BOSTON-The sale of 673 Broadway, the place Jones Department Store has called home for the last 60 years, highlights the continuing gentrification of the South Boston neighborhood.

TARRYTOWN, NY-DLC Management Corp. plans to add $600 million in acquisitions in 2007 as the company moves to expand.

MILFORD, MA-The distribution center has been mostly vacant for the past 18 months. The long-term subleases will keep the building fully occupied until 2015.

BOSTON-New England Baptist Hospital signs a six-month agreement to negotiate its space needs with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

BOSTON-As part of the earlier completed sale of the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, the firm has acquired an adjacent 100,000 sf of retail and plans to convert most of it to meeting space.

BALDWYN, MS-Hancock Fabrics will close 30 stores representing $18 million in annual sales in the first quarter of 2007.

BOSTON-Family apparel stores were the fastest growing segment of the retail market in eastern Massachusetts, a new retail study has found.

MANSFIELD, MA-The company receives $9 million to acquire and refurbish the 231,000-sf industrial property.