Deal Name: Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

Corporate Property Associates 17-Global Inc., a non-traded REIT sponsored by W.P. Carey & Co., has paid $258 million for 29 distribution centers and four office buildings with 3.57 million square feet in the United Sates and Canada.The New York firm ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Archstone, a multifamily operator and developer, is offering for sale a 539-unit apartment complex in Arlington, Va., that's been attracting offers of up to $180 million. The suburban Washington, D.C., property, Crystal Plaza at ...

United Group of Albany, N.Y., has listed for sale a fully-leased office building with 104,268 square feet in Malta, N.Y., with an $18 million asking price.Marcus & Millichap has the listing for the building at 107 Hermes Road in the ...

Crain's Chicago BusinessCentrum Properties has put on the sales block its Roosevelt Collection mixed-use project in Chicago's South Loop area. Holliday Fenoglio Fowler has been tapped to market the property, which cost $350 million to develop on Roosevelt Road, just ...

Washington REIT has sold a Maryland office building for $27.5 million and three Maryland industrial buildings for a total of $23 million. The Rockville, Md., REIT had purchased The Ridges, a 104,000-square-foot office building at 200 Orchard Ridge Drive, in ...

David DiStaso, chief accounting officer of iStar Financial, has been named chief financial officer of the New York finance company.He replaces James Burns, who had resigned as CFO last April.DiStaso has been with iStar since 2008 and had been working ...

Washington Business JournalPiedmont Pointe, a vacant office complex in Bethesda, Md., has lined up its first tenants. The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine signed a lease for 124,517 square feet and will move its headquarters ...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The 142-room Cambria Suites Pittsburgh has opened on Centre Avenue next to the Consol Energy Center. Partners in the $25 million project are the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team, Choice Hotels and Horizon Properties Group of Canonsburg, Pa. The ...

Cole Credit Property Trust III Inc. has paid $84.5 million for 257 W. Genesee St., a 430,458-square-foot office building in Buffalo, N.Y., that serves as the headquarters of HealthNow New York Inc.The property was developed in 2007 by HealthNow on ...

Brooklyn PaperSome New York politicians have vowed to block Related Cos.' proposed purchase of land in the Gateway II shopping center in Brooklyn, N.Y., unless the developer guarantees it won't lease space at the property to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The ...