Driving along this country’s major highways and through its cities and towns, one can’t help but encounter vacant buildings of all kinds, often boarded up and…
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In a perfect world, buildings would perform as well as they did the day they were built. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Mechanical parts wear…
The core of Detroit is abuzz with new development energy. In 2013, the city gained national infamy when its leaders declared a financial emergency and subsequently…
For generations of theatergoers, the 3,600-seat Altria Theater in downtown Richmond, Va., was where they first saw a Broadway road show; heard Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley…
Previously a symbol of a booming industrial economy in Baltimore, the Bethlehem Steel Mill at Sparrows Point once employed 30,000 people, pushing Baltimore city’s population to…
In 1981, Jim Mark joined Melvin Mark Cos., the commercial property-management firm his grandfather started four decades earlier in Portland, Ore. Long before “sustainability” was a…