ATLANTA-Local developer Doug Crawford withdraws plans for the estimated $10-million, 182,724-sf retail complex off Cascade Road after Fulton County commissioners fail to approve the project for the fourth time.

ATLANTA-Atlanta Realty Partners plans a 26-acre mixed-use community comprising 65,000 sf of retail, 26,500 sf of office and 301 townhomes and apartments on land owned by Technology Park Inc. at Medlock Bridge and Abbott's Bridge roads.

ATLANTA-The private, locally based REIT is offering 600 million newly issued shares of common stock at $10 per share and another 185 million shares of common at $9.55 per share under its dividend reinvestment plan.

TAMPA, FL-The Jackson, MI-based REIT acquires the two-year-old, 127,000-sf Oak Creek Distribution Center from Oak Creek Distribution Center LLC for $36.61 per sf, about equal to replacement cost, area construction industry estimators tell GlobeSt.com.

ORLANDO-For the third successive month, Orange County's 120,000 hotel and motel rooms have eclipsed last year's room tax collections, bringing in $8.5 million to county government coffers for October and possibly signaling the start of a full hospitality industry recovery here, consultants tell GlobeSt.com.

ATLANTA-A planned 70-unit, four-story structure by Coro Realty Advisors and Highlands Cos. next to Piedmont Park in Midtown faces opposition from preservationists who argue two 100-year-old apartment buildings shouldn't be demolished for the condo venture.

ATLANTA-GDC Properties Inc. of Hawthorne, NY pays locally based Minerva Real Estate Co. $39 million for the suburban assets. Two of the shopping centers went for over $200 per sf. All were 100% leased.

LAKE MARY, FL-Lake Mary Professional Campus LLC pays Colonial Properties Trust of Birmingham, AL $4.1 million for a prime 10.5-acre tract in this fast-developing suburban community.