<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - From the Ground Up</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/columns/realestate/waburealestate?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><description>From the Ground Up</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Bethesda Community Is Hot Property]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61609-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61609-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Developers can't help but covet the 50 houses tucked behind the stores and restaurants of Bethesda Row in downtown Bethesda.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamond Dealer Says He Was Cut Out of Lease]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23896-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23896-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ronnie Mervis, the local diamond importer known for his radio commercials, filed a lawsuit March 16 against Ronnie Cohen, a well-known Rockville developer, saying  Cohen backed out of a deal to lease him  a retail spot on Rockville Pike.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth Dina Elboghdady</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Developer Bets on Condos in Anacostia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5708-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5708-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the condominium boom sweeping the District, developers are scrambling to build still more one- and two-bedroom units with granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances.]]></description><author> Neil Irwin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Retail Coming to Prince George's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52482-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52482-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Prince George's County may be getting some of the trendier retailers that civic leaders and local shoppers long have sought.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing Opportunity in Prince William]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12630-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12630-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Matthew Ward is a senior vice president of a commercial real estate company in Skokie, Ill. But he knows Northern Virginia well, and he is poised to make a commitment that most local developers aren't quite ready to make -- for a large office building in the outer suburbs.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sought-After Affordability in Silver Spring]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58802-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58802-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WorldSpace Corp., a 120-person company based in Northwest Washington, is on the hunt for office space.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GSA Plans Give Maryland Brokers Cause for Worry]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40622-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40622-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The General Services Administration is looking for about 750,000 square feet of space for the Defense Department. And it's seeking roughly 2 million square feet for other agencies.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Half-Decade of Developments]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3627-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3627-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Eric Price, 43, was the District's deputy mayor for planning and economic development for five years. He stepped down from the position at the end of last year and took a job as a senior vice president for the New York-based Local Initiatives Support Corp., a nonprofit group that promotes economic development in neighborhoods throughout the country. He was replaced by Stanley Jackson, who had been director of the D.C. Department of Community and Housing Development since 2001.]]></description><author> y Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Fannie Mae Out, Waterside Needs Ideas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50112-2005Jan30.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50112-2005Jan30.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mitchell N. Schear, one of the District's major developers, met with his partners Friday to talk about what to do after mortgage giant Fannie Mae scrapped its plan to build about 2 million square feet of office space at his Waterside Mall project in Southwest.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farmer's Death Lifts Restrictions on Property]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31546-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31546-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Developers have long salivated over 138 rolling acres on Route 28 in Rockville that are surrounded by housing and major highways. But the land's owner, Elizabeth Beall Banks, a feisty farmer and former schoolteacher, spent most of her 93 years fighting to protect it from developers.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[District to Decide Soon on Plan for Franklin School]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14113-2005Jan16.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14113-2005Jan16.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The white paint has turned yellow and peeled off the walls at the 136-year-old Franklin School on the southeast corner of 13th and K streets NW. The wood floorboards have rotted. Rust covers the plumbing pipes. A thick layer of dust coats  the wrought iron handrails of the brown and white tiled steps.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biotech Park Property Sought for GSA Site]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61919-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61919-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some politicians and developers in Fairfax County want the General Services Administration to sell the roughly 80 acres where a large warehouse and a dozen smaller ones sit and develop it into a commercial property.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vacancies Decline Across Region]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28036-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28036-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the past year and a half, Paul J. Argy leased an additional 8,000 square feet of space for his accounting firm in McLean. He needed the extra space for the 40 employees he hired to keep up with his firm's 35 percent growth.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Focus on Offices in Frederick]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60097-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60097-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The new Fannie Mae building in Urbana may not look like much to passersby, but it is part of a much larger project that over the next decade will add stores and restaurants, 3,000 houses and 2 million square feet of office space to a once-rural section of Frederick County.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complex Brings Work, Shops Close to Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38222-2004Dec5.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38222-2004Dec5.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tucked on a side street, just a block from the cars and trucks that whiz along Rockville Pike, sits a new complex of 404 luxury apartments, renovated restaurants and stores that some planners and developers are calling the optimum in compact urban redevelopment.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob Gladstone Weighs In on Baseball, Redevelopment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18835-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18835-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Over the past four decades, Bob Gladstone has been both a formal and informal adviser to city and business officials on projects ranging from the development of Pennsylvania Avenue to the building of the city's old and new convention centers, the rejuvenation of the shops at Union Station and the redevelopment of the East End near the MCI Center.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affordable Housing Proposal Gathers Steam]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3173-2004Nov21.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3173-2004Nov21.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Developers are opposing a proposal that would require them to sell some condominiums and houses and rent some apartments more cheaply to people with low or moderate incomes.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brothers Team Up to Rule Commercial Sales]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50129-2004Nov14.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50129-2004Nov14.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Paul and Bill Collins, one of the few sibling pairs in the real estate industry, rank among the top 10 sales brokers in the D.C. region for at least the last four years.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intermediary Seeks a Deal in Hotel Dispute]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14648-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14648-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Developer Greg Fazakerley has emerged as one of the key figures helping to broker a deal between two sides locked in a heated dispute over where to build the District's largest hotel and how to pay for it.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watergate Co-op Plan Is Sign of the Times]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59970-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59970-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_business/columns/realestate/waburealestate</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A developer plans to turn one of Washington's best-known hotels -- the Watergate in the posh West End -- into residential units. The trend is increasingly popular, say developers and real estate brokers, as interest rates remain relatively low and the housing market stays hot.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item></channel></rss>