From DSC:
How do we best help folks impacted by these changes reinvent themselves? And to what? What adjustments to our educational systems do we need to make in order to help people stay marketable and employed?
Given the pace of change and the need for lifelong learning, we need to practice some serious design thinking on our new reality.
The amount of retail space closing in 2018 is on pace to break a record — from cnbc.com by Lauren Thomas
- Bon-Ton’s more than 200 stores encompass roughly 24 million square feet.
- CoStar Group has calculated already more than 90 million square feet of retail space (including Bon-Ton) is set to close in 2018.
- That’s easily on track to surpass a record 105 million square feet of space shuttered in 2017.