September 02, 2010 The recently-formed Brininstool, Kerwin and Lynch (“BKL”), the Chicago-based architectural firm, is among two finalists selected to design a significant mixed-use project in Zhengzhou, China. Read more...
August 22, 2010 Mark Kolsrud, senior vice president and principal with the Minneapolis office of Cassidy Turley, and Howard Paster, president of St. Paul-based shopping center development and management firm Paster Enterprises, aren’t naïve. They know that the commercial real estate industry in the Twin Cities and entire state of Minnesota has seen better times. But both commercial industry veterans say that the worst of the real estate slump has already hit Minneapolis. It is time now, they say, to look toward the future. Read more...
August 17, 2010 Tim Schaffer, executive vice president of Kansas City-based Red Brokerage, considers himself lucky: He’s brokering commercial office deals in Kansas City. That, he says, beats doing the same in many other markets across the country. Read more...
August 10, 2010 Richard Schuen and Shenan Murphy know Ohio. Schuen is chief executive officer of the Columbus office of Colliers International while Murphy is chief executive officer of the Colliers office in Cincinnati. Both shared their thoughts on the performance of their markets with Midwest Real Estate News. Read more...
August 01, 2010 The multi-family sector has actually been the top performer in the commercial real estate market since the industry’s slump began. Read more...
July 27, 2010 Michael Glass, regional manager of the Cleveland and Columbus offices of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, says that stability in the key feature of his market. And, not surprisingly, he’s pretty happy about that. Read more...
July 19, 2010 Those who don’t live in Northeast Ohio might not know that it boasts a thriving medical district. The Cleveland/Akron region is home to the well-regarded Cleveland Clinic, Akron General Hospital and the Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center. It also boasts Sanford-Brown College, a top medical university. Tom Fox, president of Akron-based NAI Cummins, along with the company’s vice president, Bob Raskow, talked with Midwest Real Estate News about the region’s booming healthcare business and its impact on commercial real estate. Read more...
July 16, 2010 Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Liberty Property Trust bucked the odds of today’s sluggish commercial real estate market by finalizing 14 new and renewed leases in the second quarter for a total of 155,661 square feet of space. Read more...
July 13, 2010 Bob Brehmer is managing partner of Cleveland-based commercial real estate brokerage NAI Daus. He recently spoke with Midwest Real Estate News about the challenges that he and his firm face in today’s tough commercial real estate market. He also offered his thoughts on how commercial brokers can best make it through this challenging time. Read more...
July 12, 2010 Mike Salmen knows that things could be better for the commercial real estate market in the Minneapolis/St. Paul region. He also knows that they could be far worse. Salmen is a partner with Transwestern Commercial Real Estate, and is the manager of the company’s Minneapolis office. He recently spoke with Minnesota Real Estate Journal about the ways in which the Twin Cities are surviving the commercial real estate slowdown. Read more...
