Subject: Mid-Atlantic Regional Digest (MADIG)

July 27, 2000 Murphy outlines higher estimate for Fifth-Forbes planThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 27PITTSBURGH – The cost of Mayor Murphy's Market Place at Fifth and Forbes plan has jumped to $522.4 million, up from $480.5 million. The mayor is offering ...

July 25, 2000 Wetlands benefit seen in mall proposalThe Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.), July 25HACKENSACK, N.J. – The Mills Corp., of Arlington, Va., has proposed a 2 million-square-foot complex and fill 204 acres of wetlands, also known as the Empire Tract. ...

July 24, 2000Arundel tech firm plans campusBaltimore Business Journal, July 24 ANNAPOLIS, Md. –USinternetworking plans to build a $22.5 million building, which will be the first of what company officials say will be a five-building corporate campus. Construction on the ...

July 21, 2000 Downtown market for office space is red-hotThe Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21PHILADELPHIA –The vacancy rate in Philadelphia is the lowest in 15 years, according to the Grubb & Ellis Co. The vacancy rate for Class-A and Class-B office ...

July 20, 2000 Urban's Pittsburgh proposal drawing some fireThe Chicago Tribune, July 20PITTSBURGH – Chicago-based Urban Shopping Centers Inc. plans to develop a 600,000-square-foot retail complex at Block 37. The company will own the retail space at Block 37 once ...

July 18, 2000 Prince George's County begins to draw a crowdThe Washington Post, July 18WASHINGTON – According to Delta Associates, Prince George's County still has one of the highest vacancy rates in the region for premium office space – 6.4 ...

July 14, 2000Louis Capano & Associates buy into Wilmington's riverfront actionThe News Journal (New Castle, Del.), July 14WILMINGTON, Del. – Local Developer Louis Capano & Associates has contracted to buy an undeveloped, two-acre site along the city's Christina riverfront from ...

July 13, 2000 Home Depot to open at Hechinger site in NW The Washington Post, July 13 WASHINGTON – Home Depot Inc. has agreed to lease the former Hechinger Co. property on upper Wisconsin Avenue. The deal for the long-term ...

July 12, 2000 PSEG jumping into real estate development The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.), July 12 NEWARK, N.J. – Public Service Enterprise Group, the parent of the New Jersey's largest and oldest utility, has decided to enter the real estate business ...

July 11, 2000 Deal transfers D.C. slum building to tenants The Washington Post, July 11 WASHINGTON – A group of tenants in a rundown apartment complex appear to have won a legal battle against their landlord, who last month threatened ...