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Dayton’s largest hospital group is expanding its downtown presence.

The $1 billion plan to redevelop the Bannister Mall area cleared a significant hurdle on Nov. 20, when a state agency approved $30 million in tax credits for the project.

Joe Molinaro, founder of the hospitality real estate advisory firm Molinaro Koger, died Sunday at Memorial Hospital in Easton, MD. He was 86. Molinaro founded C. Joseph Molinaro & Associates, the hotel brokerage company that preceded Molinaro Koger...

This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at Yogen Fruz; new retail developments in TN, CA and NY; acquisition, merger, loan or sale activity at Sun Capital, Borders, and GGP; closings, cutbacks or bankruptcies at Charming...

The economic crisis will force the U.S. to decide how to repair Fannie, Freddie, the Federal Home Loan Banks and the Federal Housing Administration.

Debt-laden mall owner General Growth Properties gained another short-term extension of a debt-payment deadline, this time obtaining 10 more days to pay down $58 million in bonds.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK (MARKET WIRE) Crystal River Capital, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: CYRV) (the "Company" or "Crystal River") announced that trading of its common stock will commence tomorrow morning, December 2, 2008, under the symbol "CYRV" on the Over-the-Counter ("OTC") Pink Sheets market. As previously announced, the move to OTC trading is the result of the Company no longer meeting the minimum market capitalization standard of the New York Stock Exchange.

COTE ST. LUC, QC (MARKET WIRE) Charles Senekal, a traffic engineer for the city of Cote St. Luc, a suburb of Montreal, didn't even know speed cushions existed. When a colleague referred him to the Traffic Logix website, he was excited to find these split traffic calming solutions. The city was looking to slow cars on a busy city street and speed humps were not an option because of emergency vehicles. Speed cushions offered just the solution the city needed.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) McGuire Real Estate, a San Francisco-based real estate company specializing in luxury real estate, announced today the appointment of Chris DeNike and Sharon Faccinto as sales associates in its Mill Valley office at 1040 Redwood Highway.

An Overland Park couple was on the winning side of a $23.5 million verdict awarded by a federal jury in Wichita in a trucking accident dispute.