October 2007

By JAY MILLER 2:20 pm, October 16, 2007 Crain's Business Cleveland

The developers of the proposed Flats East Bank mixed-use project today unveiled updated plans that highlight the prospect of additional office and residential space. Adam Fishman, a principal of Fairmount Properties LLC, which is partnering with the Wolstein Group on the riverfront project, said during Tuesday morning’s Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority board meeting that the project now might include two, 400,000-square-foot office buildings instead of one and that the number of housing units planned for the project has risen to between 500 and 600 from 350 as more units are planned for mid-rise buildings than for townhouses. “People want office (space),” Mr. Fishman said of

I am very excited to have discovered the opening of a desperately needed grocery in the ballpark area! Current downtown residents have always had to drive out of the city to do their food shopping. The need for a local market has grown as our downtown rapidly redevelops and more and more individuals move back into the city or relocate to Denver. Christa and Brandon Engel saw this need and combined it with their passion for food to open Market Central. Their logo is, “Cook more. Drive less. Live better.”  Current services include: grab and go meals, box lunches, knife sharpening and shopping done for you. Future services include cooking classes and delivery to the immediate area. They opened their doors this past summer and continue to grow each day. They

Trinity Uptown™ is a bold new plan for waterfront development. It aims to revitalize an 800-acre area north of downtown Fort Worth with a combination of public improvements and private development. Its goal is to provide a vibrant, stimulating environment in which families can live, work, shop, play, and learn. The combination of public improvements and private development is key to understanding this project. Private development of the area will be possible once flood protection is in place and levees are removed to open up the land. The area will enable up to 10,000 new homes to be constructed in the area, providing a solution to the demand for high-density urban housing. Fort Worth is the fastest-growing large city in the United States. Its population

Hughes Development LP, the Dallas based developer of So7 on west 7th street near downtown Fort Worth, has released a rendering of the new seven story mixed use retail and residential condo building that is breaking ground this week.
Emily Ray Porter, a sales representative for Hughes says the building will have retail on the first two levels (approximately 70,000 square feet) and 72 residential condos on floors three through seven.
Retail tenants will include the likes of Primo's retaurant, Backwoods outdoor clothing store, Hola Tapas Bar, Performance Playground gym, and a few more that are yet to be named.
The rendering shows the view of the building from West Seventh Street.

DFW Ranks #1 in Business 2.0 list of Best Real Estate Opportunities (10.4.07) From Business 2.0:  The Metroplex, as locals call the Dallas-Fort Worth region, is smoking, adding jobs at twice the national rate. Better yet, those new jobs are concentrated in well-paying fields like banking, advertising, and health care. Dallas-Fort Worth sits at the center of the Interstate 35 corridor, a "megapolitan" galaxy of urban development that Virginia Tech researchers estimate will add 6.4 million new people and 2.8 million units of housing over the next two decades. Dallas also serves as the North American headquarters for international high-tech employers like Nokia and Ericsson. All of this makes Dallas one of the nation's nine most global metros - cities that