Regional Digests

Orlando SentinelHilton Hotels is planning to break ground today on a 1,400-room hotel near the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The 18-story hotel, which is expected to be operational by 2009, will have 130,000 square feet of meeting...

Charlotte ObserverCharlotte, N.C., officials have confirmed meeting with the son of Donald Trump on a potential development at the corner Tyron and Stonewall streets in the city's uptown section. Talks have focused on a proposed 60-story tower, as well as...

Indianapolis StarValue Place, a builder of extended-stay hotels, is building a 121-room hotel in Indianapolis. The four-story property at 9515 Pendleton Pike is due to open by late next summer. The company also plans to build an identical property west...

San Antonio News-ExpressNRP Group LLC has purchased a 10-acre tract of land in San Antonio, Texas, and plans to develop a luxury-apartment project on the site. The $60 million project on East Cevallos Street between Probandt and South Flores streets...

Seattle Post-IntelligencerChildren's Hospital and Regional Medical Center is assembling land near downtown Seattle for a research campus project. The Seattle group most recently paid $43.6 million for a block bounded by Stewart, Terry, Virginia and Boren streets in the Denny...

Sacramento BeeA Santa Barbara, Calif., group has acquired 143,000 square feet of the Yuba City Marketplace in Yuba City, Calif., for $37 million. The group, Casa Dorinda and Casa Miravista Apartments LP, acquired the space in the retail facility on...

The TennesseanThe Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America has paid $4 million for 1,600 acres of land in Van Buren and White counties in Tennessee. The land, which is two hours east of Nashville, is within 50,000...

St. Louis Business JournalMaverick Technologies has broken ground on a new corporate headquarters building in the St. Louis suburb of Columbia, Ill. The two-story building, which will have 35,000 square feet of state-of-the-art research and development space, is expected to...

Cincinnati EnquirerDevelopment is under way for the Newport Pavilion Shopping Center, a 450,000-square-foot retail complex in Cincinnati. The $100 million project is expected to be ready some time in 2008. The property is being built in the former Cote Brilliante...

The Wichita EagleDeSanto Realty Group of Radnor, Pa., has paid $25.7 million for two medical buildings in Wichita, Kan., with a total of 74,518 square feet. The buildings are inside the Cypress Medical Park at 9300 E. 29th St. Physicians...