Commercial Real Estate & Business News – May 28, 2015
Retailers Struggle To Find Balance Between Expanding Online or Opening More Stores Despite upbeat sales projections from retailers, strong consumer-confidence levels and a host of other positive-trending economic indicators, retailers are still struggling to find the best approach to funding growth in the new U.S. retail marketplace. According to BDO USA’s ninth annual analysis of […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – May 27, 2015
Multifamily Developers Favor Downtown, But Suburbia Holds Its Own In the midst of the Great Recession, vacancy in the multifamily sector hit a cyclical high of 8.0 percent. Over the next several years, the vacancy rate nearly halved, reaching 4.1 percent in early 2014. Vacancy now stands at 4.2 percent as of the end of […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – May 26, 2015
From ‘Ugly’ Shopping Center To Retail ‘Disneyland’ Before real-estate mogul Michael Pollack could transform an “ugly” strip mall he owned in Gilbert into something better, he needed to send his architect to Disneyland. Perhaps inspired by the small-town magic oozing from the theme park’s Main Street, U.S.A., with a touch of Western flair from Frontierland, […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – May 22, 2015
ayo Medical School Gets State Approval for $150M Arizona Branch Campus Mayo Medical School has received licensure by the Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education for its $150 million Arizona branch campus. This nod of approval will allow Mayo to expand its medical school to its Mayo Clinic campus in Scottsdale and allow medical […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – May 21, 2015
Top 5 Takeaways From 2015 RECon Conference This week’s International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) RECon convention saw the strongest turnout in years, with at least 35,000 deal-makers attending annual retail property conference in Las Vegas. With retail sales edging back up and a lack of suitable sites, expanding retailers are prompting a fledgling wave […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – May 15, 2015
Office Attracting Global Capital While Reinventing Technology, demand and right-sizing are revolutionizing traditional office from every angle. O.CON: The Office Conference, hosted by GlobeSt.com Thought Leader NAIOP and held June 24–25 Houston, leads the conversation on what’s driving the future of office. The inaugural O.CON will showcase creative spaces and retrofits that meet today’s demand, […]