The COVID-19 pandemic has reframed how many consumers assess their financial standing. With an increase in job fluctuation, economic instability, and personal stressors impacting our everyday lives, it’s no surprise that our attitudes toward spending, saving, and considering our personal finances has rapidly evolved over the last year.

NELSON spotlights five changing consumer behaviors that are impacting the financial services sector and how you can better position your brand for the future.

As the world continues to adapt and change, we seek to understand what some of the more unseen impacts may be. Graphic design is incorporated into every aspect of our lives in ways we aren’t always consciously aware of. It will influence our environments post-pandemic by focusing on ways to communicate new rules and processes, providing clarity on expectations, establishing a sense of community, and creating continuity for the future. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new urgency to quickly set up and adapt both public and private space for temporary testing facilities (TTFs). To help our clients, communities, and nation minimize ongoing pandemic impacts, we have developed a set of best practices and insights to safely and efficiently establish a TTF.

Corix, a utilities company delivering solutions for sustainable water, wastewater, and energy infrastructure tapped NELSON Worldwide to create a new home for them, right in the heart of the Windy City. Read more here.

“Apprenticeship is huge. Architecture is the meld of art and science and many schools deal with the theory and design but only scratch the surface of the technical aspects. It’s really important that education continues at work—really diving into those projects, getting the experience of how buildings go together and the role technology plays is critical.” – Graham Lockridge Post

The architecture industry, like the legal industry, relies heavily on an apprenticeship model of training and was forced during the pandemic to learn on the fly about how that experience could be approximated in a virtual setting. Read more with Law.com here.

NELSON Worldwide, one of the top law firm designers in the country, is set to collaborate with global law firm Goodwin on its new office space, positioning Goodwin as the lead tenant at the newly unveiled West Tower, part of Schuylkill Yards, in Philadelphia.

Goodwin’s commitment to a 12.5-year lease for 31,500 square feet in the 28-story tower at 3025 John F. Kennedy Blvd comes nine months after establishing its presence in Philadelphia. This move underscores Goodwin’s dedication to the burgeoning Schuylkill Yards development and its commitment to being at the forefront of Philadelphia’s rapidly-evolving business landscape.

3025 JFK, a flagship component of Brandywine Realty Trust’s $3.5 billion master-planned neighborhood, dubbed Schuylkill Yards, includes 326 residential apartments, 200,000 square feet of office space, and additional amenities. Goodwin’s future occupancy of the entire eighth floor and a portion of the seventh floor signifies a strategic alignment with the vibrant life sciences and healthcare ecosystem in the area.

In partnership with Goodwin, NELSON Worldwide will harness the transformative energy of Schuylkill Yards to create an environment that inspires, empowers, and elevates the human experience.

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About NELSON Worldwide

NELSON Worldwide is an award-winning firm, boldly transforming all dimensions of the human experience through architecture, interior design, graphic design, and brand strategy. With more than 600 teammates across 20 offices, the firm’s collective network provides strategic and creative solutions that positively impact where people work, serve, play, and thrive. The team combines industry knowledge, service expertise, and geographic reach to deliver projects across the country and around the world. Client partnerships across the NELSON network include Hilton, Macy’s, Comcast, Simon Property Group, Prologis, Yum! Brands, Boston Consulting Group, T-Mobile, Emory Healthcare, SAP Fieldglass, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Kroger, Hyatt, Bayer, Target, and many more. Visit www.nelsonworldwide.com to learn more.

About Goodwin
We are in the business of building authentic, long-term relationships with our clients, who are some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs, and disruptors at the convergence of and within the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology, and financial industries. Our immersive understanding of these industries — combined with our expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions — sets us apart. To learn more about our global law firm, please visit www.goodwinlaw.com.

When Truist Securities announced it would move its longtime headquarters in Buckhead to a new tower in The Battery Atlanta — a few hundred feet from home plate — it underscored a common theme emerging in commercial real estate.

Read more with Atlanta Business Chronicle here.

While Atlanta’s industrial market remains flush with tenant demand, the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes are poised to finally cool off rampant new warehouse development in the region.

Read more with Bisnow here.