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Britain’s battle over Brexit turned into political trench warfare between Parliament and the government Wednesday, as Prime Minister Theresa May brought her little-loved EU divorce agreement back to lawmakers who appear determined to thwart her plans.

A German labor union is calling on security staff at three German airports to stage a strike Thursday amid ongoing pay negotiations.

The appeal by the lawyers of Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s former chairman, against his prolonged detention since his arrest Nov. 19 was rejected Wednesday by the Tokyo District Court.

Facebook was defending itself Wednesday against allegations that it allows illegal content in violation of Vietnam’s new cybersecurity law.

A team of real estate investors who’ve made some big moves in Portland in years past have added a three-building office complex in Tigard to their portfolio. Meriwether Partners, which has offices in Portland and Seattle, has acquired the Tigard Corporate Center, a three-building project developed by local firm Specht Development in 2000. The buying … Read more

Bangladesh police fired tear gas and swung batons as thousands of garment workers demonstrated for better wages for a fourth day Wednesday, shutting down factories on the outskirts of the capital.

A major thoroughfare for commuters along downtown Seattle’s waterfront is set to shut down for good Friday, ushering in what officials say will be one of the most painful traffic periods in the history of the booming Pacific Northwest city.

Nissan is showing the beefed up version of its hit Leaf electric car as the Japanese automaker seeks to distance itself from the arrest of its star executive Carlos Ghosn.

Three days of U.S.-Chinese talks aimed at ending a costly tariff battle wrapped up Wednesday in an optimistic atmosphere, with President Donald Trump saying they were “going very well!”

Margot Robbie will bring Barbie to life in a live-action film.

A South Korean court said Wednesday it has ordered the seizure of local assets of a Japanese company after it refused to compensate several wartime forced laborers, in an escalation of a diplomatic brawl between the Asian neighbors.

R.D. Olson Development’s plan to build a second limited-service hotel on Maui outlined in an environmental assessment last summer has triggered a requirement to prepare a more detailed environmental impact statement. California-based R.D. Olson, which built the 138-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel near the Kahului Airport and Costco, had published a draft EA in August … Read more

The Hawaii-based owner of Foodland Super Market Ltd. and Food Pantry Ltd. has signed a long-term lease to open a full-service grocery store on the first two floors of Lilia Waikiki, a planned 285-foot mixed-use apartment tower planned for the center of Waikiki. The grocery store, which will be called The Market at Waikiki, will … Read more

Canadian consular officials have visited a detained Canadian in China who was arrested in apparent retaliation for the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive last month.

Microsoft employees had the honor of beginning demolition of the company’s original buildings Tuesday to make way for the expansion. The company over the next few months will demolish 12 buildings and add six new ones.

In 2018, $2.6 billion worth of office investment properties changed hands.

The developer is under contract for two new projects in the growing mixed-use area.

If 2018 felt like a whirlwind for Water Street Tampa, 2019 will be even bigger. A new hotel and residential and office towers will break ground in the mixed-use urban district under construction in downtown Tampa, and the developer expects a flurry of leasing activity for retail and office space, said James Nozar, CEO of … Read more

A 204-unit apartment community near Atlantic Beach has sold for $24.569 million. The Cove at Atlantic Beach, located at 2160 Mayport Road, was sold by the Atlanta-based Carroll Organization, which bought the property in 2014 for $13.025 million, to a partnership led by California-based Laguna Point Properties. The sale closed on Dec. 14. CBRE’s Joe … Read more

Sprouts, the Phoenix-based specialty grocery store chain, will anchor a new retail development in east Mesa.

A mixed-use building could land near San Mateo’s Caltrain station, providing 64 new units of housing — plus new headquarters for the developer.

Macy’s and Nordstrom moved out; Google Inc. is moving in. The tech giant has leased the entirety of One Westside, a redevelopment project at the Westside Pavilion in West Los Angeles that is turning the shopping mall into a 584,000-square-foot creative office campus. The approximately 14-year lease will commence when construction and tenant improvements are … Read more

Built during the tail end of the last economic boom, mixed-use project Lincoln Gateway limped through several years with vacant spaces and little tenant demand.

Two master development plans by two separate companies vying for rights to build in Mountain View’s North Bayshore will be considered late next month. Already, it’s clear one or both developers will walk away without everything they want.

It’s the second historic waterfront building that WeWork rival Spaces has leased in Seattle.

Drugmaker Eli Lilly has started posting price information online for drugs advertised on TV.

The leaders of seven House committees are calling on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to explain why the United States is easing sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It’s one of the first moves of the new Democratic House to scrutinize President Donald Trump’s actions related to Russia.

Newmark Grubb Zimmer has named longtime broker Mark Long as its new president and CEO. Long succeeds Ellen Darling as CEO and David Zimmer as president. The move, effective Jan. 1, represents the first time the commercial real estate company will be led by someone outside the Zimmer family. The company’s board unanimously approved Long’s … Read more

WeWork has purchased Waller Park Place from McCourt Global, according to Travis County records. The transaction was consummated on Dec. 17 — fast forward about a month and the coworking giant has disclosed a new $2 billion investment from SoftBank and a major rebranding as it diversifies into areas such as housing.

Hurricane Harvey might have taken Lakeside Country Club briefly out of commission, but a $38 million renovation will transform it into a “state of the art” club, the club’s general manager told the Houston Business Journal. Construction on Lakeside Country Club’s new clubhouse has been ongoing since August 2018 and is set to wrap up … Read more

Juniper Square, which makes software that manages investor relationships for real estate funds, is scheduled to move soon into a new office in a historic downtown building.

Despite closings of massive retailers, like Toys “R” Us and Sears, and disruption from online sales, 2018 was a robust year for the retail real estate industry in Dallas-Fort Worth.

The World Surf League purchased Austin’s NLand Surf Park for an undisclosed amount, the organization confirmed.

The Kachina Lodge Resort and Meeting Center in Taos was sold to M & M Partnership, a Birmingham, Alabama-based hotelier, on Jan. 2, according to a press release. The new owners will begin renovations, said Pinder Gill, partner at M & M, in a press release from the company. “The Kachina Lodge is a part … Read more

Six companies have submitted proposals to develop JEA’s proposed headquarters, the authority announced Tuesday. The companies’ names and proposed headquarter sites were revealed at the procurement meeting Tuesday, but few other details were made public. The utility plans to narrow the respondents to a shortlist in two weeks — before details on the proposals will … Read more

Megachurch Austin Stone Community Church bought a 55,000-square-foot office building on the west side in 2017 for $10.5 million. Renovations are now complete and the church is leasing out half of the office space.

New year, new brand and the new addition of two retail heavyweights.

5G E? 5G Plus? 5G Ultrawideband? Will the real 5G please stand up?

A tugboat is searching for crew members who weren’t rescued when the ship they were on caught fire while transporting automobiles from Japan to Hawaii.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to get involved in a legal dispute involving 15 states that want to strike down laws in California and Massachusetts requiring larger living areas for some farm animals.

Metro may soon seek developers to remake a 24-acre site by its West Falls Church rail station that could potentially be combined, or at least coordinated, with two adjacent projects in the works by the city of Falls Church and Virginia Tech. Staff at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority are slated to seek approval … Read more

Both companies are family owned and privately held.

It will be the second new Triad location for the chain in the last year.

The plans, if approved, would be a big change in a neighborhood of older, multi-family homes rented by college students and small businesses such as bars and restaurants.

On Tuesday morning, it appeared that Sears Holding Corp. was moving closer to liquidation, after Reuters reported that Sears executives planned to ask a bankruptcy judge if the retail chain can proceed with liquidation. But by Tuesday afternoon, CNN reported that following delays at a morning hearing in bankruptcy court, attorneys for Sears said the … Read more

An entity related to Wiese USA, a St. Louis, Mo.-based material handling equipment company, has paid $4.8 million for two Eden Prairie industrial buildings in a move to acquire Minnesota Supply Co. Minnesota Supply, a 100-year-old material handling equipment supplier, is based in Eden Prairie and employs 80 people. The deal with Wiese will not … Read more

A pair of uptown high-rise apartment buildings was acquired by an investor that bought another uptown building earlier in 2018.

One of St. Louis’ favorite barbecue spots will add its third location in St. Charles this spring. Build-out on the new restaurant is underway. Salt + Smoke, which already has locations in the Delmar Loop and the St. Louis Hills neighborhoods, will open at 501 S. Main Street in historic downtown St. Charles in the … Read more

An office building on West Mockingbird Lane in Dallas has changed hands. According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, Mockingbird Office Park has been picked up by a partnership owned by New York’s Center Court Partners. The six-building campus, located at 1515 W. Mockingbird Lane, is only a few miles from the entrance … Read more