5 ways Houston office landlords can boost occupancy with medical tenants

The office market in Houston is highly competitive with 8.6 million square feet in sublease space on the market and a 23.7 percent vacancy. However, health care continues to remain a highly desirable property type, with less than 4 percent vacancy in the Texas Medical Center. With no indications that the medical sector is going … Read more

London airport open, but location of drone culprit up in air

London’s Gatwick Airport operated without problems Sunday, but the fugitive drone operators who brought incoming and outgoing flights to a standstill over multiple days remained at large — and a potential threat — after police cleared two local residents who were arrested as suspects.

London's Gatwick Airport reopens; drone suspects questioned

London’s Gatwick Airport was plagued by long lines and flight delays Saturday but no new drone sightings, allowing British officials to hope the worse was over after two people were arrested in connection with the drone invasion that had shut down the country’s second-busiest airport.

Construction Roundup: Sunport South Business Park breaks ground, New restaurants headed to Coors

December is proving not to be a slow month for construction with new projects added to Business First’s Construction Watch, our interactive map that pinpoints local development projects. The first project added was the Sunport South Business Park, a 350-acre master plan development south of the Albuquerque International Sunport. Mesa, Arizona-based Horne Development Group is the … Read more

Q&A: What does it mean when stocks enter a 'bear market'

Wall Street’s sharp downturn beginning in October has pulled the Nasdaq composite index into what’s known as a bear market. The benchmark S&P 500 index is in what Wall Street calls a correction, and is headed toward a bear market, threatening to end the more than 9-year U.S. bull market run.

Così makes play for Taylor Gourmet brand

The founder of Taylor Gourmet, the Philly-style hoagie chain that shuttered nearly all of its locations abruptly in September, is trying to buy the restaurant’s trademark and email list as part of its bankruptcy proceeding.  Taylor founder Casey Patten has some deep-pocketed competition for the intellectual property, however. Massive sandwich chain Così is also bidding … Read more

What Memphis 3.0 means for economic equity and the city's future growth

More than a third of Memphis’ land is vacant. That’s a stat found in the “Memphis 3.0” draft the City of Memphis released this week. The Memphis 3.0 comprehensive plan is 400-plus pages demonstrating a policy that city leaders invoke quite often: “Build up, not out.” It is designed to encourage infill; revitalize neighborhoods in … Read more

Here's how Northern Virginia's other Amazon locations would have laid out

Perseus-TDC planned to seek permission from local and federal authorities to build a headquarters tower stretching up to 500 feet for Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) at the foot of a new Eisenhower Avenue Metro station entrance, if that’s what it took to bring the Seattle-based company’s new headquarters to Alexandria. The e-commerce and cloud computing … Read more

Valley Partnership advocacy group names 2019 executive committee

Valley Partnership, an advocacy group for responsible development in Arizona, has named Jill Hegardt, vice president of entitlements at Scottsdale-based real estate developer DMB Associates Inc., as the 2019 chair of its executive committee. Hegardt was recently appointed along with several other members of the committee: Tim Brislin, vice president at real estate investment firm … Read more

JPMorgan's CEO has big expansion plans. Here are the S. Fla. cities in his crosshairs.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon was in Boston last week to celebrate the opening of the megabank’s first retail branch in Massachusetts. While there, he was asked to identify markets Chase was targeting following moves earlier this year into Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Boston. “Get a list of the top 50 — 75 … Read more

Amazon won’t be the biggest game in town once Inova’s Merrifield campus takes shape

Inova Health System is cementing its vision for its research and development campus, a mammoth project compared to even Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) HQ2. The Falls Church-based health system’s Center for Personalized Health, on the 117-acre former Exxon Mobil campus in Merrifield, is slated for an eventual 15 million square feet of development — notably … Read more

The 5 biggest things that happened at Water Street Tampa in 2018

The last 12 months were momentous for Water Street Tampa. From groundbreakings to more land acquisitions, the massive mixed-use project in downtown Tampa hit several key milestones this year. “Since beginning vertical construction in April, we’ve seen an unprecedented level of activity on-site,” James Nozar, the CEO of Water Street developer Strategic Property Partners, said … Read more

Round Rock lands IT equipment company at growing business park

A California-based information technology company will expand its operations in Round Rock after an incentive deal was approved this week. Round Rock City Council on Thursday approved an economic incentives agreement with Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Chatsworth Products Inc., which makes systems that organize, store and secure IT infrastructure equipment, according to a city announcement. “This … Read more

SLS Hotel in Mount Vernon Triangle hit with financing delay

D.C.’s planned SLS Hotel project is facing a delay as its developer works to line up financing.  Peebles Corp., which is developing the luxury, boutique property, asked the D.C. Council for an extension of its right to buy the future hotel site, located at Fifth and Eye streets NW in Mount Vernon Triangle.  The council … Read more