Peter Grant

It's good to see a Cinderella during this festive period, as there seem to be many Sleeping Beauties and Peter Pans in and around Merseyside.

I've never been to a show on Broadway before but on the opening night of the much-anticipated Aladdin at the Empire I was there.

A battle is brewing in Detroit over the country’s largest office conversion project, one that is testing taxpayer appetite for using public money to revive city business districts. General Motors and billionaire developer Daniel Gilbert are planning to overhaul downtown Detroit’s iconic office complex Renaissance Center. The venture’s $1.6 billion plan would demolish two of RenCen’s five towers and retail podium in a 5.5 million square foot complex that is disconnected from the rest of downtown.

The title says it all.

SL Green Realty New York’s largest office landlord, told investors last month that tenant demand has been so strong that the firm hopes to buy a major development site by the end of this year. Tenants occupied 22% more top-tier office space in the third quarter of last year than they did at the end of 2019, according to real-estate services firm CBRE Group. For the rest of the office market, businesses occupied 5% less space in October than tenants did before the pandemic started, CBRE said.

The troubled U.S. office industry is starting the new year with a problem it hasn't contended with in years: Some business districts face a looming shortage of top-shelf workspace.

LOS ANGELES—Karen Bass beat the billionaire real-estate developer Rick Caruso in Los Angeles's 2022 mayoral race.

CBRE is purchasing the rest of shared-workspace firm Industrious as more employees are returning to the office.

BBC Radio Leeds is taking on the challenge, launched today by Chris Kamara, to see if a group of Bradford City fans can be taught to sing opera.

Caruso casts himself as a shadow power broker, bumping up against mayor's pick