PHILADELPHIA-World Café Live opens in the historic 40,000-sf Hajoca Building at 3025 Walnut St. It includes a production studio for University of Pennsylvania's public radio station and a café and 350-seat music hall.

PHILADELPHIA-Principals of New York-based Vintage Group acquire the Apartment Center in Northeast Philadelphia for $35,088 a unit and rename it Audubon Center. It is 95% occupied. The buyers plan to buy more "solid, middle-income complexes" here.

PHILADELPHIA-Granite Partners is marketing the 20-story, 621,348-sf, class A building where Duane Morris just inked a 15-year lease for 220,000 sf. According to published reports, the building is valued at about $105 million.

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA-The former US Senator from Georgia and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia takes a seat on Brandywine's board. Kramont, also based here, adds three executives to its property and asset management teams.

PHILADELPHIA-The specialty finance REIT prices a public offering of two million shares of its 8.375% Series B preferred stock at a liquidation preference of $25 a share. An over-allotment option could add $7.3 million to net proceeds.

PHILADELPHIA-After 20 years in the historic Bourse Building along Independence Mall, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission relocates to the newer American College of Physicians Building on the mall's west side, taking it to 100% occupancy.

FRAZER, PA-The building at 83 General Warren Blvd. here is on a land parcel that is part of a condo complex, which complicated the transaction. NorthMarq Capital arranged the 20-year term funding through Aetna.

JENKINTOWN, PA-Slight revisions in this acquisition, initially announced last May, lift the price by $24 million. The portfolio contains 191 branches and 61 buildings, aggregating 7.7 million sf. BofA will lease back 61% for 15 years.