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Jones Lang LaSalle's Thompson, Cordeau and Kollar negotiate Exa's 66,000 s/f lease at Nordblom's Northwest Park, Burlington, Mass. Grubb & Ellis represents Latti Farm in $7 million sale of 101,500 s/f to First America in Millbury, Mass. Stubblebine sells 25,000 s/f office/flex bldgs. in Windham, N.H. to Financial Destinations for $2.674 million Stop & Shop signs anchor lease for Twenty Wayland's $14m Wayland Town Center for 45,000 s/f; KGI and Congress co-developers CB Richard Ellis brokers $124 million sale of AvalonBay's 746 apartment community, Hamden, Conn. to Baker Properties Diana of Levey Miller Maretz sells Montowese Market Sq. in North Haven to Center Plan Development for $3.4 million KeyPoint Partners awarded 17 building, 1.4 million s/f portfolio management of office industrial, flex and retail space Driscoll, Brady and Weiss of Cushman & Wakefield lease 115,000 s/f to KPMG at Two Financial Center in Boston Hegenbart of NorthMarq Capital arranges $20 million for FFMS Lincoln North 128,163 s/f class A offices in Lincoln, Mass. Ashworth of Ashworth Mortgage Corp. places $13.64 million for CC Industries Realty Trust/New Medford Court House EagleBridge Capital's Sidel and Sheehan place $3.15 million loan for six building 30 unit Weston Court Apartments King of King & Newton negotiates $1.85 million sale of 100 apts. for DB's purchase from Holyoke Financial in Holyoke, Mass. Vision 3 Architects design of Hope Commons 45,000 s/f dining facility at University of Rhode Island awarded LEED Silver certification Campanelli Cos. and Commonfund Realty JV lease 113,000 s/f to Tech Target in Norwood; Colliers M&G and Grubb & Ellis assist Herron and LaBine of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler arrange $5.85 million financing for 55,397 s/f 600 Technology Center in Stoughton, Mass. BPG Properties completes first multifamily acquisition in Conn. totaling 650 units; Marcus & Millichap broker sale ARC designs 180,000 s/f science center for Genzyme in Framingham; receives LEED Gold certification from USGBC ADD Inc completes historic rehab and green design of its $14.4 million 67,500 s/f new Boston headquarters Commonwealth Ventures leases 100,000 s/f to Cengage Learning at Channel Ctr.; CB Richard Ellis brokers Cushman & Wakefield's Griffin, Maher, Lowber and Thomas handle $26 million sale of 70 Franklin St., 87,212 s/f offices Hynes and Vornado's $650 million development of former Filene's block secures financing for mixed-use site: Suffolk contractor Charter Realty Development completes sale of 8 shopping centers in 4 states totaling over one million s/f for $185 million Linear acquires two retail condos in Boston, 11,699 s/f, for $4.05 million; CBRE/NE, CM&G, Chandler, Dartmouth broker GVA Williams named to lease HB Nitkin's 150,000 s/f retail development in Hartford; Gubner, Musilli, Libby agents Lefebvre of Shanley Realtors brokers $2.215 million 12,000 s/f sale for Kihei Group to ING Properties Wassersug, DePippo, Ginand, White, Mitchell and Baldwin of Jones Lang LaSalle do 150,000 s/f GSI rehab in Bedford, Mass. Biette and Spencer of Grubb & Ellis complete $4.8 million 52,290 s/f sale for Rainin Group to Mack Investments in Woburn Fantini & Gorga handle $20.663 million financing for 148,202 s/f of retail sites in Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
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