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How Commercial General Contractors Can Help Improve Shopping Center Space for Lease

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Many shopping centers owners have difficulty leasing or keeping consistent retail tenants in certain portions of their shopping mall. The center of the mall will still attract kiosks, but these new high-traffic retail areas will create more opportunities to secure quality rents. This creates a problem for shopping mall owners.

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FEATURE STORY: 2014 Economic Development Awards

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From the March/April 2014 issue. The focus of our 2014 Economic Development Awards is Achievement. Without further ado, here are the winners of our 2014 Economic Development Awards. This quickly expanding success story has earned the Georgia Department of Economic Development our 2014 Achievement in Cluster Development Award.

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PACE in Maryland is Not Keeping Pace

Green Building Law Update

But today, despite Maryland having enacted a PACE enabling law in 2014, only one PACE loan has closed in the State. In 2008 I said Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans “ could be bigger than anything in U.S. real estate since the invention of the glass window.”. By any measure, one is not an overwhelming success. So, what is wrong?

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PACE Programs are Stepping Up the Pace

Green Building Law Update

Maryland is more typical with a state enabling law passed in 2014, with SB 186 , and local laws on the books in Montgomery County and Anne Arundel County, with at least one lender, Greenworks Lending , on board, but no PACE loans actually made yet. There were not similar concerns expressed about commercial loans.

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BUSINESS REPORT: AeroTurbine Opens HQ In Miramar As Florida Aerospace Grows

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From the January/February 2014 issue. a wholly owned subsidiary of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), recently opened its 264,000-square-foot in Miramar. The building will support the unique requirements of each of our core business lines, engine material, airframe material, asset leasing and asset trading.”. “We

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PACE Bill Due in Baltimore City

Green Building Law Update

The concept is not new, but nationally including in Maryland, “residential” PACE programs were put on hold as a result of a directive in 2011 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac refrain from purchasing mortgage loans secured by properties with outstanding PACE obligations. Maryland is typical.

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Technology Center Opens At UL Lafayette Research Park

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CGI selected Lafayette in April 2014 after a nearly two-year site-selection process that evaluated locations across the U.S. LED began discussions with CGI about a potential Louisiana technology center in August 2012, leading to an April 2014 announcement of the project. A key part of the project includes a state-funded, 10-year, $4.5