Century 21, the discount fashion department store, slimmed down from 250,000 square feet to 100,000 square feet when it reopened in May 2023 after more than two years of pandemic closure. But the ASG Equities, the real estate arm of the store’s owners, the Gindi family, went right to work finding new tenants and uses … Read more
SAN JOSE — A San Jose councilmember has embarked on a quest to tackle what appears to be a worsening affliction of blight and decaying buildings in the Bay Area’s largest city. The burned-out second floor of the Lawrence Hotel, a historic building at 79 East San Fernando Street in downtown San Jose, as seen … Read more
Canada-based global engineering services company AtkinsRéalis has been awarded the contract to masterplan the New Murabba project, the world’s largest modern downtown in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The contract was awarded by The New Murabba Development Company (NMDC), a subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) on Wednesday, December 20. The contract encompasses advisory, architecture, masterplanning, … Read more
Wednesday’s fundraising visit to Denver by President Joe Biden, followed by the next night’s Global Conference for Israel, brought hundreds of protestors to downtown to decry the bombing of Palestinian civilians by Israel. Outside the Colorado Convention Center on Thursday night, and unable to get into the structure, protestors threw projectiles at police and the … Read more
