Regional Digests

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 11, 2005 The Boston HeraldBoston power brokers are debating ways to jump start the long-stalled Fan Pier development. Aside from putting pressure on the Pritzker family to lower its $125 million asking price, Mayor Thomas M. Menino now says...

January 11, 2005 The Patriot NewsBondholders in the financially troubled Forum Place office building in downtown Harrisburg, Pa., are being asked to allow the building's management to borrow up to $12.5 million to fix up office space to attract new...

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...

January 10, 2005 Dallas Business JournalThe bedroom enclave of Westworth Village, shoehorned between the west side of Fort Worth, Texas, and the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve base, is poised to turn its $3.2 million purchase of former government land...

January 10, 2005 San Antonio Business JournalLocally based firm Cross & Co. recently began work on its latest master-planned industrial project: Cornerstone Industrial Park. The project is located at Loop 410 South and Interstate Highway 10 East on San Antonio's...

January 10, 2005 Houston Chronicle (second item)BCN Development just purchased 3333 Allen Parkway in Houston from Simmons Vedder & Co., renamed it the Royalton at River Oaks and is turning it into condos. The sales price was not disclosed, but...

January 10, 2005 Orlando Business JournalCNL Retirement Properties Inc. has completed the purchase of six seniors' housing communities from MetroNational Corp. for $148 million. Horizon Bay Senior Communities will lease and manage the properties under long-term management agreements with the...

January 10, 2005 The Business Journal of MilwaukeeQuarles & Brady LLP seeks a developer for a new office tower in downtown Milwaukee that would feature the law firm as the anchor tenant. The firm sent a request for qualifications to...