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By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Barnard College has built a dormitory where faculty members occupy the same floors and share laundry facilities and common space with students.
August 30, 2006 Education News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
A long-neglected sanctuary outside Washington with 12 architecturally distinct buildings is undergoing a renovation estimated at $111 million.
August 6, 2006 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
As Midtown rents go up, small companies in modest Class B office buildings could be out of their quarters entirely.
July 19, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Retirees are discovering Tellico Lake in Tennessee, a community created by a controversial dam in 1979. Waterfront lots start at $200,000.
July 9, 2006 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Anthony Giarratana is single-handedly creating a market for residential housing in downtown Nashville' s central business district.
June 21, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
A year ago, the Hotel Chelsea, site of countless famous and infamous events, got its own blog. The other day, the bloggers celebrated.
June 4, 2006 New York and Region News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
A Philadelphia tract offers a suburban campus feel with city advantages and drawbacks.
May 31, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Atlantic Station is a city within a city on 138 acres with retail, residential, commercial and public space in Midtown Atlanta.
May 24, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Downtown revival seemed off to a slow start after 9/11. Suddenly, seemingly overnight, it is starting to burst into bloom.
May 10, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
In Holyoke, Mass., the town’s first mill, with 700,000 square feet, has been brought back to life by John Aubin.
April 23, 2006 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Toll Brothers, perhaps the best-known builder of luxury homes in the country, is developing 5 sites in New York City.
April 5, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
On Friday, the Corbin Building and the land where it sits will be taken by eminent domain for the new Fulton Street Transit Center.
March 29, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
A design firm has invented the unfocus group to find out not just what people really think, but also how they really live.
March 12, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Decades after redevelopment began on industrialized waterfronts in other cities, Newark is just now seeing the start of a transformation.
March 1, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Some people in Fort Myers are concerned that wealthy condo dwellers might not save the city after all.
February 8, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Michelle Mooney will assist neighborhood organizations in efforts to attract and retain a diversity of businesses that serve local residents.
February 1, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Tax credits for commercial real estate in low-income areas are helping to create jobs and revitalize streets.
January 25, 2006 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
After years of losing population, the downtown region, known as Center City, is booming, with old buildings being transformed into lofts and condominiums.
January 8, 2006 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Plans to redevelop San Francisco' s Transbay Terminal, which has deteriorated into an underused bus station, are finally moving forward.
December 28, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
To retain their teachers, the Santa Clara Unified School District created affordable residencies in an area where the median home price is $714,250.
December 18, 2005 Education News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
It has become common in New York City for real estate developers to offer public amenities in exchange for the right to put up buildings that are taller than the zoning ordinarily would allow or to garner public support for projects that might stir controversy. But those amenities - parks, plazas or atriums, for example - sometimes fail to live up to expectation, fall into disrepair and are occasionally scrapped altogether.
November 23, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
The New Yorker Hotel to relight its historic sign and upgrade the building.
November 9, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
The resurgence of Brooklyn neighborhoods like Park Slope and Williamsburg is well documented. But what is not as widely known is how well the downtown business district is doing, despite a still somewhat dog-eared appearance. What is more, the area is on the verge of a major transformation.
October 19, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Las Cruces, N.M., is trying to undo a makeover of its central business district that was done 30 years ago and has made it all but a ghost town.
October 12, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Do not call it a bazaar or a flea market. Nor is it really a mall or a department store. The best description might be the un-mall.
October 5, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
The long, slow decline of Cleveland has galvanized both the public and private sectors to address the downtown commercial district' s plight.
September 28, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
With the hot real estate market, historic adobes that have been vacant for 50 years are selling fast and furiously.
September 11, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
To a degree not seen in years, financial firms dominated commercial office leasing activity in Manhattan for the first half of 2005.
August 24, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
New York City' s largest green roof, a thin layer of plants topping a building, has become a test for the environment and the bottom line.
August 10, 2005 Business News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Newcomers to Kingsbridge, in the Bronx, are finding apartments and houses at reasonable prices.
August 7, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Some businesses are paying an expert in feng shui$300 an hour to help them work better and sellmore. Sometimes, it pays to think red, and use a zigzag.
July 10, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
The makeover of Union Square Park is finally going to be completed.
June 26, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Despite a loss of manufacturing, fashion is still the heart of the Garment District.
June 12, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
With nearly 25 percent of the historic downtown district of Bridgeport, Conn. about to undergo a major rehabilitation, developers are champing at the bit.
May 29, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
With the rehabilitation of several major subway stations, the M.T.A. is trying to create a better environment for subway stores.
May 22, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Artists are renting out vacant office space in lower Manhattan, paying a fraction of what a typical tenant would play.
May 8, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Downtown Manhattan has seemingly overnight become a mecca for food shopping.
April 24, 2005 Health News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Small businesses are thriving in East Harlem. Zoila Runge opened a 99-cent store using her savings and a $15,000 loan.
April 10, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Watch out Chelsea. The Bowery is the latest neighborhood to attract an art scene.
March 20, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Planting a street tree can help raise property values. It just takes patience.
March 20, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
The new facilities for the Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York are to be built on what are now six contiguous lots owned by the city.
March 6, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
As the East Village gets wealthier, retailing on St. Marks Place is changing, with monthly rents reaching $125 a square foot.
January 30, 2005 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Sitting in Clinton Hill not far from where it meets Fort Greene, Pratt Institute, which was founded in 1887, was not exactly in Harvard Square.
December 5, 2004 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Finding a place to buy in San Francisco is a daunting task, as housing prices continue to increase despite a shrinking population and job losses.
November 28, 2004 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
In Chicago, tree plantings, elaborate landscaping and streetscape designs have become the catalyst for neighborhood revitalization.
October 3, 2004 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
Shaker Heights, Ohio, built nearly 100 years ago as one of the country' s first planned communities, is still an ideal community.
August 29, 2004 Real Estate News
By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
A residential revitalization has been under way for some time in Bedford-Stuyvesant, but the commercial market has not kept pace.
August 22, 2004 Real Estate News
