TARRYTOWN, NY-A new 145-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott, built by New Castle Hotels & Resorts of Shelton, CT., and the Widewaters Group of Dewitt, NY, has opened for business after more than a year under construction.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-Ivy Equities continues its disposition of its properties along the I-287 corridor here with the sale of the Crosswest Office Center to the RPW Group for $24.7 million. The deal is the third between the two firms in the last 18 months.

LAGRANGEVILLE, NY-Occupying space recently vacated by Citimortgage, newly formed mortgage firm RHM LLC leases 27,000 sf at 1351 Route 55 here for its corporate headquarters, mortgage origination and loan-processing operations.

HARTFORD, CT-In a move officials say will help boost its competitiveness in the high-tech sector, the state has named top executives in the field to its newly created Technology Transfer Advisory Board and has launched a major technology transfer study.

YONKERS, NY-In one of the largest transactions of its kind in years in Westchester County, Diam International, a maker of retail displays, will be relocating its corporate headquarters from Woodside to a 435,000-sf building here.

DERBY, CT-Coolidge Equities, Ltd., an entity controlled by Houlihan-Parnes of White Plains, has purchased the 85,241-sf Red Raiders Plaza shopping center here for $4.2 million.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-Area brokers say that a number of companies are in the market for large blocks of space in Westchester County, including Nokia, which has the county on its short list in its search for a regional office totaling about 100,000 sf.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-The law firm of Kaufman, Borgeest & Ryan signed lease deals of almost 20,000 sf to expand its operations here and in New York City. The firm also opened a regional office in Garden City, Long Island.