WALNUT CREEK, CA-The firm has added 17 new team members to cover East San Francisco Bay and one EVP for its Orange County office.

LOS ANGELES-Scott Steuber will be working out of the firm’s downtown L.A. office; he has completed more than three million square feet of leasing transactions since 2004.

LAS VEGAS-GlobeSt.com speaks with ReCon 2012 attendees about pressure of traditional supermarkets, foreign money, interest rates, which type of retailers are active and why, and their overall expectations for the upcoming event.

RICHARDSON, TX-JRK Property Holdings beats out 25 offers to take possession of the late 1990s multifamily property. The upside: A booming submarket and minor renovations to push rents.

WASHINGTON, DC-The Architecture Billings Index moved back into negative territory after five months of positive readings.

NEW YORK CITY-With previous developer Yair Levy out of the picture, the owner/manager has brought in a new designer and fresh amenities to attract buyers back to Battery Park City, Related’s Sherry Tobak tells GlobeSt.com’s Jacqueline Hlavenka.

CLINTON, NJ-CBRE’s John Goodwin and Patricia Reidel represented Crown Properties, the owner of the 280,000- square-foot Class A site.

ORLANDO-New Boston Fund's Pryce Elam tells GlobeSt.com's Jennifer LeClaire that Orland is still very much a tenant's market.

MIAMI-The increased demand for class A distribution space has reduced supply and pushed an uptick in lease rates as well as pricing.

MINOT, ND-Lightstone Group sold the 623,000-square-foot mall, which includes a hotel with an indoor water park.

CHICAGO-A local retail survey shows anchor store closings have increased and surpassed openings for the first time in three years, proof the recovery has stalled in the Chicago area.

SAN MATEO, CA-The AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust teams with Sares Regis Group of Northern California to develop 155 luxury apartments here, a project that is expected to create more than 300 union construction jobs.

BOSTON-Synergy Investment & Development has reached a contract to purchase 441 Stuart St. in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston for $40 million.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Samuels Property Group has paid $40.1 million for 625 Massachusetts Ave., a mixed-use office/retail complex in Central Square in Cambridge.

CINCINNATI-Frisch's Restaurants Inc. has sold all of its Golden Corral restaurants and real estate.

COLUMBIA, MD-The Howard Hughes Corp. is planning to start construction on an apartment and retail complex in Columbia.

CHARLOTTE, NC-McKesson Corp. has expanded its space at Four Resource Square, a 151,849-square-foot office building in University Research Park, Charlotte.

LISLE, IL-Rosemont-based Opus Development Corp., a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Opus Group, is starting construction on a four-story multifamily project in west suburban Lisle.

CHICAGO-The 16-story office building at 550 W. Washington Blvd. has reached sales block.

LAKE BLUFF, IL-Prime Property Investors Ltd., an apartment investor based in Northbrook, has put the Deer Valley Luxury Apartment Homes, a 224-unit property in north suburban Lake Bluff, on the market for sale.