In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s important to view commercial real estate with the eye of a racer…

In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s important to view commercial real estate with the eye of a racer…
Business owners like you are natural born leaders. You makes things happen. If there’s a problem, you create a solution, if you face a challenge you lean into it and if your customers need help you find a way. That’s leadership and given the current circumstances, we need leaders like you to redouble those efforts.
For the past couple of weeks we have been focused on gathering information that will help us help you make some sense of out of the COVID-19 challenge, particularly how it will impact the direction of the commercial real estate market. A couple of quick thoughts:
Every dark cloud may not have a silver lining, but the coronavirus scare, which has the world in its grip for the moment, might be silvery indeed.
Fear of the unknown has sparked a strong reaction from the World Health Organization and our own Centers for Disease Control, roiling world markets and sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a 3,500-point tailspin.