Access to playgrounds is one of the amenities apartment renters have a new appreciation for after schools and day care centers closed during the pandemic. (Getty Images)



In case you missed the headlines, here’s a roundup of top national commercial real estate stories reported by the CoStar News team over the past week. 

On Second Thought: Renters Make Sharp Reversal on Apartment Preferences: In order to better understand how apartment tenant preferences are changing, CoStar analyzed the impact of unit sizes, apartment type and amenities on rent levels. 

WeWork CEO Says Businesses Need Hub-and-Spoke Offices for NowThe chief executive of WeWork, the flexible office space provider, said workers are suffering from what’s been called “Zoom fatigue” after nearly seven months of the working-from-anywhere phenomenon and are ready to go back to the office. But he said flexibility and safety still loom large as barriers to the pre-pandemic definition of the office.

A Costco Made Into an Amazon Hub Sells in One of LA's Priciest Industrial Deals of Decade: A former big box store that is being renovated into a warehouse hub for e-retail giant Amazon in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, California, sold in one of the most expensive industrial deals in the region since 2010.

Regency Centers, Alexandria Launch Retail-Life Science Center ExperimentRetail landlord Regency Centers is teaming up with the nation's largest life science property manager, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, in what could be the first of many retail-biotech developments across the country.

How a Developer Turned a Scrap of Land Into a Showpiece: Key Development's guiding ethos is what the company describes as "a workable paradox": to develop buildings that "fit into the surroundings while also standing out." The challenging site logistics of a recent project made Key's philosophy a literal truth.

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