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Fentress Architects will design a pavilion for the upcoming world expo in Dubai.

Amazon quietly brought Miller over this spring from Facebook, where he led real estate in the Americas. Schoettler remains with Amazon as vice president of real estate as the company launches its HQ2 split between New York and Virginia.

As 2018 nears its close, the U.S. economy is strong. Unemployment is at its lowest mark in decades, wages are rising, and consumer spending is hitting new all-time peaks.

But that strength hasn’t lifted all aspects of the commercial real estate market in the same, upward-trending way.

While the industrial sector is booming — with vacancies at their lowest levels since the industry began monitoring such statistics — the retail sector is struggling, according to Ten-X Research, a division…

The mixed-use development would be built on a platform over the loading dock.

While the biggest buzz around Apple Inc.'s U.S. expansion plans Thursday are around its plans for a $1 billion campus in north Austin, Texas, its home state is set to get some of the bounty too – just not Silicon Valley.

Early this morning, Cupertino-based Apple said it would invest in the large new Austin campus, as well as establish new sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City and expand in Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado over the next three years.

Apple said that over the next…

After 92 public hearings, 10 years of planning and $10 million in planning and lawsuit expenses, the developer behind one of San Leandro’s largest proposed housing projects is ready to move forward.

The Howard Hughes Corp. opened its new Victoria Ward Park in the center of its master-planned community in Honolulu with an immersive art installation by design studio Symmetry Labs.

The “Light Garden, a 1,000-Year Bloom” installation, which debuted Thursday evening, has more than 25,000 LED lights in more than 2,300 floral 3D sculptures over 9,500 square feet.

The park was built on the site of former warehouses next to the Ward Entertainment Center.

“Today, former warehouses and concrete…

Two retail projects in Hawaii took home gold in the International Council of Shopping Centers’ Global Awards for U.S. Design and Development, including Honolulu-based architecture firm AHL for its design of the Velocity Honolulu retail showroom.

AHL, formerly known as Architects Hawaii Ltd., received the gold award for its design of the 226,113-square-foot luxury auto dealership space for JN Group Inc. at the Symphony Honolulu mixed-use condominium.

The judges noted that the showroom’s glass…

After a more-than-three-year renovation of two downtown buildings, the Woodlark hotel will open its doors this weekend.

Located in the old Cornelius Hotel and Woodlark buildings at 813 S.W. Alder St., the Woodlark adds 150 hotel rooms and a new restaurant and bar to downtown. The project comes from Portland's Provenance Hotels and NBP Capital.

“Woodlark holds a special place in our heart, as we’ve worked with Provenance Hotels over the last several years to bring this hotel to life,” said…

Another 9,200 homes could be joining the metro region in the coming years thanks to a vote by the Metro Council yesterday.

The unanimous vote approved four metro-area cities' plans to expand the urban growth boundary by nearly 2,200 acres.

The four cities that submitted concepts for growth were King City, Beaverton, Hillsboro and Wilsonville. Hillsboro's plan will add 150 acres, 75 of which are buildable, and up to 850 homes. Beaverton's is much larger, with 600 buildable acres and more than…