Brandi Smith is a Digital Anchor at Yahoo News. She specializes in covering the construction and real estate sectors, with a focus on commercial real estate, real estate development, and the intersection of university research and campus life. Brandi's work has been featured in prominent outlets including KHOU 11, E! Networks, and Rice University.
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Chicago’s cold storage reset: Modern product rises as aging inventory lags
The former Caterpillar heavy equipment site in Will County will soon hum with a different kind of production. Hyundai Translead, the North American trailer manufacturing arm of the South Korean automotive giant, committed earlier this year to a $450 million investment that will spread across two Will County facilities including the previous Lion Electric operation site and create nearly 2,500 full-time jobs.
Jim Lake Jr.: Reimagining overlooked places through conviction and time
By: Brandi Smith
Trophy office rents in Dallas now average about $77 per square foot, more than double the roughly $37 per square foot landlords command in the rest of the Class A market, according to Cushman & Wakefield research. The spread between the two has grown from $25 to $40 per square foot since 2020 and national firms shopping Dallas from gateway markets like Manhattan are calling the trophy product cheap.
By: Brandi Smith
While commercial real estate delinquencies across the broader commercial mortgage-backed securities market have climbed past 6%, self-storage delinquencies have hovered around 0.1%, according to KBRA data cited by Shawn Hill, Principal and Founding Member of The BSC Group.
By: Brandi Smith
She might be advising a small bakery on a lease one moment and helping secure a gigawatt-sized data center the next. That range is not an outlier for Katie Van Dyk. It is the point.
2201 Creekview Drive (Photo courtesy of Cushman & Wakefield.)
By: Brandi Smith
When semiconductor logistics specialist Infinity Link Logistics signed for 87,000 square feet near Samsung’s Taylor plant in the first quarter of 2026, it joined a parade of suppliers chasing the chipmaker into Central Texas.
By: Brandi Smith
Liz Trocchio Smith did not leave corporate leadership because she had reached the end of her career. She left because she realized she had more to offer. After more than three decades in commercial real estate, including senior executive roles at Cushman & Wakefield, The Woodmont Companies and Hines, Trocchio Smith reached a personal inflection point. She had built companies, led offices and mentored countless professionals. What came next was not another title, but a new way to scale impact.
By: Brandi Smith
Most careers in commercial real estate have a single defining act. Martin Bronstein has built several.
