Here are the news stories you might find interesting today regarding commercial real estate and business:
Healthcare Trust buys Denver offices
| Healthcare Trust of America Inc. purchased a 66,400-square-foot medical office building in Englewood, Colo., for $18.6 million. Scottsdale-based Healthcare Trust, formerly Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT Inc., is a private real estate investment trust that buys medical offices, hospitals and assisted living facilities. It owns about 6.4 million square feet of space in 19 states, including Arizona. |
Boost Mobile preps for first Arizona retail outlet
| Boost Mobile is opening its first Phoenix retail store, with a plan to donate to Amar’e Stoudemire’s charity. (S) |
North American Development pays $13.2M for Val Vista center
| North American Development Group of Canada purchased a Gilbert shopping center for $13.2 million. The real estate development company, which is based in Markham, Ontario, bought Val Vista Towne Center from Weingarten Realty Investors, a real estate investment trust based in Houston. |
Holiday hiring off to slow start
| Holiday hiring is off to a slow start, with retailers filling just 63,500 jobs in October, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. |
Travel industry could add 90,000 jobs in 2010
| The U.S. Travel Association is predicting the hospitality industry will add nearly 90,000 jobs next year. |
Zillow: U.S. home prices stabilizing, Phoenix outlook not as rosy
| New research from Zillow.com shows signs of short-term stabilization springing up in housing markets around the U.S., but the picture is not nearly as rosy in Phoenix. |
Consumers expect to cut restaurant spending
| Despite signs that the recession may be ending, restaurant customers say they plan to spend about 20 percent less per meal in 2010 than they did this year, according to a new study. |
$175M Fetches Kimco Full Ownership in 21 Shopping Centers
| Shopping center REIT, Kimco Realty Corporation (NYSE:KIM), has acquired an 85% interest in the 21 retail properties held under PL Retail Portfolio, its joint venture fund with DRA Advisors. The $175 million acquisition brings Kimco’s ownership in the… |
Real Estate Economists Parse October Jobs Report
The October employment report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics last Friday reflects a familiar but troubling pattern for a commercial real estate industry desperately seeking green shoots.
Mixed signals on commercial property
Believe it or not, the commercial-real-estate market could be close to a bottom. If so, relief to banks and other financial institutions that are struggling with troubled commercial-property loans and gives a boost to frozen commercial-credit markets – as well as the economy overall.
Banks eye tighter terms on credit cards
WASHINGTON – Banks expect to tighten terms on credit cards in response to a new law that aims to protect consumers from sudden rate hikes, the Federal Reserve said Monday.
New nightclub at Wild Horse Pass will have Vegas vibe
Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino will bring a bit of Las Vegas to the Valley when its new nightclub, Airia, opens Friday at the complex just south of Ahwatukee. The 6,000-square-foot club will be the first upscale nightclub in that part of the metro area, a place for Southeast Valley partiers to check out nearly naked go-go dancers and 65-inch plasma screens that flash an atmospheric array of images and colors.
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