NEW YORK CITY—The real estate services firm has launched a new group that will look to take advantage of opportunities in emerging auto markets worldwide as well as from the entry of non-traditional players, including technology firms.

BOSTON—“Food has become the anchor to the experience economy. It is integral to almost all new real estate developments from individual buildings to new communities and malls,” Pollack relates.

BOSTON—The BRA also green-lighted Trinity Financial's $186-million phased redevelopment plan at the Boston Housing Authority's Orient Heights complex in East Boston, as well as the Cronin Group's $260-million condo tower at 150 Seaport Blvd.

NEW YORK CITY—The television and film production creator redeveloped an existing 115,000-square-foot warehouse into a full service production facility.

WESTWOOD, MA—The Glendale, CA-based institutional real estate investment management firm, acquired the property from Westwood Marketplace Holdings LLC, whose lead partners are New England Development and Eastern Real Estate.

NEW YORK CITY—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other state officials traveled to Jamaica on Wednesday to announce the Downtown Revitalization Initiative funding, part of the governor's $100-million program to revitalize 10 downtowns statewide.

NEW YORK CITY—Construction recently began on the development's first phase –a standalone seven-story, 161,000-square-foot retail and commercial building at 626 Sheepshead Bay Road.

BOSTON—The Department of Housing and Community Development is awarding more than $31 million in state and federal low-income housing tax credits. Those credits are projected to generate more than $218 million in equity for the projects.