Building opportunity – Boyes Group realty incorporated

Research methodology The case was written based on personal interviews with Jordan Boyes. Case overview/synopsis Boyes Group, a private real estate brokerage in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, had been growing rapidly. Company founder Jordan Boyes needed to determine where to continue expanding. Saskatoon held great potential in home building, and he wondered if this would be a direction for his company. His real estate reputation was excellent, but he wondered if building homes would jeopardize his current relationships with local builders. He wanted to move fast, to avoid giving up market share to his competitors. Complexity academic level This case was designed for undergraduate and graduate classes in strategy.

How the Widespread Presence of Historical Private Real Estate Can Contribute to Local Development

For decades, historical assets have been considered, particularly real estate, as a heritage to be conserved, but limiting the use to museums. The concept of enterprise was considered far removed, if not an indication of the dangerous commodification of the aforementioned assets. On the one hand, the emergence of an ever-increasing demand for cultural services connected to this patrimony, and, on the other hand, the increasing difficulties in finding adequate resources for the conservation of the latter, have pushed a greater number of operators to take into consideration the instrument of cultural industry, the latter whose goal is to secure resources for the maintenance of the artistic historical patrimony by exploiting the potential of the same. Italy is an important test for this challenge, because it can count on an intense pool of historical and artistic heritage, that is unique and unrivalled in the world. In this paper, therefore, we try to relate the investments necessary for the conservation and enhancement of the Italian private historical real estate assets, with the concentration of the aforementioned in certain realities and with the current local economic development of cultural and creative industries. The cross analysis shows clearly how the enhancement of private real estate assets is particularly relevant in smaller cities and can represent a stimulus for a specific economic, social and cultural growth model. However, this opportunity at the local level is unfortunately not always cultivated, therefore, we call for a comprehensive set of structural, long-term interventions in the sector, both at national and supranational level, for not only economic but social revival of private historical heritage.

Views from the Field: Economic Development Practitioners’ Perceptions About Public-Private Real Estate Partnerships

Survey data and a series of ordinal logistic regression models are used in this study to determine if individuals employed in different economic development capacities exhibit perceptual congruence or perceptual dissonance about public-private real estate partnerships in ways that are consistent with growth machine theory. The results offer some evidence that this is the case by showing that economic development practitioners employed by local governments view the potential advantages and disadvantages of these partnerships in much the same way as hypothesized members of pro-growth coalitions, while having significantly different views than their peers employed by higher levels of government. At the same time, the perceptual congruence observed between economic development practitioners employed by local governments and representatives of socially oriented nonprofit organizations raises interesting questions about the role members of the latter group play in growth machine politics in an era where federal support for community development and affordable housing programming continues to dwindle.