ORLANDO-The Houston-based REIT is getting an experienced professional in Terry R. Marks, former vice president and regional director of leasing and development for New Plan Excel Realty Trust and a former executive with PM Realty Group, Landmarks Group and Faison Associates.

ATLANTA-Christopher Wagner, formerly an associate in the local office of CB Richard Ellis Inc., joins Duncan Gibbs in a career move that makes Gibbs a senior vice president in the local office of the Dallas-based company.

ORLANDO-Continuing its decade-old strategy of buying land at the lowest possible market price and then holding the dirt for long-term appreciation or development, developer Daryl M. Carter and his associates paid three separate sellers a total $1.63 million for properties in Orange, Lake and Sumter counties.

ATLANTA-The North Miami Beach-based REIT pays $47.2 for the nine-year-old, 100%-leased, 512,630-sf Presidential Markets shopping center in Snellville, GA, 20 miles east of Downtown Atlanta. Cousins Properties Inc. and Presidential Marketcenter LLC, both locally based, were the sellers.

ATLANTA-Cousins Properties Inc. has landed a big name on its usually faceless board of directors. He is Erskine B. Bowles, a nationally recognized banker and the former chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton.

ORLANDO-Without offering rent concessions, the New York-based developer of 16,000 apartment units nationwide credits its success in a difficult metro market to a strategy of marketing Vintage Cottage Apartment Homes in the high-density Orlando International Airport residential market before construction began last year.

ORLANDO-The subsidiary of Minnesota-based ABC Companies pays $625,000, or about $7.47 per sf, for a 1.92-acre site in Orlando Central Park South where the company is expected to break ground this year on its second multi-vehicle preventative maintenance facility.

ATLANTA-Aldi International purchases an 80-acre tract for $3 million, or about $38,000 per acre, in tiny Jefferson, GA, 30 miles northeast of Downtown where construction on the project is scheduled to begin in summer 2004.