NEW YORK CITY—Construction is to begin this month on the $42-million Creston Apartments mixed-use project in the Mount Hope section of the Bronx.

WATERTOWN, MA—Eastern Real Estate has sold the triple net leased Home Depot store here while a triple net leased Home Depot store in Seaside, CA also changed hands.

MERIDEN, CT—The grocery-anchored Townline Square Shopping Center here has been sold by Urstadt Biddle.

BOSTON—The latest residential home and condo sales figures for Greater Boston point to a continuing strong market going forward. In addition, the rental apartment sector also remains robust despite the plethora of new product coming on-line.

WASHINGTON, DC—Streetsense has been retained by Events DC to lease available retail spaces around the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

NEW YORK CITY—The noted hotel brokerage firm will move into other asset classes from its first office here, which has opened at 1140 Ave. of the Americas.

BALTIMORE—The Cordish Companies will open its Spark office and collaborative workspace development this fall at The Offices at Power Plant Live! here.

BOSTON—Suffolk University has closed on the nearly $44-million sale of its Archer and Donahue buildings in Beacon Hill while it makes final preparations for the ribbon cutting in two weeks on its new academic building on Somerset Street.