WASHINGTON, DC-Change is afoot at Cassidy & Pinkard as the company promotes executive vice president and COO John J. Fleury to the position of president. Robert M. Pinkard will relinquish his presidential role while staying on as CEO.

WASHINGTON, DC-District office properties continue to prove irresistible attractions and the recent sale of the 265,850-sf 1776 G St. for a whopping $84.75 million or $318.8 per sf backs up that premise.

BALTIMORE-All systems are go for the Central Maryland Chapter of the American Red Cross's new 30,000-sf building with the Board of Estimates' approval of the sale of a 4.5-acre parcel to the humanitarian organization.

RICHMOND, VA-Redevelopment of Consolidated-Carolina, a 158-unit residential loft property, wraps up with the official opening of the complex. Developer Forest City Enterprises Inc. spent an estimated $24 million to reinvent the early 20th Century buildings.

WASHINGTON, DC-Resource America Inc. gets to have its cake and eat it too as the company signs a letter of intent to sell 80% of its interest in the 480,000-sf National Press Building to a fund of Quadrangle Development Corp. for $21 million.

WASHINGTON, DC-The Metropolitan Washington, DC region continues to hold its spot at the top with its ranking as the nation's strongest office market in Advantis Real Estate Services Cos.' Mid-Year 2003 Office Report.

WASHINGTON, DC-The Bringing America Home Act, with 27 cosponsors in tow, contains a provision that would make funds available to build and rehabilitate 1.5 million affordable housing units over the next 10 years.

WASHINGTON, DC-Jones Lang LaSalle is marketing the Hyatt Regency Washington, DC on Capitol Hill without a price tag, but its assessed value--a low-ball indication of how much the building could sell for--is $111 million.