LOS ANGELES-One of the largest redevelopment sites in West Los Angeles comes onto the market, creating one of the best development opportunists in over a decade.

LOS ANGELES-MBK Homes breaks ground on a 27-home multifamily community of cottage-style detached apartment homes in North Hollywood.

LOS ANGELES-AHBE Landscape signs a 5-year lease with the Swig Co. to move the company's offices from Culver City to Downtown Los Angeles.

SANTA BARBARA, CA-Three high-profile commercial properties in Santa Barbara, including the French Press Building and the Anacapa Project, sell for $20 million in three separate transactions.

GLENDALE, CA-Public Storage secures a $700 million short-term, one-year loan through Wells Fargo Bank to fund acquisition and development opportunities.

LOS ANGELES-Kearny Real Estate Co. purchases a large industrial site in the Moreno Valley with plans to build a 1.1 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution cross-dock building.

LOS ANGELES-New research from CBRE predicts the national industrial availability rate next year will fall to 11.2% as industrial demand remains healthy.

LOS ANGELES-MJW Investments sells the nine-story Art Deco building, formerly used as Sears department store's mail-order distribution center, for $29 million to a private investor.