Arkansas Commercial Real Estate

Developers Struggle to Fill Manhattan Office Space (New York Times)
To attract prospective tenants to new or rehabbed buildings, landlords are tailoring their marketing efforts to today?s economic realities.

The Market Remains Resilient (Indie Research via Yahoo! Finance)
Stocks managed to fight their way into the green today, once again showing the recent resilient nature of this market.

UAE Al Benaa Real-Estate investment to exhibit at Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2009 (AME Info)
Al Benaa Real Estate Investment (PJSC), one of the fastest growing real estate investment, development, property and facilities management companies in the UAE, will be participating in the upcoming Cityscape Exhibition 2009 to be held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre from 19th to 22nd April.

Recognized Expert on IRC Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges, Kelly Alton, General Counsel at Nationwide Exchange ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
----Nationwide Exchange Services: CONTACT: Shilpa Mysoor, 310.276.7731 or smysoor@nesf.com WHEN: Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. WHERE: Nationwide Exchange Services 50 West San Fernando St., Suite 300 San Jose, CA 95113 COST: The event is complimentary with lunch provided For more information, contact: info@nesf.com

World's largest abandoned man-made mine becomes a park (People's Daily)
The world's largest abandoned manmade mine in Fuxin City of China's northeast Liaoning Province has been converted to a park and will be ready to receive tourists in May. As one of the 156 major industrial projects that pushed the first industrialization steps of the newly established People's Republic of China, the Haizhou Open Pit Coal Mine began operation in 1953. It boasted the most advanced ...

Boston Properties Completes $215 Million Construction Financing of Russia Wharf (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOSTON----Boston Properties, Inc. , a real estate investment trust, announced that it has completed construction financing for its Russia Wharf development located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kreps/DeMaria Public Relations & Marketing Forms Real Estate Disposition Division for Distressed Assets (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CORAL GABLES, Fla.----Capitalizing on 20-plus years of experience in assisting developers and real estate firms with promoting residential condominiums and mixed-use communities, Coral Gables-based Kreps/DeMaria Public Relations and Marketing, one of Florida's largest privately held public relations and marketing firms, announced today that it has formed a Real Estate Disposition Division to ...

General Growth Properties, Inc. Files Additional Subsidiaries for Chapter 11 Protection (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHICAGO----GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, INC. today announced that certain additional subsidiaries, including eight regional shopping centers, are also voluntarily seeking relief under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complete Metro Business Calendar (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
CAREERS MONDAY, APRIL 20 Career-Prospectors, http://www.career-prospectors.com, a job-search networking group, meets every Monday at 7:30 a.m. in the conference room at Long & Foster, 9321 Midlothian Turnpike. Details: Michael Soden, (804) 594-7065, or Fred Carreras, (804) 378-2021. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 Capital Area Training Consortium-Area Workforce Center meets at 11 a.m., CATC-Henrico, 5410 ...

Rudd Bank 'a priority' (The Age)
ANZ warns that the freeze in the $8 billion-plus commercial mortgage-backed securities market represents a bigger threat to the commercial property sector than the possible exit of foreign banks.