In the meantime developers came up with an idea to conodminimize an office park. When they started up in the very late 1970′s they became popular, then they fell out of favor for many years and then became wildly successful in the new century. Soon industrial condos came into being and also sold like wildfire.

Hotels have joined the condo bandwagon and now, the latest trend, retail condos. Take a look at this article regarding the new concept.

Let me know what you think about green buildings.

Retail buildings have been considered especially difficult to build green because of the multi-tenant aspect. Large tenants have very particular standards to meet for their corporate branding of each and every store. How could they conform to the same standards as all of their competitors? The answer is that it may not be easy but it’s getting there.

An article that sheds a great deal of light on retail green constructions is found the September, 2007 issue of Retail Traffic Magazine in an article entitled “California Greening“. It will tell you how far we have come and will be going.