PHOENIX-The Muller Co. and equity partner BlackRock Inc. pay $58.8 million to TIAA-CREF for the fully leased Biltmore Commerce Center. The immediate plan calls for some upgrades to the class A office building.

PHOENIX-The Muller Co. and equity partner BlackRock Inc. pay $58.8 million to TIAA-CREF for the fully leased Biltmore Commerce Center. The immediate plan calls for some upgrades to the class A office building.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI-After a close to 40-year relationship, the Taubman and Prudential Real Estate joint venture has disposed of the 1.1-million-sf Woodland Mall. The JV is selling the property to a Pennsylvania-based REIT for $177.4 million.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI-After a 40-year relationship, Taubman and Prudential Real Estate have disposed of the 1.1 million-sf Woodland Mall.

HOUSTON-Westwood Learning Tree Child Care Center decides to stick around the Bissonnet Retail Center, re-upping a 4,686-sf pact to keep the shopping center's occupancy at more than 95%.

HOUSTON-Westwood Learning Tree Child Care Center decides to stick around the Bissonnet Retail Center, re-upping a 4,686-sf pact to keep the shopping center's occupancy at more than 95%.

HOUSTON-In the year-end look-back of 2005, experts in the area market point out slowing investment, extraordinarily strong leases and the dismantling of an old institution--with more of the same to happen in 2006.

HOUSTON-Experts in the area market point out extraordinarily strong leases and the dismantling of an old institution.