RICHMOND, VA-Bradley McGetrick, an intern at Parkway Properties, Richmond, VA and at the real estate school at Virginia Commonwealth University, is being hired to prepare a comprehensive data base of commercial property activity.

KISSIMMEE, FL-The 25-year-old, 88,000-sf meeting hall, 20 miles east of Walt Disney World, will close in April and probably be put on the market as the company trims corporate staff and shaves expenses to improve its balance sheet.

ORLANDO-The 1,400-room inn, owned by Nashville, TN-based Opryland Hospitality Group, won't open for another five months, but already has bookings valued at an estimated $30 million.

ATLANTA-An affiliate of locally based Tarpon Development Corp. paid $8.85 million or $37,500 per unit for the 32-year-old, 236-unit Valley Oaks Apartments off Shallowford Road and Interstate 85.

ORLANDO-Central Florida Zoo plans to start the first-phase, $10.5 million renovations in January and hopes to win corporate and private contributions to finish the job as the work is being done at the suburban Sanford, FL site, 30 miles north of Downtown Orlando.

ORLANDO-The entries of Wal-Mart, Costco and Target into the food sales business are putting some supermarket locations at risk, a new Trammell Crow Co. report warns.

ORLANDO-The locally based themed restaurant chain tells the Securities and Exchange Commission it will be late filing its first-half and second-quarter earnings reports but losses from operations alone will be $22.5 million.

ORLANDO-The Oak Brook, IL-based REIT paid 2140 SCT Corp. of Newport Beach, CA $8.57 million or $113.52 per sf for the 75,492-sf, 100% leased Chickasaw Trails Shopping Center near Orlando International Airport, metro Orlando's next new commercial hot spot.