PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA-The shopping center REIT files a registration statement with the SEC for the periodic sale of up to $250 million in common, preferred and depository shares, warrants and/or debt securities.

CARBONDALE, PA-As the REIT continues to add grocery-anchored shopping centers to its portfolio, it pays $4.5 million for the Weis-anchored 130,000-sf center here and invests $2 million to rebuild a vacant Ames store.

PHILADELPHIA-The rapidly expanding franchiser leases 2,000 sf on City Line Ave. in one of four separate, unrelated transactions in this area brokered by Colliers L&A. Old City's former Chiamicello's Restaurant changes hands.

PHILADELPHIA-In addition to consolidating its student body from three locations near Oxford Circle, the First Philadelphia Charter School for Literacy plans to add grades four and five to its curriculum.

DOWNINGTOWN, PA-Pulse, an affiliate of Paul Mitchell Systems, inks a long-term lease valued in excess of $1.1 million in Tripoint Properties' 113,000-sf mixed-use redevelopment at 150 East Pennsylvania Ave. here.

JENKINTOWN, PA-Deutsche Bank Mortgage Capital arranges the funding at a 5.06% fixed rate. The bank REIT will use it to refinance mortgages on a Wilmington, DE asset and reduce its floating rate debt exposure.

UWCHLAN TWP., PA-The real estate company relocates its Chester County office from Lionville, PA to a new 12,000-sf, two-story building at 533 Uwchlan Ave., owned by Falcone Builders. The aggregate rental exceeds $1 million.

PHILADELPHIA-The sale of the underwriters' over-allotment of 360,000 Series A preferred shares adds $8.7 million to the $58.1 million derived from a mid-March public offering of 2.4 million shares in the same series.