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New $100M+ metro Orlando mixed-use project in the works
Ocoee's access to State Road 429 is driving population growth in the area.
Hawaiian Dredging wins $48M military contract
Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co. was awarded a $48.3 million contract Friday to install a new water transmission line at Joint Base Pearl-Harbor Hickam.
The work involves installing a 42-inch potable water transmission line from the Waiawa Pump Station to the existing 42-inch water main near the intersection of Lehua Avenue and Second Street, the Department of Defense said.
The contract also calls for the installation of a 16-inch potable water line to continue service to the Manana Housing Area,…
Hawaii architecture, engineering firms picked for $150M Army contract
Four Hawaii architecture and engineering firms and four joint ventures have been selected to compete for task orders under a $150 million contract for architecture and engineering services for the Army Corps of Engineers.
The firms and joint ventures will compete for each order of the contract, according to the Department of Defense.
The firms are Architects Pacific Inc., Bowers + Kubota Management Inc., Fung Associates Inc. and Ink Arch LLC.
The joint ventures are Burns & McDonnell + Group 70…
Coworking company breaks into Bay Area market with big North San Jose building buy
Though the deal closed only a day ago, Novel Coworking has already started pre-leasing for private offices, suites and memberships in the building along North First Street.
Santa Clara strikes deal to sell land under Great America Theme Park to amusement park owner
The deal puts to rest years of rumors about who would purchase the 112 acres where California's Great America Theme Park sits today, and answers the question of what will become of the property.
3,000 Realtors trek to Texas Capitol to beat back property taxes
“It really is an all-hands-on-deck effort, a lot of logistics,” said Texas Realtors Government Affairs Communications Manager Jaime Lee.
With an additional $300M in funding, real estate startup pursues St. Louis expansion
With an additional $300 million in funding, a real estate startup co-founded by a Washington University graduate is plotting expansion into St. Louis.
Where Twin Cities rents are rising the fastest
The pace of rent hikes for apartments in Minneapolis or St. Paul slowed over the past year, according to a report released Friday, but rents are still rising faster here than in many other large metro areas.
Median rent was $1,695 in Minneapolis and St. Paul in the first quarter of the year, a 3.6 percent increase over the first quarter of 2018, reported San Francisco-based HotPads, an apartment and home listings site owned by Zillow. The U.S. median rent was $1,530, up 3.1 percent from the first…
Massive new project will remake downtown Kannapolis
The second major project in the Kannapolis 2.0 redevelopment plan is now underway.
Called Vida, the project contains 286 apartments, new retail space, a parking deck and eventually a hotel that uses the historic Cabarrus Bank Building as the lobby for a new 125-room property. Construction starts on the hotel by the end of the year.
The prime driver for Vida is Lansing Melbourne Group of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which is investing $61 million in the two city blocks between Main Street and West…
Raymond Management acquired by Bay Area firm
A Bay Area property management company has entered the Sacramento market by acquiring one of the largest local firms in that sector.
Beginning this month, Sacramento-based Raymond Management is now under the umbrella of Mynd Property Management, based in Oakland.
Raymond Management founder Scott Raymond said as a real estate entrepreneur, he’d taken the company as far as he could on his own.
“These guys come in and supercharge the business,” said Raymond, who’s stayed on board in business…