Leasing Commercial Property
The Tartan Way The decision to lease new space is driven by many different factors—the need for growth and expansion, a desire to upgrade the quality of your space, or possibly, improved access to mass transportation. No matter the motivation, the process you undertake to select and secure new space is the same. By following […]
Buying Commercial Real Estate
The TARTAN Way The Commercial Real Estate world, for a first-time buyer or seller, can be daunting without proper guidance. In this five part series, we’re going to be sharing the process that TARTAN goes through with our own clients to try to demystify selling, buying, and leasing commercial real estate. Buying commercial real […]
Oakville Triangle Development Update
After years in limbo, the on again off again development plans for the Oakville Triangle area of Alexandria have finally been put in place.
Selling Commercial Real Estate
The Commercial Real Estate world, for a first-time buyer or seller, can be daunting without proper guidance. In this five part series, we’re going to be sharing the process that TARTAN goes through with our own clients to try to demystify selling, buying, and leasing commercial real estate.
Dodging COVID-19 with a Cash Solution
Guest Blogger: Fred W. Clapp, Cost Segregation Services, Inc. Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is historically a reasonably stable component of our economy. Most CRE investors, coming off a profitable 2019 were eagerly looking at an even better 2020. Enter the Corona Virus and the CRE market is suddenly like the movie Jaws. A memorable scene […]
Moving Your Office Space: Tips and Tricks for a Smooth Office Move
Guest Blogger: James Gilmartin, Olympia Moving and Storage Moving your business to a new office requires careful planning and preparation. Dividing the workload and assigning specific tasks to different employees, starting the process early and maintaining open and frequent communication are key to a successful, and less stressful, move.
All You Need to Know: Virginia Tech Innovation Campus
The back stories are now starting to come out on how Amazon’s HQ2 landed in Arlington and how Virginia Tech’s $1 Billion Innovation Campus came to fruition in Alexandria, since the November 2018 announcement. David Baker, the Assistant Director of Government and Community Relations for Virginia Tech, dispelled a myth to a packed auditorium at […]
Amazon Completes $154 Million Purchase of HQ2 Site – Amazon Watch 002
As of last week, Amazon is now the official owner of several Crystal City sites where they plan to develop a pair of 22-story towers for Amazon’s second headquarters.
2020 CRE Business Predictions: Northern Virginia
With 2019 in the rearview mirror, now all eyes are on what’s to come in the New Year. Our local area is going through significant changes that effect all industries. With long awaited as well as new development projects under way, there is great anticipation on what 2020 will have in store for the region’s […]
Best Advisors Give “Tough Love”
July 2017 – Nobody likes to be the bearer of bad news and certainly we are no different. But the good thing for our clients is that we are willing to give “tough love” when it’s necessary. In the realm of commercial real estate, that tough love can sound like this: “Sure, we can […]