Regional Digests

Seattle Post-Intelligencer While single-family construction has slumped in Seattle, new condominiums and apartments are buoying the local market. Single-family home construction permits were down in King Count as well as the entire state of Washington. But the total number of...

Tampa Bay Business JournalConstruction is under way on a 350,000-square-foot retail center in suburban Tampa Bay. Opus South, a Tampa division of Minneapolis' Opus Group, has broken ground on the Nature Coast Commons, which sits on 42 acres along U.S....

Jersey JournalOnyx Equities has acquired two adjoining office buildings in downtown Jersey City, N.J., for $105.87 million. The Woodbridge, N.J., investor plans to redevelop the properties at 2 and 30 Montgomery St. into a 1.2-million-square-foot mixed-use project. The properties are...

New York Post (second item)Intervest Development Corp is marketing for sale a portfolio of 24 New York properties with 894 apartments. Eastern Consolidated Properties has the listing, which is expected to fetch about $225 million. The properties in Manhattan, Queens...

South Florida Business JournalApplied Card Systems has purchased the former American Media building in Boca Raton, Fla., for $10 million. The building, which once endured an anthrax scare in 2001, will become the new home of the credit card processing...

Las Vegas Review-Journal El Ad Properties, an Israeli real estate investment group, has paid $1.2 billion for the New Frontier casino and 36 vacant acres along the Strip in Las Vegas. Phil Ruffin, a Wichita, Kans., businessman who acquired the...

Rocky Mountain NewsRandy Nichols broke ground a $175 million, 41-story residential tower in downtown Denver. The building, dubbed The Spire, will be the tallest residential tower between Chicago and Las Vegas. It will open in 2009 at 891 14th St.,...

New York PostInvesco Real Estate is acquiring 1619 Broadway in Manhattan for about $150 million from Murray Hill Properties and Westbrook Partners. The Murray Hill-Westbrook venture acquired the 162,000-square-foot office property known as the Brill Building in November for $89.1 million...

Chicago Sun-Times  (First Item)The Kennedy family of political fame has entered discussions with developers to form a joint venture to build on WolfPoint, a vacant 4-acre parcel in downtown Chicago. The parcel, which sits where the Chicago River splits into...

Fort Worth Star-TelegramRadioShack Corp. is considering subleasing one of the three buildings in its 900,000-square-foot office campus along the Fort Worth, Texas, riverfront. The campus along the Trinity River is substantially underutilized. The company, which has fallen on some hard...