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The enormous volume of traffic at Los Angeles’s two major ports has made the city America’s trade capital. Over the past few decades, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have propelled southern California’s rise as a regional trade giant. Learn what is fundamentally changing the landscape regarding industrial property, as well as the region’s position as an import-based economy.

Projects from Munich, Milan, and Milton Keynes, U.K., have been selected as winners in the ULI Awards for Excellence: Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) competition. Read why each of these projects was selected for the award, and why a fourth project from Saudi Arabia was singled out for special commendation by the jury.

With residential real estate in the doldrums for the past few years, homebuilding companies are looking for different areas for growth. As such, firms like Toll Brothers and Lennar Corporation are pursuing opportunities that have synergies with, but may fall outside of, their core homebuilding operations—for example, golf and country clubs. Learn what homebuilders should know before branching out.

Real estate entrepreneurs and development companies have had to adjust to demographic changes and economic constraints in California. At the same time, the state’s real estate sector is adapting to new market realities. With an economy that seems to be on the mend, read what factor is bringing good news to the housing market and leading people to think about expanding their businesses.

Ten years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, lower Manhattan has become one of the fastest-growing residential neighborhoods in New York City with a population that has more than doubled—to 56,000—over the last decade, reports the Alliance for Downtown New York, Inc. Read more to learn about the new residential and office projects that stand as a testament to this neighborhood’s comeback.

In medicine, caring and curing are different disciplines. The research and clinical branches of health care have grown in parallel directions with less and less overlap. But in the past decade, medical professionals have begun seeking to blend the two as translational medicine. Read how architects who specialize in either health care or education are grafting together separate medical building typologies.

San Francisco is using private/public partnerships to transform formerly blighted areas into the city’s new economic engines, according to Mayor Edwin M. Lee on a recent visit to the Urban Land Institute as the inaugural speaker for the ULI “Urban Innovators” series, launched as part of ULI’s 75th anniversary. Read what successful measures Mayor Lee highlighted in private/public partnerships and redevelopment to help create new economic engines in San Francisco.

The top nine trends in this month’s Barometer point to low-level limbo in the economy, diverging signals in the capital markets, and renewed challenges in the housing market. Compared with a year ago, 52 percent of the key indicators in the Barometer are better while 48 percent are worse.

The Trepp LLC survey showed spreads stabilizing to even narrowing a bit during the most recent survey period. Deals appear to be happening as everyone looks over their shoulder waiting for the next shoe to fall somewhere in the global capital markets. So…hurry up and get your deals done while rates are as low.

The Trepp LLC survey showed spreads coming in as much as 15 basis during the most recent survey period, evidence that the market, so far, is able to function with the Euro-crises playing out in the background.