Last night, Hartman Simons attorneys, staff and friends gathered at Ormsby's on Howell Mill Road in Atlanta to pay tribute to retired partner Charles "Buzz" Wood. Many good stories and laughs were shared as colleagues movingly recalled Wood's long-lasting impact on the firm and their careers, as well as his wide-ranging interests, which span from [...]
Each Wednesday, The Wrap presents a compilation of recent noteworthy commercial real estate stories from a variety of publications. Below are five stories that caught our eyes in recent days. • “No Bubble in Multifamily Values, According to Freddie Mac” by Mark Heschmeyer of CoStar. The values of multifamily properties may have soared in recent [...]
As an executive at Jamestown, Kristen Morris is involved in some of the Southeast’s most exciting retail destinations, including the Ponce City Market in the heart of Atlanta (the property is slated to open in 2014). In today’s Four on Friday, we chat with Kristen about her responsibilities at the firm, suburban communities’ embrace of [...]
Each Wednesday, The Wrap presents a compilation of recent noteworthy commercial real estate stories from a variety of publications. Below are four stories that caught our eyes in recent days. • “Nonprofits Get Ever More Space Efficient” by Erika Morphy of GlobeSt.com. Nonprofits are experiencing improved financial health, but an increased emphasis on space efficiency [...]
The Atlanta industrial market is on the mend, and to get the skinny on the recovery, we turned to Kent Mason. As a vice president at Prologis, an owner and developer of industrial properties across the globe, Mason oversees the firm’s 15.5 million-square-foot portfolio in the metro area. In today’s Four on Friday, he gives [...]
Each Wednesday, The Wrap presents a compilation of recent noteworthy commercial real estate stories from a variety of publications. Below are five stories that caught our eyes in recent days. • “Student Off-Campus Housing Is Back-to-School Bargain” by Dawn Wotapka of The Wall Street Journal. Operating on the belief that schools were having trouble building [...]
When you want to talk retail real estate, there’s no better person to turn to than Lisa Streidl. A senior vice president in the Dallas office of The Zall Company and a vice president of branding and marketing at Pacific Realty Services, Streidl has decades of experience as a broker and development consultant. For today’s [...]
Each Wednesday, The Wrap presents a compilation of recent noteworthy commercial real estate stories from a variety of publications. Below are five stories that caught our eyes in recent days. • “Falling Rental Income Drives Office Expenses Down” by Carisa Chappell of REIT.com. Total operating expenses for office buildings dipped nearly 4 percent from 2011 [...]