CHICAGO-The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (McPier) has filed an eminent domain action to gain control of a property owned by Lakeside Bank that will be art of a planned project that will include an arena for DePaul University and a hotel.

WASHINGTON, DC-Boston Properties has reached an agreement to sell an office building on New York Avenue that is leased to the Department of Justice for $135 million.

CHATTANOOGA, TN-In a speech on Tuesday at an Amazon warehouse here, President Barack Obama called for a restructuring of the corporate tax system, favored by Republicans, in exchange for the revenues created by those changes being earmarked for job creation projects.

ARLINGTON, VA-Paradigm Development Co. plans to move forward with a plan to build an apartment tower on a portion of the American Trucking Association's former headquarters property here.

PHILADELPHIA-A real estate affiliate of locally-based RAIT Financial Trust filed a shelf registration to make a public offering of 4 million shares of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange.

MADISON, NJ-The home sales recovery will allow Realogy Holding Corp. to negotiate a lower rate next year on $1.9 billion in senior debt.

NEW YORK CITY-Centerline Capital Group reports it has refinanced two Harlem multifamily properties in transactions involving total funding of nearly $92 million.

NEW YORK CITY-A nine-story apartment building on 11th Street in Greenwich Village has sold for a little under $18.5 million in an off-market transaction.