A Lack of Transactions is Warping Index Report A key tool used to track the health of the economy and the commercial real estate market is being affected by the shrinking number of transactions, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Real Estate. “The fourth quarter of 2008 is the first time we’ve [...]
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Who’s On the Move – Week Ending 3/13/09
Posted in commercial real estate, headquarters, office brokerage, office space, sublease, tagged auction pay, brokerage, commercial real estate, commonwealth building, congress center, digital trends, element power us, fairway center, nikon precision, office space, shorenstein, square feet, submitnet, triangle corporate park, unico, us bancorp tower on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Agave Jeans Make a Move in Washington
Posted in commercial real estate, headquarters, office space, Trends, tagged agave jeans, commercial real estate, denim, headquarters, lease, los angeles, manufacturing facility, new building, office space, or, portland, ridgefield, square feet, WA on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Agave, so, here’s a neat company that relocated in 2006 from Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest. Agave designs and manufactures high end jeans, yep the denim we love to cover our legs with at least 350 days a year. Agave just made an expansionary move into a 22,500 square foot facility in Ridgefield, WA [...]
Who’s On the Move – Week Ending 3/6/09
Posted in commercial real estate, office brokerage, office space, Trends, Uncategorized, tagged clean tech, commercial real estate, Dungarvin Oregon, Fanno Creek Place, hilltop business center, lease, leased, LEED, office buildings, office space, rates, SCS consulting, square feet, technology, vacancy, ziprealty on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Commercial Real Estate Will Survive This Economy Despite what the average joe may think, a survey conducted by Greenwich Associates, a Stamford, Conn.-based consultant and research firm confirms what many advisors already know — real estate will continue to be an integral part of diversified portfolios. Hard to believe I know, but remember this is not [...]
Star Park Goes Green
Posted in commercial real estate, Green Building, headquarters, office brokerage, office space, Trends, tagged Alder, clean tech, commercial real estate, environment, green tech, hydrophix, office space, oregon, portland, psu, schlesinger, smart sponge, square feet, star park, sustainable practices, willamette river on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A client of mine, Schlesinger Companies, has stepped up as a steward of the environment and committed to installing a new type of spongy filter, created for large-scale oil-spill remediation, that will be used to prevent harmful hydrocarbons from seeping into the Willamette River from high-pollution areas. Placed under the runoff catch basin at Star Park’s Southwest Fourth Avenue parking [...]
Portland Ranks 19th For Energy Efficient Buildings
Posted in commercial real estate, Green Building, lease, LEED, oregon, portland, square feet, tagged commercial real estate, energy efficient, energy star, epa, Green Building, lease, LEED, office buildings, office space, portland business journal, square feet on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to an article in today’s Portland Business Journal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ranked Portland 19th for the highest number of energy efficient buildings in the country. Portland has 45 buildings that meet the criteria. Los Angeles has the most buildings with the EPA “Energy Star” rating, with 262, followed by San Francisco [...]
Who’s On the Move – Week Ending 2/27/09
Posted in commercial real estate, office brokerage, office space, tagged apm, Behringer Harvard, blackstone, boston properties, brookfield properties, Duke Realty, First and Main, gramor, harsch, hines, ING Clarion, KBS Realty, kruse way, LaSalle, Naito, One Main Place, REIT, rreef, shorenstein, struck creative, TIAA CREF, vornado on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Top 25 U.S. Office Property Owners Though Portland is a second tier market from a commercial real estate standpoint, several national portfolios have a stake in our market . Of the top 25 office property portfolio owners in the U.S., 9 of them have holdings in the Portland/Vancouver area. Shorenstein Properties is the largest holder in Portland with [...]
The Ted Spread – Less is More
Posted in commercial real estate, office space, Trends, tagged basis points, bps, commercial real estate, credit market, daily journal of commerce, lease, leasing, McGee Financial, office space, pacific real estate partners, portland, square feet, Ted, treasury bills, vacancy rate on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Highly regarded financial advisor Judith McGee had a few thoughts to offer on the current credit market and what she sees as, if at least modestly, improving markets this year. Though cautious on her observations, Ms. McGee points out that money market indicators are showing signs of better times ahead. An important signal to track [...]
National Real Estate Investor- RECon 2012 Roundup May 25, 2012A myriad of project announcements, deals and product launches came during ICSC’s RECon show in Las Vegas. Here’s a rundown of some of the news.
- RECon 2012 Roundup May 25, 2012
- JLL GreenBlog
- Sustainability Initiatives and Shareholder Value (VIDEO)Posted by: Michael Jordan Strategic Consulting Many service companies are developing sustainability programs, but few are actually integrating sustainability into their core business activities. In the video below, I describe the experience of KeyBank, which is creating a sustainability program focused on shareholder value. Recycling and energy efficiency pr […]
- Sustainability Initiatives and Shareholder Value (VIDEO)
- Retail Traffic
- RECon 2012: A Return to Normalcy May 24, 2012At ICSC's RECon 2012 there was optimism. There were full halls. And, most importantly, deals were getting done.
- RECon 2012: A Return to Normalcy May 24, 2012
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