139-Room Holiday Inn Express Quito Will Be the First IHG Hotel to Open in Ecuador

IHG, the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, today announced that the new 12-story Holiday Inn Express Quito in Ecuador has recently opened. This new property, IHG’s first hotel in Ecuador, further demonstrates the company’s commitment to expanding the Holiday Inn Express brand throughout key cities in Latin America, as it is the 14th Holiday Inn Express located in Central and South America. “We are thrilled to be opening the... 

Equity Based Services, Inc. Acquires $11.3 Million Facility in Las Vegas

Equity Based Services, Inc. announced the acquisition of Silverado Self Storage in Las Vegas, NV. Silverado is located at 8250 South Maryland Parkway, with ample frontage along Interstate 215. This Class-A, institutional investment grade facility is located in an affluent infill location within Las Vegas. The project is positioned between three major thoroughfares, situated within a high density, well established, upper income area. Silverado boasts... 

Headquarters Offices at Old Parkland by Good Fulton & Farrell Architects, GFF Interiors

The historic buildings of Dallas’ Parkland Hospital were constructed on this 8-acre site in the Oak Lawn neighborhood in 1915 and 1921. Crow Holdings purchased the campus, which is now under construction with a restoration and major addition to the landmarked building to serve as their corporate headquarters. The central design challenge was to accommodate the company’s corporate culture (which features a non-hierarchical large room of... 

Business Park Serving Los Angeles and the Inland Empire is Acquired by Koll/PER Partnership for $39.9 Million

A 313,367-square-foot, multi-tenant business park that straddles the county line between Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties in Upland, Calif., has been acquired for $39.9 million by Koll/PER, a limited liability company owned by The Koll Company, the Newport Beach, Calif.-based real estate acquisition, development and management firm, and the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI). Consisting of 17 single-story industrial, office... 

ArquitectonicaGEO Team Designs Landscape for New Miami Art Museum

ArquitectonicaGEO has been selected as the landscape architect for the new Miami Art Museum (MAM). According to the Miami-based firm, the design team has brought to life a highly artistic and rigorous landscape image envisioned by Herzog & de Meuron and has added significant elements of sustainable design, native plants, and a program of public artwork. The site is four acres of land in Museum Park (formerly called Bicentennial Park), “a... 

Steel City … here we come

Scott Box wouldn’t mind if Murfreesboro acquired the nickname Steel City. That would mean the power tool and machinery manufacturing company he helped form and headquartered in Murfreesboro less than two years ago had made its mark in the competitive tool market. Steel City Tool Works, founded in 2005, is a privately held company with an investment group led by Box and Mark Strahler, both long-time executives in the machinery industry, who grew...