Don’t Let Your Lease Kill the Sale of Your Business

As an asset manager, in the late 90s, working for a large owner of office buildings, I got a phone call from a guy who said he was buying one of the companies in a Dallas building we owned. He said his company planned to close on the sale the next day and he wanted...

US Office Vacancy Lowest in 10 Years

According to a report produced by Transwestern, office vacancies in the US as a whole are at their lowest in 10 years. That’s pretty amazing when you consider that they also report that 70.7 million square feet (SF) of new construction has been started during...

3D Printing a Building?

Fascinating building going on in Dubai. In 17 days the Dubai Future Foundation printed out a building. The Associated Press described it as “looking like a mashup of a Jetsons abode and an Apple Store”. The building is located between the twin Emirates Towers and...

Granite Park – 6th Tower to Break Ground Soon

Fannie Mae will be consolidating its three locations in North Texas to Granite Park’s newest office tower, which is slated to be completed October, 2017. Granite has two more high rise office buildings in the hopper – “we started out here with one...

Loving Traffic?

Do you love traffic as much as I do?!? Yup, thought so! Texas Department of Transportation has earmarked $1.3B to ease traffic congestion according to a recent article in BisNow.com. The article has a fascinating map showing solutions for the TexaPlex triangle (DFW to...