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LIVERMORE, CA-Calpine Corp. is proposing a natural gas plant near here that would supply electricity to more than one million homes in the East Bay and San Joaquin County. The company's proposal to build in San Jose was shot down last month.
CLERMONT, FL-The old 45-foot high limit is still in the code books but this Orlando bedroom community may find a technical exception now that the fire department's new ladders can reach 60-foot high structures.
BALTIMORE, MD-T. Rowe Price has signed a 29,564 sf lease expansion for the Baltimore Building for an undisclosed amount. This brings the 272,178 sf, 28-story office tower to 100% occupancy.
WASHINGTON, DC-A March 2 deadline for public comments has been imposed by the Federal Reserve Board for its proposal that, if adopted, would allow national bank subsidiaries to broker real estate transactions.
GREENWICH, CT-Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc., a retail REIT, reported a slight increase in funds from operations for fiscal year 2000 and a drop in net income due mainly to bankruptcy filings by some of its tenants.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA-Local retailer of snowboards and skates is expanding with a new lease for a location at the Gotcha Glacier Project in Anaheim, which is scheduled for completion in 2002.
CLEARWATER, FL-The 102-year-old, Miami-based department store chain is taking 65,000 sf for 15 years at the 90,011-sf Village at Countryside where it will house a Burdines Furniture Gallery, 80 miles west of Downtown Orlando. The estimated value of the lease is $12 million. The store sold its 180,000-sf location at the nearby Clearwater Mall for $4.75 million or $26.39 per sf.
ORLANDO-The official Orange County real estate records show the three retailers purchased individual tracts at the planned 1.3-million sf Mall of Millenia in southwest Orlando. But in reality, Forbes Taubman Orlando LLC Millenia, the mall's developer, bought 83 acres from the mixed-use venture's master developer, Orlando Southwest Partners, for about $19 million or $228,915 per acre ($5.26 per sf), then deeded back two 13-acre parcels and an estimated nine-acre parcel to the retailers.