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Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Wayne County, Mich., has agreed to pay $31 million for two office buildings totaling 1 million square feet, along with a 1,400-space parking garage, in downtown Detroit.The county is buying the properties from Sterling...

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded four classes of Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., 2005-CND1, because sales efforts by the owners of two properties backing troubled loans have so far been unsuccessful.The rating agency last March had downgraded three...

P. Sheridan "Shecky" Schechner, one of the pioneers of the CMBS industry, is joining Lehman Brothers as managing editor in its real estate investment banking unit, effective in October. Schechner is joining Lehman from JPMorgan Chase, where he was national...

The 278-key Marriott Suites in Las Vegas is being purchased for $87.2 million.An investor group, MRC I Funding Corp., is buying the hotel from Apple Hospitality Five Inc., a Richmond, Va., REIT led by Glade Knight. The hotel sits at...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff reportA venture led by Tishman Speyer Properties is selling 885 Third Ave., a 587,000-square-foot office building in midtown Manhattan, for $647 million. SL Green Realty Corp. and Gramercy Capital Corp., both of New York, have...

By John Covaleski, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff WriterJeffrey H. Fisher, the former chief executive of Innkeepers USA Trust, has launched another hotel investment company.The new company, Fisher Property Group of Palm Beach, Fla., will build and buy extended-stay hotel...

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An affiliate of Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. has paid $17 million for the Liberty Techne Center, a 193,371-square-foot industrial building in Orion, Mich.The Freehold, N.J., firm purchased the property from Jones Orion LLC, a Missouri investment group. Monmouth funded...

Wachovia Bank has provided $82.65 million of financing for the San Francisco Giftcenter and Jewelrymart, a 388,234-square-foot shopping center in downtown San Francisco. HFF Inc.'s Portland, Ore., office arranged the three-year loan.The two-building property, at 850 and 888 Brannan St.,...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportBroadway Real Estate Partners has sold two Seattle properties for $300 million to Kennedy Wilson and an investment fund it manages.The Beverly Hills, Calif., firm and its KW Fund I acquired 901 Fifth Ave., a...