U.S. Bank's Commercial Real Estate (CRE) group specializes in providing creative credit and non-credit financial solutions for real estate developers, REITs, and commercial property owners across the United States.  Commercial Real Estate's expertise includes:

     * Construction and development lending
     * Property acquisition lending
     * Refinancing
     * Single and multi-family development
     * Lines of credit
     * Syndications
     * Structured finance
     * Mezzanine lending
     * Permanent lending
     * Deposits
     * Treasury management services

In addition, our Commercial Real Estate partners work with other areas in U.S. Bank to provide ATMs, card products, investments, and Trust services.  With existing loan commitments of over $23 billion, and a staff of over 300 commercial real estate professionals in 30 offices across 20 states, US Bank’s Commercial Real Estate group builds long-term relationship and provides products and services designed to help customers better run their business.

Today's business climate requires a law firm that not only solves legal challenges, but one that is a true resource — lawyers who are an essential part of their clients’ management teams and trusted in even the most demanding decision processes.

Noted as an innovator and market shaper by national corporate counsel, Frost Brown Todd is a valued legal and business partner for entrepreneurs as well as some of America's best-known companies. In every area of the law, we focus on achieving results that help business leaders achieve greatness — thinking like business people, putting their business needs first.

With over 370 lawyers across mid-America, Frost Brown Todd offers a deep, talented roster of legal professionals covering commercial transactions and real estate; business and corporate law; environmental; intellectual property; labor and employment; litigation; and business succession planning.

As a law firm, we offer professional men and women with diverse talents and approaches to the law. Yet they also possess striking similarities, starting with the ability to see creative solutions others might miss; not satisfied until they have met the highest standards of service.

As a business partner, we leverage technical, industry, legal knowledge and hands-on experience to serve a diverse client base, from global multinationals to small, entrepreneurial companies. Our industry teams integrate that powerful network of legal talent and business experience to provide strategic, comprehensive services.

For more information, contact Sandy Nunn at (513)651-6780 or e-mail her at snunn@fbtlaw.com.

The Business Courier is the leading provider of breaking local business news for the 16-county Greater Cincinnati region. The Courier reaches more than 50,000 business owners, professionals and decision-makers with a fresh edition of breaking local business news each Friday, via print to subscribers’ homes or businesses and online at www.cincinnati.bizjournals.com.

Additionally, the Courier posts breaking local business stories all day each weekday on its Web site, and sends for free an email to more than 10,000 readers around 3 p.m. weekdays reporting what major local business news is occurring. Through more than a dozen events, the Courier hosts or co-sponsors our region’s biggest and best business recognition and networking programs. Nearly 11,000 of the Cincinnati metropolitan area’s most affluent residents pay to read the Courier because it delivers information they can’t get anywhere else to help them grow their businesses and improve their careers.

Al. Neyer, Inc. is a century-old company with a new vision for real estate development and design-build construction. Our mission is to imagine and create environments that are well-designed and tailored to the needs of the organizations and communities we serve. Our work and experience is focused on three areas:

     * Urban mixed-use development
     * Build-to-suit office, medical office and
        industrial development
     * National market expansion program

Current projects include Linden Pointe on the Lateral, a new 22-acre Class A office park with retail and restaurants in Norwood; Columbia Square office and retail project; and MetroWest Commerce Park, an 18-acre redevelopment of the former Queen City Barrel site in Lower Price Hill.

Environments that Work
Through a dedication to innovative processes, strategic planning, and design excellence, Michael Schuster Associates strives to partner with clients in the creation of tangible environments that represent their unique personality.

Founded in 1985, MSA provides comprehensive services in architecture, interior design, planning and environmental graphics. Our technical competence, coupled with careful consideration of functionality and aesthetics, has garnered over thirty-five design awards throughout our history.

MSA is a solutions oriented firm.  Through passion and dedication, we make every effort to continually improve our processes, strategies and services.  Our exceptional level of service and the ability to educate our clients throughout the entire design process differentiates us from our competition. 

The National City Real Estate Department in Cincinnati is part of the $140 B organization, the eighth largest banking organization in the country.  The department offers the full array of products to help the developer with a one-off construction requests to the organization seeking to refinance or underwrite a line of credit connected with several hundreds of millions of dollars of commercial property.  On the permanent loan side, Capstone Mortgage (a wholly owned subsidiary) offers non-recourse loan products as does the National City conduit. For competitive quotes, please call Mo Dunne at 513-639-1195.

Q10 | Triad Capital Advisors, Inc. of Cincinnati, established 1998, is a full-service commercial mortgage banking firm which arranges financing for developers and owners of commercial real estate from their Cincinnati, Kansas City, and St. Louis offices. The company is affiliated with Q10 | Capital LLC, a national infrastructure of 14 member

companies with 26 offices, and 135 producers across the nation.  Q10 | Triad Capital Advisors, Inc. has successfully arranged debt and equity financing solutions on income producing property through extensive relationships with many of the nation’s top institutional investors.  The firm secures long-term, non-recourse debt, construction loans, forward loans, mezzanine and bridge loans, joint venture equity and sales brokerage.

Susan Branscome is Principal and Founder of Q10 | Triad Capital Advisors, Inc.  The firm has a current loan portfolio in excess of $540 million.  For more information, contact Susan Branscome at (513) 985-2266, or email her at sbranscome@q10triad.com.

Excellence for more than a century.
The Neyer tradition for quality craftsmanship and attention to detail began in 1894 when Joseph Neyer formed a carpentry construction company in Cincinnati, using skills taught to him by his forefathers in Germany.  By forming Neyer Properties in 1995, Dan Neyer followed in great grandfather’s entrepreneurial footsteps.  Dan’s vision is to transform the real estate landscape within our community by providing a unique approach to enhancing the value of local real estate assets.

Leveraging the insight and experience gained by developing over 3,000 acres of land and hundreds of building projects, we continue to evolve and expand.  At Neyer Properties, we’re committed to exploring new opportunities that meet the needs of the real estate marketplace in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky through an integrated process that includes:

     * Conceptual Design
     * Real Estate Planning
     * Land Development
     * Redevelopment
     * Financial Analysis
     * Leasing
     * Investing
     * Asset Management

As a full-service real estate organization, we continue to build on the tradition established by Joseph Neyer more than 100 years ago.

For more information, contact Susan Chapin at (513)699-2278.

Terry-DeRees Associates, Inc. is an interior design and architecture firm with exceptional talent and a broad range of experience.  Collectively, Jim Terry, Yvonne Sears and Joel Galloway have been serving the interior design, space planning and programming needs of the tri-state area for more than forty years.  Our primary strengths are concentrated in corporate office, building renovation and retail/hospitality design.

Dedication to service and quality are the main elements that distinguish TDA.  Both are provided in response to our client's stated objectives, project schedule and budget parameters.  The high level of quality and attention to detail that TDA provides contributes to efficient time management of your project.  Our timely response and effective design process often create an opportunity for cost savings.

TDA has assembled a select staff of twelve professionals who are trained and experienced interior design specialists.  Our single objective is to provide superior interior design services.  In addition, TDA can provide a broad range of other specialized services.  In response to the specific needs of the project, TDA assembles the team that balances technical capability and availability of consultants with the cost objectives of the project.

For forty years, the Commercial Division of Chicago Title has focused on the needs and intricacies of a commercial transaction by providing its clients with a highly qualified and dedicated underwriting counsel.  Each deal is supported by a quality staff, insuring that every aspect of the transaction is prepared and closed to the high standards our customers expect, and that we expect from ourselves.  In addition to these traditional services, we accommodate interest-bearing purchase money deposits, assist in I.R.S. 1031 Tax-Free Exchanges and administer post-closing escrows.  Through our tradition of quality, dedication and customer care, you can count on us for the next forty years and beyond.

For more information, contact Ruth Brunner at (513)721-1600, ext. 224 or e-mail her at ruth.brunner@ctt.com.

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Founded in 1953, Strauss & Troy is recognized for its expertise in issues affecting businesses of all sizes — from small local concerns to national corporations. Our expertise allows us to provide a broad range of legal services to sophisticated corporate clients with the same personalized attention we offer our individual clients. Strauss & Troy was selected by The Best Lawyers in America® as the #1 Real Estate Firm in Cincinnati for 2008.