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July 1, 2002
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Wal-Mart's Next Frontier?
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., whose discount emporiums have become a fixture of the rural and suburban landscape, is now looking for growth in urban markets,...
OWNERS: PREOCCUPIED WITH OCCUPANCY
WHAT KEEPS SENIOR OPERATING OFFICERS of the nation's largest office REIT awake at night? In a word occupancy. If you look at our industry, there is some...
DEVELOPERS: AN EXPANDING EMPIRE
DESPITE THE ECONOMIC HAILSTORM of recent months, office development giant Hines has emerged relatively unscathed. And for good reason. Since the early...
OWNERS: PURSUING INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
THIS PAST SPRING, ProLogis' (NYSE: PLD) European Properties Fund purchased a 1.8 million sq. ft. portfolio of four distribution centers in France from...
DEVELOPERS: DEALING WITH THE DOWNTURN
WHEN NATIONAL REAL ESTATE Investor compiled its annual survey of the largest industrial developers this year, Atlanta-based IDI assumed its familiar spot...
DIRECT LENDERS: BIGGER WACHOVIA SEEKS BIGGER SHARE
THE SEPTEMBER 2001 MERGER OF WACHOVIA and First Union has not only created a banking giant Wachovia Corp. with 20 million customers and $322 billion in...
INTERMEDIARIES: GROWTH SPURT CONTINUES FOR GMAC
AFTER ORIGINATING $19.3 BILLION in real estate loans in 2001 and claiming the No. 2 spot on NREI's Top Financial Intermediaries survey, GMAC Commercial...
READY TO POUNCE
IF ANY PERIOD COULD BE CONSIDERED THE WORST OF TIMES for a company, it would be the fourth quarter of 2001 for Host Marriott Corp. (NYSE: HMT). Like its...
Developments
Counting on a Rebound
Loews Hotels has just opened its third and biggest resort in the land of theme parks. A few months ago, prospects for another 1,000-room hotel in the...
NEED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS RISING
A new report by the Millennial Housing Commission confirms what advocates of affordable housing have claimed: More Americans are finding it impossible...
TAMPA THE CULTURE MECCA. REALLY.
Tampa, a city of 2.3 million located on Florida's Gulf Coast, is known for football, beaches and urban sprawl. Now the city wants to be known for its...
APARTMENT OWNERS: A BOOM YEAR
NO COMPANY ENJOYED A MORE DYNAMIC YEAR in 2001 than New York-based Related Capital Co., according to the National Multi Housing Council's (NMHC) annual...
APARTMENT MANAGERS: A YEAR OF GROWTH
LAST YEAR WAS A VERY ACTIVE ONE FOR ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-based Archstone-Smith (NYSE:ASN) and that is reflected in the REIT's performance in the National...
Columns
High Anxiety
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE OF US WHO DON'T WORK IN SIGNATURE, high-rise office buildings to fully comprehend the feelings of anxiety and vulnerability...
Features
CHARTING INDUSTRY TRENDS
U.S. HOTEL/REVENUES San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., experienced the most dramatic decline in revenue per available room (RevPAR) nationally last year....
MID-YEAR MARKET REPORT
HALFWAY THROUGH THE YEAR, Enrique Wong has completed just seven deals about half of what he did during the first six months of 2001. Investors, owners...
FOLLOWING THE MONEY
FOR CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD INC., THE key to global growth is the one-two punch of strategy and the infrastructure to support it. And that approach has helped...
Articles
NEWS BRIEFS
BOSTON'S ONE LINCOLN STREET TOPS OUT Commercial real estate executives and city officials celebrated the topping out of One Lincoln Street downtown Boston's...
NAMES IN THE NEWS
STEVEN SWERDLOW has been named president of global corporate services for CB Richard Ellis. Swerdlow joined the Los Angeles-based firm in 1990 as the...
GOING GLOBAL
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENTS ARE GETTING bigger these days, and they're taking on more of an international flavor. Take two of the major deals Chicago-based...
WESTFIELD'S SHOPPING SPREE
AFTER GOBBLING UP NEARLY TWO DOZEN shopping centers in less than a year, Westfield America, a subsidiary of Westfield America Trust, shows no signs of...
The Move to Sale-leasebacks
SALE-LEASEBACK PROVIDERS are preparing for a rush of new business. These transactions, already estimated to represent a market of $6 billion per year,...
THE EXPERTS: No Bounce in CMBS This Spring
IF MAY IS ANY INDICATION, commercial-mortgage players should have plenty of time to hit the beach this summer, according to the Barron's/John B. Levy...
THE EXPERTS: New Taxes: Coming to a State Near You?
WITH MANY STATE governments facing a budget crisis, a real possibility exists that commercial real estate operators could be targeted for new taxes. Despite...
THE EXPERTS: Enron's Legacy: More Scrutiny
THE RAPID FINANCIAL COLLAPSE of Enron, driven in part by the company's use of off-balance-sheet, special-purpose entities (SPEs) and lack of financial...
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Green Shoots
Commercial Real Estate's Green Building Blog
Get latest news, data and analysis of the rapidly evolving commercial real estate green building industry. Gain insight on green leases, valuations, financing, and government regulations and incentives for new and existing buildings.
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The Alter Group
Larry Armstrong on Architecture in a Recession
Larry Armstrong, President, Ware Malcomb, an international architecture firm, says that in times of recession, survival is dependant on having a strong strategic plan in place and creating functional work vs. extravagent projects to meet clients' needs...
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Charles Krawitz on the Credit Crisis
Charles Krawitz, Senior Loan Sales Asset Manager of Fifth Third Bank, discusses the current state of the small to medium sized loan and the general capital markets. Topics include tapping Freddie and Fannie loans, and the government expanding their credit facility via the SBA.
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Reinventing Space
This Webcast looks at tips for how empty space can be used in a way that generates foot traffic and cash flow. We explore strategies and incorporate real-life examples of what some creative owners and retailers have done to weather the weak retail environment and keep dark space from harming healthy retailers that are operating.
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