MALDEN, MA-Sandstorm Enterprises relocates from Tremont Street in downtown Boston to the Gateway Building, at 20 Summer St. The company is leasing 6,395 sf in the 24,000-sf office building.

WALTHAM, MA-In a deal that is one of the largest headquarters relocation on Route 128 this year, BMC Software leases 51,000 sf at 400-2 Totten Pond. The high tech company is relocating 230 employees to this site.

BOSTON-The economy demonstrates early signs of recovery but the city's real estate market will continue to face challenges, according to the third quarter market report released by Meredith & Grew.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-In the largest life-science deal of the year, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals leases 45,000 sf at 300 Third St. The transaction involved what the brokers term a "complex negotiation.

BOSTON-The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and the 20 Park Plaza office building on Arlington Street secures $70 million in financing. The 900-room hotel is adjoined with the 250,000 sf office building.

AVON, MA-Exel Logistics Inc., a global transportation company, leases 55,431 sf of industrial space at 57 Littlefield St. The deal is indicative of a market that is experiencing some vacancies but generally in older space.

WEYMOUTH, MA-The town's zoning board of appeals evaluates a scaled-down version of a housing development proposed for a 30-acre parcel in Arbor Hill. Trammell Crow's initial 396 unit-proposal was rejected.

WAKEFIELD, MA-Local residents defeated a measure brought by an activist group opposed to the development of a 56,000-sf Shaw's supermarket in the historic Robie Mills industrial park.