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Amazon’s Long Island City HQ may give it dominion over a key NYC sector
Amazon.com Inc.'s potential move to Long Island City lays the foundation for the Seattle-based e-commerce giant to enter into — and dominate — the financial services sector, including real estate, wealth management and brokerage.
That's according to real estate pro Janine Yorio, co-founder and CEO of Compound Asset Management, a New York City-based real estate technology company.
“I don't know for sure whether it will help or hurt the city, but it will certainly shake things up,” she…
White Flint Metro-area development calls for 1,000 units, retail
A local developer wants to mimic the success of Federal Realty Investment Trust's Pike & Rose, a mixed-use development that turned a sea of asphalt into a walkable community in North Bethesda.
VOB Development, owned by the Rankin family, has submitted plans to transform three blocks between Old Georgetown Road and Grand Park Avenue into what the company hopes will become a destination. The 5-acre site, owned by various LLCs controlled by VOB, is the former home to a Saab dealership, mobile phone…
Boeing puts Long Beach, California, facility up for sale
Boeing has put its Long Beach facility up for sale, the site where the company once built its C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane.
Developer seeks tax credits, again, for $38M conversion of historical downtown building
The Indianapolis-based real estate company planning a nearly $38 million conversion of a historical downtown Cincinnati office building into apartments has applied for state historic tax credits for a second time.
Post Brothers to shed some properties
The Philadelphia real estate company is turning its focus to new construction.
Downtown office building to be demolished soon for new hotels
A long-vacant office building along the lakefront extension of the Milwaukee streetcar could be torn down within the next month to clear room for three new hotels.
Class A office project proposed in Winter Park
But the project needs some approvals before it can start construction.
Sellers hope to cash in on the HQ2 fervor with Northeast D.C. development site
The offering comes as Amazon inches closer to an announcement.
Norfolk Southern to add 850 jobs, retain more than 2,000 already in Atlanta, at new Midtown HQ
Norfolk Southern Corp. will create 850 jobs and retain well over 2,000 already working in the city, as part of a $575 million North American headquarters in Atlanta.
The details about the new headquarters, which Norfolk Southern is relocating from Virginia, emerged in documents released by Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development arm.
The company has worked with city and state economic officials on the headquarters deal under the code name Project Fusion.
Norfolk Southern is proposing…
Exclusive: Hayward pushes for thousands of homes on 200 acres near BART
Groundbreaking is already in sight for the first project — 472 townhomes that will take up 25 acres, in close proximity to the South Hayward BART station.