SANTA CLARA, CA-A division of the Natick, MA-based company will vacate 40,000 sf in two adjacent buildings on Walsh Avenue this spring in favor of 65,800 sf in a single building in Shoreline technology Park.

SEATTLE-With more and more apartment building owners billing tenants for utility costs separate from the monthly rental fee and an increasing number of complaints about bogus charges, the city has regulated how such supplemental billings are to occur. The new rules became effective Feb. 1.

OREGON CITY, OR-The General Services Administration today will ceremoniously give Clackamas County a 9,415-sf building located adjacent to the county's Red Soils property, on which it is consolidating operations.

INDIANAPOLIS-The locally based medical office REIT closes on a 43,728-sf surgical center in Coral Springs, FL, the fifth of five property acquisitions funded by a secondary public offering that brought in $44.4 million.

TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL-The Chicago-based fund management company agrees to acquire 19 shopping centers in Europe owned by Plaza Centers BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded, Tel-Aviv-based Elbit Medical Imaging Ltd.

CUPERTINO, CA-PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC resigns the post without explanation, a move Mission West Properties CEO Carl Berg describes as "one of the most bizarre circumstances I have ever been involved in.

PORTLAND-Completed in 2002, the 488,125-sf RCC I complex on North Lombard Street is now 50% leased. The new tenant is Packaging Services Inc. The building owner is Multi-Employer Property Trust.

SEATTLE-Craig Hill, Grubb & Ellis' vice president of investment sales and office leasing, is handed the job of sales manager and charged with recreating the dominance the company had here in the 1980s. As part of the plan, the company is doubling the size of its Downtown office space and planning to triple its number of brokers.