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Over 4 million square feet of office-to-residential conversions proposed in downtown DC. New WMATA head says increasing rail service is highest priority, safety a given. Union Station faces more challenges.

The entrances and exits, its gated off. they put these big blue barriers to keep folks from going in and out. the womans neighbors allowed some fresh air but confined to the complex. their trash piling up, waiting for specially designated disposal teams to truck it out. many nearby businesses closed. the woman lives a 15-minute drive from the olympic park. not only where she lives that health authorities have it locked down but also where the woman works which happens to be in a bank inside this...

COVID-19 restrictions may have ended, but not everything is returning back to normal.

Seven Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today (May 19, 2021) A start-up owned by Warren Buffett is betting on modular construction, reports The Wall Street Journal. CBRE research shows that the commercial real estate lending market remained resilient in the first quarter of the year. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry. Investors Bet on Commercial Real Estate, Undeterred by Empty Offices and Hotel Rooms “More than a year into the pandemic, ...

The Globe and Mail Published February 22, 2021 Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail We have said it ourselves and heard it from others: “I’m done.” From relationships to jobs to anything that we are getting tired of. “I’m done” indicates final, finished, no longer caring and moving on. The phrase tends to be used when we feel our efforts are not being rewarded, or even noticed. These days, for me and those I talk to, it’s usually about fatigue related to COVID-19 and its restrictions. It...

True and that the reason for the delay is that theres a broader policy review intended to give the secretary more time to figure out what policies are best pursued and where the money is best sent. now lawmakers are frustrated that tillerson had singled out when he came to office countering violent extremism as a major priority. but they say his state department has yet to produce a coherent policy or strategy, and that a lack of staff to execute such programs really is compounding the problem. ...

>> mr. secretary, are you satisfied with the pace of staffing positions in the state department? >> no. id like it to go faster. thank you. >> a close associate of rex tillerson told the american conservative rex is just exhausted. he cant get any of his appointments approved and is running around the world cleaning up after a president whose primary foreign policy adviser is a 36-year-old amateur. back with us now, ambassador wendy sherman. ambassador sherman, there are reports from inside your...

Furniture out in the hallways, empty offices, nothing happening, phones ringing with no people there to answer them, reports of foreign ambassadors saying they cant make contact with the state department, so theyre going straight to the national security adviser. whats your sense of whats happening between rex tillerson and the state department and what is apparently the freelancing of jared kushner in the white house? >> well, i dont think the freelancing of jared kushner should come as a surpr...