Cities

No Business, As Usual

By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
There was no major news recorded in the real estate sector for the city of Las Vegas this past week, but previous reports of the continued downturn haven’t been proven wrong by market realities. After mildly […]

United Properties will Develop Aerospace and Clean Energy Facility on Loveland Site

By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
Making Denver real estate headlines this past week was the selection process for the redevelopment of a Loveland site slated for conversion to a high-tech manufacturing plant for NASA. The story was reported by both The […]

Green Developments and Urban Gardens Boom in Philadelphia

By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor
During a tree planting event that was held last week at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard Corporate Center, GlaxoSmithKline and Liberty Property Trust/Synterra Partners inaugurated a new 205,000-sq.-ft., environmentally friendly building.
As reported by Citybizlist.com, Deirdre Connelly, president of […]

Report Shows Increase in Detroit Home Sales

By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor
Detroit region’s home sales rose 4.3 percent in May 2011 according to recent data released by MLS Realcomp II Ltd., a real estate information company based in Farmington Hills. The report quoted by Crain’s Detroit Business […]

Holland, Wood Partners Plan Additions to Housing Development Portfolios

By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
Seattle has been seeing a positive turn in its amount of residential development activity during the past few weeks, with a series of projects breaking ground in previously “forgotten” locations around the city. This week, reports […]

Mayo Group, Saracen Pursue Energy-Efficient Redevelopments

By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor
The Mayo Group, which developed a new residential complex on the site of a former nursing home at 990 and 1100 VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, has recently been awarded the Energy STAR certification by the […]

Piedmont, Levin Expand Atlanta Portfolios with Property Acquisitions

By Georgiana Mihaila, Associate Editor
Recent transactions seem to leave room for hope of recovery when it comes to Atlanta’s commercial real estate market.
Starting this week, the nearly vacant Medici Office Building, part of Buckhead’s Piazza at Paces–the high-end mixed-use office […]

Crystal Cathedral Bankruptcy Makes L.A. Real Estate Religiously Controversial

By Alex Girda
Los Angeles real estate has seen its fair share of ups and downs lately, but it is the diversity of the news generated by the sector that is its most recognizable characteristic. This past week’s share of headlines […]

Buyers, Redevelopers Stir Up Residential Market

By Georgiana Mihaila, Associate Editor
While commercial real estate news usually predominates in the Dallas area, during the past week the residential market has seen a fair amount of changes. The McCallum Crossing apartment complex in North Dallas sold to California-based […]

$900 Million Project Promises to Reshape Downtown Baltimore

By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
Plans proposed last fall by The Greater Baltimore Committee are gaining traction and the $900-940 million project promises to reshape the city’s downtown. The Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, its attached parking lot and the 1979 wing […]