John McCloud

Following the real estate recession of the late 1980s and early 1990s, analysts in California guaranteed the state's economy would recover but definitely not to the level it had reached in the mid- 1980s...

In developing Metreon, an entertainment complex that opened June 16 in downtown San Francisco, Sony Development, a division of Sony Corp. of America, wanted to create a project that would be like nothing else yet...

Situated immediately east of greater Los Angeles, the Inland Empire is generally seen as Southern California's newest development frontier. The area consists of Riverside and San Bernardino counties; if these two...

WHEN LAKEWOOD CENTER opened in the early 1950s, the town of Lakewood, Calif., itself was new, one of the earlier postwar suburbs that eventually came to dominate the American landscape. The man who developed the...

Two years ago, the San Francisco 49ers announced plans to build a new football stadium on land used for the current stadium's parking lot. The cost of building the stadium would be underwritten by revenues from a 1.5...

Two terms dominate retail development at the tail end of the 20th Century: Entertainment and Main Street. The prominence of the entertainment and Main Street retail trends overshadows almost everything else happening...

The financial markets are much calmed since last summer's CMBS debacle and lenders have once again become aggressive in their pursuit of deals...

A MAKEOVER NOW IN PROGRESS at Wonderland Mall in Livonia, Mich., is less a new project than the continuation of a process of change that has been ongoing since Schostak Brothers & Co. Inc. bought the property in...