kramer and Glen Douglas from Industrial Development, August 1990. Strategic facility planning for high-tech firms requires different approaches than it does for traditional firms.
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Strategic Facilities Planning as a Component of the Business Plan by Sharon K. Mount from Industrial Development, August 1990. An effective strategic facility plan can help a company reach its financial and productivity goals.
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Strategic Facilities Planning: The Organizational Imperative by Carl Kane from Industrial Development, August 1990. Real estate managers must understand all aspects of the relationship between corporate strategy and the organization of real estate functions.
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Sun Microsystems' Klaus Kramer: Winning the High-Tech `Space Wars' with In-House Firepower by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, June 1990. Kramer uses a recently formed in-house corporate real estate/facilities group to bring home bottom-line benefits.
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The D&B Breakup: Stocks Up, Synergies Down, A Real Estate Reform Shadowed by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, February 1996. D&B's "cross-business synergies" bit the dust. What happened, and what now?
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The Out-Sourcing of Real Estate: Entrenched, Growing and Controversial by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, February 1991. A new Site Selection survey of corporate real estate executives reveals that out-sourcing has become an established element in much of the profession.
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UPS COO Jim Kelly: Bold Days for "Big Brown" by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, August 1995. Already the world package delivery leader, UPS just inked a new $1 billion deal with JC Penney. And its aggressive but costly European expansion is verging on a multi-billion dollar payback.
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USG Corp.'s Jack Brophy: "You Either Love Real Estate or You Hate It." by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, August 1991. Brophy talks about winning in a real estate world buffeted by change.
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UTC's Ken Rankin: Centralized Real Estate in a Decentralized Corporate Culture by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, December 1991. As he readies to enter retirement, Rankin recounts how he centralized the United Technologies real estate function.
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Xerox Corp.'s Arun Daga: Rethinking Real Estate as a Strategic Force by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, October 1991. Daga is implementing an ambitious strategic plan which will firmly position facilities in the Xerox business-planning loop.
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