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What will be the tallest hotel in the west is currently under construction in place of the Wilshire Grand that was built in 1952. Developers Hanjin and Korean Air are building the 900 room 73 [...]

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked Columbus, Ohio eighth for economic growth according to new data that takes a fresh look at economic output generated by individual U.S. metro areas. [...]

I suspect this is true given the number of creative niche retailers such as what we have in the Short North plus the tech start ups that we have all over Columbus. Then you throw in the 110,000 [...]

As many already know, there are two huge commercial real estate projects in the planning stages for the I-71 and Route 36/37 areas. First, is North Gate Centre, a collaboration between developers [...]

I’m a Santa Monica commercial realtor and have a orthodontic client need for 1,100 to 1,800 square feet of gross or net leased retail or office space for orthodontic medical office use in Santa [...]

China’s biggest commercial developer, Wanda Group, purchased the site of the old Beverly Hills retailer, Robinson May Co. for $420 million for the eight acres. Since the retail site has [...]

I find this a little hard to believe, but according to Curbed LA, downtown LA with 1 percent of the land area has had 20 percent of the new housing since passage of the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance [...]

No, it’s not a proposal for Columbus to host the 20xx Olympics, but it is a large 152 unit mixed use development with ground floor mixed use retail and possibly office with three floors of [...]

I’ll get back to blogging about commercial real estate shortly, but I have another video first.  This time it’s the wonderful Detroit Woodward Dream Cruise. We got lucky again and had [...]

According to Carrie Ghose with Columbus Business First, Adeptus Health of Dallas Texas is expanding into Central Ohio with a proposed three story 24 bed (expandable to 48) on a 5 .5 acre parcel.  [...]

This short video is from the American Cancer Society fund raiser Saturday, August 9, 2014 at the Polaris Columbus Quaker Steak and lube

There’s lots new cooking up around Polaris between new openings and under construction projects of polished casual and fast casual restaurants. Latest two to have opened are the Roosters at [...]

I’m a little tardy regarding getting some vids together on a few big car events we had here in the Midwest.  I thought I’d better post these now because there several more events [...]

The California FTB (Franchise Tax Board) has gotten more aggressive challenging 1031 exchanges. A practice that has been and is commonplace has just caused a taxpayer to have his exchange [...]

648 condos in the twin 35 story towers will sit above eight stories of retail, parking and electronic signage in place of the two huge surface parking lots that face Staples Center now. The [...]

The announcement came yesterday that Nationwide Realty bought the eight acre Byers Chevrolet property on W Broad Street, just west of Downtown Columbus on the Scioto Peninsula . Byers plans to be [...]

This one is for my triple net retail investors. Net leased retail buyers desiring leverage know that national credit retailers’ credit ratings with S&P and Moody’s are hugely [...]

For the 32nd annual show there was a record turnout last weekend with around 1,400 cars present, including me of course.   The perfect weather with no rain and moderate temperatures surely [...]

Anyone who spends much time around north Columbus and especially eastbound motorists on I-270 approaching the Worthington, High Street  / Route 23 Interchange has long known that there’s a [...]

Ohio State University plans to start the rezoning process for the Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment properties on 7 acres immediately south of the existing South Campus Gateway.  [...]