Perspectives

TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline Heightens Awareness of Eminent Domain and Transportation of Energy

Understanding What is Happening in Nebraska A Nebraska trial court opinion issued in February 2014 has helped to focus new attention on the process for siting major pipelines, the environment and the power of eminent domain. In 2008 TransCanada Corporation, based in Calgary, Alberta, constructed the Keystone Pipeline through Nebraska. The Keystone project now transports… Read more

REVIEW: Inside Out: Building a Glass House in Russia 

Volume 39, Number 2 Fall 2014 By Mary Bujold, CRE Inside Out: Building a Glass House in Russia is the memoir of Glenn Williamson’s time in Russia as a real estate project manager for Walton Development out of Chicago. Walton had developed one office building in Warsaw and had started another in the early 1990s… Read more

REVIEW: Planning Chicago

Fall 2014, Vol. 39, No. 2 Abstract: Authors D. Bradford Hunt, Ph.D., and Jon B. DeVries, CRE, discuss the history of planning for Chicago, and show where opportunities may be missed because the city no longer plans on a regional scale—but much more so on a political scale. Reviewer Barton DeLacy calls this book a “seminal… Read more

Leases: A Ticking Time Bomb in Your Company’s Merger?

Volume 39, Number 2 Fall 2014 By Richard E. Strauss, Esq. Introduction When buying or selling a business, there will likely be real estate tenant leases that are part of the business assets. If these leases are important to the business, their assignment to the buyer may be essential to the transaction. For example, the… Read more