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Nan and Co. Properties Christie's International Realty's Nancy Almodovar has been named a Most Admired CEO by the Houston Business Journal.

Equipment Depot's David Turner has been named a Most Admired CEO by the Houston Business Journal.

Arch-Con's Michael G. Scheurich has been named a Most Admired CEO by the Houston Business Journal.

Houston Association of Realtors' Bob Hale has been named a Most Admired CEO by the Houston Business Journal.

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene's Mark Woodroof has been named a Most Admired CEO by the Houston Business Journal.

A formerly notorious four-corner intersection in East Lake is riding a wave of growth in the area.

The State Farm Operations center in Southside in shutting down after more than 40 years in operation.

Around 600 employees work at the facility, which is located at 8001 Baymeadows Way.

Michal Brower, a spokeswoman with the company, said “some” positions will be moved to the company headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois, or to centers in Dallas and Phoenix. Most of those employees work in billing and customer service.

At one point, the company had close to 1,200 workers at the facility.

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Williams, who co-founded boutique brokerage Pacific Real Estate Partners, said he's figuring out what's next.

For years, the lot at the corner of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Northeast Holladay Street sat vacant but full of promise — promise that someday, a huge hotel would rise from the gravel to accommodate tens of thousands of visitors to the adjacent Oregon Convention Center every year.

Though three decades passed before all the stars aligned on the project, they did at last in 2017, when the Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center finally broke ground.

Now, about…

U.S. stocks hit a milestone Aug. 21 by extending their collective winning streak to 3,453 days, a run that qualifies as the nation's second — yes, second — longest stretch of gains since the Great Depression of 1929.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, technology and internet-centric companies led the way, with Los Gatos-based Netflix experiencing a 6,045 percent advance since March 9, 2009, when the global financial crisis started to lift. 3D digital scanner maker Align Technology ranked second,…