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Invest in Ohio Business Parks: Location & Strategy Playbook

Jorge Matiz, June 9, 2025June 3, 2025

You know, Ohio’s economy? It’s honestly experiencing this powerful resurgence right now. Driven by innovation, smart strategic investments, and a solid renewed focus on manufacturing and technology. This surge is creating genuinely fertile ground for commercial real estate investment. And, really, at the heart of this big opportunity lie Ohio’s business parks. They’re evolving beyond simple industrial zones, you know? Into these vibrant hubs of commerce and innovation, offering astute investors potentially really lucrative returns.

For over quite a few years now, I’ve been deeply immersed in this Ohio commercial real estate landscape. Helping clients navigate its complexities, capitalize on emerging opportunities. In this article, I want to share my insights into the Ohio business park market specifically. Provide actionable guidance. Help you identify, evaluate, and invest in properties that truly align with your financial goals. Consider this your expert guide, your playbook, to unlocking the full potential of Ohio’s investment frontier.

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The Architecture Effect: How Design Shapes Your Life, Health, and Community

Jorge Matiz, May 22, 2025May 22, 2025

Everyday Architecture: The Background of Our Lives Stop for a minute and just think about the places you spend your time every single day: your apartment, your workplace, even the route you take to get around. Do you ever really pause to think about how these walls, these spaces, influence…

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Urban Co-living design

The Rise of Co-Living Spaces: Building Community, Brick by Brick (and Beyond!)

Jorge Matiz, April 25, 2025April 25, 2025

The way we live, you know, how we work, who we connect with – it’s all changing so fast. And our homes? They need to keep up! Remember when a white picket fence was the ultimate goal? Now, people are craving something deeper: A place to belong, a way to…

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Urban Zoning Laws

The Impact of Zoning Laws on Architectural Innovation

Jorge Matiz, April 21, 2025April 25, 2025

I still remember pitching my ambitious design for a community center – a building designed to practically breathe with passive solar heating and a clever rainwater harvesting system. The planning board’s reaction? Let’s just say it wasn’t exactly a standing ovation. I was met with this wall of non-compliant issues:…

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Cars, Parking and Planetizen: A Mess of Externalities

Randall Crane, August 5, 2010April 25, 2025

Planetizen has two early July 2010 essays and two comments on road and parking externalities and subsidies that are as good examples as any of (a) how fundamental the concepts of externality and subsidies are to evaluating public policy and (b) how hard they are to explain, or even understand….

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  • Invest in Ohio Business Parks: Location & Strategy Playbook
  • The Architecture Effect: How Design Shapes Your Life, Health, and Community
  • The Rise of Co-Living Spaces: Building Community, Brick by Brick (and Beyond!)
  • The Impact of Zoning Laws on Architectural Innovation
  • Cars, Parking and Planetizen: A Mess of Externalities

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