SADI 2010 – MetWest International
May 03, 2011
MetWest International is a retail center that sits in front of MetLife’s mixed-use campus in Tampa, Fla.’s Westshore business district. The design goal for api(+) on the project was to create a plan that unifies the site’s existing and proposed...
Hungry for Tax Revenue, Municipalities Serve Up Incentives to Lure Retailers and Developers.
Hungry for Tax Revenue, Municipalities Serve Up Incentives to Lure Retailers and Developers.
May 02, 2011
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Slashing City Spending
Slashing City Spending
May 02, 2011
U.S. cities have cut spending the last two years. The most common cuts have come in the form of hiring freezes...
A Dollar Short
A Dollar Short
May 02, 2011
Revenues for cities have collapsed in the last four years. As a result, 2010 marked the biggest year-over-year decline in expenditures in the past 25 years...
Sagging Revenue
Sagging Revenue
May 02, 2011
Sales tax revenues plummeted for cities in both 2009 and 2010--falling 6.6 percent and 5 percent, respectively. Income tax revenues also fell 1.8 percent in 2010 after rising 4.2 percent in 2009. Property tax revenues, meanwhile, rose 1.3 percent...
Hanley Sells Walgreens for more than $34M
May 02, 2011
Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors announced that Hanley Investment Group negotiated the sale of five single-tenant Walgreens for a total consideration of more than $34 million...
GA Keen Realty Advisors Marketing Robb & Stucky Space
Apr 29, 2011
GA Keen Realty Advisors has been retained to assist in the marketing and disposition of properties previously operated by Robb & Stucky, a furniture company that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year...
CoStar Group to Acquire LoopNet in Merger of Real Estate Information Titans
Apr 28, 2011
The two fiercest rivals in the commercial real estate information marketplace will become one powerhouse. CoStar Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CSGP) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire archrival LoopNet Inc. (Nasdaq: LOOP), a giant in the online...
Starbucks Recaptures its Position at the Head of the U.S. Coffee Market
Starbucks Recaptures its Position at the Head of the U.S. Coffee Market
Apr 27, 2011
After spending two years trying to find its way, Starbucks has righted its ship in the ever competitive coffee wars. During the course of the recession, the Seattle-based chain was forced to close hundreds of stores and re-evaluate its sales a...
MBA: Loan Originations on Retail Properties Surged in Fourth Quarter
MBA: Loan Originations on Retail Properties Surged in Fourth Quarter
Apr 26, 2011
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Databook showed that the volume of retail loans rose significantly in the fourth quarter of 2010, making it the most active quarter since the third quarter of 2008...
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