PHOENIX-Another five go from the halls of Insignia/ESG to Grubb & Ellis/BRE Commercial. The latest to switch affiliations is a group of office leasing and sales specialists with ties to the town's top deals.

PHOENIX-A California investor, with multiple Arizona multifamily holdings, is swayed into selling the 22-unit complex by a broker with a first-time Phoenix buyer in search of a repositioning opportunity. The 80%-leased property met the requirement.

PHOENIX-Main Street Capital Partners of Phoenix and DRA Advisors of New York City partner on the purchase of the 132,089-sf office building, the bulk of which is leased for the next 10 years to Chubb Insurance.

PHOENIX-The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints collects $240,000 for a 2,170-sf office building in Phoenix and $501,670 for a 3.8-acre tract in Tempe, where it had planned to build a church.

PINAL COUNTY, AZ-Two of three planned retail projects are ready to move from drafting boards to ground-breakings as developers scramble to be first out of the gate for a piece of the action in a fast-growing region southeast of the capital.

PHOENIX-Keith Earnest, Jeff Roberts, Alan Torvie and Daniel T. Haug climb rungs on the corporate ladder. Earnest and Roberts are made VPs while Torvie is named senior director of construction and Haug corners a VP and general counsel title.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ-Developer Butte Landmark and general contractor, the Weitz Co., get the crew moving on the 50-unit first phase to Landmark Condominiums. Ground breaks with half the units already sold.

PHOENIX-Four new names will go on directories in the four-building office complex in the Camelback Corridor. The new deals, which also brought an expansion, filled another 39,000 sf and delivered a promising sign for a struggling office market.