New York City restaurants have enough to worry about. Food costs. Labor. Rent. Deliveries. Customer reviews. Competition. Changing regulations. A mouse, cockroach or fly problem should not be added to that list. Yet recent New York City restaurant inspection records provide another reminder that pest problems are not simply unpleasant. They can become food-safety violations,
Yesterday we wrote about how destination restaurants are becoming part of the identity and leasing strategy of New York’s best office buildings. That creates opportunity. It also creates a management challenge. Once a restaurant is part of the building experience, pest control can no longer be treated as something that happens only inside the restaurant.
For years, the retail strategy at many New York office buildings was fairly straightforward: find a financially strong tenant, sign a long-term lease and collect the rent. A bank branch or national retailer could be a terrific credit tenant, even if nobody working upstairs viewed it as much of an amenity. That's changing. In a
The Alamo, Asphalt & Asset Managers: Previewing Our September Transportation Reports It’s the middle of summer and we’re already deep in (the heart of Texas) writing of our September BOMA Transportation Reports. The new editions are supersized (Hey McDonalds’ bring those back and Extra Value Meals too!) It has the usual suspects (new tolls, old
🦖 Jurassic Pests: Why Your Building Needs More Than an Electrified Fence “Life finds a way.” Unfortunately… so do pests. Your building deserves better than chaos theory. At Bell Environmental and Bell Bird Control, we believe that creature chaos should stay in the movies—not in your buildings. While we’re not worried about Velociraptors in your
