Richard Lawson is an award-winning journalist with nearly three decades of experience. After several years in Washington, D.C., covering the U.S. Navy then the telecommunications industry, Lawson moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he reported on gr...
Richard Lawson is an award-winning journalist with nearly three decades of experience. After several years in Washington, D.C., covering the U.S. Navy then the telecommunications industry, Lawson moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he reported on growth and development.
He won awards for breaking the news on Nissan North America’s new headquarters location and subsequent coverage on how local and state officials attracted the Japanese automaker to the Nashville region. While in Nashville, he had an integral role in relaunching a local business news website, which gave him the opportunity to appear regularly on-air with a local television station. Before joining CoStar, he helped Crain’s launch a national e-mail newsletter.
Like a sad country song, a real estate deal that would have brought two country music icons under single ownership succumbed to an illness that caused the parties to split up.
Rising leisure travel pushed hotel occupancy slightly higher for a fifth straight week as cities and states relax restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The U.S. hotel industry is expected to take a bigger step backward this year than previously forecast because of the coronavirus pandemic’s disruption to travel, a development that could make some ...
Just over a week ago, a private investor bought an Albertson’s grocery store in downtown San Diego that remained open while most businesses in the city had closed along with the rest of California to ...
The U.S. hotel industry’s slow mending resulted in its fourth straight week of higher occupancy, signaling that more people are venturing out and traveling.
Ryman Hospitality Properties took a big financial hit in the first quarter after closing its large hotels around the country as cities and states shut down to grapple with the spreading coronavirus.
A Nashville, Tennessee, investment firm ventured into a familiar neighboring suburb to record a top office purchase there this year as well as push the area into a record sales year in just four ...
Hotel occupancy in the United States rose again, providing a glimmer of hope for the industry as some states begin to institute plans to reopen their economies.
A Dallas investor moved back into Memphis, Tennessee’s industrial market with a deal that expands its Southeast portfolio months after scoring one of the biggest industrial sales from 2019.
Chef Taylor Neary isn’t opening his restaurant fully for business in downtown Alpharetta, Georgia, now that the governor has lifted dine-in restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the ...