It’s time to update those contact managers with CoStar’s People of Note, reporting news on significant new CRE hires and promotions. This week’s issue includes the following markets: South Florida, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Columbus, Austin, Orlando, Detroit / Grand Rapids and Charlotte.

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Those who can’t make it to Ariana Grande’s benefit concert in Manchester can tune in online and on ABC to see the show.

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When your very first tweet reverberates around the world, how do you follow it up?

Blackstone Group LP edged out Brookfield Asset Management Inc. to reclaim its position as the world’s largest real estate asset manager as the total value of global real estate assets under management reached $2.7 trillion (Euro 2.4 trillion) in 2016, up more than 20% from the previous year, according an annual joint report by three real estate investment management organizations…

CEOs are cautious by nature, circumspect in their words and actions.

Taubman Centers, Inc. (NYSE:TCO) this morning announced that shareholders voted to elect CEO Robert S. Taubman and two other company nominees to the board of directors, turning back a challenge by activist hedge fund Land and Buildings, which nominated a different slate of board candidates.

The mall REIT’s proxy solicitor advised that, according to preliminary results of the annual election, shareholders voted to elect Taubman, Cia Buckley Marakovits…

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has quit two of President Trump’s business advisory councils after the president announced he will pull the U.S. out of the historic Paris climate agreement.

“This is the biggest U.S. foreign policy error since entering the Iraq War.”

Fast-food eatery Taco Bell, whose slogan is Live Mas, has launched a ‘Grow Mas’ strategy – an approach that sets it apart from its sister chains: Pizza Hut and KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) in the U.S.

All three are restaurant brands of Louisville-based Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM). But while KFC and Pizza Hut are shrinking their real estate footprint at home, Taco Bell this past week outlined plans to grow the chain both here and abroad, with the goal…

SpaceX was forced to delay an historic launch that was slated to send a used spacecraft into orbit.

A growing appetite among consumers-on-the-go for the broader selection of food options and other grocery items offered at larger, modern convenience stores is fueling a wave of consolidation and new development in the often overlooked triple-net convenience store segment of U.S. retail.

The Association for Convenience and Fuel Retailing (NACS) reports the number of c-stores in the country increased 0…

When Tiger Woods gets in trouble, there’s a lot on the line.

Montreal-based Ivanhoé Cambridge, Inc. and its investment partner, Callahan Capital Properties (CCP), have acquired the 30-story, 1.12 million-square-foot 85 Broad St. in New York City for approximately $650 million, or about $580 per square foot, from a joint-venture between MetLife Real Estate and Beacon Capital Partners…

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If your child bought something in an app from Amazon’s app store without your permission, you may get your money back.

Haverty Furniture Cos. Signs Seven-Year HQ Extension at The Centrum at Glenridge
Haverty Furniture Cos. (NYSE: HVT) has agreed to a seven-year extension that will keep the furniture retailer’s longtime corporate headquarters at the Centrum at Glenridge in Atlanta.

The 186,826-square-foot, eight-story office building has housed the corporate offices of Haverty’s since 1999…

United is in hot water again, this time for an allegedly unsafe plane.