Yale Robbins goes from bricks to clicks with MrOfficeSpace.com."The best things in life are free and fast," Yale and Henry Robbins Rob·bins , Frederick Chapman 1916-2003. American microbiologist. He shared a 1954 Nobel Prize for work on the cultivation of the polio virus. decided, as they brainstormed for the best way to bring their 22-year real estate publishing company online. The result is the just-launched MrOfficeSpace.com, the comprehensive office space search site on the Web, with space listings from buildings accounting for over 400 million square feet of Manhattan Manhattan, indigenous people of North America Manhattan (mănhăt`ən), indigenous people of North America of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). office space, and base building information and photos for a total of more than 6,000 buildings across the U.S. -- representing more than 1.5 billion square feet. Henry and Yale have made the site absolutely free for all users. And they have given it time-saving time-saving adj → que ahorra tiempo time-saving adj → qui fait gagner du temps time-saving time adj → features that are quickly making it the most visited site for brokers, building owners and tenants evaluating the market or searching for space. The features include an easy, one-screen search and the ability to search for space by any criteria criteria (krītēr´ē  ),n. : size, rent, location, address. Users can also save their search criteria for future visits to the site. In fact, surfers
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Users can also edit To make a change to existing data. See update. (application) edit - Use of some kind of editor program to modify a document. Also used to refer to the modification itself, e.g. "my last edit only made things worse". and save space and building lists, e-mail their lists to others and access more complete building information than any other site offers. Every single building on MrOfficeSpace.com includes at least a single building photo. "MrOfficeSpace.com is easy and fast," said Henry Robbins. "Most people are like us; they don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. have a lot of time to wade through a lot of instructions and registration screens." In fact, even the lowest-tech of users will find the site so extremely easy to use, that they can complete their first search with just three clicks - from home page to search results. "MrOfficeSpace.com is the easiest site to use and has the most complete and accurate information online," said Yale Robbins. "We're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are placing calls to building owners and brokers and updating our site all day, every day. We've we've Contraction of we have. we've have been publishing this sort of information for 22 years, so we know that brokers and owners need accuracy and timeliness. Mr.OfficeSpace.com offers a wide variety of information about properties and listings, and even goes the extra step to provide information about the "space around the space." "People want to know more about the building, the neighborhood and the sub-market," said Yale. "We've included a map utility that allows users to see each building's location. And we have three years of detailed historical market statistics that users can access for free." Yale Robbins has put its entire database of commercial real estate information online, for free, at MrOfficeSpace.com. Every building photo and description from every national edition of Office Buildings magazine can now be accessed at the Web site in just one click. That adds up to more than 1.5 billion square feet of office space. At this stage, space listings are available for the 400 million square feet of property that MrOfficeSpace.com tracks in Manhattan. But the firm has plans to roll out in every one of the markets in which it is active. |
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