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August 1, 2006
Departments
Mesmerized by Mezzanine
Mezzanine lending for commercial real estate is exploding. Origination volume of mezz loans, second mortgages and preferred equity deals skyrocketed 296% in 2005...
Developments
Financing Proves Pivotal in Retail REIT Purchases
While pension funds and private investors were busy gobbling up REITs in recent months, public REITs largely sat on the sidelines, rarely making acquisitions....
GE BUILDS ON GROWING EUROPEAN RETAIL PORTFOLIO
Bolstering its presence across the pond, GE Real Estate Central Europe has spent $695 million to acquire a portfolio of Central European hypermarkets from French operator Groupe Casino. ...
Q & A
What do select-service hotels and the Midwest have in common? According to Robert Habeeb, president and chief operating officer of Chicago-based First...
Riding a Big Wave
Waterparks have been popular family destinations for years, but now a growing number are popping up as flagship amenities at both new and existing resort hotels across the country. ...
NAMES IN THE NEWS
Names from the world of real estate that are making news...
An Invisible Threat
Within the past few months, FBI officials have foiled early-stage terrorist plots to detonate explosives at the Sears Tower in Chicago and Manhattan's...
Is CMBS losing steam?
While the production of commercial mortgage-backed securities continues to outpace last year's volume, at least one expert is pointing to a possible slowdown in issuance later this year....
NAMES IN THE NEWS
George Vail has joined Holliday Fenoglio Fowler as a director in the firm's investment sales group. ...
Being All They Can Be
For many of the communities, their lifeblood will be drained away when their military bases close...
Charleston Naval Base
Hot turnover, in this case, refers to the method of keeping the industrial operations of a military base at full tilt while handing over control to civilian authorities....
San Diego Naval Training Center
Public subsidies are a fact of life in the base-redevelopment process. Those subsidies make sense because many communities believe their fortunes are tied to the future development of abandoned bases....
Brooks Air Force Base
When officials in San Antonio first heard rumblings that Brooks Air Force Base could someday be closed, they immediately began planning for life after the Air Force....
Development Pinch Hitters
Michigan: Faced with limited growth prospects and an aging stock of office and industrial space, local economic development officials took matters into their own hands....
Columns
Groundbreaking Columnist Calls it a Wrap After 23 Years
When John B. Levy began writing a monthly column for Barron's in 1983, Ronald Reagan was in his first term as U.S. president, Tiger Woods was a 7-year-old...
Building Boom On Hold
U.S. commercial property markets are still swamped with financial capital seeking real properties. Yet, there doesn't seem to be much evidence that a new commercial development boom is starting....
Saving on Title Insurance
commercial real estate developers, investors, and lenders are increasingly forming partially or wholly owned title insurance agencies to service their own real estate acquisition, disposition, and refinancing activity....
Features
A MONTHLY METER OF INDUSTRY TRENDS
In 2005, U.S. hotels reported a 15.5% profit gain, despite the fact that expenses escalated more than twice the rate of inflation. ...
DE-SPRAWLING THE BURBS
Developers of mixed-use projects are following a solidly established American migration pattern: treading the highways that sprout from urban city centers...
Inn Favor With the Hip Crowd
An open-air retail center will debut next year near California's Ontario International Airport with a decidedly non-retail tenant in tow: a chic new 120-room, select-service hotel concept called Cambria Suites....
Articles
Story on newly minted MBAs snubs leading universities
The May article titled Perfect Timing for Class of '06 that focused on the job market for newly minted real estate graduates with MBA degrees was interesting,...
In Progress: Bridgemont
DEVELOPER: The Bridgemont Group LOCATION: Sevierville, Tenn. SIZE: 1,000 acres COMPLETION: Event Center Complex, Spring 2007 ...
Furniture Malls Cozy Up to High-Traffic Concept
The $90 million South Coast Home Furnishings Center in Costa Mesa, Calif. represents the latest version of a growing trend to gather home furnishings dealers into a single center...
Health Care on the Go
As the battle for market share intensifies among retailers, in-store health clinics are increasingly popping up in grocery stores, pharmacies and even department stores....
DEALS & PROJECTS
Major deals and projects that are in the process of being completed...
DEALS & PROJECTS
McCarthy Cook & Co. and JP Morgan Asset Management has acquired the Viad Corporate Center...
Technology Triumph
In May 2005, Lockheed Martin's missiles and fire control division announced plans for a $100 million expansion in Orlando, Florida...
Prescription for Success
the medical office sector has shifted from a tertiary investment option to an annual $2.5 billion market. ...
The Urge to Merge
The recent flurry of acquisitions in the commercial real estate finance sector is an outgrowth of the industry's maturation, as commercial real estate takes its place among other mainstream investment products....
Historic Winecoff Hotel To Rise Again
60 years after the fire, the prominently located landmark Hotel Winecoff is finally being restored....
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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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