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Home ownership a fading hope for many in North Texas
Jesus Varela couldn’t be prouder of the red brick house he’s buying in the Jubilee Park neighborhood southeast of downtown Dallas.
“I’m real happy,” said Varela, whose family moved into the four-bedroom home in April. “I have a real, real nice house. I like the neighborhood because everybody is real nice.”
For many like Varela, owning a home remains a lifelong goal — although it’s less attainable than it was for previous generations. For a growing number of Americans and North…
CodeNext put to the test; Architects, environmentalists and others to weigh in on overhaul of land-use rules
The debate over CodeNext rages on. Now Austin City Council members want more technical feedback on potential conflicts on the city's first major rewrite of land-use codes since 1984.
Ethan Conrad picks up retail properties in Folsom, Paradise
Sacramento real estate investor Ethan Conrad purchased Paradise Plaza and Folsom Village within the last week.
Inside AC Hotels’ ambitious Silicon Valley expansion: Four new hotels in two years
AC Hotels, an upscale, boutique-style hotel chain owned by Marriott, will open four new locations in Silicon Valley by 2020. One of its Bay Area leaders talks about why the brand is expanding aggressively here and how AC Hotels differs from Marriott's other properties.
Exclusive: Oakland’s largest landlord, CIM Group, puts portfolio on the market that could rake in more than $1 billion
CIM Group dove in Oakland's office market a decade ago, before other institutional investors even considered Oakland, and is now ready to cash in on its original investments.
The geeks have spoken: Among Amazon HQ2 contenders, Denver is No. 4
Amazon.com Inc. truly cares what techies think. It must if it's going to attract 50,000 workers to a second headquarters in the coming decade.
The location of the so-called HQ2 is paramount, so here's another thing that may factor into the decision-making at Amazon's Seattle headquarters: Raleigh, N.C., came in first in a survey of more than 2,000 readers of GeekWire.com. Atlanta was second, Austin was third and Denver was fourth.
GeekWire.com, a Seattle-based technology news website, surveyed…
Columbus developer brings new vision to massive Dayton project
One of the largest downtown Dayton projects in decades has a new developer and a new vision.
Columbus-based Windsor Cos., a residential and commercial contractor, has taken the reins of the Fire Blocks District: a 10-acre, six-building complex bounded by Second and Fourth streets and Jefferson and St. Clair streets.
A successful Fire Blocks project would create jobs, new residential and office space and breathe more life into the renaissance underway in downtown Dayton.
Windsor – which has…
What Planet Oasis could do to traffic in Delaware and how ODOT plans to fix it
The 350-acre Planet Oasis entertainment complex could bring a whole new level of traffic headaches to an already swamped interchange along I-71 in Delaware County.
The expansive “mutli-billion-dollar” Planet Oasis calls for several major attractions with an aggressive timeline to be largely built by 2021. Developer Blue Horseshoe Ventures Ltd. didn't immediately estimate the projected annual traffic to the site, but it's going to have as many as 15,000 employees and 4,000 to 5,000 hotel rooms.…
Sales of lots in Maui heavy industrial park set to close
Subdivision improvements at the 86-acre Pulehunui Industrial Park on Maui, the island’s first and only subdivision with M3 heavy industrial zoning, have been completed, clearing the way for lots to be delivered to buyers, including Goodfellow Bros. Inc., Aloha Waste Systems and Truss Systems Hawaii.
Closings on 17 of the 28 lots are set to take place over the next couple of weeks, said Ben Walin of Commercial Properties of Maui, who is handling sales of the subdivision. The developer is Pacific…
Downtown property sales show growing strength in submarket
Experts expect interest will continue to grow in the downtown Phoenix submarket.