Adrian Maties

Horseshoe Casino’s Outdoor Plaza; Seapine’s New HQ

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
Construction continues at the Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati site as developer Rock Gaming plans to turn a parking lot in front of the casino into a 1.5-acre outdoor plaza. It will improve the casino’s connection to its […]

$1.1B Johns Hopkins Hospital Expansion to Open in April

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
Johns Hopkins Hospital will open its new $1.1 billion patient care building in April 2012. It is one of the nation’s largest hospital construction projects. Johns Hopkins officials say it will mark the beginning of “a new […]

$300M National Museum of the United States Army to Open at Fort Belvoir

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
After almost 200 years of preparation and delays, Virginia’s Fort Belvoir, one of the country’s most prominent defense installations, will become home to a $300 million, 175,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art museum built to honor America’s soldiers and tell […]

COPT Sells Baltimore County Assets for $48.7M

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
Columbia-based Corporate Office Properties Trust announced that it sold two Baltimore County properties for $48.7 million as part of its Strategic Reallocation Plan. The properties are a 13-building portfolio in the Rutherford Business Center in Woodlawn […]

Construction Manager Selected for Schools in Elyria; Work Begins on Courtyard by Marriott

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
The Ohio School Facilities Commission and Elyria City Schools on Dec. 21 selected the Gilbane Building Co. to provide construction management services for a project that will provide modern buildings for more than 3,200 students in the […]

U Square @ the Loop Gets New Leasing Team

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
U Square @ the Loop, the nearly $80 million mixed-use development located just south of the University of Cincinnati, will break ground at the start of 2012. The project developers, however, have decided to replace the […]

Home Properties Buys Apartment Community for $93M

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
On Nov. 30, Home Properties Inc. purchased The Courts at Dulles apartment community. It paid paid $92.8 million in cash, or $226,000 per unit for the 411-unit property.
The Courts at Dulles was built in 2000. Located in […]

Rock Ohio Caesars Buys Ritz-Carlton, Office Tower

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
On Friday, Dec. 9, Rock Ohio Caesars L.L.C., the developers of Cleveland’s first casino, announced plans to expand its presence in downtown Cleveland with the purchase of the Ritz-Carlton hotel for $36.5 million. Rock Ohio Caesars […]

Major Retail Center Planned for Butler County

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
Steiner + Associates plans to start work a year from now on a massive project that could become Butler County’s largest retail development. The open-air retail center will include department stores, movie theaters, office space and housing.
Known […]

Montgomery County, Percontee Plan $3B LifeSci Village

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
Last week, Montgomery County partnered with local developer Percontee Inc. to redevelop 300 acres in White Oak. Site 2, a former Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission sludge processing facility, will become LifeSci Village, a mixed-use campus designed […]