Choosing each year's defining deals and trends is one of my favorite — and one of my most difficult — tasks. In any given year, there are scores of major mergers, game-changing projects that break ground and complex shifts that rattle commercial real estate. It is no easy feat to whittle it all down into a manageable, easy-to-digest list. 

But here it is: the biggest deals, trends and market-shaking developments that defined 2023.

— Catie Dixon, Bisnow Managing Editor