Regional Digests

January 11, 2005 Fort Worth Star-TelegramMervyn's, the last retailer left at the North Hills Mall in North Richland Hills, outside of Fort Worth, Texas, will close its anchor store by March 1. Other retail tenants inside the mall were forced...

January 11, 2005 Rocky Mountain NewsA handful of Denver properties have changed hands recently. An affiliate of Equus Realty Advisors paid $12.5 million for the 135,000-square-foot Quad at Lowry IV building. CB Richard Ellis brokered the deal. Fort ILII LLC...

January 11, 2005 The Seattle TimesSafeco is considering a relocation of its headquarters and consolidation of its operations in either Seattle's University District or Redmond, Wash., where it owns most of the buildings it operates. The company owns office space...

January 10, 2005 Philadelphia Business Journal (Second item)Quaker Valley Foods Inc. paid $11.3 million to acquire a 241,418-square-foot cooler-freezer building that sits on 14 acres in the Northeast Industrial Park in Philadelphia. Refrigerated Foods Distribution Inc. sold the property at...

January 10, 2005 East Bay Business TimesOrton Development Inc. has acquired the former Ford assembly plant in Richmond, Calif., with ambitious plans to redevelop the site. The developer paid the city of Richmond $5.4 million for the 517,000-square-foot complex sprawled...

January 10, 2005 Baltimore Business JournalThomson Prometric, a computer-based testing business and part of Canadian media giant Thomson Corp., is mulling a move out of Baltimore. The company is scouting out both the city and county for a potential headquarters...

January 10, 2005Los Angeles Business from bizjournalsCB Richard Ellis has won a contract to manage a 25 million-square-foot California portfolio owned by AMB Property Corp. of San Francisco. The nearly 300 buildings are made up of industrial parks, distribution centers...

January 10, 2005 Boston Business JournalBoston's pipeline of hotel projects is getting bigger by the day. The much-anticipated Battery Wharf, a luxury 420-room hotel being developed by Intell Management and Investment Co., is set to break ground this quarter. The...

January 10, 2005 Business First of BuffaloDowntown Buffalo's fortune of snaring a $123 million mammoth Bass Pro Shops has lured other development projects to the area. The outdoor retailer will take over Memorial Auditorium for the store and will add...

January 10, 2005 Austin Business JournalThe San Jacinto Center in downtown Austin, Texas, recently signed six leases for a total gain of roughly 50,000 square feet. The 403,329-sf office tower along Town Lake now is 87 percent occupied, according to...