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STAMFORD, CT—RHYS Commercial has released its 2Q | 2010 Office Leasing Report, focusing on Fairfield and Westchester Counties.

Economists are celebrating three consecutive quarters of GDP growth as we begin to emerge from the recession. They are hopeful that consumer confidence, and in turn, consumer spending will increase as the general population feels more confident about the economic situation.

NEW YORK, NY—The Alliance for Downtown New York, the business improvement district serving Lower Manhattan south of Chambers Street, announces that the number of hotels in Lower Manhattan has tripled since September 11, 2001, and the number of rooms in the district has increased by more than 60 percent.

NEW YORK, NY—In one of the most trafficked shopping corridors in Downtown Manhattan, Broad Street Development (BSD) has unveiled its plans to create a new, glass-enclosed retail  plaza at 55 Broadway, an ideal opportunity for retailers.

BROOKLYN, NY—80 Metropolitan, Williamsburg’s award winning condominium, has opened a model and commenced sales of nine individual townhouses, a unique component in a community of 114 loft homes.  All of the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath townhouses include individual bluestone front stoops; private, grassed backyards with ipe wood decks; second floor

NEW YORK, NY—McGraw-Hill Construction hosted their first Pulse conference on June 22, 2010, an important regional industry-wide forum featuring opportunities in healthcare construction, at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium.

NEW YORK, NY—Credit Market Analysis Limited (CMA), the credit information specialist, has expanded its space at 370 Lexington from 3,695 to 8,144 square feet, announces Jeffrey Katz, CEO of Sherwood Equities, Inc., which bought the 26-story, 307,000-square-foot office building with institutional investors in 2008.

NEW YORK, NY—WXY architecture + urban design, together with structural engineering firm Weidlinger Associates Inc., has won an international competition to design the Nanhe River Landscape Bridge in Xinjin County, China for the Chengdu Xinjin Urban & Rural Development Investment Company Limited (URDI).

NEW YORK, NY—A magnificent pre-war 91-unit, 86,124-square-foot apartment building located at 229-237 Central Park North, which has the benefit of a Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contract with HUD, is on the market for sale through Eastern Consolidated priced at $27.9 million.

WASHINGTON, DC—New York City-based Plaza Construction Corporation announces that it will open a permanent office in Arlington, Virginia on May 17.  Located at 2200 Clarendon Boulevard, the office will be co-managed by Daniel L. Peyton and Michael J. Leavitt and serve projects in the Washington, DC and Baltimore-metro areas.

NEW YORK, NY—East Egg Realty has been chosen to assist Soho Mews, a 68-unit enclave of two elegant buildings connected by a private garden, in its efforts of reaching their sell-out goals.