• Senate Votes to Free Landowners From Remediating Brownfields

    WASHINGTON, DC-The Senate has passed a bill that would free landowners from having to clean up mildly contaminated sites that they did not pollute. The measure now goes to the House of Representatives.

  • Call Center Coming Available

    MILWAUKIE, OR-GE Capital Corp., which acquired the 32,904-sf, 20-year-old building in the Freeman Industrial Park as part of its purchase of the J.C. Penney Credit Card portfolio in late 1999, is consolidating call center services elsewhere.

  • Retail Still Rocking in Southern California

    LOS ANGELES-A developer plans 900,000-sf mall in Pomona and an Eagle Rock center is sold for $8.3 million. New report by Grubb & Ellis credits SoCal's strength to relatively high consumer spending and other factors.

  • Grossman Project Helping to Wake Up Downtown

    QUINCY, MA-Grossman's plan to improve a building here and erect a luxury apartment house have locals hoping that the addition of residential units as well as additional retail will revitalize Downtown.

  • Fircroft Takes Last Spot at 5301 Hollister

    HOUSTON-Yancey-Hausman has filled one office building at Northwest Crossing as construction continues on another 112,000-sf structure. Tenant Fircroft Inc. has doubled its lease to occupy a total 7,902 sf.

  • Newmark Sees Continued Growth in Office Market

    WHITE PLAINS-Officials with Newmark & Co. Real Estate say that Westchester County's office market is weathering the current overall economic slowdown and continues to see asking rents rise in early 2001.

  • Office Market Hit, but Still Standing

    PHOENIX-The struggling national economy placed enough doubt in the minds of office lessors during the first quarter that there was negative net absorption of space and the vacancy rate rose by one percentage point, according to a new survey.

  • Woodland Beefing Up Retail Roster

    THE WOODLANDS, TX-A series of land buys will add to the retail line-up at the College Park Shopping Center. The eight new retailers are coming to a high-traffic market that big boxes say is producing strong sales.

  • New FedEx Building Sells for $6.1 Mil

    CUDAHY, WI-Freehold, NJ-based Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. buys a 114,123-sf industrial building in this Milwaukee suburb. The building is net-leased to FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. for 10 years.

  • AT&T Takes 250,000 SF in $57 Mil Lease for Suburban Data Center

    DOUGLASVILLE, GA-The telecommunications firm is leasing the single-story building, 25 miles east of Downtown Atlanta, for 15 years. The deal is one of the largest in metro Atlanta this year.