Scott Baltic

Scott Baltic has been a contributing editor with Commercial Property Executive since 2011 and also wrote for its predecessor, Commercial Property News. He started writing about CRE in 1988 for a group of Chicago-based publications and in 1989 became the editor of Midwest Real Estate News. After moving on from there in 1991, Baltic continued writing occasionally about real estate, for publications like the Chicago Sun-Times, National Real Estate Investor, Urban Land, Shopping Center World and Architect’s Newspaper. He earned a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and has a bachelor’s from North Park University.

Health-Care CRE Soldiers On, Despite the Sector’s Woes 

Higher costs, labor shortages and changes in reimbursements are diminishing health systems’ margins, a new JLL report finds.

LinkedIn Office Commands $222M in Bay Area

Harvest Properties and Invesco Advisors sold the Silicon Valley property.

585 Kendall, Boston

Art Meets Science: BioMed Realty Kickstarts Boston-Area Project

Takeda Pharmaceutical will fully occupy the life science development, which will also feature a performing arts center.

Life Science Outlook Remains Strong: Cushman & Wakefield

Asking rents have increased 67 percent since 2015 and the construction pipeline is humming.

Inflation rising

TPG Closes Opportunistic Fund at $6.8B

TREP IV brings the company’s dry powder to a new high.

Park Center Buildings 2 and 3, Dunwoody, Ga.

KDC Buys 1 MSF Office Portfolio

In a sale-leaseback deal, the company has acquired two office buildings in suburban Atlanta.

Building 3 of the planned 10-building logistics park, The Logistics Campus, Glenview, Ill.

Dermody Properties Closes Land Deal for $500M Project

Over the next several years, the company will build a logistics park on the site of the former Allstate campus.

Northmarq Completes Stan Johnson Co. Acquisition

This purchase also includes Four Pillars Capital Markets, a debt and equity intermediary.

River City Marketplace, O’Fallon

First National Realty Partners Acquires Grocery-Anchored Retail Centers

These assets, in Northern Virginia and metro St. Louis, total 445,000 square feet.

Greenstone Properties JV Completes Midtown Atlanta Office Tower

In a partnership with Goldman Sachs, the company broke ground on the project in 2020.