February 12, 2024

While it’s a hyperbole to call the recent turn in retail’s fortunes a renaissance, it almost seems appropriate considering parts of the sector were left for dead not long ago. The past year was an endurance test of sorts for the industry, which proved to be both resilient and able

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Different angles on data can bring different analyses of the same time period. That’s important for investors and developers because one part of an overall market may be in much better shape than another. In this case, there’s an interesting comparison between single-tenant

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A billion-dollar beauty – or beast, depending on one’s perspective – is on the way. After successful “luxury condo and apartment” projects in Kierland and across the Valley, Optima is charging ahead with Optima McDowell Mountain Village in North Scottsdale. Construction has

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Creation, one of the country’s leading commercial real estate developers, broke ground yesterday on Thunderbird Commerce Park, a $60 million industrial center set on a rare 18-acre parcel within Scottsdale Airpark. The developer commemorated the milestone by hosting

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The federal government said it will invest more than $5 billion in a national public-private consortium that will support research and development of advanced computer chips. White House officials on Friday announced plans to invest in the National Semiconductor Technology

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February 9, 2024

In the past two years, the Valley employees of real estate firm Vestar have been dedicated to planning and leasing Verrado Marketplace, a $125 million power retail center that’s slated for 500,000 square feet of new commercial space west of Phoenix. Developing and securing

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As land around the major freeways in the West Valley continues to be built out, city leaders have already started looking ahead to the next wave of growth. It’s known as State Route 30. The proposed 29-mile Tres Rios Freeway is set to be a transformational link and economic

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Creation, one of the country’s leading commercial real estate developers, broke ground yesterday on Thunderbird Commerce Park, a $60 million industrial center set on a rare 18-acre parcel within Scottsdale Airpark. The developer commemorated the milestone by hosting a

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BlackRock is not the only firm that declares now is the ideal time to invest in CRE. Things have been bad for investors, but they’re on the way to get better, says DoubleLine, in another sign that a degree of optimism is returning to the markets. In a new report, the firm

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Years after his dramatic ouster, WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is looking to boomerang back with a potential bid to buy the flexible workspace provider out of bankruptcy. In a letter to WeWork’s legal advisers, the former CEO’s new real estate startup, Flow, revealed an interest in

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February 8, 2024

Despite previous forecasts, new multifamily development exceeded expectations in 2023. In part, the performance of this sector was due to a stronger-than-expected first half of 2023. In addition, data now suggests affordable and single-family housing are now significant

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Venue Projects, a developer of some of the Valley’s high-profile redevelopment and adaptive reuse projects, now aims to develop a trailer park site in Phoenix. Venue Projects on Feb. 6 presented Wonderview at Highland to the Camelback East Village Planning Committee for

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Two big buyers of healthcare properties have invested $86 million in Phoenix, South Florida and the Chicago area, adding to their run of acquisitions in recent months. Remedy Medical Properties and Kayne Anderson Real Estate bought the properties from Flagler Healthcare Investments

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For the first time in months, year-over-year Metro Phoenix housing data for January 2024 showed more positive trends than negative movement, according to Phoenix REALTORS®. “Coming into January, we believed that 2024 was going to be better than 2023,” said

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Just the other day, an analysis from Apartment List declared a month of negative rent growth along with the other five that had gone before. Median rent is down by 3.5% since the peak during the summer of 2023. “The only period that brought a sharper decline was from September

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February 7, 2024

A mixed-use project at a key intersection in the southeast Valley took a big step forward on Jan. 31 — and has a new name. Scottsdale-based Diversified Partners LLC broke ground on a new mixed-use development on the corner of Elliot and Ellsworth roads, which will bring

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The Federal Reserve’s Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) regularly checks with banks to better understand their lending landscape. The short take for commercial real estate from the most recent survey is that even tighter underwriting

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Macerich raked in a record number of leases last year, and with a potential pipeline worth more than $65 million of incremental rent, the national mall landlord said it isn’t expecting the retail boom to fizzle anytime soon. The real estate investment trust signed more

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The holiday season is upon us, and as 2023 draws to a close the real estate community turns its focus towards the future, particularly to what 2024 holds. Let’s look at recent developments and future expectations of the Phoenix retail market, a sector that has shown remarkable

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Multifamily construction starts declined in 2023, but exceeded expectations considering the turmoil in the financial markets. A new report on multifamily construction starts from Yardi Matrix reports that the number of units that broke ground in 2023 ranks third in recent

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February 6, 2024

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is predicting that more small banks will likely close or merge due to commercial real estate weaknesses, but that the problem is ultimately “manageable.” The central bank official made this point during a “60 Minutes” interview that

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A national firm that has been expanding its presence in the Valley has proposed a 30-story mixed-use tower in the Roosevelt Row area of downtown Phoenix. Florida-based Mainstreet Capital Partners wants to build a 463,198-square-foot multifamily building

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Mark Tarbell is used to serving up food in a busy dining room. He’ll soon be overseeing one that’s nearly 300,000 square feet. Tarbell, one of the Valley’s best-known restaurateurs and owner of the high-profile Camelback Corridor eatery bearing his name, has

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So far this year multifamily investors have shown little inclination to reverse the slow sales trend of 2023. Last year multifamily investment volume fell by 60% from 2022 to $117.5 billion, marking the lowest annual multifamily investment volume since 2014. This year is supposed

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Award-winning real estate development firm, Optima is partnering with Mitsui Fudosan America, Inc. for the development of the first building within its newest Arizona residential development, Optima McDowell Mountain Village, located on 22-acres on the southeast corner of

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