http://disqus.com/by/dbodamer/enWed, 05 Jun 2019 11:15:25 -0000https://www.wonkette.com/maggie-haberman-of-course-just-saying-maybe-trumps-are-royal-family-of-americas-dreams#comment-4490382116<p>BTW, the "poorly worded" tweet that they deleted is a PARAGRAPH THAT'S STILL IN THE ARTICLE.</p>dbodamerWed, 05 Jun 2019 11:15:25 -0000https://www.wonkette.com/maggie-haberman-of-course-just-saying-maybe-trumps-are-royal-family-of-americas-dreams#comment-4490377238<p>This is the standard journalism produced by the reporter the entire Times staff was defending a few days ago as indispensable to the public. It includes such great legwork as quoting ... (checks article) ... the author of a fawning biography of the Trumps. That quote is ostensibly the basis for the whole "Trumps are the the U.S. royal family!" garbage setup up of the article.</p>dbodamerWed, 05 Jun 2019 11:12:08 -0000http://gothamist.com/2018/08/28/malai_ice_cream_brooklyn.php#comment-4064804385<p>Lol indeed</p>dbodamerTue, 28 Aug 2018 11:26:30 -0000http://gothamist.com/2018/08/28/malai_ice_cream_brooklyn.php#comment-4064799747<p>You can do a hell of an ice cream crawl in Carroll Gardens. Brooklyn Farmacy, MilkMade, Milk Bar, Van Leeuwen, Blossom Ice Cream, The Chocolate Room and this all within a few blocks of each other, not to mention several old school Italian bakeries that make their own gelato or Italian Ice. And then it's not too far to get to Ample Hills as well.</p>dbodamerTue, 28 Aug 2018 11:23:48 -0000http://gothamist.com/2018/06/01/nyc_composting_sanitation.php#comment-3926539976<p>I think the city is exploring this. There was a report a few months ago that the city had hired a consultant to evaluate the viability of a pay-as-you-throw program.</p>dbodamerFri, 01 Jun 2018 11:08:52 -0000http://gothamist.com/2018/06/01/nyc_composting_sanitation.php#comment-3926532079<p>There are lots of challenges with sorting in NYC.</p><p>* A lot of people don't have room in their apartments for multiple bins.<br>* The brown bins themselves become disgusting fairly quickly. Helping residents clean those (or routinely swapping them out for cleaner ones) might increase usage of them.<br>* The rules for recycling vary all over the country and in many places all recyclables do go into the same bin. With a lot of transplants moving to NYC, people may not realize there is extra sorting that happens here. Moreover, the rules (and the haulers) differ for commercial and residential recycling in NYC. It's a lot to keep track of and many people may not realize they're doing the wrong thing. <br>* Organics recycling itself is still a fairly new phenomenon. The take-up rates for other kinds of recycling were fairly low when they were first introduced. It takes some time to change people's behaviors on a broad scale.</p>dbodamerFri, 01 Jun 2018 11:02:53 -0000http://retailtrafficmag.com/charts/retail_investment_sales_climate_11162010/#comment-98377896<p>Thanks. I will add that link to the page with the larger chart. </p>dbodamerWed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:38 -0000http://retailtrafficmag.com/investments/analysis/investment_sales_volume_surge_09212010/#comment-80067804<p>Thanks for pointing that out. We also featured CBRE's second-quarter retail cap rate numbers in a story about a month ago: <a href="http://retailtrafficmag.com/charts/retail_cap_rates_steady_08172010/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://retailtrafficmag.com/charts/retail_cap_rates_steady_08172010/">http://retailtrafficmag.com...</a></p>dbodamerWed, 22 Sep 2010 11:59:21 -0000http://retailtrafficmag.com/investments/analysis/burger_king_real_estate_09142010/#comment-77838559<p>The 987 figure is what BK actually owns. The rest of their locations are leased. </p>dbodamerWed, 15 Sep 2010 14:29:04 -0000http://realpropertyalpha.com/2010/01/13/good-clients-bad-clients/#comment-29970402<p>Shouldn't there be more to the tenant/landlord relationship than a tug-of-war over lease terms? It seems to me that in the retail space anyway, landlords and tenants have a lot to gain by working together. Landlords should be adept at boosting traffic and sales for tenants. Retailers, meanwhile, could and should be more active in helping landlords craft marketing and promotion plans for centers as a whole. </p>dbodamerFri, 15 Jan 2010 11:13:06 -0000http://realpropertyalpha.com/2009/09/21/evolutionary-not-revolutionary/#comment-17221821<p>Someone also left a comment over at Traffic Court on this:</p><p>Greg Hoxworth Says:</p><p>September 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 am | Edit</p><p>Real estate is becoming more transparent in terms of information availability and knowledge which is a good thing. Owners, developers, Cities and tenants have increasing knowledge of each other position and value proposition. This will lead to decreasing margins but higher probability of success, less risk. This also means that it will become more of a commodity with older real estate having to make substantial improvements or give discounts to compete.</p><p>Another trend is that the personalities of real estate are retiring so the businesses are becoming more and more corporate and less about the personality at the top. This will continue as the baby boomers retire.</p><p>the major change looming out there is how real estate will be financed this will likely cause major changes in the industry.</p>dbodamerWed, 23 Sep 2009 10:57:29 -0000http://realpropertyalpha.com/2009/09/21/evolutionary-not-revolutionary/#comment-17119461<p>Good question. I'm re-posting this to Traffic Court with a link back here. Hopefully that will generate some feedback although readers of Traffic Court don't tend to comment a whole lot. It's one thing I've struggled with. </p>dbodamerTue, 22 Sep 2009 11:47:32 -0000http://realpropertyalpha.com/2009/05/28/fortune-is-a-commercial-real-estate-bust-inevitable/#comment-10151344<p>I agree. There seems to be a neverending flood of headlines these days about commercial real estate being the "next shoe to drop." But commercial real estate peaked in 2007. It's already been falling for two years. Yes, the expiring debt needs to be dealt with. But it's not surprising anybody. Everyone knows this a problem. I think we need to see if the PPIP and TALF programs are going to be effective. There are also tons of firms lining up to get in on the receivership business when properties do go into foreclosure and start going back to the banks. For now, banks are doing what they can to delay dealing with the problem. They are granting forbearance. Some people call it the "extend and pretend" mentality. Extend the maturities and pretend the assets are OK. </p>dbodamerThu, 28 May 2009 09:58:08 -0000http://retailtrafficmag.com/news/REIT/shopping-center-reit-performance-stable-0512/#comment-10051661<p>This story is just about shopping center REITs. We cover those separately from the regional mall REITs--like Simon and General Growth. </p>dbodamerWed, 27 May 2009 09:43:39 -0000http://retailtrafficmag.com/news/retail_kmart_store_closings/#comment-6707289<p>Not that I'm aware of. Sears Holding Co. has talked about how many Sears are closing this year--up to 40. But there's no word I've seen on Kmart closings for 2009. </p>dbodamerFri, 27 Feb 2009 14:15:32 -0000http://retailtrafficmag.com/news/looking_back_forward_2008/#comment-4987700<p>Thanks everyone for the feedback!</p>dbodamerThu, 08 Jan 2009 10:34:54 -0000http://retailtrafficmag.com/news/retail_store_closings_2009/#comment-3572092<p>Brian, I think you're definitely right. Do you have any specific tips that might be helpful for our readers? </p>dbodamerThu, 06 Nov 2008 12:47:45 -0000http://retailtrafficmag.com/news/lehman_merrill_sold_0924/#comment-3029608<p>Thanks to Harvey, William and knirk for the feedback.</p><p>We now know what the plan looks like, although after the fact it has changed again. The government seems to be looking at equity injections in addition to buying the bad assets. I'm still very curious to see if any CMBS pools are part of what the government ends up buying.</p>dbodamerMon, 13 Oct 2008 17:08:23 -0000