September 1, 1999City begins bid on 5,000 acres on SouthsideFlorida Times-Union, August 31JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city of Jacksonville has begun talks with a major Southside landowner to buy and take 5,000 acres of land out of development...

By Associated PressNEW HAMPTON, Iowa (AP) - Sara Lee has put its plant here up for sale at a price of $25 million, but that could drop as low as $15 million if there's no sale by the...

September 1, 1999From counting marble to rebuilding an empireToronto Star, September 1TORONTO – Philip Reichmann, whose father built First Canadian Place—one of the country's largest office buildings—and then lost it during an economic landslide in the early 1990s,...

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...

August 31, 1999 NEW YORK – SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE:SLG) has brought in a joint venture partner, Carlyle Realty, to purchase 1250 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan.SL Green had originally agreed to buy the 670,000-square-foot office building on...

August 31, 1999 By Paul Gereffi, VertiNews.com CorrespondentSteak N' Shake, the Indianapolis-based restaurant chain that has long been a fixture in the Midwest and Central Florida, is launching an aggressive expansion campaign in South Florida.The chain, a subsidiary...

August 31, 1999 Big Paris Casino Due to Open in Las Vegas Sept. 1Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 31LAS VEGAS – The $785 million Paris Las Vegas hotel-casino will open Sept. 1 with fireworks, parties for high-rollers and top...

August 31, 1999 By Morris Newman, VertiNews.com CorrespondentIRVINE, Calif. – The California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) has taken occupancy of 148,000 square feet in the Park Place Office Campus in this Orange County city.The new office will function...

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...