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March 1, 2007
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10 TO WATCH
In the most buoyant commercial real estate market in history, the pace of change is greatly accelerated. Nothing symbolizes this better than the record...
RETHINKING THE BRAND
At no time in the history of hotels has brand undergone such dramatic change, so quickly or so pervasively, as it has since 9/11. InterContinental Hotels...
Something to Crow About
Cal Frese Age: 50 Company: CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. Title: President, Americas Time in current role: Two years Biggest accomplishment: 25 years of marriage to a wonderful wife; proud father of three great kids Short-term goal: Complete the integration of Trammell Crow;...
Global Investment Heavyweight
Sonny Kalsi Age: 39 Company: Morgan Stanley Real Estate Title: Managing Director Time in current role: 16 years Biggest accomplishment: Building Morgan Stanley's Asian real estate operation from scratch...
Retail Metamorphosis
Terry Brown Age: 45 Company: Edens & Avant Title: CEO Time in current role: Five years Biggest accomplishment: Developing our great team of people ...
Leading a Full-Court Press
Kieran P. Quinn Age: 58 Company: Column Financial Inc. Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Time in current role: Fourteen years Biggest accomplishment: Creation of Column Financial ...
CalPERS' New Captain
Ted Eliopoulos Age: 43 Company: California Public Employees' Retirement System Title: Senior Investment Officer, Real Estate Time in current role: Two months Biggest accomplishment: Led ground-breaking initiatives for clean energy and urban economic development...
Living the Green Life in Boise
Gary Christensen Age: 54 Company: The Christensen Corp. Title: President Time in current role: Eight years Biggest accomplishment: Banner Bank Building, which earned a LEED Platinum designation...
Expanding Global Footprint
Jeffrey H. Schwartz Age: 47 Company: ProLogis Title: CEO Time in current role: two years Biggest accomplishment: Consummating $5.3 billion merger with Catellus Development Corp....
Kingpin of Online Listings
Richard Boyle Age: 41 Company: LoopNet Inc. Title: President and Chief Executive Officer Time in current role: 6 years Biggest accomplishment: Being part of the LoopNet team, which has created the largest online marketplace for commercial real estate listings in the industry...
Blazing Trails in Self-Storage
Marc Boorstein Age: 44 Company: MJ Partners Real Estate Services Inc. Title: CEO Time in current role: Fourteen years Biggest accomplishment: Persuading large institutional investors to consider self-storage a legitimate real estate class...
Features
REITs Storm Asian Shores
In their rush to modernize, Asian countries have borrowed many Western inventions. One of the latest ideas to arrive is the real estate investment trust....
Direct Line to the C-Suite
Shortly after Mark White became the chief financial officer of SAP Americas Inc. in 2002, LuAnn McHugh, the software company's vice president of real estate and facilities, approached her new boss with a restructuring plan that she envisioned would erase some inefficiencies in the corporate real estate portfolio....
Gambling on Cleveland
Making a daring redevelopment play in downtown Cleveland, Manhattan-based Sovereign Properties Ltd. led an investor group last November to buy the 1717 East Ninth Street office building and parking garage....
Developments
Mixed-Use Development Wave In Baton Rouge
Largely spared by Hurricane Katrina, metro Baton Rouge has seen its pre-storm population of 720,000 swell by an estimated 5% to 8% a year and a half after the catastrophic event...
Carving Up Equity Office Properties
Once the ink dried on the second-largest leveraged buyout in U.S. history, it didn't take long for The Blackstone Group to chop up its newly acquired portfolio from Equity Office Properties (EOP)....
A New Panama Invasion
Panamanian real estate developer Jose Bern believes that his country has been a well-kept economic secret for years. But in dramatic fashion, global real estate investors such as New York developer Donald Trump are uncovering the secret....
Luxury Living for Seniors in Hotel-Style Fashion
With roots in the hotel business, Classic Residence by Hyatt continues to expand its seniors housing holdings as its new $150 million continuing care project near Denver gets under way...
Trumped By The Donald?
Donald Trump has notified some early condo buyers in his 92-story Chicago condo-hotel project that their sales are null and void, claiming that any windfall from an increase in value while the project is under construction should go to him....
Q & A
The latest chapter in the saga of Ventas Inc., which saw the Louisville-based REIT come back from the verge of bankruptcy in the late 1990s to become an active M&A player...
Names In The News
NAMES IN THE NEWS
Paula Ingram has joined Cohen Financial as director of capital markets in the firm's Miami office. ...
Deals And Projects
ACQUISITIVE REIT CLOSES BI-COASTAL PROPERTY DEALS
During one busy winter day, KBS Real Estate Investment Trust spent nearly $100 million for a pair of office properties separated by more than 2,000 miles....
In Progress: Plantation Fashion Mall
The $350 million mixed-use development will be part of the City of Plantation's master plan to build an urban town center....
DEALS & PROJECTS
Hersha Hospitality Trust has acquired seven Hyatt Summerfield Suites hotels from LodgeWorks for approximately $169 million. ...
DEALS & PROJECTS
The Shidler Group has acquired the ANA Kalakaua Center, a mixed-use office and retail complex, for approximately $30 million from ANA Real Estate Hawaii Inc. ...
Columns
Unique assets, difficult projects are Strategic Hotels' Cup of Tea
Spend a few minutes talking with Laurence Geller and you get the distinct impression that he's part personal motivator and part entrepreneur. ...
St. Louis Preserves Historic Hotel
With an infusion of capital from a new owner, the historic Chase Park Plaza hotel in St. Louis is kicking off a $95 million renovation that will transform its adjacent Park Plaza residential tower into additional hotel rooms, corporate apartments and high-end condominiums....
Reinsurer Swiss Re gets out of a pickle
Swiss Re recently sold its landmark building in central London for 600 million sterling, about $1.18 billion...
Strengthening the Property Sponsor
What does it take for loan officers and mortgage brokers to feel comfortable with a potential acquisition or refinancing deal? ...
Don't Get Boxed In By Excessive Taxes
All too often assessors get away with over assessing big-box properties owned or occupied by national chains. ...
Mold Issue Under the Microscope
Two events have put the issue of mold right back in the spotlight again. The first was the January publication of an article calling into question two scientific studies heavily relied on by defendants in mold cases. The second is the expected introduction of new mold legislation in Congress....
Is the Public REIT Market Losing Its Luster?
Change appears to be threatening the public real estate investment trust (REIT) market. Just five years ago, the total value of public REIT mergers and acquisitions was only $10 billion with less than $2 billion coming from private equity firms....
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Photo Galleries
New York's Star Deals
The city that never sleeps is also the city that never stops growing, not even in the midst of recession. And deals, both bold and unprecedented, continue to be done. Check out image of New York's big deals.
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-
Videos
JLL at ICSC 2012
Check out these videos from JLL at ICSC 2012 in Las Vegas...
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