Entertainment giant Netflix plans to open an office and event space at a historic department store building in Washington, D.C., in the latest move into major downtown retail sites across the country that have been left vacant.
Swedish furniture company Ikea says it will open a mid-sized store near Washington, D.C., in the soon-to-close Dulles Expo Center, one of the largest trade show halls in the region.
Six Flags Entertainment, North America's largest regional amusement park operator, is struggling with weak attendance and financial fallout from a $2 billion merger last year. Now it faces scrutiny from stakeholders who include three-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce.
If the nearly monthlong federal shutdown is prolonged much further, it could hinder decisionmaking by office occupiers and apartment renters and curb economic activity, said JBG Smith, a landlord that relies on government agencies and contractors for a sizable portion of its revenue.
From atop a new glass office tower about 40 minutes outside Washington, D.C., locals lounge around an outdoor pool on a late summer day. Their perch overlooks a luxury hotel-condominium, another office high-rise and several street-level cafes, all completed in the past year.
The latest government shutdown is casting a long shadow over Washington, D.C.’s multifamily market, with industry insiders pointing to weakening demand and shifting renter behavior.
Zohran Mamdani is the clear front-runner to become the next mayor of New York City, creating what a number of real estate investors and business leaders view as an existential crisis.
Global asset manager Federated Hermes agreed to buy a majority interest in an investment management firm based in greater Washington, D.C., to expand into apartments in major U.S. real estate markets.
The current government shutdown, which began at midnight on Oct. 1, 2025, has now entered its fifth week and hotels, particularly near the nation's capital, are feeling the effects.
A Maryland-based real estate developer's parent company has acquired the business operations and industrial project pipeline of a Florida-based firm in a move that expands its reach along the East Coast.
Novavax, a developer of a COVID-19 vaccine, said it signed a deal to downsize its presence in the Washington, D.C., suburbs to focus on research and development efforts in a more cost-effective manner after a major investor slammed the company for underperformance and suggested it put itself up for sale.
Leasing volume in the U.S. office market ticked up in the third quarter, according to preliminary estimates, but remains just shy of its pre-2020 norm.
An affiliate of Douglas Development Corp. bought an office building in Northern Virginia's Rosslyn neighborhood for less than half of what it sold for five years ago as pricing in the greater Washington, D.C., market remains depressed.
Swedish furniture company Ikea said it will open a plan-and-order location in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood that is a smaller format of the chain’s traditional layout where customers can consult with employees and purchase items for delivery or pickup.
If the past serves as an accurate gauge, Washington, D.C.'s office market should come out the other end of the government shutdown much like it looked before the federal government closed.
DataBank, a Dallas-based data center operator, expanded its credit facility from $725 million to $1.6 billion to finance data center construction in five major U.S. markets.
