DETROIT-Speaking at a conference at Wayne State University Law School here, billionaire Dan Gilbert says he and his team was initially surprised and later actually pleased that Chinese investors outbid him on the purchase of the Detroit Free Press building recently.

WASHINGTON, DC-The General Services Administration is close to finalizing plans to have the US Navy move into the 600,000-square-foot Transpoint building in Buzzard Point.

ALEXANDRIA, VA-Brokers with Jones Lang LaSalle have filed suit against the landowner on the $22-million lease that will relocate the National Science Foundation from Ballston to a 668,000-square-foot complex to be built here in southern Alexandria.

PHILADELPHIA-A groundbreaking is scheduled today for the new headquarters for Franklin Square Partners at the Navy Yard Corporate Center here.

MALVERN, PA-Endo Health Solutions Inc. has retained Jones Lang LaSalle to sublease half of its headquarters space here.

CARLSTADT, NJ-Terreno Realty Corp. of San Francisco has acquired two industrial buildings here for nearly $10 million.

CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY-B&H Foto and Electronics Corp. is reportedly poised to relocate its warehouse and on-line commerce operations currently housed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to a property here in Rockland County, NY.

NEW YORK CITY-The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is offering to pay landlords with underutilized space above storefronts near the Fulton Mall to convert the space to office use.