BALTIMORE—The General Services Administration has decided it will no longer pursue a real estate swap plan that would have seen the agency unload its Metro West facility on North Green St.

WHEATON, MD—Now that Lowe Enterprises has completed the conversion of a Wheaton office building to a residential property, the company is exploring the possibility of doing similar projects in the area.

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ—Caesars Entertainment confirms that on Tuesday afternoon it conducted a tour of its soon to be shuttered Showboat Casino Hotel to an “interested party.”

BOSTON—A venture of affiliates of Ares Management LLC and CV Properties LLC has secured $240 million in permanent financing for the newly built One Channel Center office building and Channel Center Garage here.

NEW YORK CITY—Locally-based executive conference center developer and operator Convene has appointed Matthew Legge to the newly created position of vice president, real estate and acquisitions.

SMYRNA, GA—Halpern Enterprises will commence construction later this week on its new Belmont mixed-use development being built on a 48-acre site that was the home of the former Belmont Hill Shopping Center.

MIRAMAR, FL—The developer of the highly successful The Miramar Park of Commerce reports it has begun construction on the last speculative warehouse development at the property and what it believes could be perhaps the last spec warehouse project in all of Southwest Broward County for some time.

PITTSBURGH, PA—Two major mixed-use revitalization projects in the East End and South Side of the city secured a total of $90 million in financing for their respective ventures from Huntington Bank.