One year after fire destroyed its home, office retailer looking at downtown, Short North for new store

A year after fire destroyed its downtown store, Robert Mason Co. is ready to set up shop again.

The Columbus-based office supply retailer landed a pair of new investors and advisers in developer Brett Kaufman and Jeffrey G. Wilkins, son of CompuServe Corp. founder and serial entrepreneur Jeff Wilkins, who are expected to help land it a brick-and-mortar store and spur online growth.

“It’s been a long year of figuring out what are next steps should be,” founder Robert Grimmett told me.

Both…

Metro Denver's green homes found to be cheaper than others (Slideshow)

It turns out that going green may actually be the more cost-effective option for home shoppers.

The Denver metro area is ranked as the No. 5 market for homes with “green” amenities out of 50 major metros in a new Trulia report that looked at houses with environmentally friendly amenities.

To compile the list, the San Francisco-based real estate website looked at the markets that had the highest share of eco-friendly amenities offered in homes for sale since Jan. 1, 2014. Amenities included are:

Bamboo…

Big deal in Delaware: Wilmington office building trades for $62M

Three Beaver Valley Road, an office building in Wilmington, Del., was on the market for just about six weeks when it received 10 offers from investors in seven different states. It ultimately sold for $61.8 million, or $235 a square foot.

That is considered quick deal making but for a building like Three Beaver, it fit just about everything an investor wants these days in a suburban office property.

The five-story structure totals 264,000 square feet and is 94 percent occupied with Farmer’s Insurance…

San Antonio apartment market will soften, but continue to climb for 2015

San Antonio’s apartment market won’t be immune to the drop in oil prices, but continued increases in employment, construction and rents will bolster its long-term health.

According to Marcus & Millichap’s First Quarter 2015 Apartment Research market report, the city’s job growth and accelerating interest among investors will be the top drivers for the rental market throughout this year.

Particularly in the north and northwest areas of the city, apartment development will accelerate due to the thousands…

Perceptive exec Adair joins Brightergy

Marjorie Adair is now working for Kansas City-based Brightergy LLC.

Adair, formerly the executive vice president of finance at Perceptive Software LLC — now known as Lexmark Enterprise Software, recently joined the Kansas City-based alternative energy company as its CFO, according to her LinkedIn page. Adair was honored as one of the Kansas City Business Journal’s 2013 CFOs of the Year and is a member of the 2006 class of Women Who Mean Business.

2013 CFO OF THE YEAR AWARDS: Marjorie Adair

She…