ORLANDO-SouthStar Development Partners Inc. of Miami is selling five-acre to 10-acre parcels at the 21-year-old, 1,800-acre mixed use park next to Universal Orlando for $6 per sf to $10 per sf. SouthStar bought MetroWest last October from Debra Inc. of Saudi Arabia for $60 million or $115,384 per acre ($2.64 per sf).

ORLANDO-Real estate investment brokerage sources following the six-month-old controversy tell GlobeSt.com a deal will be struck in the next 90 days to build a new $250 million basketball court for the 11-year-old NBA team.

ORLANDO-In what will probably amount to being the public relations coup of the year in Florida commercial real estate circles, the Chicago entrepreneur's Equity Residential Properties Trust is offering discounts with a potential value of $1,100 a year at 31,000 company units in nine cities.

ORLANDO-After picking up a prime 2,500-acre parcel for an estimated 42 cents per sf last year, Florida developer Bobby Ginn is scheduled to start construction in June on the first of three 18-hole championship-caliber golf courses at his mixed-use Reunion Resort & Club venture.

ORLANDO-R. W. Cuthill will be asking U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur B. Briskman next week to order the public disclosure of offshore account owners who claim to have lost about $120 million or 56% of the total $214 million allegedly scammed by New Vernon, NJ resident William J. Zylka, owner of 10-year-old, Orlando-based Evergreen Security Ltd.

EUSTIS, FL-Johnny Smith, the 61-year-old president of Lake Mechanical Contractors Inc., a major Disney-qualified subcontractor, was beaten by deputy property appraiser Frank Royce in a special city election to fill a vacant commission seat. Eustis is 32 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

ORLANDO-AMB Property Corp. of San Francisco lands an 86,974-sf, 10-year tenant in Dallas-based PrimeSource Building Products Inc. The estimated $3.5 million deal was done in two months, a transaction that normally takes six months.

ORLANDO-George D. Livingston, a longtime Central Florida developer, landowner and member of Virginia-based Corfac International, reviews for GlobeSt.com the pluses and minuses of CBDs, SOPs and CCs.