Publisher’s Letter
PUBLISHER
Ginger Wheless
ginger@rednews.com
FOR 100,000+ CRE BROKERS, INVESTORS & DEVELOPERS
EDITOR Marjorie Gohmert marjorie@rednews.com STAFF WRITER Janis Arnold CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Ray Hankamer rhankamer@gmail.com Austin - Rosalie Keszler San Antonio - Suzanne Scott North Texas - Amy Sorter ART DIRECTOR Connie Marmolejo - connie@rednews.com ACCOUNTING Benton Mahaffey accounting@rednews.com DATABASE MANAGER Jason Marshall jason@rednews.com SALES Ginger Wheless ginger@rednews.com
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Dear Readers, I just reread what I wrote in the December 2012 issue and am once again reminded what a difference a year can make. Last year we were cautiously optimistic about the beginnings of a CRE turnaround and this year we’re in the middle of the “Texas Shale Rush” which is making Texas the energy capital of the world. How comforting it is to begin thinking that the majority of our fuel will be “Made in USA” or better still, “Made in Texas”!
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The ICSC Texas’ Dealmakers Conference several weeks ago was the best of any I have ever attended from the standpoint of watching deals happen. Everyone was busily moving from one meeting to another transacting business and if there was any complaint, it was “so many opportunities – so little time”. This month in REDNews we have focused on office & industrial development throughout Texas. We easily filled eight pages with Texas office & industrial projects that have recently been completed, are under construction and/are planned/proposed and this doesn’t include recent land transactions that have occurred for the purpose of commercial development! (see pages 22-29). Next month we’ll expand our research to include additional availability & investment/development opportunity in Texas beyond the office & industrial markets, so stay tuned for the January 2014 issue. If there is something you would especially like to see in that issue, please let me know. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season! All my best,
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