Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.
LOS ANGELES—The historically low vacancy rates in urban core markets are expected to boost retail development, and therefore absorption, which has lagged so far in the recovery.
LOS ANGELES—Rising Realty Partners completes construction of Downtown Los Angeles' first pocket park and an 80-foot living wall at its PacMutual Campus in Downtown Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES—Industrial supply has not yet caught up to the healthy demand, resulting in upward pressure on pricing, Duke Realty's Nick Anthony says in this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> interview about the market and upcoming NAIOP I.CON conference in June.
LOS ANGELES—Optimus Properties and Infinity Redevelopment secure a $22 million loan for the $24 million purchase of the Juanita Tate Marketplace, a newly developed 77,000-square-foot shopping center.
LOS ANGELES—Bob Peterson of Passco talks about where retail investors are finding opportunities as pricing continues to rise and why it's a good thing that retail development is being kept in check, in this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> interview.
LOS ANGELES—The 1Q15 industrial report from Lee & Associates shows that the industrial sector is booming and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
LOS ANGELES—Former CBRE brokers Matthew Renshaw and Mark O'Brien join CBC Alliance as managing partners, and will launch the firms Downtown Los Angeles office, GlobeSt.com learns <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b>.
LOS ANGELES—The affordable housing developer's first non-senior living arts colony opens in San Pedro, bringing 49 units of live/work and gallery space for artists.
LOS ANGELES—Calmwater Capital spins off from Karlin Asset Management with secured credit lines from two global banks and an equity investment from a top-20 university endowment.
LOS ANGELES—The lodging trust buys the property for $566,000 per key and enters into a new management contract with the hotel brand, which will continue to operate at the location.