City of Big Shoulders Craves Big Office Towers
Real estate deal making and development are unfolding all around Chicago on a grand scale. The nation's largest convention center, McCormick Place, just...
Mega Warehouses Rise in Phoenix
If investors thought industrial development in Phoenix was hot in the 1990s, then today's market must seem blistering. In 2007, 11.5 million sq. ft. of...
Office Market Lifts Spirits of St. Louis
Optimism in the St. Louis office market is as palpable as the energy that enveloped the city when the Cardinals won the 2006 World Series. Riding that...
Houston's Economy Barrels Along
Oil. Black Gold. Texas Tea. No matter how you describe it, the energy industry is once again propelling Houston's metro office market to heights not seen since the last oil boom some 25 years ago....
Condo Craze Fades
developers, hoping to keep up with the high demand, converted apartment projects to condos. But the frenzy has cooled considerably, and now numerous projects are being converted back into apartments or canceled altogether....
Grand Plans for Chicagoland
When budding entrepreneur Bill Rancic won the widely popular contest on The Apprentice reality TV show to land a dream job working for Donald Trump, the...
Seattle Trudges Toward Recovery
Seattle has endured a humbling reversal of fortune since the high-tech bubble burst, but its economic slide appears to have ended. With spring approaching,...
Boston's Long Road to Recovery
When will recovery occur in Boston's office market? The consensus: later than sooner. On one hand, venture capital investment is inching upward and universities...
Boston Feels Growing Pains
Finding vacant land in Boston's dense Financial District is as likely as the Red Sox achieving postseason success. So it comes as no surprise that retail,...
Biggest Office Markets Suffer from Indigestion
During the late 1990s, the financial services industry spent billions on office leasing and building acquisition costs, and nowhere was that trend more...
