SEATTLE-Target Corporation, a Minneapolis-based retailer, has announced plans to open its new, smaller format store in Seattle in 2012.

SAN DIEGO-Realty investor KBS Realty Advisors has acquired Torrey Reserve West office park situated in Del Mar Heights in San Diego County for $27.3 million from a unit of RREEF Funds LLC.

SAN DIEGO-An Aliso Viejo-based apartment investor, Crown Acquisitions Inc. has closed its 35th deal.

IRVINE, CA-Great Far East Inc., an Irvine-based commercial realty buyer who receives funding from Chinese investors, has bought 18831 Von Karman Ave., an office building near John Wayne Airport, for $12 million from Wells Fargo & Co.

HOUSTON-Lincoln Property Co., representing a public pension fund client, has bought the Energy Crossing building situated in the Energy Corridor from M&I Bank.

SANTA ANA, CA-Easter Seals Southern California Inc. has purchased an office building measuring 10,375 square feet at 1570 E. 17th St. in Santa Ana from American Lung Association, a local nonprofit firm.

PERTH AMBOY, NJ-A high-end development named the Landings at Harborside in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, is one of the few projects that have undergone a renovation on the city's waterfront.

NEW YORK CITY-On Thursday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials revealed the findings of secret investigations conducted on illegal building conversions.