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Editor's note: It's officially spring! Consequently, we're retiring our wintertime Dream Getaways feature for the season and restarting Dream Cabins, a look at luxury homes up north in Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. We'll bring you a new one every Thursday morning.

A modern cabin on Minnesota's north shore near Grand Marais is available for $1,450,000.

Built in 2004, the house has three bedrooms across 4,877 square feet. But the real draw is the 2-acre woodland lot and 279 feet of Lake Superior…

We’re thrilled to be celebrating another year of ambitious, innovative Bay Area deals and projects. Our group of Real Estate Deals of the Year winners spans new office towers, luxury condo complexes, land deals and hefty leases for fast-growing tenants. We have 33 deals, projects and people to recognize this year.

In addition to our annual Real Estate Deal of the Year, Dealmaker of the Year and Broker of the Year awards, we’ve added new honors this year: Lifetime Achievement, Developer of…

The Emerald Fund's 13-story residential complex at 150 Van Ness is a success that almost didn't happen.

Getting the project off the ground was tricky. Essex went through several designs as it grappled with the project’s economic feasibility.

Believe it or not, apartment rents in metro Denver once were much more affordable than the country as a whole, until this decade, when that advantage disappeared.

Since the start of 2010, metro Denver apartment rents have risen at the fourth fastest pace in the country, pushing the region’s rents from 17 percent below the U.S. average to 8 percent above, according to RealPage, a real estate software firm based in Richardson, Texas.

Only San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco in northern California have seen their rents rise faster than metro Denver, which now ranks as the 17th most expensive out of the 50 largest apartment markets in the country.

The biggest increases in rents this decade locally have come in the suburbs, places like Thornton, Aurora and Wheat Ridge, not in Downtown Denver, Cherry Creek or the Highlands, neighborhoods where new luxury projects have popped up left and right.

“There’s a strong relationship between rent growth and construction activity, since delivery of..

After finally opening its long-awaited 16th Street Mall store in 2018, Target is shifting its financial focus away from the Central Business District in 2019 to invest big bucks in existing stores around Denver.

Ten Targets sprinkled across the greater metro area will be revamped this year with a handful more renovations on deck in 2020. In some cases, the work is already underway.

All told, the ultra-recognizable department store chain will invest $150 million in the Denver area over the next two years, Target officials told The Denver Post last week. It’s part of a nationwide effort that should impact 1,000 stores by the end of 2020. Denver’s $150 million budget is on par with major markets like Los Angeles and New York, officials say.

“Denver is a super important market for us,” Target’s senior vice president of properties Mark Schindele said. “It is getting one of our most substantial investments of any major metro in the country.”

Exteriors will be updated, but the majority of..

In the next few weeks, the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority is expected to select its new president and CEO. When it comes to setting the table for growing the Northern Virginia economy, it’s hard to think of a job that’s more important or more challenging.

This is not a job for a traditional economic development professional. Northern Virginia’s economic success traces to the actions of a number of real estate developers, who invested not just in their own developments, but in…

Design Mechanical Inc., a mechanical contractor based in Kansas City, Kan., has hired Brennen Garry as its first COO.

Garry comes to the company with 23 years of experience in health care, the company announced in a release. He most recently was vice president of oncology operations at InfuSystem. Garry previously has been a vice president of operations for other medical equipment and service providers.

The company was founded in 2003 and does commercial and industrial heating, air conditioning…

The mayor's office no longer intends to move forward with its controversial plan to swap Church Street Park with Tony Giarratana, the developer confirmed to the Nashville Business Journal.

With fewer and fewer big blocks of space, companies are fighting for scraps.