Archive for September, 2009
Data Center: New data center opens in Rensselaer, to bring 65 news jobs

Data Center: New data center opens in Rensselaer, to bring 65 news jobs

Posted 09.22.2009 | Categories: Data Centers | No Comments

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — A large business-tech company celebrated the opening of its new data center in Rensselaer this morning.
Computer Sciences Corporation, a technology consulting company, marked the opening of its new North American Public Sector Data Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house.
The 128,000-square feet computing facility adds 65 new full-time positions in the [...]

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BLACKSWAN interview with Luke Peterson

Posted 09.22.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare, Video Interviews | 1 Comment

BlackSwan interview with Luke Peterson

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Healthcare: Commercial Connection – Strong demand seen for health care real estate

Posted 09.21.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

Investors seek safety in medical buildings
Rudyard Kipling, the English Nobel Prize winning poet and novelist, said, “If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you … the world will be yours and everything in it.” I am sure 18th Century-born Rudy didn’t mean it this way, but [...]

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Healthcare: Wayne State Breaks Ground On Chem Building

Healthcare: Wayne State Breaks Ground On Chem Building

Posted 09.21.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

A. Paul Schaap was once a professor of chemistry at Wayne State University. His landmark research led to the discovery of a life-saving medical diagnostic technology and the breakthrough start-up company Lumigen Inc.
On Sept. 18 at 2 p.m., the life cycle of Wayne State’s translational research enterprise will ceremonially and symbolically complete itself, as [...]

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Healthcare: Harris County withdraws from hospital sale

Posted 09.21.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

Vote comes after Memorial Hermann leader’s ultimatum
The Harris County Hospital District’s board on Thursday nixed its plan to buy the Memorial Hermann medical complex in southwest Houston, six weeks after the deal was unveiled as a creative expansion of health care access to the county’s uninsured and underprivileged.
The board voted unanimously to withdraw from negotiations [...]

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Healthcare: Catella Launches €1B Health Care Fund

Posted 09.16.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

MUNICH-Catella Real Estate is to launch a German open-ended property fund specializing in European health care facilities, and is aiming at total investment up to €1 billion in the next five years – up to 60% of it in Germany. It is the first asset-specific GOEF to be launched.
CEO Andreas Kneip told a press conference [...]

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Student Housing: The Student-Housing Squeeze

Student Housing: The Student-Housing Squeeze

Posted 09.16.2009 | Categories: Student Housing | No Comments

FOR her senior year, Amy Williams, a student at Adelphi University in Garden City, is again living in a shared dormitory room on campus.
“When I was looking for off-campus housing, there weren’t many options,” said Ms. Williams, 21, of Bloomington, Ind. “It’s a pretty big problem.”
Finding a place to live near the 19 colleges and [...]

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Healthcare: Retail Health Care Clinics: “A Model for the Future”

Healthcare: Retail Health Care Clinics: “A Model for the Future”

Posted 09.16.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

Never underestimate the power of the profit motive and competitive market forces to bring about real health care reform. The 1,200 retail health clinics across the country are providing high quality care at lower costs than emergency rooms or physician offices, and they offer better, faster service, with longer and more convenient hours than a [...]

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Senior Housing: $10M senior housing complex coming to Horseheads

Senior Housing: $10M senior housing complex coming to Horseheads

Posted 09.16.2009 | Categories: Senior Housing/Assisted Living | No Comments

Completion of project expected by fall 2010
A Buffalo-area building company is buying 16 acres in the village of Horseheads and will break ground next month for a $10 million, 120-unit senior citizen apartment complex.
The same company — Calamar Inc. of Wheatfield, N.Y. — is also scouting potential sites near Ithaca’s Cayuga Medical Center for a [...]

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Film:  More Hollywood in Hoboken

Film: More Hollywood in Hoboken

Posted 09.16.2009 | Categories: Media Production Infrastructure | No Comments

Film producers look to build $25M entertainment complex uptown
Filmmakers can sometimes have dreams beyond making the next movie. Sometimes they are about being the next big movie mogul.
Coppola formed Zoetrope Studios, Lucas created Lucasfilm and Spielberg co-founded Dreamworks SKG.
Garry Pastore, Deborah Mello, and Chuck Abate, who run Hudson Film Group in Jersey City, a small [...]

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