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How Elf Atochem decided to pick up and move 700 employees across town This dissection of one of the city's largest lease deals in the last four years shows how [...]

How local CEOs were ranked and how to interpret these lists This is the second year the Philadelphia Business Journal has teamed up with Godwins Inc. of Conshohocken to evaluate [...]

When he abruptly shut down Braniff International Airlines six weeks ago, Jeffrey R. Chodorow blamed the cutthroat fare war that ravaged the airline industry in early June. When he sought [...]

Philadelphia stevedore Thomas J. Holt already operates the region's dominant marine terminal for containerized cargo and the port's most modern docks for fruit imports. Now, Holt is setting in motion [...]

A year after the Delaware River Port Authority seized control of the South Philadelphia rail yard where cargo containers are switched from trucks to trains, traffic has nearly exhausted the [...]

Thanks to a concerted effort by Mayor Rendell and his cabinet -- and the addition of two new weapons to the city's economic development arsenal -- Colonial Penn Life Insurance [...]

Philadelphia is rapidly becoming the REIT capital of the western world. So it's no surprise that Kenneth D. Campbell has come to town. Campbell, an expert on real estate investment [...]

Over the last few months, exporters of melons, snow peas, beef and frozen shrimp produced in Guatemala and Honduras have been receiving brochures for a new shipping service to Philadelphia, [...]

Last June, news of a developer's plan for a 30-acre waterfront retail project on the site of a defunct industrial plant prompted vehement opposition and threats of stubborn resistance from [...]

In an unusual burst of activity for the city's hotel business, the general managers of two inns in the Old City historic district have resigned, and a third hotel has [...]

Tenants abandoned all but two floors of 211 S. Broad St. Two Mellon Center shut down because of fire. The Fidelity Building went bankrupt. And people are talking about a [...]

The developers of a 10-screen movie theater and shopping center on Delaware Avenue in Pennsport are pitching what could become the largest private commercial project on the Philadelphia waterfront: a [...]

Home builder takes unusual tack by getting $25 million investment from state public school pension fund. In 1990, when the floor fell out from under the home-building industry, Joe Duckworth [...]

A year after Philadelphia's towering inferno, the toll is still being counted: perhaps untold billions of dollars by some estimates. Whatever the cost, the blaze surely made victims of thousands. [...]

The bankrupt owner of the Greenwood Square office complex in Bensalem has reached tentative agreements with its secured creditors to repay nearly $30 million in loans. If approved by the [...]

Ask a few veteran real estate brokers about what it's like to work with law firms, and chances are they'll roll their eyes. They'll tell you about firms where the [...]

For once, it seems, the acquisition of a home-grown Philadelphia insurance company won't result in the elimination or departure of hundreds of jobs from the city. Keystone State Life Insurance [...]

Craig A. Spencer, the ambitious real estate developer who is trying to turn the abandoned Two Mellon Bank Center into a luxury hotel, is putting his money down on yet [...]

WAYNE -- For years, Gary M. Holloway seemed to think the best offense was a good defense. When he formed a property management company several years ago, Holloway did it [...]

UPPER PROVIDENCE -- In the escalating war for the region's moviegoers, United Artists says it has won something of a battle here by signing a 20-year lease for the site [...]

Philadelphia really does have its own merger-and-acquisition specialists. Really, it does. But you'd never notice it from the headlines. When QVC Network Inc., in West Chester, needed an adviser in [...]

Ira M. Lubert, a venture capitalist and hotel operator who also is one of Ron Jaworski's chief financial backers, has been on a real estate bargain-hunting spree this summer. His [...]

This just in: The rich get richer. The very well-paid CEOs of the 100 largest Philadelphia-area public companies are all white men, with a few foreign-born exceptions. But not one [...]

After weeks of poring over the old Jack Frost Sugarhouse refinery for environmental problems, the gaming company that planned to develop a riverboat casino there has decided it would cost [...]

More than a year after the last Sears employee shut out the lights in the retailer's massive office and warehouse complex at Roosevelt Boulevard and Adams Avenue, plans are in [...]

TREVOSE -- One of Philadelphia's biggest real estate firms and one of the region's most aggressive builders of suburban shopping centers are joining forces on four projects and planning to [...]

After a rocky, decade-long courtship, Pennsylvania and New Jersey port officials are about to consummate the marriage of the Philadelphia and Camden docks. Now, however, it seems that New Jersey [...]

Don't look for Devil Dogs or Twinkies at the neighborhood Wawa anytime soon. It'll be Krimpets and Kandy Kakes from now on. Tastykake has taken over the packaged-cake shelves in [...]

A Kennett Square shipping consultant who was appointed to the port agency that is taking control of the Philadelphia and Camden docks said his relationship with a developer of fast [...]

If riverboat gambling is approved for Philadelphia by the state Legislature - and there is already more than $100 million riding on that proposition - don't expect the floating casinos [...]

Looking for cheap industrial space? A machine shop? A film or television production studio? A warehouse with a railroad siding? Or one with a railroad spur that runs right through [...]

A year-old cruise line will make at least four voyages from the Port of Philadelphia this summer, boosting the annual passenger traffic at local marine terminals by roughly one-third. The [...]

ABOARD THE LAUNCH CAPE MAY -- In Edward M. Hultz's world, Philadelphia is a busy black river with a sleeping city alongside. Red rooftop lights flicker like candles in the [...]

When Philadelphia port officials delivered their 1994 cargo projections earlier this month, one category showed a 578 percent jump. Not Chilean fruit, which is declining in volume. Not even paper [...]

Donald J. Trump yesterday fended off a late-hour challenge to his purchase of the old Jack Frost sugar refinery for a riverboat casino, agreeing to pay $1.2 million in back [...]

GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J. -- They've been called scabs, and much worse. They've been shunned -- even threatened -- in the once-friendly corner bars of Port Richmond and Camden. But the [...]

Donald Trump is buying the former Jack Frost sugar refinery on North Delaware Avenue as a riverboat gambling site, the Business Journal has learned. The city's fourth speculative riverboat deal [...]

On Feb. 24, city officials are supposed to detail how they plan to spend nearly $180 million -- assuming they can find it -- to attract new businesses to Philadelphia [...]

CAMDEN -- In a winter that has brought governments, schools, businesses and utility companies virtually to their knees -- and, of course, made commuting to Philadelphia a nightmare, if not [...]

A lot has changed on the waterfront since longshoremen slung freight by the bag, armed only with a big metal hook. But the Philadelphia port, like any other, is still [...]

So many Philadelphia-area dockworkers have signed up for a one-time retirement offer that, just four months after persuading the rank and file to accept drastic givebacks on their contract, union [...]

Already reeling from two weeks of horrendous weather and months of labor unrest, the Philadelphia docks are in for another spot of trouble. The last time Longshoremen picketed the Packer [...]

The mayor was giving a roomful of real estate executives his brand-new business-retention pitch. 'If you know of any businesses thinking of leaving the city,' Edward G. Rendell told several [...]

Back-room deals, 'executive sessions' at the drop of a politician's hat, and refusals to submit to any effective oversight -- all familiar to observers of the Delaware River Port Authority [...]

CAMDEN -- There was a distracted look on Thomas P. Corcoran's face. He was talking about the pressures and pitfalls of a decade spent trying to develop this city's once-desolate [...]

CAMDEN -- With a complicated deal just about locked up for a $34 million amphitheater along the Camden waterfront, three big entertainment companies are brainstorming for an even more ambitious [...]

Forget West Market Street. The center of the region's business activity has become a spot about halfway between Penn's Landing and the New Jersey State Aquarium -- right in the [...]

For all the noise on the waterfront these days -- where wildcat strikes, fistfights, threats and lawsuits occur more regularly than ship arrivals -- the root causes of the trouble [...]

For nearly two hours this week, commissioners of the Delaware River Port Authority listened to the results of the year-long, $320,000 strategic planning process they had undergone to figure out [...]

For the roughly 5,000 Internal Revenue Service workers in Philadelphia, Nov. 30 looms a lot larger on the calendar than April 15. That's when the IRS will announce details of [...]