NEW YORK CITY-If recent transactions for trophy properties in Manhattan did not give it away already; Chinese investors are now active players in a host of major US real estate deals.

PEMBROKE PINES, FL-Atlanta-based The Carroll Organization has acquired the massive garden-style The Resort at Pembroke Pines apartment community here for $225 million.

AYNOR, SC-As promised, PTR Industries of Bristol, CT has decided to move to this South Carolina town about a half-hour from Myrtle Beach over Connecticut's new tougher gun law passed in response to the massacre last December at Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed 26 lives, including 20 children

CHICAGO-The ownership of the Chicago Place mall is once again marketing the upper floors of the property for hotel use.

FALLS CHURCH, VA-AvalonBay Communities Inc. has closed on the $38-million purchase of the Hillwood Square residential community here.

PHILADELPHIA-Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was expected to announce today a $50-million gift that will be used towards the construction of a $450-million outpatient center to be built at its University City campus.

HACKENSACK, NJ-Daibes Enterprises of Edgewater, NJ is acquiring the former headquarters of The Record on River Street here.

NEW YORK CITY-The Lam Group, the developer of a new mixed-use development project in the Flatiron District, has selected Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) Retail and Hospitality Services to market the retail component of the 400,000-square-foot development.