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Balfour Beatty PLC snagged a $47.5 million contract with George Mason University to design and build a 609-bed student housing complex on its Fairfax campus, the company announced Monday.

Benny Caiola, passed away peacefully after a sudden cancer diagnosis on Thursday, April 22nd 2010 in New York, NY. He is survived by his wife Bettina, and his children Benny 3rd, Luigi Caiola, Alfred and Rose. He was the beloved brother to Alfred, Louis, Bettina and the late Salvatore, cherished grandfather of eight, and so much to so many.

Off-campus housing for College of William and Mary students has become a hot-button topic in the campaign for Williamsburg City Council.

WHEN Lauren Ashley Ellis first visited the University of Connecticut here as a high school student, a guide informed her tour group that the meager commercial strip alongside its rural campus was about to be transformed.

Healthcare Trust of America, an Arizona-based real estate investment trust, has purchased a medical office building near East Cooper Medical Center for $10.3 million.

The private investors who took HCA private in a $33 billion leveraged buyout four years ago must feel that the god of finance is smiling down on them.

The Baltimore area will have to find at least 1.4 million square feet of medical office space for the thousands of people who will now start going to the doctor armed with an insurance card.

In acquiring the Boston-based Caritas Christi Health System, Cerberus Capital Management has agreed to invest $830 million in the six-hospital Catholic organization, including the assumption of pension obligations, the repayment of debt, operational funds, and $400 million for capital projects.

IT’S way too early to tally the costs of the government’s various efforts to help our nation’s financial institutions survive the credit debacle. But that hasn’t stopped anonymous Treasury officials from claiming in recent days that their Armageddon-avoidance will wind up costing far less than many feared.

Commercial-Mortgage Defaults Ripple Out; Restructuring Into Good and Bad