After a transformational year for commercial real estate, NREI is changing as well. A year that has doled out adversity and misery as if it were Halloween candy is ending at its darkest moment of all. As we reach the end of 2020, the U.S. is registering more than 200,000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 3,000 deaths on many days. We are about to have a holiday week when many of us will be unable to spend time with our friends and families. And many of us lost people we loved or know people that are struggling with the myriad long-term health conditions that COVID-19 is leaving in its wake.