1/27/2007

from the field:

Economic Development Quarterly (Feb): riverboat casinos

California Real Estate Journal (1/16): Sacramento Rail Yards; corporate housing showing significant growth; Napa Valley eco-hotel; complaints over night games' lights for LAUSD football games

National Real Estate Investor (Jan): Westfield buys Seattle mall for redevelopment; sports-condos on the rise; medical office space; Atlanta office development rising; Columbus' Nationawide Arena District; convention hotels, especially in smaller markets; commercial space appraisals; eminent domain in the elections

Journal of Sports Economics (Feb): baseball spring training attendance

Tradeshow Week (1/22): New Orleans Morial Center running well

American Indian Report (Jan): feature on the California Nations Indian Gaming Association

Hotels (Jan): Vietnam; Parisian ice "club"

Fortune (1/22): Nashville

Forbes (1/29): pricing for movie theater tickets

Retail Traffic (Jan): Eastern Europe retail development; New Orleans retail; Biloxi/Gulf Coast gaming; retail adaptive reuse

San Fernando Valley Business Journal (1/8): Burbank Airport Hilton Hotel and Convention Center being renovated

Shopping Centers Today (Dec): existing centers too expensive to buy so the move is on to build new; bowling night spots at shopping centers; Ron Jon Surf Shop debuting lifestlye brand; retail development being used as a revival technique for dormant areas (ie. Baltimore Harbor); auto centers; Pocono development; malls in Mexico; Manhattan retail; Philippines' new developments

Shopping Centers Today (Jan): mom-and-pop shops in malls; demographic data for mixed-use development; Milan

IGWB (Jan): new Singapore license; new codes for UK casinos; market study for casino on Cyprus; Seminoles buy FL Hard Rock casino; MGM deal for non-casino development in Dubai; Age of Aquarius resort opens in Laughlin; Puerto Rico domestic market for casinos

San Diego Business Journal (1/22): new city hall complex; rugby at Petco Park

Los Angeles Business Journal (1/15): Culver City/Washington Blvd "opportunity area" developments

Los Angeles Business Journal (2007 Lists): lists of top golf courses, hotels, and meeting facilities

Shopping Center Business (Jan): Muvico movie theaters

CP&DR (Jan): eminent domain; Natomas' problems with potential flooding; City of Concord trying to halt transfer of the Concord Naval Weapons Station to an environmental engineering firm; San Bernardino County redeveloping after fire storm; Wal-Mart loses in court to the City of America's Canyon; South Bay mixed-use centers; South Pasadena