Alex Girda
Alex is a senior editor with Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive who has more than a decade of experience in the industry. Mainly focused on data-driven exploits, he works with Yardi Matrix and CommercialEdge to provide insights into the real estate market.
Swift Realty Ready to Flip 600,000 SF in Concord
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
Less than a year after its acquisition of the former Bank of America campus in Concord, Swift Realty Partners is ready to start flipping the property. The company has listed the buildings at 2000 Clayton Road […]
Makeover at 680 Folsom Reels In Riverbed for 168,000 SF Lease
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
San Francisco is angling for the informal title of innovation capital of the world, to use Mayor Ed Lee’s phrase, and a major lease in the South of Market district is giving the mayor a new […]
Container Store, Arts District Venue Set Spring Debuts
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
A new retail player is placing bets on the Las Vegas Strip. Town Square Las Vegas will be among six new locations in the U.S. where The Container Store plans to debut this year, the retailer […]
Santa Fe Springs Retail Center, Koreatown Multi-Family Assets Lure Investors
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
In a $23 million deal, Milan Capital Management has acquired Santa Fe Springs Promenade from F.J. Hanshaw properties, rentv.com reports. Built out over three decades, the 115,000-square-foot retail center was 90 percent occupied when the transaction […]
As Retail Struggles Continue, a Henderson Duo Thrives
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
The Las Vegas retail market remains a troubled corner of the economic landscape. Vacancy hit 10.6 percent during the fourth quarter of 2011, more than three times the 3.2 percent rate recorded at the market’s peak in […]
Normandy, Morgan Stanley Team on $355M Recapitalization of 10 Universal City Plaza
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
Normandy Real Estate Partners has recapitalized the home of NBCUniversal to the tune of $355 million, the company disclosed Jan 17. Through a joint venture with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, Normandy struck a deal to […]
Salesforce.com, BioMarin Deals Jump-Start 2012 Leasing Market
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
A pair of major leasing deals is helping the New Year get off to a strong start in the Bay Area. In a $339 million deal that city officials called the biggest of its kind in […]
Kimco, TriGate Capital Buy Retail Assets
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
Making its initial foray into the Phoenix metropolitan market, TriGate Capital has recently completed the $26.8 million acquisition of a six-property retail portfolio, a Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial press statement shows. Ranging in size from 40,000 […]
Cash Infusion from Canyon-Johnson Launches $160M Project
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
One Santa Fe has been among the highest-profile redevelopment projects proposed for the Downtown Arts District ever since it was announced in the middle of the last decade. Now the $160 million plan finally appears ready […]
Seattle’s Office, Retail Markets Soar in Grubb & Ellis Forecast
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
Seattle appears to be poised to rank high among invesment’s frontrunners again in 2012. A recent Grubb and Ellis Co. report places Seattle’s office market in second place nationwide during a year in which that recovery will continue […]