WHITE PLAINS-Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. signs an agreement with a Chinese developer for the franchise's first Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Beijing.

HARTFORD-GlobeOp Financial Services, headquartered in Harrison, NY, is expanding its operations into Hartford with a 20,000-sf lease at Goodwin Square.

HARTFORD-In a major transaction Downtown, Travelers Indemnity Co. signs a lease renewal and expansion totaling almost 400,000 sf at State House Square.

HARTFORD-In a major transaction Downtown, Travelers Indemnity Co. signs a lease renewal and expansion totaling almost 400,000 sf at State House Square.

NORWALK, CT-National RE/sources of Greenwich, CT plans to upgrade and retrofit a former Perkin-Elmer complex here.

GREENWICH, CT-Responding to reports that UST Inc. is considering moving its corporate headquarters from Greenwich, Gov. M. Jodi Rell met with UST officials on Wednesday.

SCARSDALE, NY-GHP Office Realty of White Plains purchases 303-313 Central Ave., a 25,000-sf office/retail property located on a prime retail strip.

EAST HARTFORD, CT-The State of Connecticut is committing funds for infrastructure improvements at United Technologies Corp.'s Rentschler Field site here.