SUFFERN, NY-Dress Barn reports it plans to acquire Duluth, Minn.-based women's and men's clothing retailer Maurices Inc.

SUFFERN, NY-Dress Barn reports it plans to acquire Duluth, NM-based women's and men's clothing retailer Maurices Inc. in a $320 million transaction. The combined company will have more than 1,200 stores nationwide and annual sales in excess of $1.1 billion.

MERIDEN, CT-A New York City firm auctions 48 Elm St., a 65,000-sf industrial warehouse building, and 100-120 Cook Ave., a 76,000-sf former medical office building. On Dec. 14, the firm plans to auction the BC Porter's Furniture Building, a property that dates back to 1885 in Downtown New Britain.

MONTICELLO, NY-Empire Resorts, Inc., enters into a binding agreement to acquire two former Catskill resort hotels here in Sullivan County as part of its plan to build a casino resort for the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma. The deal involves the purchase of the famed Concord and Grossinger's resort hotels located in the town of Thompson.

STAMFORD, CT-Odyssey America Reinsurance Co. renews its lease for more than 100,000 sf and has expanded its operations by another 15,000 sf of space at W&M Properties' First Stamford Place office complex here.

SCARSDALE, NY-Construction finishes on a $23-million luxury rental apartment development here. The 44-unit Scarsdale Commons project is already almost 50% preleased.

FISHKILL, NY-The new ownership of a former IBM facility at 169 Meyers Corners Rd. here has selected CB Richard Ellis as the exclusive leasing agent to fill approximately 130,000 sf of available space at the property.

SHELTON, CT-In a move that consolidates some office and storage operations housed in Manhattan and New Jersey, publisher Random House signs a 42,235-sf lease deal at 30 Shelton Technology Center here.