The Kenwood Blog
Here's the place to read up on the latest trends, on our commercial real estate expertise, and opinions on current events and developments in the Minneapolis Office Market. We'll post frequently, listing each blog post with a short description below. Come back for more!
The right submarket can strengthen your ability to hire, reduce costs, and position your business for growth. The wrong one can quietly tax your operation for years.
The magic of an Request For Proposal (RFP) process is that it creates a structured, time-bound environment. Every landlord on your list knows they're competing.
What actually determines whether a building works for your operation lives mostly in the specs — the numbers and systems that don't present themselves on a tour.
Don't default to the cheapest option without understanding the non-financial factors that will affect your business every single day for the life of the lease.
The letter of intent — universally called the LOI — is one of the most important, and least understood, documents in a commercial real estate transaction.
There is a version of a commercial real estate search that goes smoothly, and a version that is driven entirely by the fact that you're running out of time.
Calculating how much industrial space your business needs is both more straightforward and more technical than office space planning.
One of the most common — and misjudged — questions in commercial real estate: how much office space does your company actually need?
When businesses budget for office or industrial space, they almost always anchor to one number: the base rent. But that's misleading.
Leasing office space and leasing industrial space are two very different things, and they operate by two different sets of rules.