Office and Retail Spaces

BAGHDAD (AP) _ An arrow in central Baghdad points down a side-street to a glass door with a sign that reads: "Ali's Office." That's where real estate broker Hadi Abbas Ali has greeted clients for 25 years. Now Ali is witnessing a boom of sorts in the...

The fate of one of the strongest property markets in the world hangs in the balance as Wall Street stalwarts crumble and job losses loom over the Big Apple. The days of skyrocketing rents and high sales prices on everything real estate from office...

The Vietnam Traveling Wall visits Rentschler Field this week. New East Hartford Fire Chief takes oath. Glastonbury girls wins cross country invitational. Manchester and Vernon name their Teachers of the Year. Bolton-based Simoniz USA fined by EPA. Man...

CHICAGO Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said yesterday that his office plans to stop serving eviction notices on people who have fallen behind on mortgage payments as well as renters unaware their buildings have fallen in arrears. He said his action was...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Wednesday that he's ordering his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties because many people his office has helped throw out on the street are renters who did nothing wrong. "We will no longer be a...

School officials have been making the rounds to civic and business organizations to win support for spending $6.9 million to convert a wing of the former Academy School into board of education and special education offices. The proposal, which will be on...

Q: My Time Warner Inc. shares haven't fared well. Are things getting even worse? R.D. via the Internet A: The bright side is that about three-fourths of the international media and entertainment conglomerate's revenue is derived from content sales...

The politicians in charge of the World Trade Center site checked off the problems solved that had stalled the effort to rebuild it for seven years: a subway line running through the middle of the site. A land deal with a church. An over-budget, newly...

For many entrepreneurs, the change of seasons means a lot more than just swapping out summer attire for warmer winter wear or vice versa. Rather, it can mean lean times for seasonal business owners dependent upon only a few months out of the year to make...

As the F or G train transitions to the elevated tracks after leaving the Carroll Street station, the first thing many straphangers notice are the unusually expansive gardens sprawling out in front of the surrounding brownstones. Fenced in by iron gates,...

First the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the 1990s, then the accounting scandals earlier this decade, forced ballparks and arenas around the country to change their names. Enron Field became Minute Maid Park, and names like PSINet Stadium and CMGI...

My sister-in-law and I spoke recently and she was happy that Congress didn't pass the Paulson financial rescue plan. She didn't want to give more money to Wall Street. This shocked me because my sister-in-law is a well-informed, reasonable person. But...