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Cassidy Turley, a national commercial real estate services provider, said leasing activity in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area office market remained sluggish during the first half of 2010. In its 2010 Midyear Office Market Statistical Overview, the company said the market ...

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Pebblebrook Hotel Trust of Bethesda, a real estate investment trust focused on luxury hotels and resorts primarily in large U.S. coastal cities, announced its acquisition of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in downtown San Francisco. The 23-story, 416-room, full-service hotel ...

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Forrester Construction Co. of Rockville, a design-build and general contracting company, has been awarded an $11 million design-build contract to upgrade the energy equipment for a facility occupied by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in Martinsburg, W.Va. Renovations ...

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Dick’s Last Resort, a Nashville-based restaurant chain, said it will open a 9,000-square-foot restaurant at the Power Plant in the Inner Harbor later this month. The restaurant features “Dick’s Buckets o’ Grub,” barbeque and fried entrees served in actual metal ...

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Thomson Reuters has opened an office in Woodlawn to accommodate the growth of its business with federal health care customers. The company said more than 25 employees will be based in the new office, which is less than a mile ...

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ShopRite, a full-service supermarket, has signed a lease for an 85,000-square-foot store in the Chesapeake Square Shopping Center in Glen Burnie, owners of the center said Monday. The store, formerly occupied by a Kmart, will open in the fall and ...

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Corporate Office Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust based in Columbia, said it plans to enter the the Springfield market in Northern Virginia with a new business park. The project, known as Patriot Ridge, will contain about 15 acres ...

The Fireguard Corp. of Glen Burnie, a fire protection and life safety contractor, opened a 15,000-square-foot fabrication facility in Capitol Heights. The facility’s automated machinery allows for quick and precise production and has design features that limit the amount of ...

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BioMed Realty Trust Inc., a San Diego, Calif.-based real estate investment trust focused on the life science industry, said it purchased a campus of five buildings in Rockville, containing approximately 218,000 square feet, for approximately $53 million. The buildings are ...

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Baltimore City public works officials are proposing a 9 percent increase for water and sewer rates charged to customers of the city’s water system. If approved by the Board of Estimates, the annual water and sewer bill for a family ...