October 1, 2008

Cover Story

Guerrilla Marketing to Seniors

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jane Adler

Slipping occupancies at seniors housing developments across the country have forced owners and operators to ramp up sales programs and boost advertising...

Features

Chicago Steams Ahead With Rail Industrial Parks

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By H. Lee Murphy

Situated at the epicenter of the U.S. economy, Chicago calls itself the railroad capital of the nation. Travel a mile or two on any route from downtown...

High-Net-Worth Challenge

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joe Gose

Neville Isaacson's initial foray into commercial real estate investing in the early 1980s nearly marked his last. An immigrant from South Africa, Isaacson...

Staying Lean and Green

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Matt Hudgins

At the EPA's Region 8 headquarters in Denver, custodial crews perform all of their cleaning tasks during daylight hours. Janitorial teams working among...

Chipping Away at Insurance Costs

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Stan Luxenberg

When Hurricane Ike struck Houston in September, Camden Property Trust's apartment communities suffered an estimated $1 million in losses, including downed...

Selling Off Our Heritage?

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Ben Johnson

When New York's iconic General Motors and Chrysler buildings were sold earlier this year, thanks in part to an injection of foreign capital, comparisons...

Developments

Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Sibley Fleming

On Wednesday, Sept. 10, Lehman Brothers attempted to calm investor jitters by announcing plans to carve from its balance sheet $25 billion to $30 billion...

Diversified REIT Prowls the Market

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Denise Kalette

The year Tom Cousins scraped up $2,500 to start a real estate development company in Atlanta, Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House, Charles de Gaulle...

Designing in Kazakhstan

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Denise Kalette

New York Architect Audrey Matlock made a 6,368-mile leap from designing condominiums in Manhattan to designing a $12 million sports center near Almaty,...

Ike Swipes Houston

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Ben Johnson

America's fourth-largest city was on an economic roll late this summer, brimming with confidence. And why not? Houston's economy generated 57,100 new...

Matthew Hoffman: Being a hedge-hog can pay off in a down market

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Poonkulali Thangavelu

As lenders hoard capital in these uncertain times, debt financing for commercial real estate investments has nearly come to an abrupt halt. But Matthew...

Names in the News

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Peggy Walker has joined Dominium, a Minneapolis-based firm that owns, develops and manages apartment communities, as vice resident of property management....

Deals and Projects

Deals & Projects

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Koll/PER, a limited liability company owned by Newport Beach, Calif.-based The Koll Co. and the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho, has acquired...