Weekend Wrap-Up: Competitive Socializing Takes Off, Florida's Property Insurance Market Struggles, and CRE Gets a Rate Reprieve

    [Competitive Socializing Proves a Boon for Retailers Post-Pandemic]( [Real estate loves anything you can throw, putt, toss or hit. Call it fun as an inflation hedge.](   [Florida’s Property Insurance Market Confronts a Pivotal Hurricane Season]( [Premiums are spiraling and insurers are going out of business as the state scrambles to fill more of the void.](   [Federal Reserve Boosts Commercial Real Estate With Pause in Rate Hikes]( [After 10 straight interest rate hikes, the Federal Reserve opted to pause its hawkish inflation-fighting strategy.](   [Famed Chef Enrique Olvera to Open Taco Eatery in Williamsburg]( [A new taco restaurant from superstar chef Enrique Olvera is headed to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this fall.](   [Museum of Ice Cream to Open Permanent Miami Location]( [Museum of Ice Cream first came to the Magic City in 2017.](   [Don Peebles Discusses How Far Black Real Estate Development Has Come]( [The developer also talks about the difference between building in New York and L.A.](   [LA Housing Department Negotiating 300K-SF Lease at Gas Company Tower]( [The Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) is moving its offices to the Gas Company Tower with a 300,000-square-foot lease across 13 floors.](   [JLL CTO Yao Morin Talks Data and Technology Strategy for CRE]( [And how Snoopy led her from China to getting a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in Minnesota.](   [Military Coworking Space Reveille Grounds to Open in Baltimore]( [Reveille Grounds, a coworking space for active military, veterans and their loved ones, has inked a 6,772-square-foot lease at Gaslight Square in Baltimore.](   [Crowell & Moring Inks 200K-SF Lease at Former Metro HQ Redevelopment]( [A joint venture between the Rockefeller Group and Stonebridge closed on a 99-year ground lease with Metro to redevelop 600 Fifth Street NW, the 400,000-square-foot former Metro headquarters in D.C.](   To forward this newsletter to a friend, [click here](. To manage your email preferences or unsubscribe [click here](. Visit the [Commercial Observer]( for the latest commercial real estate news. For advertising information, [download the media kit](. © Copyright 2023 [Observer Media]( 1 Whitehall Street, Floor 7, New York, NY 10004 This newsletter was published 06/17/2023. [View this email in a browser](.