Breaking News SAN FRANCISCO-The firm has initiated a series of moves designed to strengthen significantly its delivery of capital-markets solutions to CRE investors in the San Francisco Bay Area.

]]> TORRANCE, CA-The increase in Phase I ESA’s ordered indicates steady improvement in the national real estate markets, says engineering-consulting firm Partner Engineering and Science Inc.

]]> LAS VEGAS-Xavier Wasiak, who will specialize in industrial deals, is the second senior level executive to join the firm’s Vegas team since 2012, and says it is an exciting time to be considering an expansion or relocation here.

]]> SHERMAN OAKS, CA-The venture with Moss & Co. will offer building owners a seamless transition from acquisition to management of commercial properties, GlobeSt.com exclusively learns.

]]> SAN FRANCISCO-GlobeSt.com chats with the new firm’s managing director Gregor Watson, former founder of McKinley Capital Partners, about the new spinoff and what opportunities the company sees in distress.

]]> PHILADELPHIA-The portfolio consists of four properties totaling 1,106 units located in the Philadelphia-Camden-Willington MSA.

]]> BOSTON-In its second acquisition here since 2007, Shorenstein Properties is paying a reported $110 million for the nine-story office property, a former wool warehouse that has been extensively upgraded.

]]> NEW YORK CITY-Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a GlobeSt.com poll said recent high-level resignations either portend more to come or prove that the industry needs to work on succession planning.

]]> DALLAS-Estein & Associates taps Trademark to develop and implement a leasing strategy for retail and undeveloped land in the mixed-use project. Also: CRE news from the Southwest.

]]> MIAMI-CBRE's Charles Foschini tells GlobeSt.com's Jennifer LeClaire there was intense competition to fund the multifamily assets.

]]> FORT LAUDERDALE, FL—Foreign buyers and institutional investors have bought almost all of the 5,100 units constructed since 2003.

]]> CHICAGO-Partners McCaffery and Canyon-Johnson say the mall redevelopment is underway, and tenants are taking leases, a year after Centrum gave up the mostly-empty project in the South Loop.

]]> FARMINGTON HILLS, MI-The locally-based REIT bought four shopping centers in Colorado, Missouri and Wisconsin for $105 million, and sold two in Florida for $5.4 million.

]]> VIENNA, VA-Lower rents were the driving force behind law firm Rees Broome moving its Tysons Corner-based office to a new location here. Currently, the firm occupies a similar amount of space at 8133 Leesburg Pike.

]]> BEIJING-Dalian Wanda’s buy of Kansas City, MO-based AMC creates the world’s largest theater chain, with 432 locations in North America and China.

]]> BIRMINGHAM, AL-The developer of the $50-million Westin Hotel beside the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex may renew a proposal to transform the old Regions Plaza structure in downtown Birmingham into a hotel.

]]> HUNTSVILLE, AL-Brothers-in-law Peter Lowe and John Blue are expecting to break ground later this year on Lendon, a 68-acre development in Huntsville.

]]> MILWAUKEE-Daniel Bruckner, a Fox Point landlord, has sold two sites in Milwaukee to Jomela Properties.

]]> FORT WORTH-RioCan, a real estate investment trust based in Toronto, is expecting to purchase an 80% stake in the retail division of Montgomery Plaza situated on West Seventh Street in Fort Worth.

]]> BERLIN-YOUNIQ AG has started construction work on a student house apartment complex in Potsdam.

]]> LONDON-The London Borough of Croydon Council's planning committee has given approval for Hammerson's redevelopment scheme for Centrale Shopping Centre.

]]> MANCHESTER, UK-Segro has signed conditional contracts to sell four of its non-core industrial estates in the UK region to a Harbert Management Corporation (Europe) LLC fund for GBP 204.5 million.

]]> CHULA VISTA, CA-CoStar Group reported that Newport Beach-based Griffin-American Healthcare REIT has acquired Centre Medical Plaza, a two-building medical property in Chula Vista, for $24.6 million.

]]> ARLINGTON, VA-NBC Washington reported that the Arlington County Board has approved a proposal for a six-story apartment building with retail on the ground floor at 650 N. Glebe Road.

]]> NEW YORK CITY-Three tenants, namely, Morgan Stanley, Viacom Inc. and Citigroup Inc., have recently renewed their leases for approximately 500,000 square feet and above in New York.

]]> NEW YORK CITY-In connection with the offering, BlackRock has agreed to repurchase up to $1 billion of its stock from Barclays.

]]> SAN ANTONIO-BC Lynd Hospitality, a JV between BC Commercial Partners and Lynd Co., plans a $24 million renovation and new flag for the 109-year-old downtown hotel.

]]> NEW YORK CITY-The transportation agency will release a request for proposals later this month for the west side of Vanderblit Hall and an underdeveloped area above Grand Central Market.

]]> ARLINGTON, VA-The Meridian Group is acquiring the 142,833-square foot office from TA Associates. The RB Corridor has a robust pipeline of residential projects under development.

]]> WEST NEW YORK, NJ-A private investor has bought out the fully occupied office. Outside of Hudson County, Weiss has also scored two retail deals in Bergen.

]]> DOWNEY, CA-The companies are leading a new charge to redevelop the former space vehicle factory into a 1.5-million-square-foot mixed-use site with office, retail and a hotel.

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