Loews Looks to Grow with Furbay
Troy Furbay has only been on the job five weeks, but he’s already got big plans with Loews Hotels. ...
CREW CEO Aims to Aid Women Parked at Vice President Level
Gail Ayers, the chief executive officer of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network, has set a goal of helping women executives in commercial real...
Building Owners Slam Window on Sky-High Energy Costs
In buildings across the country, owners watch in frustration as energy dollars fly out the window, through the cost of cooling and heating their properties. ...
Global Property Sales Soar in First Half of 2010 as U.S. Deals Rebound
A new report on global commercial property transactions shows that sales of major properties valued at $10 million or more surged in the first half by 75% compared with the same period in 2009. ...
Rents Rise in Trophy Retail Districts, But Will Tenants Pay?
Rents are rising in many of the nation’s best-known trophy retail districts. Of the 13 markets tracked in the U.S. and elsewhere in the Americas in a report by brokerage CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), seven posted rent increases in the past 12 months. ...
Stockbridge Capital's Steve Steppe Plans a Shopping Spree
Steve Steppe, managing partner of San Francisco-based Stockbridge Capital Partners, has made some expensive acquisitions since he left the chairmanship...
Rail-Volution in Real Estate
In San Francisco, a new streetcar line has been built to ferry riders to a 303-acre project set on an old rail yard site. With 6,000 planned residences,...
San Francisco's Bipolar Office Market Riding a High
Like the weather in San Francisco, where morning mists burn off in noontime sun only to be followed by rain and fog, the office market in this city is...
Betting on a Rebound
Rental rates in the San Francisco office market remain half of what they were in the boisterous dot-com days. But a surge in leasing activity has propelled...
