Subject: Northeast Regional Digest (NEDIG)

January 7, 2004 The Wall Street JournalLa Quinta Corp. is on the prowl for office buildings in downtown areas that it can convert into hotel properties. Chief Development Officer Alan L. Tallis says the Irving, Texas-based company is pursuing deals ...

January 7, 2004 New York PostFerrari has chosen a corner spot at 410 Park Ave., on the southwest corner of 55th Street, for its first-ever showroom in Manhattan. The 4,300-square-foot space was vacant for three years while the Cushman & ...

January 7, 2004 New York Daily News (Third item)Public relations firm Burson-Marsteller has signed a lease renewal that will keep it at 230 Park Ave. South in midtown Manhattan. The firm rents the entire 300,000-square-foot property, where a converted printing ...

January 7, 2004 New York Daily News (Second item)Dow Jones, parent company of The Wall Street Journal, has renewed its lease at World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. The 16-year deal for 150,000 square feet represents about half the space ...

January 6, 2004 New York PostThe law firm of Morgan & Finnegan has clinched a lease to move from midtown to 3 World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. The firm signed a 20-year lease for more than 100,000 square feet ...

January 5, 2004 Boston Business JournalViaCell Inc. has signed a lease for 43,000 square feet of lab and office space at Cambridge Science Center. The property, at 245 First St. in Cambridge, Mass., is being converted by Equity Office Properties ...

December 31, 2003 Boston HeraldChicago's Pritzker family and Frank McCourt have feuded bitterly over the years over competing development plans for a key stretch of Boston waterfront. Now, both the Chicago-based family and the South Boston developer have one thing ...

December 31, 2003 New York PostWal-Mart may be considering building a store in Coney Island, N.Y., on a seven-acre seaside parcel adjacent to the KeySpan Ballpark. Area developments already under way include a renovated $245 million Stillwell Avenue rail station, ...

December 31, 2003 The Hartford CourantThe Hastings Hotel and Conference Center in Hartford, Conn., closed abruptly yesterday as the owners moved to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. The hotel and conference center will revert to Aetna, which holds the ...

December 30, 2003 Accounting and consulting firm Rothstein Kass has more than doubled its office space in New York with an 18,821-square-foot lease at 1350 Avenue of the Americas. The firm was previously located in roughly 8,600 sf at 1177 ...