After a week-long visit to Hurricane Katrina-battered New Orleans in November, a group of more than 50 Urban Land Institute members, of which I was one, offered suggestions on how best to nurse the city back to economic and cultural health...
Cohen Financial secured $162 million in construction financing for Legendary Inc.'s Emerald Grande at HarborWalk Village in Destin, Fla. The project will include 281 condos, a parking garage and 200,000-square-foot of retail...
Developers Diversified Realty changed gears and allowed the display of a 13-foot Hanukkah menorah at the Paseo Colorado mall in Pasadena after criticism from both Christian and Jewish groups and threats to boycott the mall. Originally, mall...
Walking through Vestar Development's four-year-old Desert Ridge Marketplace I was struck by how a project of this size — 1.2 million square feet — could consistently convey the impression of intimacy. The massive 190-acre complex contains the...
A growing number of retail projects could be put on hold in 2006 as the price of construction materials continues to rise as much as, or more than 2005, according to the Associated General Contractors of America...
Shea Properties, the commercial development and investment arm of the J.F. Shea Co., hired Colm Macken as its new president and CEO. Macken was president and COO of Forest City Enterprises' West Coast Commercial Group. Macken will replace W...
According to Torto Wheaton Research, retail ranks third in returns looking ahead 10 years. Retail ranks ahead of industrial and multi-housing, but behind office and hotel...
Less than two weeks before the 2002 Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) was set to expire, Congress ended months of on-again, off-again negotiations and passed a two-year extension and President Bush quickly signed the bill into law. Real estate...