Lorena Tivadar
Lorena is a marketing communications specialist and writer at CommercialCafe. She discusses topics such as commercial real estate, office design & architecture, mental health, career development, marketing, and more with various industry experts/ professors through interviews and expert roundups. You can reach out to her at [email protected].
Expert Insights: Meagan McCollum on the 2023 Office Market
For our latest installment of the Expert Insight Series, we had the pleasure of speaking with Meagan McCollum, assistant professor of finance at the University of Tulsa. Meagan…
Expert Roundup: Designers Discuss Commercial Interior Design Sector & Trends for 2023
Due to the pandemic, going to your workplace in the last couple of years might have been difficult. COVID-19 certainly changed the way office spaces are being designed…
Expert Insights: Sara Malek Barney Discusses Office Interior Design
For this installment of our Expert Insights series, we sat down with Sara Malek Barney, founder and principal interior designer of BANDD/DESIGN Studio in Austin, Texas. A University…
Expert Insights: Christine Mastandrea Discusses Texas Commercial Real Estate
For our latest expert interview, we discussed the Texas commercial real estate market with Christine Mastandrea, adjunct professor in management – real estate at the Jones Graduate School…
Experts Discuss the 4-Day Work Week
By now, we can safely say that the last two years have completely transformed our ideas of work/life balance and made us rethink what it will look like…
Expert Insights: J. Andrew Hansz on Texas CRE, COVID Impact and More
J. Andrew Hansz, Ph.D., CFA, MAI (non-practicing) holds the Gould/Mayfield Professorship in the Department of Finance and Real Estate, College of Business, the University of Texas at Arlington…
Mental Health Experts Discuss Anxiety of Returning to In-Person Workplaces
At the beginning of 2020, we had no idea how much our lives would soon change and how many challenges we would have to overcome. Two years ago,…
2022 U.S Office Market: Expert Outlooks
We’ve witnessed some major changes in the last couple of years due to the COVID-19 pandemic — and the office market is no different. So, as people slowly…
Expert Insights: William G. Hardin Discusses the Office Market Trends in 2022
For our latest interview in the Expert Insights series, we had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Hardin about the trends and predictions for the office market in…
Experts on What 2022 Will Bring in Commercial Interior Design
In the last two years, office workers have increasingly shifted to working for home. As a result, most of the office spaces around the world were left empty…













