NEW YORK CITY-The state will contribute $61.4 million toward the construction of a $138-million flagship facility at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Groundbreaking for the $138-million building is scheduled for 2004.

NEW YORK CITY-Cushman & Wakefield parent firm Rockefeller Group International has named Jonathan D. Green to succeed Lorian L. Marlantes as president and CEO. Marlantes died Sept. 28.

NEW YORK CITY-The financial services firm negotiates a short-term lease with expansion options in the Equity Office Properties Trust Tower at 65 E. 55th St. Colliers ABR brokered for the tenant.

NEW YORK CITY-Gary Barnett's New York-based Intell Management and Investment comes out on top after three days of fiercely competitive bidding for Enron's unfinished 1.1 million-sf Houston office tower.

NEW YORK CITY-Discount chain Bill's Dollar Stores hires the Long Island-based asset management firm to handle the mitigation of 15 leases and the restructuring of another 340.

NEW YORK CITY-The Aerospace company hires Cushman & Wakefield as strategic advisor for its international real estate holdings. The 54-property portfolio spans 23 countries and totals 500,000 sf.

NEW YORK CITY-The Aerospace company hires Cushman & Wakefield as strategic advisor for all of its international real estate holdings. The 54-property portfolio spans 23 countries and totals 500,000 sf.

NEW YORK CITY-Jerry Speyer sells off more than 75% of the 35-story tower, which is valued at close to $300 million. The buyer is a JV of Atlanta-based Germania of America Inc. and its German institutional investors.