PHOENIX-Not only did the local brokerage houses pick up topnotch producers, but also their listings and projects. Trammell Crow nearly doubled the staff while seven other Insignia brokers set up shop at Grubb & Ellis/BRE Commercial.

PHOENIX-Sanford Burstyn, with the firm since 1995, is named senior investment associate, one of the firm's highest levels of recognition. Client relationships and track record back the decision by the board of directors.

CHANDLER, AZ-City council still has a say, but the planning board has issued a resounding "no" for a 203,000-sf supercenter at the northwest corner of Arizona Avenue and Willis Road. A 100-foot "greenbelt" could change minds, says the property owner.

TEMPE, AZ-21st Century Healthcare will move in Sept. 1 in a four-year agreement that takes occupancy to 100% in the 120,000-sf, two-building Roosevelt Distribution Center. The lease is valued at $600,000 over its term.

PHOENIX-Two dealership projects, totaling $9 million, is nearing construction completion for a new location in Peoria and a facelift in Phoenix. The construction is part of Nissan's nationwide campaign for an image makeover.

PHOENIX-A submarket long ignored by retail developers is today's hotspot, with the first of the big developments poised to be fully leased before ground breaks. The Pederson Group starts the building with 335,000 sf and national names like Target and Fry's.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ-Gold's Gym pencils a 30,000-sf lease for Northsight Crossing, a 13-acre project that recently broke ground. Other health club operators were jockeying for the location at the corner of Northsight Boulevard and Raintree Drive.

PHOENIX-Riefkamp Equipment Co. leases 10,088 sf for the next five years in First Commons at West 10th in a relocation from Adams Street. The tenant, inking a deal valued at $300,000, had to move due to detergent-handling requirements, the broker says.