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Article: New technology bewilders `technophobic' commercial real estate industry.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- June 22, 2000
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Visitors to the Realcomm trade show in Dallas this week are being greeted with a sea of computer monitors instead of the usual office building models, photos of proposed shopping centers and construction displays.
The maze of exhibits hawking high-tech software and real estate Web sites is enough to confuse even the most experienced commercial builders and property agents.
And even the most gung-ho e-commerce execs agree that the commercial real estate sector is a tough sell for tech companies.
"It's probably the most technophobic industry we know of," said Xavier Menendez, a senior manager with Deloitte & Touche.
The often befuddled ...