DANBURY, CT-Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals and ComNet Communications have expanded their lease deals by a combined 15,629 sf at the Corporate Center office complex here. Delmhost & Sheehan represented the building owner.

WHITE PLAINS-An Environmental Claims court has been opened in Westchester County to handle civil cases affecting the environment but also issues surrounding the real estate development approval process.

HAWTHORNE, NY-The 90,000-sf building has been sold to a group of New York City investors.

YONKERS-Collins Enterprises officials say the firm in on track to begin construction of its much-anticipated $56 million waterfront redevelopment project here by the end of the second quarter.

STAMFORD, CT-Three brokers working out of Cushman & Wakefield of Connecticut offices here--Stephen Baker, Jay Hruska and Paul Kauffman--have been named among the firm's top 100 brokers for the year 2000.

ELMSFORD, NY-Wilder Balter Partners LLC reports that its Brookview Gardens senior housing development in Babylon, Long Island has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank.

ALBANY, NY-Legg Mason Real Estate Services has arranged two mortgage loans in Albany and in the Rochester area totaling $4.7 million in financing. One property is industrial and the second is retail.

STAMFORD, CT-Although the fate of the economy is anyone's guess at the moment, Cory R. Gubner, president of Chase Commercial Real Estate/TCN Worldwide, believes the Fairfield County office market will remain strong this year.