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—CBRE's Lew Horne talks to GlobeSt.com about the how the Workplace 360 open-office concept, which helped the firm earn a Digie award for best automation, is working 10 months later.
LOS ANGELES—CBRE capital markets debt and structure finance team secure the funds on behalf of the borrower for the $229 million purchase of the Berkshire Group portfolio, GlobeSt.com reports in this <b>UPDATE</b> to a previous story.
THOUSAND OAKS—Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. signs a 53,214-square-foot lease at Kennedy Wilson's the Oaks office building, bringing the office building to 100% occupancy.
LOS ANGELES—With more than 1,000 units currently under development, Century West Partners talks with reporter Kelsi Maree Borland about how the multifamily market is evolving in this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> Q&A.
LOS ANGELES— In this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> video, Partner Engineering and Science's Jenny Redlin, REPA, tells Kelsi Maree Borland how lenders have separate risk tolerance and due diligence requirements.
LOS ANGELES—The two companies enter an agreement for AECOM to purchase all outstanding shares of URS Corp. with a combination of cash and stock and the assumption of URS debt.
SANTA BARBARA, CA—Property management company Terragon enlists the online resident platform and achieves nearly full occupancy in its Washington State apartment buildings.
LOS ANGELES—Jon Azulay, Real Estate Forum's “SoCal Tomorrow's Leaders,” says the office market is becoming a ripe environment for young startup companies to lay roots.
LOS ANGELES—The industrial REIT buys Avenue 32, a 100,500-square-foot industrial property in the East San Fernando Valley for $11 million, bringing its year-to-date investments to $196 million.
LOS ANGELES—OMP buys an entitled retail and industrial site in the San Fernando Valley with plans to develop four industrial condominium units and retail space.