NEW YORK CITY-Mayor Bill de Blasio made three administrative appointments over the weekend, including the appointment of Shola Olatoye as the new head of the New York City Housing Authority.

TAMPA-Liberty Group reports that its private equity real estate fund, Liberty Hospitality Fund I LLC, has raised $75 million for hotel investments.

BOCA RATON, FL-Republic Western Investments of Los Angeles has acquired two distressed commercial office properties in Pal Beach County from Florida Community Bank.

WASHNGTON, DC-Co-working office space provider WeWork, has opened two new locations in the District in Chinatown an Shaw.

PITTSBURGH-H.J. Heinz Co., which is headquartered here, has agreed to give back nearly $1.5 million in incentives it received from Florence County, South SC in connection with a plant it built there in 2009 but is now closing.

NEWARK-Less than a year after it opened with much fanfare and promise, the Key Food supermarket on Springfield Avenue here has closed down.

OAK BROOK, IL-The stock-for-stock deal, which values Inland Diversified at about $10.50 per share, increases Kite's retail portfolio from 74 to 131 properties.

WASHINGTON, DC-A building permit was issued on Thursday in connection with a project to build a nine-story mixed-use property at 16th and Eye streets here.