Don’t look now but your brokerage and agent choices continue to shrink. Just like every industry out there, the commercial real estate brokerage industry is consolidating by the day. Yesterday Grubb & Ellis filed Chapter 11, a filing that was a long-time coming. But what wasn’t known was who would pull G&E out of bankruptcy. Well it […]
Thought
Lately there have been a number of articles about the return of manufacturing to the United States. The reasons vary…from off-shore labor costs increases to increased productivity here in the US. From difficulty in off-shore quality control to reduced energy costs here in the US. Whatever the reason, this return to the US has been happening […]
Quick congrats due. Went to the REFA-Stamford presentation on Adaptive Re-Use (Stamford Marriott – January 17th). Nice presentation on the conversion of the former Clairol facility on Blachley Road in Stamford CT. For those of you who aren’t aware of what is going on there, the facility has two major tenants…Chelsea Piers and NBC Sports. And while […]
Yes, two blogs in one day! Catching up after the holiday drag. Did anyone catch the Malloy administration’s interest in the possible expansion (creation?) of Connecticut’s ports? While I am not sure you need to spend a half a million bucks on a study to see if ports are good for the state, I do believe […]
In a world where the cost of everything just seems to be going up and up, along comes the news that our electric rates are actually going down! Yes, DOWN! In case you missed it, Connecticut’s overall rates have dropped from about 18 cents per kilowatt hour to approximately 16 cents. We can no longer […]
It has become all too fashionable to beat up the big guy. So much easier to blame and not lead. And while Wall Street, Corporate America and the “top 1%” have their own issues, I can comfortably say they weren’t the one’s that solely got us into this country’s mess. Let’s face it…our “leaders” did. So now we […]