Ben Blumenthal

3 Ways to Leave Your Space Prior to Lease Expiration

Businesses evolve over time but your office lease generally does not. As a tenant, changing business needs and economic environments may put pressure on your business needs that will not always... [Read more...]

3 Tips to Improve Satisfaction and Productivity in Your Office

Once you have selected the next home for your business, it’s time to consider the ways in which you can best optimize satisfaction and productivity. The path toward optimization requires careful... [Read more...]

How To: Open-plan Office Space

Open-plan office space is on the rise, and studies revealing the deleterious impact of open-plan office space on employees are on the rise as well. Ideally, open-plan spaces would offer not only... [Read more...]

It's Ben Franklin's World, We're Just Living in It

What’s the single best way to improve a business? That may sound like a silly, gimmicky question, but there’s actually one very real answer to it, and I’m not even going to make you sit and read this... [Read more...]

Real Estate Escalations

While it's a fact of life that your rent is going to escalate every year, getting stuck in a lease with horrendous escalations is avoidable. There are a range of formulas that are used to calculate... [Read more...]