EVANSTON, IL-Condominium developer Thomas Roszak gets construction financing from Corus Bank to build 244 condominiums with 9,893 sf of ground-floor retail space at 1100 Clark St.

CHICAGO-Leasing veteran Red Weller is charge with filling the remaining 10% in each of two buildings acquired earlier this year by New York-based Aetna Realty, 122 S. Michigan Ave. and 332 S. Michigan Ave.

LAKE ZURICH, IL-McCaffery Interests reduces the size of a residential component north of Main Street from 321 units in five-story buildings to 201 town homes.

OAK PARK, IL-Holley Court Commercial Partners and Berggren Realty Corp. submit proposals that are deemed sketchy despite a 10-week window to do due diligence. Whiteco Residential's 210-unit multifamily rental tower and retail project at Harlem and Ontario avenues remains on the drawing board.

OAK BROOK, IL-Higher costs of building supplies have added about $2 per sf to developments this year. That pales in comparison to some of the increase in land prices, CenterPoint Properties Trust president and chief executive officer Michael Mullen suggests.

OAK BROOK, IL-President and chief executive officer Michael Mullen reveals the largest industrial property owner in the market is close to signing a contract to buy 3.3 million sf spread over 11 buildings, half of them less than five years old.

WAUKEGAN, IL-North Shore Gas and General Motors, the former owners of the 40-acre Waukegan Manufactured Gas and Coke plant site, will pay up to $10 million to remove 31,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil in a key piece of this city's Downtown redevelopment puzzle.

CHICAGO-Former chairman Michael W. Reschke and E. Barry Mansur have agreed to pay $6.50 per share for Prime Group Realty Trust and assume $598 million in debt. Reschke and former president Richard S. Curto were ousted by the REIT in 2002.