City: Columbus

March 23, 2004 Fitch Ratings has upgraded three classes of Morgan Stanley Capital Inc., 1997-WF1, because subordination levels have increased.The rating agency upgraded the deal's:– $33.6 million class F to double-B-plus from double-B;– $5.6 million class G to double-B from ...

February 26, 2004 Moody's Investors Service has upgraded four classes of Morgan Stanley Capital I Inc., 1997-WF1, because of an increase in subordination levels.The rating agency upgraded the deal's:– $30.8 million class B to Aaa from Aa2;– $33.5 million class ...

February 23, 2004 Business First of ColumbusNationwide Realty Investors plans to build 98 condominiums in a section of Columbus, Ohio's Arena District that already includes a major office building. One building of 33 condos would go up adjacent to a ...

February 9, 2004 Business First of ColumbusThe Opus Business Center at Rickenbacker in Columbus, Ohio, has attracted Westerville-based Exel Inc. as a 122,000-square-foot tenant for at least the next three years. The addition is prompting the industrial developer to consider ...

January 12, 2004 Business First of ColumbusMerrill Lynch & Co. has extended for 10 years its 18,000-square-foot lease atop the Capitol Square Building in Columbus, Ohio. Brandon Wiant & Converse, a real estate brokerage in Cleveland, represented the tenant in ...

January 6, 2004 Glimcher Realty Trust (NYSE:GRT) has acquired all of the interests of its joint venture partners in two Columbus, Ohio malls – the 1.6 million-square-foot Polaris Fashion Place and the 723,352-sf Polaris Towne Center – for $56.5 million.The ...

December 24, 2003 Glimcher Realty Trust (NYSE:GRT) has closed its purchase of the Eastland Mall in Columbus, Ohio.The Columbus-based REIT paid Columbus East Joint Venture, an Ohio general partnership, $29.65 million for the 940,000-square-foot mall.Glimcher financed the acquisition with a ...

December 1, 2003 Business First of ColumbusCleveland-based Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP will vacate its three-year-old offices at Fifth Third Center in Columbus and relocate to 65 E. State Street in May. The company will take the entire 19,350-square-foot 14th ...