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National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2005 Alan Heavens |
Philly's Downtown Resurgence Downtown Philadelphia's renaissance offers a compelling argument that the region is primed for additional growth. Condos are hot and retailers are adding space, but office vacancies are high and likely to go even higher.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Walsh & Brickley |
Philadelphia Story: Betting on a Better Downtown A survey of the philadelphia property market: hotels, multifamily, retail, office, and projects under construction.  |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2005 Parke Chapman |
Comcast Takes Philly to New Heights In 2007, a 975-ft. tall office tower will take center stage as Philadelphia's tallest skyscraper. Malvern, Pa.-based Liberty Property Trust is developing the $465 million Comcast Center in the heart of Philadelphia.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 28, 2003 |
Downtown Baltimore office tower sells for $50M A 380,000 sq. ft. office building in downtown Baltimore has sold for $50 million. Norfolk-Va. Based Harbor Group International (HGI) and a corporate investor bought the property, known as the First Union Tower, as part of a tax-deferred exchange.  |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2005 Christine Perez |
A Tale of Two Office Submarkets It appears Dallas is on the verge of another economic rebound, with nearly all of the new office development occurring in two key submarkets -- Downtown/Uptown and Far North Dallas. But too much new construction could push buyers to other cities.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
Ground Zero Waiting Game Above-market asking rents and political bickering over Ground Zero's future are foiling developer Larry Silverstein in his quest to fill the $700 million 7 World Trade Center building. As of late December, just 40,000 of the total 1.7 million sq. ft. was leased.  |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Margaret Jackson |
Downtown Renaissance With the February opening of a $270 million convention center hotel complex, downtown St. Louis has received nearly $1.4 billion in public and private investment since 1998 -- the largest investment ever in the city over such a brief period.  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Carol Tice |
Listless in Seattle In March, state economists warned that Seattle won't see any sign of recovery before late 2004. But some developers are looking beyond the current miasma and are planning major new projects that they hope will open to a brighter scene in two years.  |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2002 Christine Perez |
Pocket of Prosperity When Craig Hall began developing his first office building in Hall Office Park five years ago, there wasn't even a road that led to his 142-acre site in Frisco, a bedroom community about 25 miles north of Dallas -- now one of America's fastest-growing cities.  |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2006 Jeanne Lang Jones |
Seattle's Day in the Sun Because of the strengthening economy, vacancy rates and rents are improving in the Puget Sound's two largest office submarkets -- Seattle and Bellevue, a suburban city located on the east side of Lake Washington about a 30-minute drive from downtown Seattle.  |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2004 Parke Chapman |
Midtown Manhattan: A Pillar of Strength The real estate market in Manhattan is finally emerging from a three-year slump. Office leasing is on the rise, hotel vacancy rates are tightening and luxury retailers are flocking to Fifth Avenue's midtown shopping corridor.  |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Ezra Fieser |
The Nation's Commercial Real Estate Capital? Washington, D.C., just might be the only commercial real estate market in the U.S. with bragging rights.  |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Matt Kelly |
Boston's High-Tech Hangover Boston is an anxious place these days. Gone is the stellar real estate market of a few years ago. A malaise of high vacancy rates, falling rents and a development pipeline that clogged at the first hint of a recession have replaced the salad days of 2000.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Parke Chapman |
Office Glut at Ground Zero The jury decision on insurance liability for the World Trade Center could clear the way for five new office towers to be developed around Ground Zero in a larger plan that could cost as much as $9 billion.  |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2006 Laura Ellis |
The Nissan Effect Nashville's commercial real estate market is riding high on the automaker's announcement that it will relocate its North American headquarters from Gardena, California, to the Country Music Capital by the end of 2007.  |
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
Ground Zero Office Glut in the Making? If Ground Zero's newest tower is any indication, filling space in the Freedom Tower and adjacent buildings will be a challenge.  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Caroline Wilbert |
Building Bait The new Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is playing a vital role as a catalyst in the downtown fishbowl by sparking office, multifamily and hotel projects.  |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Margy Sweeney |
Chicago's `Long, Flat Bottom' Downtown Chicago continues to bustle with construction activity. This is a good sign and also a scary one.  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
Tenuous Office Recovery Boston's metropolitan market continues to lag the national office recovery -- and observers question if the market's near-term leasing momentum is sustainable. They cite two stubborn trends: an active mergers and acquisitions market, and a soft local economy.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Bennett Voyles |
A Sky-High Tax Increase Still reeling from the recession and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the New York real estate industry now faces one more blow: an 18.5% increase in the city's real property tax.  |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Parke Chapman |
A Supply Glut In the Office Sector Over the past two years, as office markets softened, industry pundits predicted that things would not get as bad as they did in the last recession because this time the market was not overbuilt. It looks like they were wrong.  |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Steve Ginsberg |
From Boom to Bust Since the 1850s gold rush, San Francisco's development has been a series of booms and busts. What's new about the latest bust is the culprit.  |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2005 Paula Widholm |
Chicago is Back on the Upswing "Live, work, play" has been downtown Chicago's catchphrase since 2000. In recent years it's been amplified by a surge in new high-rise condo projects, office skyscrapers and a new nearly half-billion dollar lakefront park.  |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 Morris Newman |
San Francisco's Bipolar Office Market Riding a High Investors in the seemingly bipolar San Francisco office market appear ready to bounce back. After three years of slow recovery, downtown San Francisco is ready to relegate the tech fiasco to the past.  |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2005 Parke Chapman |
Residential Rebound Four years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, residential sales and rentals in Manhattan are soaring.  |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 Matt Hudgins |
The New South Jersey Shore After 22 years, real estate development and revitalization plans are finally gaining momentum for a former riverfront manufacturing district just outside Philadelphia that has drawn criticism from local news media outlets for its painfully sluggish progress.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 22, 2003 |
MetLife closes $46M refinance of Millennium Tower Millennium Tower LLC has refinanced the 200,000 sq. ft. commercial unit of Millennium Tower, a 20-story, mixed-use property in downtown Seattle.  |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2004 Ralph Bivins |
Midtown Houston Ignites Real Estate Recovery The area is benefiting from a surge of deals related to the light rail line that opened early in 2004, among other factors. Residential, commercial, and industrial property are picking up.  |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2004 Morris Newman |
Cashing In on L.A.'s Hot Investment Climate After a decade with very little new construction, the Los Angeles office market is noticeably tighter.  |
National Real Estate Investor September 30, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Mack-Cali Sells New Jersey Office Building for $194 Million The Mack-Cali Realty Corp. has sold its Harborside Financial Center Plaza 10 building for $194 million. The 577,575 sq. ft. Class-A office tower is located along the Hudson River in Jersey City.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Jennifer Dawson |
Re-Energizing Houston Although the energy industry in Houston is enjoying a resurgence, the office sector continues to lag the broader economic recovery with a metro vacancy rate of nearly 18%. But increasingly the market appears poised for a major turnaround.  |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Joe Gose |
The Office Investment Gamble Several office markets battered by the tech wreck that jolted Wall Street and led to a recession four years ago are still plagued by double-digit vacancies. But that hasn't fazed investors, who are generally paying more for properties today than they were in 2001 when the buildings were filled with tenants.  |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2003 |
Deals & Projects Office tower planned for downtown D.C.... Giant industrial park sold for $20 million... Minshall Stewart buys Cleveland landmarks... Developer plans 420 apartments in Michigan... Tucker snaps up 500,000 sq. ft. mall... Etc.  |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2005 Stan Luxenburg |
Why Office REITs Are Building Again After several years of hard economic times, some REITs are accelerating development activities in strong markets. Increased hiring by corporate tenants is encouraging new building.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Hortense Leon |
Orlando Diversifies and Prospers Orlando has evolved into a dynamic and diverse economy with a bustling urban center undergoing $1.3 billion of new real estate development.  |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2005 Walter Woods |
What's In a Name? Barry Real Estate Cos. has lured two large corporate tenants, energy giant Southern Co. and accountants Ernst & Young, out of nearby office towers to anchor two of three planned buildings at what Barry calls Allen Plaza in downtown Atlanta.  |
Salon.com September 17, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
New York's most disliked building? The World Trade Center represented the essence of American financial power, but critics hated the towers and the public never embraced them...  |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Garden Variety Slump The northern New Jersey real estate market is limping through the murkiest economy in a decade. Occupancy rates across all property classes waned in 2002. Retrenching businesses dumped space on to a swelling sublease market, and prices for Class-A office space have softened.  |
National Real Estate Investor June 6, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Hines Plans New 40-story Chicago Tower Hines will begin construction this fall on a 40-story office tower in Chicago at One Dearborn Street. The 820,000 sq. ft. tower is expected to be finished during the fourth quarter of 2004.  |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Margy Sweeney |
Think Big -- in Small Towns In the past, national investors feared that it would be difficult to fill space in a secondary market if a tenant defaulted. Now there is a steady stream of major customers such as IKEA that want to locate in secondary markets, and major developers are lining up to accommodate them.  |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2006 Beth Mattson-Teig |
Twin Cities Harbor Hidden Office Buys On the surface, the Minneapolis-St. Paul office market appears to be plodding along at a steady, yet unremarkable clip. But a closer look reveals a market that is bubbling with activity.  |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2004 Hortense Leon |
Miami Makeover Attracts Investors Miami's newly minted reputation for integrity and efficiency in city government sparks an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion of new construction, ranging from condos to an office tower, in and near the city's downtown area.  |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2005 Gary Gately |
Harbor Magic Spreads In City of Firsts Lower real estate costs and higher returns on investment in this secondary market have drawn investors far and near to some of Baltimore's most prized real estate.  |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 |
Deals & Projects Ashforth spruces up 1818 Market St.... Wachovia acquires interest in AMI Capital... Boston Capital closes on multifamily project... Financing secured for Trump Palace... Harbor Group buys Orlando office park... Plans for downtown L.A. lofts approved  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Ben Johnson |
Big D Big on Mixed-Use Buoyed by population growth that continues to outpace the rest of the nation, Dallas developers seemingly are in a race to break ground on a whole new generation of projects, each including a variety of mixed uses.  |
National Real Estate Investor October 16, 2002 Parke Chapman |
MetLife markets $2 billion office portfolio Insurer Metropolitan Life is selling nearly $2 billion worth of its nationwide real estate holdings, including Midtown Manhattan's 551 Fifth Avenue and two major Chicago office buildings. Of the 15 properties offered, all except one are office buildings.  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Sibley Fleming |
Tearing Up Peachtree Tearing up Peachtree Street, which runs through downtown Atlanta and the office markets of Midtown and Buckhead, is another way of saying there's a lot of construction going on.  |
National Real Estate Investor November 25, 2002 Parke Chapman |
Acadia picks up 1 million sq. ft. center in Delaware Acadia Realty Trust is expected to acquire a major open-air retail complex in Wilmington, Del.  |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2006 Chad Eric Watt |
Technology Triumph Regional boosters promote technology businesses to offset the low wages in the tourism and service sectors. That led to the creation of the Central Florida Research Park, a 1,027-acre, county-supported development east of Orlando.  |
National Real Estate Investor September 23, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Office REIT Stung By Competitive Manhattan Market A decision last week by law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to lease 450,000 sq. ft. at One World Financial Center was terrific news for lower Manhattan and WFC landlord Brookfield Properties, but quite the opposite for Boston Properties.  |