Q&A: Skanska’s Mark Carroll On Future-Proofing DC Office Property
Living in an unprecedented time, commercial real estate professionals are facing a pivotal moment in their industry as many are forced to rethink the ways in which their buildings will operate and...
View ArticleSkanska Breaks Ground on New Beverly Hills Office Project
Less than a year after launching a commercial real estate division in Los Angeles County, Skanska has started building a 46,000-square-foot office in Beverly Hills. The development and construction...
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New Year Brings Leadership Changes to DC-Area CRE Firms
With 2021 set to see big changes in our country due to a new administration coming into the White House and a vaccine to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, many commercial real estate companies are...
View ArticleMoynihan Train Hall: All Flash and No Substance?
There’s no question that the newly opened, $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall is dramatic — a massive open room framed by turn-of-the-century steel arches and a curved skylight, lit by a combination of...
View ArticleCross-Border CRE Investments in the U.S. in 2020 and Beyond
The climate that COVID-19 created made investment in U.S. commercial real estate more attractive, due to lower hedging costs, although not every overseas player was willing to dive headfirst into the...
View ArticleCBRE Hires Cushman & Wakefield’s Phillip Thomas to DC Investment Leasing Team
CBRE has named Phillip Thomas as a new executive vice president in its Washington, D.C., bureau as part of the firm’s advisory and transaction services group. Thomas joins CBRE from Cushman &...
View ArticleProptech Firm VirtualAPT Rebrands as View Labs
Autonomous robotics and video proptech company VirtualAPT has rebranded as View Labs and has introduced 360 Meet, a synchronized content, web-based conferencing platform. “360 Meet is designed to...
View ArticleSkanska USA Names Pablo Rabagliati as New CFO
Skanska USA Commercial Development has named Pablo Rabagliati as its new chief financial officer, based out of the Washington, D.C., office. Skanska, a global construction and commercial development...
View ArticleSkanska Inks 164K-SF Lease With Law Firm for Planned DC Office Tower
Skanska has landed an anchor tenant for 17xM, a new office tower planned for Downtown Washington, D.C. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, an international law firm, signed a 16-year, 163,750-square-foot...
View ArticleSkanska Plans $128M Mixed-Use Highrise in DC’s NoMa
Skanska will finance, develop and manage the construction of the $128 million OZMA, a 13-story, mixed-use development at 44 M Street, NE in Washington, D.C.’s NoMa neighborhood. The development will...
View ArticleSkanska Opening Midtown Office to Handle $113M MTA Project
Skanska will build out its New York office footprint, and the city’s subway system, thanks to a new 7,149-square-foot deal at 230 West 41st Street, Commercial Observer has learned. The construction...
View ArticleDC Leads U.S. With Women in Construction Jobs
This week is Women in Construction Week, an annual event started in 1998 by The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) that recognizes the challenges overcome by female workers in the...
View ArticleUBS Inks Lease at Skanska’s Upcoming 17xM Tower in DC
It appears that the much-hyped flight to quality is still a thing — for now. Investment bank UBS has signed a 12-year lease for 23,644 square feet at Skanska’s 17xM office tower in Downtown...
View ArticleSkanska and Aprio Take 40K SF at Empire State Building
Mega-contractor Skanska and accounting firm Aprio have signed about 40,000 square feet at the Empire State Building, according to landlord Empire State Realty Trust. Skanska will relocate from one...
View ArticleNorway’s Global Seed Vault Steels Itself Against Climate Change
Nestled in the mountains of the world’s northernmost community, one building braces for doomsday, both in design and function. The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard — between continental Norway and the...
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