8 things: Tensions high in Baltimore following protests; VW's chair and patriarch resigns

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The Greater Baltimore region remains on edge Monday after peaceful protests over the death of Freddie Gray, while in police custody, turned violent Saturday, The Washington Post reports.

A major confrontation took place six hours into the peaceful end of the protests Saturday. It came outside of Camden Yards, following the Baltimore Orioles-Boston Red Sox game. As fans headed to parking lots and dining spots…

California investor buys Avaya office building in Coppell

A California-based real estate investor has bought a Coppell office building that’s 100 percent leased to communications provider, California-based Avaya Inc.

Terms of the sale were undisclosed.

The two-story, 96,500-square-foot office building at 1111 Freeport Parkway in Coppell has frontage along Interstate 635 and sits on nearly seven acres of land. The property was built in 1998.

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Austin-based property tax firm expands to downtown Dallas

Austin-based Morrison & Head, a property tax and valuation consulting firm, has opened an office in downtown Dallas, with the help of some former Cushman & Wakefield executives.

The new Dallas office of Morrison & Head will be in Bank of America Plaza in the city’s central business district.

“We purposely located in downtown,” David Kline, the former global practice leader for property tax services for Cushman & Wakefield, told the Dallas Business Journal in an exclusive interview. “This is a dynamic…

345.9-acre mixed-use community proposed in Gwinnett

Gwinnett County planning officials are expected to vote May 5 whether to allow a developer to build a 345.9-acre mixed-use community on Loganville Highway, just south of Grayson.

Several residents at a Thursday public forum hosted by the Gwinnett County Planning Commission told officials and developer David Bowen the project is too large for the area, reports Gwinnett Daily Post.

The proposed development includes hundreds of houses, townhomes, villas and 569,616 square feet of retail space, the…

Alexandria staff picks its preferred Potomac Yard Metro station site

Alexandria staff’s pick for a new Potomac Yard Metro station site is the one that promises the biggest bang for the buck, the one the area’s largest landowners wanted, and the one those landowners have agreed to partially fund.

Of the four potential sites reviewed as part of the Environmental Impact Statement process, the selected Alternative B “yields the most economic benefit for the city,” according to the staff report, issued Friday. Located just east of the existing CSX tracks, a quarter mile…