IKEA Live Oak announces ground breaking date
Swedish furniture store chain IKEA has announced the groundbreaking at the future Live Oak Town Center in Live Oak will be on March 21.
The 289,000-sqaure-foot store, which is expected to open for business in Spring 2019, will sit on 31 acres at the southwest corner or Interstate 35 and Loop 1604 and will anchor the larger 111-acre Live Oak Town Cente, which is being leased by Weitzman. Expected attendees of the groundbreaking include Live Oak Mayor Mary Dennis, Live Oak's City Manager Scott Wayman,…
New life for Harris Land’s Quail Hollow mixed-use plan?
New renderings of the Quail Hollow mixed-use plan popped up at the International Council of Shopping Centers annual conference on Tuesday.
Birmingham projects approved for historic renovation tax credits
Multiple Birmingham projects were awarded historic renovation tax credits in the state's revived program.
As Amazon weighs where to put HQ2, execs quietly tour the U.S.
Ten people from Amazon.com Inc.'s HQ2 economic development team visited Denver in February to check out the region for themselves.
Denver may have been among the first of the 20 finalist bids visited by Amazon (Nadaq: AMZN), said J.J. Ament, president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. — the private organization leading the Colorado region’s effort to become the court the company's second headquarters, which is a promised $5 billion investment.
“They moved very quickly from the…
KC’s Homebase launches first out-of-state project for smart condos
Kansas City's Homebase has tripled its revenue growth in the first two months of 2018, and it's launching its first-out-of-state project for smart condos this week in Austin.
To date, the tech startup has launched its technology only in apartment communities, but the condo project represents new opportunity.
“It just continues to open our market for us,” Homebase CEO Blake Miller told the Kansas City Business Journal. “We're not pigeonholed just doing smart homes for apartments. Our platform…
Apartments remain affordable in Wichita, national report says
While Oklahoma City has seen its rents decline over the past year, Wichita has remained mostly the same, according to a national study.
How Dallas restauranteur Phil Romano plans to serve up an Amazon HQ2 campus
Phil Romano and Stuart Fitts, the business partners behind the vision of Trinity Groves on the west side of downtown Dallas, sit down in the neighborhood's newly-launched Network Bar, chatting about everything from man-eating tigers to ways to help bring the second headquarters of Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) to Dallas.
The partnership plans to launch an advertising campaign in Seattle to tout the restaurant incubator-anchored entertainment destination at the base of the Margaret…
URA to invest in fund focused on women-led startups
The board of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh on Tuesday said it is poised to provide $100,000 toward the Next Act Fund LLC, which is focused on investing in early stage, women-led companies.
Next Act was launched in 2016 by Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur Yvonne Campos. She serves as president of the angel network for women who jointly invest in early stage companies owned or run by women.
Its direct investments include BoardBookIt, a software developer based in Pittsburgh’s Mount…
Signature Development eyes new office and retail project in Oakland’s burgeoning Auto Row district
Signature Development, which developed Broadway Grand and the Hive in Oakland's Uptown and Auto Row areas, has three approved projects in the pipeline and just submitted a proposal for a new project at 465 25th St.
Exclusive: 267 apartments proposed in Oakland’s hot Uptown district near Lake Merritt
Developers and investors have flocked to the Grand Avenue section near Lake Merritt, which is also a few blocks from the 19th Street BART station.