ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL-Leader Express is the leader among smaller tenants signing new leases, moving from this northwest suburb to 21,000 sf at 35-45 W. Lake St. in Northlake, just southwest of the airport.

GLENDALE HEIGHTS, IL-Besides leasing the entire 58,400-sf building going up at 1601 Fullerton Ct., RJW Logistics' lease with PanCor Construction and Development gives the Itasca-based company an opportunity to buy it.

CHICAGO-Investment in retail properties has risen in each of the last six quarters, to 21.8% of the total commercial real estate pie in the second quarter. Office properties still command the lion's share at 41%, according to CCIM/Landauer Investment Trends Quarterly.

CHICAGO-Retail properties leased to the Deerfield-based pharmacy giant are the targets of Equity Capital Management, which already has put $45 million of the money it has received from private and institutional investors to work.

WOOD DALE, IL-The precision machine technology company has spent 16 years at 940 N. Central Ave., a 168,460-sf warehouse and manufacturing plant now owned by two limited liability corporations affiliated with HSA Commercial Real Estate.

TINLEY PARK, IL-The 110,590-sf single-tenant property is sold by Ellinwood Associates to Bentonville, AR-based retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, which gets a $7.9-million mortgage from Allstate Life Insurance Co.

ROMEOVILLE, IL-Stamar Packaging pays $37 per sf for the building at 1415 Enterprise Dr. in the Marquette Industrial Park. CenterPoint Properties Trust paid $2.9 million for the asset in 1997.

OAK PARK, IL-Despite reducing the size of its multifamily high-rise to 180 units, Whiteco Residential, LLC remains on hold while trustees mull what direction development of the southeast corner of Harlem and Ontario avenues should take.