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National Real Estate Investor April 16, 2003 Parke Chapman	New leases chip away at lower Manhattan's vacancies More than 600,000 sq. ft. of office space in lower Manhattan was leased this week, pushing the downtown market's vacancy rate below 13% for the first time in a year. Two large leasing deals were responsible for the positive trend.
National Real Estate Investor April 2, 2003 Parke Chapman	Lower Manhattan vacancies declined in March For the first time in months, downtown New York City posted positive absorption of office space. A report from Cushman & Wakefield shows that downtown office vacancy fell from 13.7% at the end of February to 13.3% at the end of last month.
National Real Estate Investor September 19, 2003 Parke Chapman	Giant Lease Signed In Downtown Manhattan Law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP has agreed in principle to sign a 20-year lease for 450,000 sq. ft. of office space at lower Manhattan's 1 World Financial Center. It would be the largest office lease signed in lower Manhattan since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
National Real Estate Investor September 2, 2003	Former World Trade Center Tenant Returns to Downtown Manhattan Almost two years to the day after its offices in 2 World Trade Center were destroyed by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law firm Thacher Proffitt & Wood is returning to lower Manhattan.
National Real Estate Investor January 5, 2004 Parke Chapman	Law Firm Relocates from Midtown to Downtown Manhattan Midtown Manhattan law firm Morgan & Finnegan has signed a 100,000 sq. ft. lease at 3 World Financial Center. The lease gives the firm two full floors within 3 WFC, which is located directly across from Ground Zero.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Ground Zero Waiting Game Above-market asking rents and political bickering over Ground Zero's future are foiling developer Larry Silverstein in his quest to fill the $700 million 7 World Trade Center building. As of late December, just 40,000 of the total 1.7 million sq. ft. was leased.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Parke Chapman	Office Glut at Ground Zero The jury decision on insurance liability for the World Trade Center could clear the way for five new office towers to be developed around Ground Zero in a larger plan that could cost as much as $9 billion.
National Real Estate Investor December 24, 2003	Bank of America to Anchor Major Manhattan Office Project The 2.1 million sq. ft. office tower to be called One Bryant Park will be developed by the Durst Organization.
National Real Estate Investor September 23, 2003 Parke Chapman	Office REIT Stung By Competitive Manhattan Market A decision last week by law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to lease 450,000 sq. ft. at One World Financial Center was terrific news for lower Manhattan and WFC landlord Brookfield Properties, but quite the opposite for Boston Properties.
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2004 Parke Chapman	Midtown Manhattan: A Pillar of Strength The real estate market in Manhattan is finally emerging from a three-year slump. Office leasing is on the rise, hotel vacancy rates are tightening and luxury retailers are flocking to Fifth Avenue's midtown shopping corridor.
National Real Estate Investor July 9, 2003 Parke Chapman	C&W: Manhattan Office Vacancy Ebbed In June Cushman & Wakefield reports on current conditions and outlook for the year in the Manhattan office market.
National Real Estate Investor November 5, 2002 Parke Chapman	Report: Manhattan office sales volume up 14% Manhattan's office sales market is booming despite a sluggish leasing climate that has kept vacancy high.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Ira Breskin	Office Development Survives Tech Wreck Developers of i.park -- a 1.4 million sq. ft. reconfigured office complex 15 miles outside of Manhattan -- had to shelve their original vision of opening a "telco hotel." But i.park Holdings LLC is having success with a new strategy of luring tenants with special post-9/11 needs.
National Real Estate Investor December 6, 2002	Deutsche Bank Returning to Lower Manhattan Deutsche Bank will move nearly 6,000 of its staff into a new headquarters building in Lower Manhattan. Deutsche Bank purchased the building -- 60 Wall Street -- in April 2001 for roughly $600 million.
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Ground Zero Office Glut in the Making? If Ground Zero's newest tower is any indication, filling space in the Freedom Tower and adjacent buildings will be a challenge.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Joe Gose	The Office Investment Gamble Several office markets battered by the tech wreck that jolted Wall Street and led to a recession four years ago are still plagued by double-digit vacancies. But that hasn't fazed investors, who are generally paying more for properties today than they were in 2001 when the buildings were filled with tenants.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Parke Chapman	One Step Closer to a Final Plan The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is moving closer to redeveloping the site of the World Trade Center -- even as the need for 11 million sq. ft. of replacement office space is anything but urgent.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Jennifer Dawson	Re-Energizing Houston Although the energy industry in Houston is enjoying a resurgence, the office sector continues to lag the broader economic recovery with a metro vacancy rate of nearly 18%. But increasingly the market appears poised for a major turnaround.
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2005 Parke Chapman	Residential Rebound Four years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, residential sales and rentals in Manhattan are soaring.
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2003	American Financial Buys $769 Million Office Portfolio Fresh after its IPO last week, American Financial Realty Trust has purchased 158 properties from Bank of America Corp. for nearly $800 million. The 8.1 million sq. ft. portfolio consists of office buildings, banking and operations centers scattered throughout 19 states.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2005 Parke Chapman	Finally, An Uptick in Office Rents Average rents nationally rose by 0.7% to hit $20.25 per sq. ft., up from $20.11 per sq. ft. at the end of 2004. In reality, scores of major office markets are still limping, and some won't make a full recovery for several years to come.
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2005 Christine Perez	A Tale of Two Office Submarkets It appears Dallas is on the verge of another economic rebound, with nearly all of the new office development occurring in two key submarkets -- Downtown/Uptown and Far North Dallas. But too much new construction could push buyers to other cities.
Inc. November 2006	A Tale of Two Sites A look at two major Web players in commercial real estate.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2006 Jeanne Lang Jones	Seattle's Day in the Sun Because of the strengthening economy, vacancy rates and rents are improving in the Puget Sound's two largest office submarkets -- Seattle and Bellevue, a suburban city located on the east side of Lake Washington about a 30-minute drive from downtown Seattle.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Dana Dubbs	A Towering Question These are trying days for Philadelphia's downtown office market. Now, three separate office developments are on the drawing board, including a $700 million world trade complex that would add 2.3 million sq. ft. of space. Local real estate professionals are skeptical.
National Real Estate Investor August 13, 2003	Kirkland's Signs On for 700,000 Sq. Ft. Distribution Center Home decor retailer Kirkland's has leased a 771,000 sq. ft. distribution center in Jackson, Tenn., that will be built by New York-based REIT Lexington Corporate Properties Trust.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	Crossing the Hudson The office market in Midtown Manhattan is blazing hot, with asking rents at prime buildings topping $100 per sq. ft. That has sent some tenants heading for Northern New Jersey where it is possible to find rents in Class-A buildings for less than $35 per sq. ft.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Bennett Voyles	A Sky-High Tax Increase Still reeling from the recession and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the New York real estate industry now faces one more blow: an 18.5% increase in the city's real property tax.
Inc. April 1, 2003 Martha E. Mangelsdorf	The Space Race With office rents plunging, there's never been a better time to be a tenant. It's a prime opportunity for small business owners, whether you're looking for swankier space or cheaper rent.
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Parke Chapman	A Supply Glut In the Office Sector Over the past two years, as office markets softened, industry pundits predicted that things would not get as bad as they did in the last recession because this time the market was not overbuilt. It looks like they were wrong.
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 Morris Newman	San Francisco's Bipolar Office Market Riding a High Investors in the seemingly bipolar San Francisco office market appear ready to bounce back. After three years of slow recovery, downtown San Francisco is ready to relegate the tech fiasco to the past.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Sibley Fleming	Tearing Up Peachtree Tearing up Peachtree Street, which runs through downtown Atlanta and the office markets of Midtown and Buckhead, is another way of saying there's a lot of construction going on.
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Margaret Jackson	Downtown Renaissance With the February opening of a $270 million convention center hotel complex, downtown St. Louis has received nearly $1.4 billion in public and private investment since 1998 -- the largest investment ever in the city over such a brief period.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2005 Paula Widholm	Chicago is Back on the Upswing "Live, work, play" has been downtown Chicago's catchphrase since 2000. In recent years it's been amplified by a surge in new high-rise condo projects, office skyscrapers and a new nearly half-billion dollar lakefront park.
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2006 Beth Mattson-Teig	Twin Cities Harbor Hidden Office Buys On the surface, the Minneapolis-St. Paul office market appears to be plodding along at a steady, yet unremarkable clip. But a closer look reveals a market that is bubbling with activity.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Ezra Fieser	The Nation's Commercial Real Estate Capital? Washington, D.C., just might be the only commercial real estate market in the U.S. with bragging rights.
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2005	In Progress: The Streets of Copperfield The $50 million open-air shopping center complex in Houston will feature an 83,000 sq. ft. Rave Theatre, a 25,000 sq. ft. bookstore and 142,000 sq. ft. of specialty retail and restaurant space.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Tenuous Office Recovery Boston's metropolitan market continues to lag the national office recovery -- and observers question if the market's near-term leasing momentum is sustainable. They cite two stubborn trends: an active mergers and acquisitions market, and a soft local economy.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Margy Sweeney	Chicago's `Long, Flat Bottom' Downtown Chicago continues to bustle with construction activity. This is a good sign and also a scary one.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Double-Edged Recovery Technology now appears to be curtailing office demand as fewer tenants feel the need to aggressively lease expansion space -- the heady formula that knocked national office vacancy down around about 12% by 2000.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Parke Chapman	The Changing Brokerage Paradigm These are edgy times for commercial real estate brokerages. Office leasing volume is flat-lining, top brokers are switching firms and mergers are creating a new breed of mega-brokerages.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2007 S.J. Caplan	SL Green's Golden Earnings The Manhattan-heavy REIT reports sturdy quarterly results.
National Real Estate Investor June 20, 2003	California Office Campus Sells For $46M A 437,000 sq. ft. Orange County office center has traded for $46 million. Voit Commercial Brokerage represented both the buyer, PS Business Parks, Inc. and the seller, Orange County Business Center.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2005 Heather Cole	$2.5 Billion St. Louis Facelift In the mid-1990s, downtown St. Louis was hemorrhaging jobs, and a vacant garment district in its central corridor only accentuated the blight. Over the last five years, however, the area has undergone a major transformation.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Jack Dorsey: "I Believe That The Square Wallet Experience Was The Peak" Square Wallet, the digital wallet from mobile payments company Square that allowed people to pay with just their name, may not stay dead for long.
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2005 Nicholas Yulico	Betting on a Rebound A surge in San Francisco leasing activity has propelled investors to pay record prices for trophy buildings in recent months. Skeptics wonder whether buyers are wise to bet on a recovery that may still be a ways off.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008	In Progress: Opus Corporate Center at Westlake Village The $180 million, 435,000 sq. ft. mixed-use development has freeway access and an array of on-site amenities and services.
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2005 Kris Hudson	Climbing Denver's Rocky Market The tech and telecom bust of recent years bloodied Denver with some of its highest vacancy rates and job losses since the late '80s. This year, local real estate and economic observers predict a long-awaited recovery.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Carol Tice	Listless in Seattle In March, state economists warned that Seattle won't see any sign of recovery before late 2004. But some developers are looking beyond the current miasma and are planning major new projects that they hope will open to a brighter scene in two years.
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2004 Hortense Leon	Miami Makeover Attracts Investors Miami's newly minted reputation for integrity and efficiency in city government sparks an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion of new construction, ranging from condos to an office tower, in and near the city's downtown area.