The cranes dotting Madison’s skyline tell the story.

From downtown high-rises and mixed-use developments to new retail concepts and industrial projects, commercial real estate activity remains robust in Wisconsin’s capital city. Even as developers grapple with elevated construction costs and higher borrowing rates, industry professionals say Madison’s strong economic fundamentals continue to support growth across nearly every property sector.

“Demand for mixed-use development remains exceptionally strong throughout Madison and Dane County,” said Heather Ewing, founder and managing principal of Madison, Wisconsin-based ABSTRACT Commercial Real Estate.

According to Ewing, Downtown Madison Inc.’s development tracker currently lists more than 60 projects in various stages of planning, development, construction and delivery.

“Cranes are visible from nearly every vantage point in the downtown,”Ewing said. “It underscores the scale of ongoing investment.”

She said developers continue to gravitate toward projects that create walkable, higher-density environments emphasizing community gathering spaces, restaurants, public art and opportunities for social interaction.

Madison’s Realta Fusion is among a select group racing to turn plasma into clean energy

The nation's third-largest convenience store retailer is implementing a new three-year plan that will see it greatly expand its store footprint.

Iowa-based Casey’s General Stores Inc.’s new strategic plan is centered around three priorities: adding "at least" 400 new stores over the period, expanding its food and beverage offerings, and enhancing its operational efficiency by implementing new technology. Since introducing its last strategic plan in 2023, Casey's has opened more than 500 new stores and joined the S&P 500...

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Residents in Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft over noise during construction of the company's new data center. 

As data center projects face fierce opposition across the U.S., leaders at Microsoft and Oracle say the industry can no longer afford to be dismissive of local concerns.

Instead, developers and hyperscalers need to be proactive and change how data centers are designed and built to be more palatable to the growing number of communities into which the industry is expanding.

With the artificial intelligence building boom pushing large-scale data center development beyond the industry’s traditional footprint, local opposition is emerging alongside power availability as one of the sector’s biggest constraints...

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The Property Condition Assessment or PCA has served as the commercial real estate industry’s primary risk-management tool for decades. The methodology governing these assessments, specifically the ASTM E2018 standard, was last substantially revised in 2015. At that time, the protocols were calibrated to what a qualified professional could observe from ground level, a roof hatch, or the top of an extension ladder.

While those constraints were reasonable a decade ago, they represent a significant structural limitation in 2026. As transaction speeds accelerate and the density of building systems increases, the traditional manual walk-through is becoming an informational bottleneck that many institutional investors can no longer afford to ignore...

Large properties continue to face pricing challenges as investors favor amenity-rich assets, Yardi Matrix data shows.

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When Karen Tahler’s 62-year-old brother Raymond Soderberg started going blind due to a degenerative eye condition, she sought senior housing where he could receive the appropriate support. The process took more than three years. 

Tahler reached out to numerous private-pay facilities near her San Fernando Valley, California, home. Many were full, and the ones that weren’t charged between $7K and $10K per month. That was more than Tahler, the director of operations at Resolve Law Group, and her brother, a retired attorney, could afford.

“It was extremely draining and absolutely felt hopeless,” said Tahler, a 56-year-old mother of three.

In the efforts to bring tenants back to the office, coworking became king. Companies have spent millions of dollars building out office floors that prioritize the flexibility required for hybrid work.

Instead of sitting at the same desk every day, businesses could save money by allowing employees to touch down wherever they felt comfortable.

Executives at these office occupiers said at Bisnow’s New York Office Conference on Wednesday that it might have all been for naught...

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The Department of Homeland Security's plan to go on a $38.3B spree to acquire warehouses across the country and convert them into detention facilities is reversing course.

Now, the government agency wants to sell or give away seven out of the 11 facilities it spent $1B acquiring over the last year, marking the collapse of the most aggressive expansion of federal detention infrastructure in U.S. history.

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