WASHINGTON, DC-Two Class B buildings accounting for 215,000 sf of space sell for $48.125 million in a package deal to AEW Capital Management, acting on behalf of Lucent Technologies Inc. Master Pension Trust.

WESTMINSTER, MD-Carroll County General Hospital gets moving on its $80-million expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony. The project entails the addition of a 113,000-sf bed tower and the 25,000-sf renovation of the emergency room. The completion date is set for 2004.

SPRINGFIELD, VA-The 1,122-space parking garage will open in 2003. The state of Virginia and Fairfax County are funding the new six-level facility, which will complement the existing 4,100-space garage.

NORFOLK, VA-Construction of the $40-million class A office development at 150 W. Main has been completed and tenants are ready to occupy the 10-story, 224,000-sf office space and 10-story garage. The structure is now the fifth-tallest building in the city's downtown area.

WASHINGTON, DC-A request for proposals for the redevelopment of the District's soon-to-be-demolished, 10.5-acre convention center site may go out this summer, as Mayor Anthony A. William makes a formal request to the DC City Council to allow the issuing of the RFP.

WOODLAWN, MD-The 177,000-sf former JC Penney outlet in the Security Square Mall is about to be sold to Baltimore, MD's MIE Properties Inc. in a $2.2 million deal. The two-level space has been vacant since the retailer closed its store there in August.

COLUMBIA, MD-In a $16 million transaction, the 145,806-sf building at 7000 Columbia Gateway Drive becomes Corporate Office Properties Trust's 15th property in the multi-structure Columbia Gateway Business Park.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA-A joint venture between Atlanta, GA's Trammell Crow Residential and Saudi Arabia's The Olayan Group breaks ground on Alexan Fairfax Ridge, a 420-unit luxury apartment complex in western Fairfax. The upscale apartment community will be TCR's sixth Alexan development project in the Washington metro area.