PALM BEACH, FL-Jordan Paul has joined West Palm Beach-based NAI/Merin Hunter Codman as a partner and COO.

PLAINFIELD, IN-Downers Grove, IL-based Sara Lee Corp. is opening a distribution center in Plainfield.

NEW YORK CITY-Whitehall Funds of Goldman Sachs and Joseph Moinian have employed Douglas Harmon and Adam Spies, investment brokers of Eastdil Secured, to market the 245 Fifth Ave. building in the Flatiron District.

NEW YORK CITY-New York City-based Bond No. 9 has leased a new store measuring 1,000 square feet at 863 Washington Street.

DENVER-ProLogis, an industrial real estate giant based here, is planning to start its development worth up to $1 billion in 2011.

NEW YORK CITY-Arhaus, a furniture retailer, has just leased space and is expanding 32,000 square feet on the basement, ground and second floors in a mid-block building located at 15 Little West 12th St.

SORRENTO MESA, CA-Pacific Office Properties Trust Inc. has inked expansion and extension leases totaling 128,731 square feet with two firms in its Sorrento Mesa-based Seaview Corporate Center.

NEW YORK CITY-Manhattan-based United American Land, the developer of Soho Mews, is suing Brooklyn Law School for breaching an agreement to sell its 12-story beaux-Arts building at 184 Joralemon St. for $12 million to BCN Development.