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The city of Columbus has grown more popular as a distribution center, and national investors are seeing a lot of opportunities.

Minshall Stewart and Heitman Capital acquired the East End office in the fourth quarter of 2013 for $95 million.

The retail giant is diversifying.

The Hitachi Chemical unit signed a long-term lease and plans to create state of the art facilities to support the growth of its cellular therapeutic technologies.

More attention is paid to emerging markets such as Dublin, a trend that is especially true with high-level borrowers, and lenders are willing to sharpen their pencils to win multifamily business in the Bay Area.

Soaring rental rates, plunging vacancy rates and a lack of land for development opportunities in CBDs have forced developers to look outside the urban core to build office product, CommercialCafe's Doug Ressler tells GlobeSt.com.

From adaptability to clean rooms and R&D-informed designs, Ware Malcomb had its work cut out for it with its design for the MicroVention project here. GlobeSt.com speaks with Tom Myers about the firm's strategy.

L.A.'s growing STEM talent pool helps generate office market activity and significant rental rate growth in some of the city's most desirable office submarkets.