Washington Trust Provides $3.5 Million in Financing for Apartment Complex in Ellington, CT
WESTERLY, R.I. -- Washington Trust's Commercial Real Estate Group recently provided $3.5 million in financing to Taymil Stonebridge Portfolio, LLC, a subsidiary of Taymil Partners, to refinance and complete ...

Ethiopia: House Passes the First Industrial Park Bill for the Country
[Addis Fortune] The Bill was drafted by EIC with government and private sector stakeholder inputs

Fort Mill office buildings sold for $39.5 million
The three Class A office buildings total about 178,000 square feet, and opened in the last decade. The tenants include paper company Domtar, other corporate operations and two medical offices.

Commercial real estate deals in Western New York overcome winter chills
The pace of commercial real estate deal-making in the Buffalo Niagara region this winter slowed from last year’s boom season, as even a flurry of activity last month – driven mostly by one mega-deal – wasn’t enough to overcome the deep freeze that February’s snow and temperatures seemed to impose on the market.

Ten percent of S&P 500 companies avoid paying U.S. taxes
Fueled by a wave of inversions, a record 54 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of leading U.S. firms are now at least partially exempt from the corporate income tax. Other companies have declared themselves to be real estate investment trusts, or REITs, which the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t treat as corporations. Just this year, Equinix Inc., a California company that operates ...