CBRE New England, the region’s largest real estate brokerage, will have a new member of its leadership team effective Jan. 1.  Jodie Poirier, who previously led a CBRE office in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, will be managing director in Boston, joining Andy Hoar, Kevin Doyle and Steve Purpura. Her appointment follows CBRE … Read more

An active buyer has made what’s expected to be the first institutional investment at the Alta Vista Business Park in what’s been a flurry of activity at the Washington County park. Real Estate records indicate that the developer group of a manufacturing facility for publicly traded Gardner Denver Holdings Inc. in the Alta Vista Business … Read more

Duke City Management LLC, an Albuquerque-based commercial real estate property management company has purchased Gemini Rosemont’s Albuquerque property management operations. The sale closed Dec. 31, according to Joe Farr, owner and operator of Duke City Management. Santa Fe-based Gemini Rosemont confirmed the sale. The sale price was not disclosed. Farr served as senior vice president … Read more

“It will certainly be a luxury community, but it will be predominantly a mid-rise [building],” says lead developer.

The Trump administration and China are facing growing pressure to blink in their six-month stare-down over trade because of jittery markets and portents of economic weakness.

Small business issues often win bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, but given the divisions in the incoming 116th Congress, advocates for companies have low expectations.

Think you’ve got a long commute? You’re not alone. A 2017 Census Bureau survey found that Americans average nearly 27 minutes on a one-way trip to the office. An earlier census study revealed that 61 percent of us spend at least one hour driving to the office. What to do when you need a car … Read more

Dominion Energy announced the completion of its merger on Wednesday with a South Carolina utility drowning in debt after the failure of a nuclear construction project.

The roller-coaster ride on Wall Street resumed on Wednesday, the first trading day of the new year, as stocks plunged early on, then slowly recovered and finished with a slight gain.

The USL soccer club’s president and chairman sat down to talk about a busy 2018 and look ahead to 2019.

The company bought more than 260,000 square feet of San Antonio office space in 2018.

After five years in Harbor East, Haute Blow Dry Bar is packing up the round brushes and hair dryers. The salon, which offers professional blow-drying services rather than hair cuts and coloring, will close up its 700-square-foot shop at 664 S. Exeter St. in Harbor East and consolidate business in its Towson location, according to … Read more

Omega Healthcare Investors Inc. is expanding its portfolio of nursing and senior homes with the $600 million acquisition of a Tennessee real estate investment trust. Hunt Valley-based Omega plans to buy MedEquities Realty Trust Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal expected to close in the first half of the year. MedEquities stockholders are slated to receive … Read more

The USL soccer club’s president and chairman sat down to talk about a busy 2018 and look ahead to 2019.

Symmetry plans to protect a historic cemetery as part of the project.

The land is home to a cemetery where Germantown settler Zachariah Waters’ family is buried.

Investors to pay $275,000 for three-story building.

The Valley added 17,500 new jobs in construction during the 12-month period that ended November 30.

Baltimore’s Atlas Restaurant Group plans to bring another taste of the Mediterranean to Harbor East this spring with a new waterfront venue across from Ouzo Bay. “Ouzo Beach,” an extension of the Greek restaurant, will be a 120-seat bar and lounge styled to look like the gated courtyard of a Mediterranean villa, complete with palm … Read more

Positive growth was seen throughout most major Texas metros.

It was an eventful 12 months in a critical Portland sector.

Mission Road Antique Mall officially wrapped up operations Dec. 31, the Shawnee Mission Post reports. The 50,000-square-foot antique mall, which opened in 1994, had grown to more than 300 vendors, according to its website. The mall was located at 83rd Street and Mission Road in Prairie Village inside the former Woolford Farms stables, a site … Read more

In local news: This spring will mark a year since the Lynx Blue Line Extension opened, linking uptown to UNC Charlotte via light rail, but a wave of development spurred by the new transit connections had already started by that time. Expect the trend to continue in the new year, with major projects ahead for … Read more

Amazon.com Inc. will lean more on Whole Foods Market Inc. in the coming years as it tries to put more customers within range of the internet giant’s two-hour delivery service. That’s according to a Dec. 31 article from the Wall Street Journal, which reports that Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) will go from cost-cutting mode for Austin-based … Read more

After a frenzied few years, the market experienced a slight shift mid-2018. Will it hold up this year?

This major downtown-area project joins billions of dollars in new development in fast-growing Central Florida communities.

Though it may be a few more years before the full effect is felt, significant changes will begin this year in Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

The owner of Menlo Park’s Red Cottage Inn has plans to convert the property into a hotel three times the size. Yet neighbors of the 28-room hotel at 1704 El Camino Real have threatened to appeal, the East Bay Times reports. Owner Sagar Patel, who hopes to replace the current hotel with a 68-room Hampton … Read more

Netflix faced criticism Wednesday from human rights groups for pulling an episode in Saudi Arabia of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” series that criticized the kingdom’s powerful crown prince.

Greater Cincinnati started the new year with its first restaurant closure, WCPO reports. “This location has closed,” a sign on the door at Mitchell’s Fish Market in Newport on the Levee announced. “We are grateful for the friends we have made and we look forward to service you at another one of our locations nearby.” … Read more

The study – the LaVilla Neighborhood Development Strategy – was commissioned in 2016 by the Downtown Investment Authority, Jacksonville Transportation Authority and City of Jacksonville to evaluate the assets, infrastructure and opportunities around JTA’s $58 million transportation hub.

Seeking greener projects, which many consumers continue to embrace despite an anti-environmental mood in Washington, builders are choosing timber for offices, apartments and campus buildings, rather than the concrete and steel that dominated construction for decades.

Blue Heron Asset Management is expanding its Triangle portfolio.

We asked business and community leaders throughout Silicon Valley what they thought 2018 would be remembered for, what to expect from 2019 and what they saw the future of San Jose to be. Click through the gallery above or one of the names below to see what they said.

It’s the second time in as many months that a big business park in Bothell has sold.

Amazon.com Inc. will lean more on Whole Foods Market Inc. in the coming years as it tries to put more customers within range of the internet giant’s two-hour delivery service. That’s according to a Dec. 31 article from the Wall Street Journal, which reports that Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) will go from cost-cutting mode for Austin-based … Read more

A Walden Avenue shopping center sells for $1.375 million.

Apartment rent in Austin during 2018 grew an average of $57 a month, or 4.4 percent, to yield an average monthly rent of $1,361, according to RentCafe. Nationwide, apartment rent grew about $42, or 3.1 percent, to $1,419, the report found. Los Angeles saw rents increase by 6.6 percent while Chicago saw rents bump up … Read more

A Danish passenger train apparently hit falling cargo from a passing freight train Wednesday, an accident that killed six people and injured 16 others as it crossed a bridge linking the country’s islands, authorities said.

Shares of electric car and solar panel maker Tesla Inc. tumbled Wednesday after the company cut vehicle prices by $2,000 and announced fourth-quarter sales figures that fell short of Wall Street estimates.

“We’ve never had to turn away so much business,” said Steve Wathen, CEO of Equity and Equity Construction Solutions. “It’s really peaked for us and the employment market is getting incredible challenging. We simply can’t staff up to handle the business coming in.”

Pike Electric Corp. in Mount Airy bought two local tracts totaling 33 acres that could be used for a private air strip.

The property was previously used as a police firing range.

Here are 11 people you should know as we head into 2019.

SBE Hotel Group will continue managing SLS Brickell.

For more than a century, Weccacoe Square Playground in Queen Village has hummed with the rhythms of daily life. On the surface, it is the kind of place anyone would want around the corner – pretty but not too precious, well-loved and tended by an active group of neighbors. Kids have room to play kickball, … Read more

The manufacturer has doubled sales over the last two years.

The sale follows a $180 million deal.

The future of retail is not all artificial-intelligence driven online shopping. Here are some trends to look for in 2019: Giant online retailer Amazon bought Whole Foods and offers package pickup from online Amazon orders at some Whole Foods locations. Amazon also has opened a handful of Amazon Go cashierless stores and bookstores.  Meanwhile, Walmart, … Read more

Michael Tomko may be a lawyer by trade, but he’s playing the role of local tour guide these days. That’s because the 29-year-old, Harvard-educated Clintonville native is playing a role in the city’s history, or rather preserving it. The president of Tomko Co., which specializes in historic redevelopment projects, recently led me through his latest … Read more