WHITE PLAINS-Japanese seafood buffet restaurant chain Minado has signed a lease for 12,000 sf of ground-floor space at the White Plains Plaza office complex here. The eatery plans to service its first patron by year's end.

HARRISON, NY-HCL Jones Technologies LLC, a joint venture between HCL Technologies and Jones Apparel Group Inc., leased 12,372 sf of office space at W&M Properties' 500 Mamaroneck Ave. building here. The company takes over space formerly occupied by AT&T.

HARTFORD, CT-CB Richard Ellis-NE Partners LP brokered three lease deals in Wethersfield, Wallingford and Glastonbury totaling nearly 150,000 sf. The largest transaction was with C-COR Inc. for the relocation of its Broadband Communications Products Group headquarters to Wallingford.

STAMFORD, CT-Cardiology Associates of Fairfield County is quadrupling its practice here and will relocate to more than 13,000 sf of space at 1177 Summer St., according to officials with CB Richard Ellis.

YONKERS, NY-An affiliate of GDC Properties Inc. of Hawthorne, NY, which is proposing to build a 428-unit River Club residential apartment project here, has entered into a net lease deal for the 15-story the Tower at Greystone apartment building.

ALBANY, NY-Talks between New York State and the Cayuga Nation of New York that were expected to lead to the start of construction of a $700 million casino at Monticello Raceway by this fall, have broken down, putting the project's viability in serious question.

HARTFORD, CT-In a deal that some brokers say stacks up as the second highest private office property sales transaction in the last 15 years in the city, Grunberg Realty of New York City has acquired the 672,000-sf 280 Trumbull St. complex for $65 million.

STAMFORD, CT-Procter & Gamble and the City of Stamford have signed a letter of understanding whereby the city will acquire 19 acres of the Clairol site in the Cove East section of the city for $15.6 million so that it could eventually build an inter-district magnet school there.