ABU DHABI, UAE-The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority this week announces a new public company to develop the emirate's real estate assets including Saadiyat Island. The island's development destiny includes 7,000 hotel rooms, three marinas, 38,000 apartments and a raft of museums.

SEATTLE-A locally based executive managing director for Colliers International for the past 11 years, Rob Aigner is now responsible for managing and expanding Portland, OR-based Harsch Investment's 1.7-million-sf Seattle area portfolio.

SANTA CLARA, CA-The 5.3 million-sf package of Silicon Valley properties is about 70% leased. The purchase price is believed to be approximately $220 per sf, or $1.1 billion.

DUBLIN-NYSE-traded Allied Irish Banks agrees to sell eight adjoining office blocks to two different buyers for euro $377.7 million in cash. AIB is leasing back all of the space; its new Bankcentre development is not part of the sale.

HAMBURG-The inaugural acquisition for a new opportunity find of Dallas-based Behringer Harvard is 146 fully leased apartment units in four connected buildings here that will be eligible for privateization in 2009.

LAS VEGAS-A tenant-in-common investor group sells City Center West B, a 106,000-sf building here that was built in 1999. The new owner is West Lake Group.

EUGENE, OR-Publicly held Gottschalks Inc. of Fresno, CA, reaches an agreement to assume Federated's Macy's store lease in the Valley River Mall here that totals 124,000 sf on two levels.

EUGENE, OR-Publicly held Gottschalks Inc. of Fresno, CA, reaches an agreement to assume Federated's Macy's store lease in the Valley River Mall here that totals 124,000 sf on two levels.