BIRMINGHAM, UK-Debenhams Properties Limited has signed a lease for 20 years with Orchard Street Investment Management for 43,000 square feet at the Three Spires Shopping Centre in Lichfield.

PHILADELPHIA-The University City Science Center is all set to start construction on a 272,700-square-foot building in West Philadelphia.

HOUSTON-GID Development Group, based in Boston, has started construction on The Sovereign, the first building of the Regent Square mixed-use development within the 610 Loop.

AUSTIN, TX-A consortium of investors headed by JLM Financial Investments LLC has purchased the industrial campus of Freescale Semiconductor Inc. in East Austin.

LEESBURG, GA-Albany Herald reported that Flint Ventures, Inc. is planning to construct Flint Ventures Apartments, a 240-unit gated apartment community in Lee County.

EDWARDSVILLE, IL-Fairview Heights, Illinois-based Impact Strategies has completed construction of the Enclave Apartments, a three-story, 120-unit student housing complex in Edwardsville.

TAMPA, FL-Prudential Commercial Real Estate FL has closed the sale of two industrial properties in Odessa for $1.5 million.

AUSTIN, TX-HomeGoods has leased a retail space measuring 27,000 square feet in Great Hills Station at 10225 Research Blvd.