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Nine Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today (Dec. 15, 2020) Small banks had a good year in 2020, reports the Wall Street Journal. Many businesses in California are at the breaking point amid new shutdown orders, according to The Guardian. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry. ‘The Best Year Ever:’ 2020 Was Surprisingly Good to Small Banks “When coronavirus closed businesses in Baltimore and its suburbs in the spring, Kevin Benson feared the worst for the small lender he runs—widespread defaults, anemic loan growth. Instead, Rosedale F...

Is It Time for LEED and Energy Star Programs to Be Updated? Blackstone’s chief sustainability officer says it's time to start collecting granular data about buildings’ sustainability performance. Don Anderson lauds the LEED and Energy Star programs as key drivers of the green building movement. But Anderson, chief sustainability officer and operating partner at the Blackstone Group, would like to see LEED and Energy Star capitalize on the mounds of data generated about building efficiency. LEED and Energy Star have helped form “an amazing foundation” for tracking, benchmarking and...