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An east Dayton medical marijuana cultivator is moving forward with plans to open its facility.

Suffolk Construction, the largest general contracting company in Massachusetts, this January will launch a student-loan repayment program for its employees in an effort to reduce their financial stress and help them focus on long-term career growth. Outstanding U.S. student loan debt reached a record $1.465 trillion in November, a rate that has doubled since June … Read more

One of the oldest food establishments in Central Ohio is shutting its doors ahead of a redevelopment. The Worthington Inn, at 649 High St., announced on its website Wednesday afternoon it will close its doors Jan. 1. The restaurant’s historic building is being redeveloped into a mixed-use space with office, retail and a smaller ground-level … Read more

Raleigh-based Dominion Realty Partners broke ground on a $129 million, 29-story tower in uptown Charlotte this week. F.N.B. Corp. (NYSE: FNB), based in Pittsburgh, will anchor the tower at 401 S. Graham St. and take more than 40,000 square feet including a ground-floor retail branch. The project, dubbed FNB Tower-Charlotte, is on a 0.7-acre site … Read more

The projects are a mix of new construction and company expansions across numerous industries.

Premier Health has opened a $4.5 million medical office building in the city of Monroe, which includes areas of Butler County and Warren County. The 19,300-square-foot building at 35 Overbrook Blvd. is about 5 miles southwest of Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, which is part of Dayton-based Premier Health and one of the largest hospitals … Read more

Google looks to be moving ahead with plans to invest in Central Ohio. Montauk Innovations LLC, the Google affiliate that received a set of incentives for a prospective $600 million data center in New Albany, has acquired more than 200 acres of land north of Morse Road and west of Beech Road, on the county … Read more

Luggage startup Away has opened a storefront at 50 Seaport Blvd., the seventh physical location for the previously online-only brand and another example of the “clicks to bricks” trend on prominent display in Boston’s Seaport District. Away’s “smart suitcases” range in price from $225 to $295 for adults and $195 for kids’ carry-ons, and feature … Read more

Growth needs of COE Distributing drives expansion.

Construction to start on a new, multimillion-dollar Midtown apartment complex in June.

Representatives for Hitt Contracting Inc. have accused a private investigation firm of witness tampering, including threatening and trying to intimidate one of the contractor’s former employees, as part of its contentious lawsuit against the foundation behind the Glenstone contemporary arts museum in Potomac. Lawyers for Hitt, in a Dec. 21 letter, asked U.S. District Court … Read more

A group based in the United Arab Emirates bought the property this fall, paying $19 million.

Work to start soon on police training center.

The purchaser recently sold a building in the Union Station neighborhood.

The first building will be completed by October.

Efforts to redevelop the former Good Samaritan Hospital campus and adjacent neighborhoods will be discussed at a meeting next month. Community members are invited to attend an open house at 6 p.m. Jan. 8 at Fairview school, located at 2314 Elsmere Ave. in Dayton. At the event, the public will hear recommendations for the 13-acre … Read more

An Amazon.com distribution center and neighboring new big-box store could generate more than 13,000 daily car trips around Ryan Road in Oak Creek, and city officials plan to significantly expand those streets to handle it.

Publix continues to reinvent its real estate around convenience, from prepared foods to Instacart.

As the Dow Jones Industrial Average seesaws and mostly drops by hundreds of points a day, Kathy Barnes sees the impact of the volatility on homebuilders and general contractors in the St. Louis area.

The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company’s owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor.

Americans buoyed by a strong economy pushed holiday sales growth to a six-year high.

In Britain and other countries like Australia and Canada, the day after Christmas is a secular national holiday known as Boxing Day. Here’s a brief look at some theories about how the holiday got its name and how people celebrate it:

A night’s stay at a New Orleans hotel can take as much as a 15 percent bite in taxes and fees. Yet barely more than 1 in 10 of those tax and fee dollars — out of an estimated $166 million collected annually — finds its way into city coffers in this leading Southern tourist … Read more

An affiliate of Saul Centers Inc. is advancing plans for a 25-story residential-over-retail building on a prominent corner in Bethesda. Saul has submitted a series of initial drawings and documents outlining plans for its Metro Tower project located on land along the west side of Wisconsin Avenue in the Bethesda Central Business District and just … Read more

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

The chef won over the Blake and Allison Casper Adams with foie gras.

Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey will act as the venue’s “Minister of Culture,” according to the announcement.

Luggage startup Away has opened a storefront at 50 Seaport Blvd., the seventh physical location for the previously online-only brand and another example of the “clicks to bricks” trend on prominent display in Boston’s Seaport District. Away’s “smart suitcases” range in price from $225 to $295 for adults and $195 for kids’ carry-ons, and feature … Read more

Buffalo’s Benderson Development has increased its real estate holdings in the San Francisco Bay area by acquiring a closed Babies R Us location. And the Buffalo company’s West Coast footprint is growing with a similar deal in Portland, Oregon. Terms were not disclosed for the 50,000-square-foot store located off Interstate-580 in the Hacienda Crossings plaza … Read more

The Houston Community College System has agreed to buy 24 acres in Katy near Interstate 10 and the Grand Parkway for a new, larger campus close to the site of the new University of Houston – Katy campus. The current HCC Katy-Foxlake campus won’t be able to handle more students in the region and a … Read more

Indigma will reopen in Mount Vernon tonight, less than two years after an electrical fire forced the popular Indian restaurant to close. The restaurant will open at 5 p.m. for dinner service in the former Tavern on the Hill space at 900 Cathedral St., said Tony Chemmanoor, Indigma’s owner and executive chef. Though only dinner … Read more

Originating in Amsterdam, Spaces was built on the idea that success breeds success.

An incredible day on Wall Street, which saw major indexes finishing at least 5 percent higher, spurred early gains in Asia on Thursday as some traders returned from a Christmas break.

The young men sit in chairs in a circle in a small meeting room in suburban Seattle and introduce themselves before they speak. It is much like any other 12-step meeting — but with a twist.

The Columbia native will take over the soon-to-open Alexander Brown Restaurant in downtown Baltimore.

Houston-based restaurant company Luby’s Inc. (NYSE: LUB) issued a letter to shareholders Dec. 24 urging them to vote against an activist investor’s board nominees amid a proxy battle. The investor, New York-based Bandera Partners LLC, has been pushing for changes at Luby’s and last week filed a preliminary proxy statement to nominate four individuals to … Read more

A massive new Amazon.com distribution hub at Sparrows Point. A proposed new warehouse complex in Jessup. Plans in motion for a 52-acre industrial development in White Marsh where an outlet mall was once envisioned. All are but some of the activity in the industrial real estate market, deemed red hot in 2017 with no break … Read more

The developer buys five locations in various cities.

The Boston Planning and Development Agency approved 41.3 million square feet of real estate development projects in 2018, and some 28 million square feet is under active construction — and that’s just in Boston. The real-estate cycle keeps churning. Here are five real-estate development projects we’ll be keeping an eye on next year. A lot … Read more

A Central Ohio construction operation has been acquired. Adena Construction, based in Mansfield, has signed an agreement to acquire the Ohio operations of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based Quandel Construction, which is based in Westerville. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the local operation will be merged effective Tuesday. “This acquisition positions Adena Corporation for continued … Read more

U.S. home price growth slowed in October, a likely consequence of higher mortgage rates having worsened affordability and causing sales to fall.

The lowest-paid workers in New York state will have something to look forward to in the new year: a higher minimum wage, with the biggest boost coming to employees in New York City, who will make at least $15 per hour.

What does Arkansas, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, and Alabama have that Tennessee does not? Answer: construction and rehabilitation occurring in their rural Main Streets that is creating jobs, preserving local heritage, and building a prosperous future for generations to come. Historic rehabilitation creates jobs, revitalizes our downtowns, repurposes underutilized iconic buildings, and … Read more

Publix continues to reinvent its real estate around convenience, from prepared foods to Instacart.

Publix continues to reinvent its real estate around convenience, from prepared foods to Instacart.

A farm brewery next to a farm winery? Yes please. Jon Hickox, owner of The Winery at Bull Run in Centreville, has applied with Fairfax County to launch a farm brewery on roughly 40 acres contiguous to the winery property. The brewery would have an address of 6780 Bull Run Post Office Road. The existing … Read more

Meritex acquired Northpark VIII, at 6509 Northpark Blvd., this month. Elsewhere in Charlotte, it has broken ground on about 135,024 square feet of flex space in two new buildings at CLT Logistics Center.

Acklin hopes to push for progress on arena site redevelopment from “a different seat at the same table”

Publix continues to reinvent its real estate around convenience, from prepared foods to Instacart.

You know you have a “cool” office on your hands when employees are jostling for a space in the new digs. That’s exactly what happened to PowerObjects’ Associate Vice President of Global Marketing Jeff Wedren when his company opened a new office in the TractorWorks Building in Minneapolis’ North Loop neighborhood in June. “We ran … Read more