CORAL GABLES, FL-The locally based bank holding company is calling 697,117 in outstanding preferred shares just days after netting about $74 million on the sale of newly issued common stock. BankUnited is an active commercial real estate lender.

COCONUT CREEK, FL-The pharmaceutical retailer leases 14,490 sf in a Broward County submarket, where retail asking rents average $15 per sf to $20 per sf.

MIAMI-Fresh Concepts signs five-year lease valued at $650,000 in the 350-acre Miami International Commerce Center.

NAPLES, FL-The owner of a 40-year lease on a 1.75-acre strip of privately

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-R. Murrell Perry, an industry professional with 27 years in the field, is the firm's new operations administration manager.

MIAMI-A subsidiary of the Michigan-based homebuilder downsizes plans for a mixed-use residential project in a Florida Everglades buffer zone.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-The locally based developer of the 16-story Venezia Las Olas luxury condominium project lands $2 million in mezzanine funding through an alliance of New York-basedWhiteweld, Barrister & Brown and Tokyo-based Nissho Iwai America.

MIAMI-The locally based developer sells development rights on a 2.1-acre, oceanfront site in Fort Lauderdale for $8.19 million per acre or $188 per sf to Billden Inc. of Miami.