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November 1, 2005
Developments
Oh, Canada! Brokerage Empire Expands
Cushman & Wakefield extended its 12-year affiliation with Royal LePage Commercial in September by outright purchasing the dominant Canadian real estate...
Q & A
As development activity heats up in the select-service hotel sector, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is stepping up plans to roll out its new affordable...
Commercial Projects Flow into Austin's Waterfront
Texas' capital city is poised to convert a 19th century residential neighborhood into a 30-acre addition to its Central Business District, and two high-rise...
In Progress: The Orchard Town Center
DEVELOPER: Forest City Enterprises Inc., Calthorpe and Associates and The Mulhern Group, master plan developers, and Elkus/Manfredi Ltd. design architects....
DEALS & PROJECTS
THE NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF., office of Lee & Associates has negotiated the sale of the Optum Building in Costa Mesa, Calif., for $10.15 million to Brinderson,...
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
BLOOMINGTON GROUP LLC AND POLARIS REAL ESTATE EQUITIES have announced plans to develop a $70 million mixed-use urban development called Shelburne Plaza...
Is Bigger Really Better for a Philly Office REIT?
Few investors and analysts applauded when Brandywine Realty Trust announced its acquisition of Prentiss Properties in October. During the first three...
NAMES IN THE NEWS
KEVIN KOWALSKI has been named regional director of the new Miami office of Investment Real Estate Associates (IREA). Kowalski will oversee IREA's expansion...
City Within A City Rising in Las Vegas
Bobby Baldwin, president and CEO of Mirage Resorts Inc. is tired of Las Vegas kitsch. We're about all themed out, he says. We've got Egyptians, pirates...
Columns
Downsizing Grocery Stores: A recipe for success?
Our November cover story, Appetite for Risk, tries to answer this fundamental question: How can traditional supermarket chains survive the onslaught of...
Are Your Overtime Pay Practices In Check?
Ever since the U.S. Department of Labor's new overtime regulations went into effect in August 2004, businesses across industry lines have been re-examining...
Features
An Appetite for Risk
Over the years, grocery-anchored centers built a reputation as the most rock-solid type of retail real estate investment that throws off steady returns...
A Developer's Dream: Midscale Hotels
Abuilding boom is under way in the limited-service hotel sector, also known as midscale without food or beverage. Approximately 25,800 rooms are under...
Will Rise in Foreclosures Derail the Housing Market?
These days the political consensus seems to be that everyone deserves the American Dream, no matter what the cost. Record-high home ownership rates seem...
Strategies
Transparency at Last
Beth Burnham Mace spends a little more time in her Boston office these days, thanks to a new research tool that reduces her need for site visits to assess...
Articles
WEATHER UPDATE: NOAA'S NEW OFFICES GO GREEN WITH DESIGN/BUILD APPROACH
Real estate developer Opus East LLC of Rockville, Md., has signed a 13-year lease agreement with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) for development...
Guarding Against Blight
Forsyth County, Ga., is a booming, affluent soccer-mom suburb of Atlanta, where BMWs crowd the community's bustling Wal-Mart parking lots. Forsyth County's...
A Flipper's Paradise
An insatiable demand for commercial real estate is prompting investors to put new acquisitions back on the selling block a practice known as flipping....
Bidding Wars Raise Stakes
MetLife Inc. had an ulterior motive when it purchased the 1.5 million sq. ft. One Mellon Center in Pittsburgh earlier this summer for $185 million: The...
A New Twist on Unlisted REITs
The unlisted REIT sector is getting crowded. A field that consisted of just four firms in 2003 is now teeming with more than two dozen and the ranks are...
When the Chips Are Down
Growing up along the Gulf Coast, commercial real estate developer Jerry Wallace had hunkered down for more storms than he cared to remember. But the ominous...
Harbor Magic Spreads In City of Firsts
On the former site of oil storage tanks in East Baltimore, a 17-story tower rises at the center of what will be a sprawling $1 billion project to include...
Lending Questions Arise in Wake of Hurricanes
The disparate damage estimates surrounding Hurricanes Katrina and Rita indicate the challenges commercial loan servicers face in evaluating the adverse...
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Photo Galleries
Hudson Yards Development
Check out images for Coach's new global headquarters, which will anchor the initial tower of the Eastern Rail Yards site within the 26-acre mixed-use Hudson Yards Development on Manhattan's far West Side.
Outstanding Women in Commercial Real Estate
From housing low-income families in Southern California to closing some of Manhattan's largest office leases, women leaders are using commercial real estate as a platform to reshape communities while they drive investor returns.
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Videos
2012 MBA CREF/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo Video Blogs
Check out the Vlogs from the 2012 MBA CREF/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo from JLL...
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