WAPPINGER, NY-Southeast Container has closed on the purchase of the 250,000-sf former Roe Movers/CHEP building here for $10.8 million and has transformed the facility into its eighth beverage container-manufacturing-and-distribution plant.

IRVINGTON, NY-The owner of the Bridge Street office complex here reports construction work has begun on a $4 million project to build a new 24,600-sf speculative office building.

WESTPORT, CT-A limited partnership, led by New York City real estate executives Peter L. and Anthony E. Malkin, has acquired 66-99 Main St. here, home to the Gap, Ann Taylor and J. McLaughlin.

ALBANY-New York Governor George Pataki announced on Monday that the state has selected the City of Beacon in Dutchess County as the site for a Rivers and Estuaries Center on the Hudson.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-Retirement-planning firm the Pentegra Group has signed a lease renewal and expansion deal totaling 27,505 sf at 108 Corporate Park Dr. here.

PAWLING, NY-The Town of Pawling has purchased the 292-acre former YMCA property here, which includes a 13,000-sf conference center and 14,000-sf inn and will utilize the complex for a new town hall as well as for town recreational purposes.

STAMFORD, CT-After five consecutive quarters of rising office vacancy rates, Fairfield County's commercial office market showed slight improvement in the first quarter of 2003, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

MONTICELLO, NY-The Cayuga Nation and Alpha Hospitality, which earlier this week announced their intent to develop a $500-million casino nearby Monticello Raceway here, has filed the necessary paperwork to begin the approval process with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.