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16 October 2020 | Phnom Penh
Hyatt will open its first hotel in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh next year, located in the city’s Doun Penh district. Business Traveller first reported on plans for the Hyatt...
16 October 2020 | Miami
Slated for completion in early 2023, Una Residences will be comprised of 135 spacious condominiums spanning 47 floors boasting unobstructed views of the Atlantic Ocean, Biscayne Bay, and the Miami...
15 October 2020 | Tokyo
Japan Tobacco will sell its 35-story Tokyo tower building to Sumitomo Realty & Development in a deal that will close this month, Nikkei has learned from multiple industry sources. The...
15 October 2020 | Jersey City
Three towers rising at least 25 stories and the restoration of an old metal can company building could bring nearly 1,100 new residential units to Jersey City’s Soho West, the...
15 October 2020 | Basel
On 14 October, 2020, Roche presented more developed plans for redesigning the Rhine-facing section of its site along Grenzacherstrasse in Basel. The development plans for the Südareal highlight Roche's commitment...
14 October 2020 | Cork
Cork City Council has granted planning permission for what could become the tallest building in Ireland at the old Port of Cork site on Custom House Quay in Cork city....
14 October 2020 | Pittsburgh
The Penguins say they have the last piece of financing needed to redevelop the former site of the Civic Arena. Clay Cove is investing in the 26-story First National Bank...
14 October 2020 | Nairobi
Investors behind a project valued at Ksh20 billion (US$184 million) in Nairobi's Upper Hill area risk losing their parcel of land over an environmental error. The National Construction Authority (NCA)...
13 October 2020 | Chicago
Reports of the demise of co-working during the pandemic are greatly exaggerated, if you ask the owner of Willis Tower. In a bet on the future of flexible office space,...
13 October 2020 | Sydney
The Star Entertainment Group is poised to lodge a second development application at its waterfront site in the Sydney suburb of Pyrmont, this time for a two-tower, six-star hotel. The...
12 October 2020 | Los Angeles
The first phase in the historic preservation-minded rehabbing of Union Bank Plaza (UBP) in Downtown Los Angeles has wrapped up. Completed in 1967, the 40-story office tower, designed by Harrison...
12 October 2020 | Dubai
Dubai Financial Market-listed DAMAC Properties has awarded the main contract worth US$49.2 million (AED181 million) for the construction of its 30-story Zada Residences in Business Bay to Transemirates Contracting. According...
12 October 2020 | Sydney
Student housing developer Wee Hur’s AUD$64 million (US$46 million) construction project in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern has received fast-track approval under the state’s planning system acceleration program. The...
9 October 2020 | Ulsan
A fire spread up a high-rise apartment building by strong winds in a South Korean port city left scores of people with minor injuries, officials said Friday, 9 October, 2020. ...
9 October 2020 | Springfield (MA)
Farm Credit Financial Partners Inc., a 250-employee technology services company, relocated in early October 2020 from Agawam to Springfield’s Tower Square. The move will accommodate the company’s growth and expansion...
9 October 2020 | Birmingham
Another towering building will be added to Birmingham's skyline after plans for more than 250 plush new canal-side apartments were greenlit. The Lancaster Wharf development near the junction of Princip...
8 October 2020 | Tokyo
Mitsui Fudosan and Takenaka Corporation are planning to build a 17-story wood-framed office tower in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. With a proposed height of 70 meters, this could be among the...
8 October 2020 | Chicago
A San Francisco investment firm is paying US$190 million for a new 56-story luxury apartment tower along Grant Park, the biggest Chicago multifamily sale of the year, according to a...
8 October 2020 | Liverpool
Hundreds of homes in Liverpool city center have been approved by the council's planning committee. A development housing 278 apartments on William Jessop Way at Prince's Dock was approved by...
7 October 2020 | Charlotte
Work on another uptown bank high-rise uptown reached a construction milestone, amid a building boom uptown that has continued despite COVID-19. The 29-story FNB Tower has “topped out,” marking the...
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