Finalists announced for Atlanta Business Chronicle's Best in Atlanta Real Estate Awards

Large-scale office relocations, transformative investment deals and major renovation projects are among the more than two dozen finalists named for the 16th annual Best in Atlanta Real Estate Awards sponsored by Atlanta Business Chronicle.

The finalists were chosen by the Chronicle’s editorial board.

Award winners will be announced the evening of March 5 during a gala event at The Foundry at Puritan Mill in Atlanta.

This year’s Visionary Award recipient is Bob Voyles, principal and CEO of Seven…

Libitzky Property Cos. buys high-profile Las Colinas office building

California-based real estate investor Libitzky Property Cos. has bought a high-profile building in Las Colinas’ Urban Center for an undisclosed price.

The firm bought a recently redeveloped 10-story, 238,051-square-foot Class A office building, named Canal Centre, within the Urban Center, which also includes a six-story parking garage.

The building’s location in the Urban Center of Las Colinas, along with a favorable balance of long-term tenants, will give the investment firm some compelling opportunities…

Cool Spaces: Schuchart's award-winning office is sustainable too

Natural light filters through windows of Schuchart’s downtown Seattle office and reflects off the glass walls into the large open space where employees work. A plaza with patches of grass and the Seattle Library can be glimpsed through the windows.

Schuchart built out this light-filled space at 919 5th Ave. a year and a half ago to make a more convenient home for its employees.

The general contractor previously was based on Seattle’s Queen Anne hill. But employees knew they had to move. Traffic…

Construction begins on Alabaster Walmart Neighborhood Market

Construction has started on Alabaster’s Walmart Neighborhood Market.

As reported in November, Walmart is building a 40,000-square-foot Neighborhood Market store, one of a number of the boutique grocery stores announced in the Birmingham area over the past year.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based McWhorter & Co. Inc. recently pulled a $4.1 million building permit for the commercial building at 9085 U.S. Hwy. 119, according to public record.

McWhorter & Co. is the general contractor, working with developer…

KSL Capital Partners doubles its money in $278 million Miami Beach hotel sale

An affiliate of Denver’s KSL Capital Partners is selling a landmark Miami Beach, Florida, hotel in a $278 million deal — more than twice what it paid for it.

Chesapeake Lodging Trust announced it will acquire the 393-room James Royal Palm Hotel. The oceanfront property is owned by RP Hotel Holdings LLC, a company affiliated with private equity firm KSL.

KSL in April 2011 paid $130 million for the hotel. It spent $42 million on renovating the property.

KSL owns luxury hotels and ski areas in…