PHILADELPHIA-The furniture retailer's move at the 130,570-sf shopping center

PHILADELPHIA-To thwart political squabbles that threaten progress on proposed riverfront projects, the newly elected Pennsylvania governor and former Philadelphia mayor appoints himself to the board of the Delaware River Port Authority, encompassing the NJ and PA sides of the river.

PHILADELPHIA-The building boom that added more than five million sf of prime

PHILADELPHIA-Year-end absorption dipped to negative 2.6 million sf, and the

PHILADELPHIA-As more than 300 of the area's leading commercial real estate executives sign up for the half-day conference here, outside investors, aware of the region's relatively strong performance in tough times, are expected as well at the Feb. 27 event.

PHILADELPHIA-Rulings by two separate courts could tip Center City's odds of ever obtaining coveted prizes on its wish list: a $464-million expansion of the troubled Pennsylvania Convention Center and creation of the $150-million Barnes Museum on Ben Franklin Parkway.

PHILADELPHIA-In addition and adjacent to the nine-building master-planned Navy Yard Corporate Center, the Malvern, PA-based developer breaks ground today for a 75,200-sf build-to-suit biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility for Minnesota-based AppTec, which has another, neighboring 75,000-sf building on the drawing boards.

PHILADELPHIA-Financing from the locally based industrial corporation gives