September 1, 1999 BOSTON – Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE:BXP) paid $117.6 million for two office buildings and two development sites at the Gateway Commercial Center in South San Francisco.The REIT is buying 601 and 651 Gateway Boulevard, which...

September 1, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. – CarrAmerica Realty Corp. (NYSE:CRE) signed a 145,000-square-foot lease expansion with Janus Capital Corp. at Riata Corporate Park in Austin, Texas.As a result of the expansion, Janus will occupy 200,000 sf at the...

September 1, 1999 LOS ANGELES – Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds' Kearny Real Estate Co. sold its Long Beach Corporate Square office complex in Long Beach, Calif., to Regency Realty Corp. (NYSE:REG).Regency, a Jacksonville, Fla., REIT that primarily...

September 1, 1999 By Associated PressEditor's Note: Figures are in Canadian dollarsTORONTO (AP) - Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust is bidding to take over Avista Real Estate Investment Trust, creating a diversified REIT with assets valued at dlrs...

September 1, 1999 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Midland Loan Services Inc. has been awarded the loan servicing responsibilities for a $618.6 million commercial real estate mortgage portfolio owned by The St. Paul Companies through its USF&G and Fidelity...

September 1, 1999By The Associated Press The following is a transcript of an interview CNNfn Anchors Valerie Morris and Tony Guida conducted this morning on Market Coverage on Sean Hennessey of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.MORRIS: Now, joining us now with more...

September 1, 1999 PHOENIX - Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE:PNW) announced that George A. Schreiber, Jr. will leave the company in the near future to return to the investment banking industry in New York.Schreiber joined the company in...

September 1, 1999By Lisa Finnegan, VertiNews.com CorrespondentMarcus & Millichap has hired two brokers in its Fort Lee, N.J., office and expects to hire four-to-six more in the next few weeks, according to David E. Thurston, who manages the...

September 1, 1999 Hilton Hotels Corp. (NYSE:HLT) is said to be in talks to acquire Promus Hotel Corp. (NYSE:PRH) in a deal valued at more than $2.4 billion.According to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the talks,...

September 1, 1999 Foes decry UIC plan Chicago Sun Times, September 1CHICAGO – A proposal to preserve about 20 buildings on Maxwell Street will be presented today at the University of Illinois at Chicago's board of trustees meeting....

September 1, 1999 Dr. Pepper to merge with Cadbury Dallas Morning News, September 1DALLAS – Dr. Pepper Bottling Company of Texas reached an agreement to merge with a bottler controlled by Cadbury Schweppes PLC, and the combined company...

By Rob Ferguson of The Associated Press TORONTO (CP) - Philip Reichmann was a teenager when a company founded by his father Albert and uncle Paul built First Canadian Place in 1972. But he knows just about every...

August 31, 1999 Pittsburgh Auditorium authority helps with arena debt The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 31 PITTSBURGH-The board of the Public Auditorium Authority agreed yesterday to make a Civic Arena debt payment to help the new ownership of the...

August 31, 1999 By Morris Newman, VertiNews.com CorrespondentIRVINE, Calif. – Opus West spent an undisclosed amount to buy 15 acres in Foothill Ranch, a master-planned community in south Orange County, Calif.The seller was ProLogis Trust, a Denver REIT....

August 31, 1999 Buyers lining up for GenstarThe National Post, August 31MONTREAL – Genstar Development Co., the real estate company Imasco Ltd. put on the block one month ago, is attracting solid attention from potential U.S. and Canadian...

August 31, 1999By Morris Newman, VertiNews.com CorrespondentMESA, Ariz. – Cole Partnerships Inc. of Phoenix paid $11 million for a 260,000-square-foot retail center in Mesa. The seller was Asean Shopping Center of Mesa.The center is 90 percent leased and...

August 31, 1999 Ciao, N.J. Turnpike Bergen Record, August 31TRENTON, N.J. – It's official: The biggest operator of food and gift concessions for travelers  including on the Garden State Parkway, the turnpike, and at Newark Airport ...

August 31, 1999 SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (NYSE: RPT) has formed a joint venture with Investcorp International that aims to buy $125 million of shopping centers.Investcorp, an international investment firm best known for reviving firms such...

August 31, 1999Coming soon: Slowdown in apartment boomOrlando Business Journal, August 30ORLANDO, Fla. – The great apartment shakeup of 1999 is about to come, according to apartment guru Robert W. Miller of the Orlando office of CBRichard Ellis....

August 31, 1999 DALLAS – Apartment rental rates in Denver continued to climb last quarter, but Axiometrics, a Dallas research firm, predicts that the market will soften as employment growth slows and a flurry of new multi-family units...

August 31, 1999 ATLANTA – Post Properties Inc. (NYSE:PPS) has started construction on five apartment communities that it projects will cost a total of $137 million to complete.The complexes are in Charlotte, Austin, Texas, Atlanta and Dallas. The...

August 31, 1999$5.8 Mln bid puts park plans in jeopardyChicago Tribune, August 31CHICAGO – The attorney representing property owner Maryknoll Restoration Inc. and its owner told a federal bankruptcy judge they have a deal to sell the land...

August 31, 1999 By Associated Press OTIS, Ore. (AP) - It's just a blip on the map along Oregon 18 where beach-bound travelers can stop to fill their tanks or fill their bellies at the Otis Cafe. It...

August 31, 1999 CHICAGO – General Growth Properties Inc. plans to launch an interactive mall web site, Mallibu.com.The web site, which will be fully operational this fall, will serve as a portal for individual web sites of General...

August 31, 1999 By Associated PressHURON, S.D. (AP) - Huron University has bought its campus from a group of mostly local investors. Now independently owned and operated, Huron University L.L.C. has more than $10 million in assets. That...