Rubloff Development Group (RDG) offers real estate development and other related services for commercial projects, primarily in Chicago and the Midwest. The firm has developed more than 15 million sq. ft of shopping center space over the years and owns about 40 retail properties. RDG's services include in-house engineering, architecture, construction, leasing, and management. The company also owns custom home builder Hallmark Homes and cargo and passenger air charter providers Rubloff Jet Express and Ryan International Airlines. RDG was founded in 1930 by Arthur Rubloff, often called "the man who changed the face of Chicago."

Centro Properties may have taken the phrase "shop 'til you drop" a bit too literally. Centro owns, develops, manages, and leases retail properties in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. Through funds, it oversees a portfolio of approximately 400 properties leased to supermarkets, department stores, and other retailers. Centro entered the US in 2006 with its acquisition of Heritage Property Investment Trust; it followed that up with the $6.2 billion purchase of New Plan Excel Realty Trust in 2007. Unfortunately, the rapid growth meant big debt, just as the global credit squeeze took root.

Childress Klein develops, owns, leases, and manages commercial real estate in the southeastern US. It owns some 20 million sq. ft. of office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use space, mostly in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, metropolitan areas. (Nearly 60% of its portfolio is office buildings and business centers.) The company's projects include Atlanta Galleria and LakePointe Corporate Center as well as the Wachovia Center, a two-block office, residential, and hospitality complex in downtown Charlotte.

Childress Klein develops, owns, leases, and manages commercial real estate in the southeastern US. It owns some 20 million sq. ft. of office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use space, mostly in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, metropolitan areas. (Nearly 60% of its portfolio is office buildings and business centers.) The company's projects include Atlanta Galleria and LakePointe Corporate Center as well as the Wachovia Center, a two-block office, residential, and hospitality complex in downtown Charlotte.

The real estate investment trust (REIT) owns and manages approximately 100 properties totaling some 5.5 million sq. ft. of commercial and office space in central London and the City's trendy West End. The firm actively recycles its holdings by buying, sprucing up, and selling properties; redevelopment typically occurs in phases so that space can continually be leased. Design firm Arup Group, the British government, luxe retailer Burberry, and advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi represent Derwent London's largest tenants. Looking for swank space in London but can't tell Noho from Soho? Derwent London (formerly Derwent Valley) holds the solution.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns properties that are leased to firms in the technology sector. Its portfolio includes more than 90 properties in the US, Europe, and Asia, including data communications hubs, electronic storage and processing centers, tech manufacturing facilities, and offices of tech companies. All told, the REIT owns more than 16 million sq. ft. of rentable space, including space held for redevelopment. Digital Realty Trust focuses on properties in hot tech markets such as Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, New Jersey, New York, northern Virginia, and California's San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley (its largest market).

Martinsa-Fadesa is one of the leading real estate developers in Spain, the company with the largest geographical diversity and one of the most specialised in Europe in terms of land management. We have undertaken huge urban developments with utmost respect for the environment and their integration into their surroundings. These developments usually have several services (golf courses, large green and leisure areas, commercial premises, sports centres, etc.) which generate an added value. Martinsa-Fadesa has an assets portfolio of 21,6 million square metres of building land.

Hang Lung Properties Limited (stock code: 101), the property arm of Hang Lung Group Limited (stock code: 10), is a leading Hong Kong company building and managing world-class commercial complexes in key cities on the Mainland since 1990s. It is a constituent stock of Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Indices, and is one of the world's largest pure real estate listed companies by market value.

Hines is a privately owned, international real estate firm that has provided the highest level of quality, service and value to its clients and investors for more than 50 years. EDF Tower, Paris, France With a presence in more than 100 cities around the globe and investor relationships with many of the world's largest financial institutions, Hines has the breadth of experience, the network of expertise and the financial strength to assume complex and challenging investment, development and management projects.

Douglas Jemal was born in Brooklyn, New York, and came to Washington, DC, in 1966. Mr. Jemal began his career in the retail trade with a small store on 7th Street, NW. He soon expanded into the electronics and music business. By the mid-1980’s he had created one of the most successful retail electronics chains in the nation.

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