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Williamson County leaders have approved incentives for the large campus Apple Inc. plans to build in North Austin. County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday morning to enter into a Chapter 381 economic development agreement with the Cupertino, Calif.-based technology company. Under the agreement, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) agreed to spend at least $400 million purchasing and developing … Read more

Earlier this week, we told you about the priciest hotel/motel sales in the Triad for 2018. Today we’re going to show you the largest apartment community transactions. And there were some big ones this year – including University Village in Greensboro. The New York-based real estate investment firm Vesper Holdings bought the 203-unit, 11.2-acre student … Read more

Reuter Walton Development’s purchase of the former Arby’s in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood closed Monday for $6.6 million, according to a certificate of real estate value. The purchase price works out to about $188 a square foot. The Minneapolis-based developer is planning to construct a six-story, 174-unit apartment building at the site at 1116 W. Lake … Read more

Williamson County leaders have approved incentives for the large campus Apple Inc. plans to build in North Austin. County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday morning to enter into a Chapter 381 economic development agreement with the Cupertino, California-based technology company. Under the agreement, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) agreed to spend at least $400 million purchasing and developing … Read more

Developers were planning plenty of office and industrial space in the Phoenix area as companies sought out more space.

A longtime Dayton-area restaurant and bar will soon open a second location.

Indeed is the first tenant for the 38-story tower that’s scheduled to be completed in about a year.

Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday, as traders mulled over the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision and weaker-than-expected Japanese trade data.

Berkeley City Council voted 6-3 to allow a zoning change at the corner of Parker and Tenth Streets that would pave the way for Kaiser Permanente to open a new medical campus on the site, Berkeleyside reports. The issue split the council because Kaiser’s plans to move into a proposed new suite of medical offices … Read more

Stephen Collins came to the Warriors three years ago to prep the new Chase Center to become “the Madison Square Garden of the West Coast.” He will leave in July as construction on the $1 billion, privately financed arena wraps up.

The world’s burgeoning plastic waste crisis has won the attention of Britain’s Royal Statistical Society, which chose 90.5 percent — the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled — as its international statistic of the year.

The Trump administration Tuesday banned bump stocks, the firearm attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns and were used during the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. 

Saudi Arabia’s expenditures will hit a record-high in 2019 as the government plans to increase state spending by 7 percent to reach $295 billion despite plunging oil prices.

Nashville serial entrepreneur Mark Montgomery has announced plans to sell the Ink Building to an Austin real estate firm. The Tennessean reports the building is under contract to to sold to Prime. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The deal is expected to close in January. The Ink Building is home to several … Read more

A London-based boutique hotel has its eye on Nashville. Nashville Post reports SoHo House & Co. is looking to operate a location in the May Hosiery complex, located at 429 Chestnut St. in Wedgewood-Houston. The hotel chain and private members-only club targets creative professionals. Last week, Apple signed a lease for space in the May … Read more

In a 12-0 vote, Denver City Council members expressed excitement and support for the River Mile development project.

Plans for two separate luxury townhome developments in Birmingham have taken a step forward. The Vestavia Hills Planning and Zoning Commission has recommended the Vestavia Hills City Council approve the rezoning from Vestavia Hills Institutional to Vestavia Hills R-9 of 3771 Fairhaven Drive and 3783 Fairhaven Drive, reports the Vestavia Voice. Charles Kessler plans to … Read more

Heart to Heart International Inc., a Lenexa-based nonprofit humanitarian organization, has acquired the former Lenexa headquarters of Silpada Designs. The 149,000-square-foot office and warehouse facility at 11550 Renner Blvd. was built in 2004 for the direct-sales jewelry business. Heart to Heart announced Monday that its “record growth has necessitated a move to this larger facility.” … Read more

After being purchased amid a Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring, fast food chain Taco Bueno has closed 12 restaurants in Oklahoma and Texas. Irving-based Taco Bueno is auctioning off the contents of those restaurants through Dec. 21 at RestaurantEquipment.bid, an online auction site that specializes in food service and restaurant equipment. Bidding for all items starts … Read more

Weyland Ventures bought the former church in February and has brought on a partner to add two restaurants and an event venue spanning 20,000 square feet.

The Charlotte City Council approved Monday night tens of millions in incentives for Honeywell’s headquarters move to Charlotte. As part of the council’s zoning meeting, the business investment grant — $17.1 million over 15 years — was approved 10-1 by council, with Councilman Ed Driggs voting against. Monday’s vote also authorized City Manager Marcus Jones to … Read more

An Italian food ingredient manufacturer will get nearly $3.2 million in financial incentives from the village of Caledonia in exchange for building a $39.7 million facility with 31 jobs.

Several long-awaited and high-profile construction projects finally hit the finish line in 2018. To name three, the western half of Downtown Commons, the mixed-use project on the 700 block of K Street downtown and the Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts in midtown Sacramento all opened this year, though some tenants in the first two … Read more

For the new arena, UT has zeroed in on land south of Mike A. Myers Stadium — and a business with experience developing sports arenas from coast to coast.

European officials and companies met with African leaders in Vienna Tuesday for talks intended as a springboard to increase investment in Africa.

Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary albeit bumpy subterranean tube — the tech entrepreneur’s answer to what he calls “soul-destroying traffic.”

The Latest on Britain’s exit from the European Union (all times local):

Great Wolf Resorts plans to enter Maryland with a $200 million, 44-acre lodge and waterpark next to the Hollywood Casino Perryville to open by summer 2022. The national chain of indoor and outdoor waterparks is expected to break ground on the 450,000-square-foot project on 40 acres in Chesapeake Overlook just off of Interstate 95. The … Read more

The 4,800-square-foot store would be located at Exit 13 of the Interstate 87 Northway in Malta, kitty-corner from a Stewart’s Shop store and yards from the privately-held chain’s corporate offices.

Alphabet Inc. said Monday it will spend $1 billion on a new New York City campus. The move will allow the Mountain View, California-based tech giant and owner of Google Inc. to double its staff in N.Y.C. within a decade.  The new campus, dubbed Google Hudson Square, will be based on Manhattan’s West Side near … Read more

A record number of companies are leaving California for states with a better business climate, and a new report shows that Texas remains their No. 1 destination. See why they are being urged to leave the state (it’s not just because of taxes).

A high-end apartment complex in the 1,500-acre master-planned community under development near Interstate 295 and the Florida 9B exit will break ground in early 2019, developers behind the project announced Monday. The 332-unit community, a Catalyst Development Partners project, will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Construction is planned to be completed in spring 2020. … Read more

One of the Flyers sells his Rittenhouse condo and a Center City apartment complex trades hands.

Two hotel developers now own adjacent parcels next to Nash Square.

Hickory Hollow, a longtime restaurant just north of Washington Avenue, will close next month.  Joseph Boehm, the restaurant’s general manager, told CultureMap that the closing date is Jan. 13. The 101 Heights Blvd. location has been open for 31 years, but Hickory Hollow’s 41-year-old Fallbrook location, at 8038 Fallbrook Drive in northwest Houston, and its … Read more

D.C. Councilman Charles Allen’s office has gathered thousands of signatures on a petition opposing the construction of a new NFL stadium at the RFK Stadium campus. Washington NFL team owner Daniel Snyder is reportedly seeking a stadium provision in the upcoming congressional spending bill to establish a new home for his franchise at the 190-acre … Read more

Great Wolf Resorts plans to enter Maryland with a $200 million, 44-acre lodge and waterpark next to the Hollywood Casino Perryville to open by summer 2022. The national chain of indoor and outdoor waterparks originally founded in Wisconsin is expected to break ground on the 450,000-square-foot project on 40 acres in Chesapeake Overlook just off … Read more

U.S. developers broke ground on more homes last month, but the increase occurred entirely in apartments. The construction of new single-family houses fell.

The nation’s largest grocery chain stepped into the driverless delivery market Tuesday, bringing milk, eggs and other items to a customer’s home in a vehicle with nobody at the wheel.

A global manufacturer is looking at opening a new facility in Northern Kentucky that would create hundreds of new jobs. Jabil Inc., an electronics manufacturing company headquartered in St. Petersburg, is exploring plans to open a second location in Kentucky to provide additional U.S. manufacturing capacity, according to a report released by the Kentucky Economic … Read more

The Keith Corporation has made a name for itself in the Triangle by focusing on build-to-suit projects for companies looking for new office and research space, but the Charlotte-based firm is taking a chance on its latest project. The company has closed on a 105-acre swath of vacant land in Research Triangle Park without a … Read more

The Palm Lake Mobile Home Park near West Palm Beach was acquired for $49 million, and the buyer plans to keep it as a senior mobile home park for the foreseeable future.  Palm Lake Cooperative, a cooperative formed by the 468 collective lot owners on the property at 7272 42nd Way North, sold the site … Read more

The hotel would have a rooftop pool deck.

The Tampa Convention Center has filed plans for expanding with the city. A Dec. 17 filing shows the center is seeking to add on two levels of meeting rooms at the Riverwalk side of the center, which are scheduled to start construction in July 2019. It also entails demolition of existing roof overhang which will … Read more

“When you’re a growth company — when you’re 100 people, but you need space for 200 or to grow into 200 — the cost of that can be cost-prohibitive. So, a lot of the time, you need to be really creative, and you need somebody who buys into that vision and believes in your company, … Read more

December’s packed zoning meeting on Monday night saw several rezoning petitions approved, but one petition that would have brought affordable housing to Steele Creek was denied. Charlotte City Council voted 10-1 against a petition by Elmington Capital Group, a developer out of Nashville, Tennessee, that would have added up to 231 apartments south of the … Read more

With the real estate market in one of the longest unbroken up cycles in history, commercial real estate professionals from all disciplines are wondering what 2019 has in store.

Tens of millions in incentives for Honeywell’s headquarters relocation to Charlotte were approved by City Council on Monday night. As part of the council’s zoning meeting, the business investment grant — $17.1 million over 15 years — was approved 10-1 by council, with council member Ed Driggs voting against. Monday’s vote also authorized City Manager Marcus … Read more

The company began looking for new space after its Greensboro location sustained damage from an April tornado.