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September 6, 2018

D.C.’s Apartment Market Remains Healthy

The Barton at Woodley apartment complex in Washington, D.C. Rebounding job growth and consistent population growth has given way to record levels of absorption and supply. Occupancies remain above the 10-year average, contributing to healthy rent ga…

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September 5, 2018

LaSalle Properties Calls Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Bid ‘Superior’ to Blackstone Offer

LaSalle Hotel Properties owns the Park Central Hotel at 870 Seventh Ave. in New York. Real estate investment trust LaSalle Hotel Properties said a purchase offer from Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is a “superior proposal” to a rival bid from Blackstone Gr…

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September 5, 2018

Federal Government and Contractors Continue to Account for Largest D.C. Leases

Rendering of the office tower preleased to Fannie Mae in Reston, Virginia. Although 2018 has been slow in terms of absorption compared with the past few years, one thing remains the same: Much of the future demand for office space is coming from th…

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September 5, 2018

Winchester Homes Selects Foulger-Pratt’s Park Potomac Development for Regional Headquarters

Foulger-Pratt has added two new office tenants to the fold at Park Potomac, the company’s 585,000-square-foot mixed-use development in Potomac, Maryland, that, at full completion, will total more than 2 million square feet. Local residential brokera…

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September 4, 2018

FCP, Level 2 Sell Transit-Oriented Apartment Development in Takoma for $50 Million

A transit-oriented apartment and retail complex completed in 2015 in the northwest Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Takoma has changed hands in a $50.6 million deal. Artemis Real Estate Partners and Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners struck a deal wi…

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September 4, 2018

For Amazon HQ2 Finalist Cities, The Day After Looms

The Lotus Riverfront at 450 Broad St. in Newark, New Jersey, is one of the sites offered as a possible home for Amazon’s HQ2. After Amazon gave his county a painful snub in January, David Iannucci is stuck exactly where 19 communities may find themsel…

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August 30, 2018

Micron to Expand Manassas Manufacturing Plant with $3 Billion Capital Investment

Micron’s 576,000-square-foot plant located 40 miles outside Washington, D.C., in Manassas, Virginia. Micron Technology pledged to make one of the largest manufacturing investments in the history of Virginia with a $3 billion capital investment to ex…

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August 30, 2018

Harbor Group International Wraps Up Largest D.C.-Area Apartment Deal This Year

For two weeks, the sale of the Ballston Place apartment complex in Arlington, Virginia, stood as the largest multifamily transaction in the Washington, D.C., market in 2018. Its short-lived reign just ended. Harbor Group International, a real estate…

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August 29, 2018

Lanham Fundamentals Behind Quantum Equities’ $84 Million Multifamily Purchase

A New York-based real estate developer has acquired a 486-unit apartment complex in Lanham, Maryland, for nearly $84 million, citing the area’s promising market fundamentals aided by major employment drivers the University of Maryland and downtown Wash…

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August 28, 2018

Inspector General: Trump Administration May Have Misled Congress on FBI Headquarters Rebuilding Cost

The J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. The Trump Administration may have misled Congress about the full cost of rebuilding and potentially relocating the FBI headquarters that’s now located near the Trump International Hotel in Washington,…

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