Duke Realty Investments News

MIXED OUTLOOK: Offering their perspectives on the three major sectors of commercial real estate - office, industrial and retail - are, from left, Steve Thelen with Jones Lang LaSalle, John Hoctor with Altschuler Hoctor Co., Jeff Thornton with Duke Realty Corp.

THE RIGHT CALL: Duke Realty Corp.'s Maverick Otten, left, Jeff Thornton and Randy Wood stand in the Point West business park in Coppell, where they've leased 261,000 square feet to Samsung Telecommunications America.

After spending close to a year searching likely buildings throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area for consolidation and expansion of its cell phone light manufacturing and distribution operations.

Duke Realty Corp. said Friday that it has leased 261,025 square feet of industrial spaced in Coppell to Samsung Telecommunications America.

When construction started in early 2008 on the 503,200-square-foot speculative industrial building, Duke Realty Corp.

Senior real estate executives remain pessimistic about the prospects for the Indiana market in 2010, although they see signs of improvement in the investment and residential sectors.

Duke Realty Corp. netted more than $1 million during a Tuesday auction of surplus development parcels in Indianapolis, Fishers, Plainfield and Lebanon, but the locally based real estate company failed to sell two pricier properties.

Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp. announced Monday that its chief operating officer will leave the company at the end of the year.

Duke Realty Corp. said Monday its chief operating officer will leave the company at the end of the year.

Vacancies mounted in the third quarter for Orlando's office, industrial and retail sectors, according to a report last week from Cushman and Wakefield Co.

View Larger Duke Realty Corp. has taken a $50 million write-down on the value of its 3630 Peachtree project in Buckhead, another sign of the worsening commercial real estate mess.

TheStreet.com's stock-rating model upgraded communications equipment maker Acme Packet to "buy." The numbers : Third-quarter net income surged 76% to $3.6 million and earnings per share doubled to 6 cents.

Hamilton County-based developer Duke Realty Corp. reported that it swung to a major third-quarter loss as it continues to try and shed vacant land from its portfolio to help the bottom line.

A joint venture between CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust and Duke Realty Corp. has completed its purchase of Northpoint III, a 108,500-square-foot class A office building in suburban Lake Mary that is fully leased to Progress Energy Florida through 2021.

Duke Realty Corporation , a leading industrial and office property REIT, today reported results for the third quarter 2009.

Just about every player in the real estate business - whether individual investor, private-equity fund or publicly traded company - is trying to raise capital to take advantage of what they see as an inevitable shakeout in commercial property.

Lifestyle centers were still the hot new thing in the Twin Cities a couple of years ago when Duke Realty began work on the Shops at West End, the first phase of a $400 million mixed-use project in St.

By putting nine shovel-ready land parcels up for sale or auction at once, Duke Realty Corp.

High-end cosmetics manufacturer Lady Primrose Products will relocate its distribution and packaging operations from Dallas to 47,000 square feet in a newly-built warehouse/distribution center at 3324 Roy Orr Road in Grand Prairie later this year.

Duke Realty Corporation , will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss second quarter results on Thursday, October 29, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.