Northeast

March 11, 2003 Boston GlobeWith about 8 million square feet of space available, the downtown Boston office vacancy rate is close to 15 percent. Landlords are competing for tenants with tenants themselves, some of which don't need all the space...

March 10, 2003 RBC Dain Rauscher Inc., an investment banking and trading unit of Royal Bank of Canada, has signed a lease for 60,000 square feet at 1211 Sixth Ave. in midtown Manhattan. The space will house personnel who moved...

Correction (March 13, 2003): Newmark & Co. Real Estate Inc. represented Goldman Sachs in negotiations to lease 76,000 square feet at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn, N.Y. The item, which relied on information from Crain's New York Business, incorrectly identified...

March 10, 2003 Crain's New York BusinessA partnership between The Praedium Group, Broadway Management Co. and Myles Horn has sold the Windsor Park Apartments in Queens to a local buyer for $32 million. The 499 condo and co-op units are...

March 10, 2003 Boston Globe, March 9The Boston commercial real estate market is alive and well if recent deals are any indication. Paradigm Properties LLC, a Boston real estate investment and management firm, has acquired Landfall Developments Inc., a real...

March 10, 2003 The Boston Herald, March 6The complicated ownership situation of the 2,000-car garage that comes as part of the package of John Hancock Financial's landmark towers may end up complicating the sale, sources say. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority...

March 10, 2003 New York Post, March 8Ben Ashkenazy has decided to sell the landmark Chelsea church building that housed the notorious Limelight nightclub for $18.5 million. After a renovation, the club on the southeast corner of 20th Street and...

March 10, 2003 New York Daily News, March 8Vornado Realty has indicated that plans to build a 39-story office tower atop the Port Authority Bus Terminal at W. 42nd St. and Eighth Ave. are thin. After a bidding process in...

March 7, 2003 Newsday (New York)Taubman Co., which is seeking to build a large, upscale mall on the old Cerro Wire factory site in Syosset, N.Y., has scored another legal victory against the Town of Oyster Bay. The Appellate Division...

March 7, 2003 Banker & TradesmanArchon Group is selling the Westborough Office Park in two parts for a total of $57 million. The Windsor Fund, a partnership headed up by Boston-based General Investment and Development, paid $49.6 million, or about...