ATLANTA-The medical industry supplier's 10-year lease has an estimated aggregate value of $18 million at 1005 Satellite Blvd., a 37%-occupied, northeast submarket building in Gwinnett County.

ATLANTA-Laurel Baye Healthcare of Pawleys Island, SC paid an undisclosed sum for the total 263 licensed beds at Harvest Heights, Decatur, GA and Buford Manor, Buford, GA.

WINSTON-SALEM, NC-The North Carolina community bank posted third-quarter earnings of $283.5 million or 62 cents per diluted share, up 14.2% over $248,174 in the comparable 2000 period. Loan growth slows but the numbers are still healthy.

WILDWOOD, FL-An unidentified Brooksville, FL construction materials manufacturer has purchased 80 acres for an estimated $1.6 million ($20,000 per acre) and plans to build a 705,000-sf plant, the largest of its kind in Central Florida. The site is 55 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

ORLANDO-The creditworthiness of a telecom tenant placing equipment atop an office tower sounds like an easy revenue generator but pitfalls are present without an ironclad lease, Trammell Crow Co. senior office broker Jason Kaiser tells GlobeSt.com.

KNOXVILLE, TN--The 11-year-old, locally based theater chain's Oct. 11 filing for protection from creditors in Nashville will leave the nation's largest movie exhibitor with 325 theaters and 3,700 screens, down from 4,361 screens at 396 locations in 32 states Regal Cinemas Inc. had once operated.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL-The southeast regional office of Anaheim, CA-based Fremont Investment & Loan Co. is providing the funding for Bray & Gillespie III, local owners of the 76-year-old, 323-room oceanfront hotel. Daytona Beach is 50 miles north of Downtown Orlando.

ATLANTA-Revenue per available room won't improve at full-service inns until fourth quarter 2002 and at limited-service lodges until early 2003, according to new joint research by Atlanta-based Hospitality Research Group- and Torto Wheaton Research of Boston.