The Wilmington area's commercial real estate market thrived before the coronavirus pandemic led to a variety of closures to keep the virus from spreading more quickly. In the office, retail and industrial sectors, space in popular locations had been in demand.
 
For Tuesday's BizTalk, local commercial brokers Hansen Matthews, partner in Maus, Warwick, Matthews & Co., and Paul Loukas, broker in charge of Cape Fear Commercial, talked about the current state of the local commercial real estate industry, including the impact of coronavirus developments on landlords and tenants.
 
See the full conversation below.
 
For previous BizTalk videos, go to the Business Journal’s special section on coronavirus coverage here or our Facebook page.
 
Coming up the rest of this week:
 
On Wednesday, Novant Health physician David Schmitz, DO, joins us to talk about what it’s been like for health care providers on the frontline of the coronavirus treatment and patient care in general right now.
 
Thursday’s talk features regional economist Adam Jones with an overview about short- and long-term impacts of the area’s sudden slowdown.
 
And the week rounds out with a Q&A with Thomas Stith III, SBA director for North Carolina, on the latest on the Small Business Administration’s forgiveness loans to help struggling small-business owners.
 
(Note: Speakers could change depending on schedules. For the latest, keep an eye on the Business Journal’s Facebook page here.)