NEW YORK CITY-In a prepared statement, the new holder of the 99-year master lease on the World Trade Center makes his sentiments known. "Anyone who believes in freedom and democracy became a New Yorker," he says.

NEW YORK CITY-"Close by, another man rapped his useless cell phone repeatedly on the park bench and then clutched his head in his hands. That one gesture, more than any other, seemed to summarize the day.

NEW YORK CITY-Just blocks from the scene of the disaster, minutes after the towers went down, one survivor of yesterday's terrorist attack that devastated the World Trade Center shared his story with GlobeSt.com.

Corporate America was overstaffed and over-spaced.

NEW YORK CITY-National lobbying efforts help a woefully decentralized industry, but the legislative cards--especially in terms of environmental issues--are still stacked against commercial real estate.

As long as corporations want to clear their balance sheets, sale/leasebacks will grow in popularity.

NEW YORK CITY-According to respondents to GlobeSt.com's latest Quick Survey, private investors are the players making this industry move. Alan Greenspan and the Fed Reserve's interest-rate cuts have done little to spur greater flows of capital.

CHICAGO-The locally based REIT positions its AMLI at Carmel Center project to take advantage of the Carmel City Center redevelopment--some 180,000 sf of retail and office space.