PHOENIX-A local couple places an unsolicited $1.8-million offer and gets the deed to the Wilshire Place Apartments, a 48-unit complex with a 92% occupancy. The buyers were turning around proceeds from a recent sale in the same submarket.

PHOENIX-Long Technical College is planning an April move of its Downtown campus, doubling the size with a 10-year lease for 19,461 sf of class A office space. The new deal will push occupancy to 60% in the 115,000-sf building.

GLENDALE, AZ-Designs West Home Furnishing picks its third Arizona location, signing a 7,677-sf lease valued at $1.2 million over the seven-year term to take a 61,207-sf retail center to full occupancy less than a year after it was built.

PHOENIX-A California couple trounces the competition with a $5.6-million offer to buy the 184-unit complex in the heart of town. Interest was intense due to the complex's appealing size and price tag.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ-Voters will know by next week if they will get a chance to decide the future of the long-vacant Los Arcos Mall. An appellate court will hear arguments Wednesday as to whether the city or the voters get the final say on the project.

SAFFORD, AZ-After a decade of planning, Phelps Dodge is within three years of starting work on the first copper mines in more than 30 years in the state. The dual mines near the Arizona-New Mexico border include a land swap with the federal government.

PORTLAND-Integra Telecom is one of several prospects eyeing space in the 222,777-sf office building at 1201 Lloyd Blvd., an 11-story structure that's been largely vacant since it delivered nearly two years ago. If snared, the stack of deals would lift occupancy to 50%.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ-The popular Valley consignment shop will open doors by August at Raintree and Loop 101 under a 10-year lease that gives the Tempe-based owner the option to buy the 29,000-sf building.