NEW YORK CITY-Bob DiChiara of World Trade Center Associates here shares his insights and experiences in the to smoke or not to smoke battle with GlobeSt.com. He relates that the expense in creating smoking space is often prohibitive.

NEW YORK CITY-Bob DiChiara of World Trade Center Associates here shares his insights and experiences in the to smoke or not to smoke battle with GlobeSt.com. He relates that the expense in creating smoking space is often prohibitive.

NEW YORK CITY-Jud Ebersman, managing director for Walter & Samuels, has come out saying NoLIta will fade away as a retail community and says that West Chelsea will be the hot retail neighborhood.

WASHINGTON, DC-In the Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending June 8 the market composite index of mortgage loan applications, the measure of loan purchases and refinances, are up from the previous week.

MCLEAN, VA-Reilly Mortgage Group, headquartered here, has closed slightly more than $14 million in Freddie Mac loans for garden apartments in three states. Reilly specializes in FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac commercial mortgage loans.

MCLEAN, VA-Reilly Mortgage Group has closed nearly $68 million in Fannie Mae loans to finance garden apartment complexes along the Eastern Seaboard and one property outside the corridor in Michigan.

WASHINGTON, DC-A public/private development partnership between LCOR and the District of Columbia Public Schools resulted in the construction of the James F. Oyster Bilingual Elementary School. A nonprofit here facilitated the partnership.

NEW YORK CITY-The city has selected Moffat & Nichol Engineers to develop the construction design for a rehabilitation project at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal and the Red Hook Container Terminal.