Market Profiles
Experiencing Organic Growth
Mar 1, 2008, By Chuck Green
North and South Carolina's scenic beauty has long been credited for drawing scores of Americans to make trips to the region; however, it is the area's...
Rapid Growth
Oct 1, 2007, Jennifer Popovec
Grand Rapids, located in the western section of Michigan, is doing better than cities in the eastern part of the state. The second largest city in the...
Documenting Dead Malls
Oct 1, 2007
Daven Gee, a university professor and filmmaker, is producing a documentary, Our Mall, exploring why some malls in the Kansas City area died or are in...
Southeast Briefs
Oct 1, 2007
The Trammell Crow Co. appointed api(+) to design the Posner Commons Shopping Center, a 600,000-sq.-ft. retail center in Tampa, Fla. Barry Real Estate...
Peach Cobbler
Oct 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Mention Atlanta and images of uncontrolled urban sprawl and descriptions of hellish commutes inevitably arise. For years the city, the ninth largest in...
Growth in Kentucky
Oct 1, 2007, Riccardo A. Davis
Throughout the Southeast, auto plants have created jobs and drawn developers' interest. (See story on p. 77.) In Kentucky, the city of Bowling Green has...
Berry Nice
Oct 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
After three years in the planning process, Brentwood, Tenn.-based Boyle Investment Co. is getting ready to break ground on the Berry Farms Town Center,...
Auto Plants Steer Retail Down South
Oct 1, 2007, By Riccardo A. Davis
Overlooking the city of Birmingham, Ala., is a statue of Vulcan a remnant of the city's former reign as one of the largest steel and iron producers in...
Global Power
Oct 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
International real estate services giant Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. plans to expand its operations in China, with one of the company's senior executives...
Flatlining in the Heartland
Oct 1, 2007, By Jennifer Popovec
As most of the United States enjoyed an expanding economy over the past five years, the Midwest has suffered devastating job losses more than 500,000...
Return on Insurance
Oct 1, 2007, By Jennifer Popovec
Over the past few years the U.S. coasts have been hammered by hurricanes while the Midwest escaped disaster. In August that changed. The Midwest region...
Turf Wars
Oct 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
A recent ruling on a broker "turf law" in Kentucky might spell trouble ahead for a handful of other states. For years, the Bluegrass state required that...
Twin Poles
Oct 1, 2007, Jennifer Popovec
Minneapolis-St. Paul has had better days than many of its other Midwestern counterparts. The Twin Cities, whose population is about 3.5 million people,...
Midwest Briefs
Oct 1, 2007
Cabot Investment Properties appointed Jones Lang LaSalle as the leasing and managing agent for three malls in Ohio and Indiana totaling 1.8 million sq....
Sailing Through
Oct 1, 2007, Jennifer Popovec
Ohio's economy has seen better days. At the heart of the Rust Belt, the state's growth has trailed national averages. However, things have been a bit...
Steiner Strikes Again
Oct 1, 2007, Jennifer Popovec
Columbus-based Steiner + Associates, noted for being the team behind the influential Easton Town Center, has brought its act to Glendale, Wis. There the...
A Taste of Home
Sep 1, 2007, Patricia Kirk
A joint venture of KOAR Wilshire Western LLC and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is developing a project that will provide a two-way...
CALIFORNIA BRIEFS
Sep 1, 2007
Festival Real Estate Commercial Services is constructing the 80-acre El Centro Huntington Park in the mid-cities area of Los Angeles County. The proposed...
A Grand Debut
Sep 1, 2007, Patricia Kirk
A new $300 million, one-million-square-foot regional shopping center opened in August at Tustin Legacy, a 1,600-acre master-planned community at the former...
Around The Towns
Sep 1, 2007
California developers Opus West and Shea Properties are developing town center projects that will provide enticing downtown shopping districts for two...
Bay Area Sails
Sep 1, 2007, By Patricia L. Kirk
A few years ago, when San Francisco's economy was in the doldrums after the collapse of the dot-com bubble and the mass devastation that wiped out huge...
California Greening
Sep 1, 2007, By Patricia L. Kirk
A few years ago developers claimed that retail development was an unrealistic goal for retail development because multitenant projects can't be expected...
Miami's Sizzle is Fizzling
Aug 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
During the recent construction boom, nowhere was the trend of converting older properties into new condominiums more prevalent than in Miami. As prices...
Buccing a Trend
Aug 1, 2007, By Patricia L. Kirk
The bursting of the housing bubble has hit Florida hard, but that has not slowed one of the fastest-growing sections of one of the fastest-growing states...
Keeping Afloat
Aug 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
Orlando remains a bright spot in Florida's retail market, with continued job growth and tourism dollars making up for a drop in housing prices, according...
