DALLAS-Denver, Austin, California and the Baltimore-Washington,D.C. area are hot on Insignia Commercial Investments Group'sdevelopment list, says Barry Nelson, new ICIG president.

Since 1996, Nelson has been the executive managing director forDallas-based ICIG, a co-investment development subsidiary ofInsignia Financial Group Inc., based in New York City. Aspresident, he will be leading a charge to refocus Insignia'sdevelopment activities strictly on office and industrial projectsin the coming year. “Another change is we will broaden the nationalscope,” he says, adding Insignia's national office network willprovide the platform needed to expand development activities in2001.

“Everything we're looking at is in a very strong location, avery strong market,” Nelson told GlobeSt.com. ICIG will maintainthe 1 million sf of new construction that it has been undertakingper year.