CHICAGO-Lenders write new mortgages with standards as tough as 55% loan-to-value, but owners of grocery-anchored and neighborhood centers in Lincoln Park, New Lenox and Schaumburg are refinanced in separate deals.

BOSTON-Oak Brook, IL-based Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. pays $61 per sf for the 26-story building in the Providence, RI Financial District, then signs the former owner to an 11-year lease on the entire asset.

OAK BROOK, IL-Great Lakes REIT would like to grow its medical office portfolio from 458,150 sf, but has passed on some opportunities because of the financial health of the adjacent hospital.

SOUTH YARMOUTH, MA-Dividends from a REIT subsidiary are no longer deductible for CCBT Financial Companies Inc., resulting in a first-quarter loss of $1.5 million. Bank officials expect the March change in the state law to be challenged.

ROSELLE, IL-The soft-drink dispensing machine equipment supplier finds larger quarters with twice as much clear ceiling height at 100 N. Gary Ave. in Turnberry Business Park, and gets tax breaks by moving from Schaumburg.

BOSTON-Banknorth Massachusetts and Realty Financial Partners provide the funds needed to continue plans to convert the 50,000-sf 99-105 Broad St. to 34 loft-style condominiums.

CHICAGO-The $67.6 million in recent sales by the REIT includes the US West Dex Center in Salt Lake City to Bridge Partners Inc. for $11.6 million. Mixed-use and flex office properties in Santa Monica, CA, as well as an industrial asset in Hayward, CA, also have no place in Equity Office Properties Trust's portfolio.

CHICAGO-Jones Lang LaSalle wins the assignment to market two acres at the southwest corner of Madison and Des Plaines streets, which could be developed as a 900,000-sf office tower under current zoning.