CAMBRIDGE, MA-Meredith & Grew nails down a plum assignment with its designation by Lyme Properties as property manager for the Kendall Square project, a 1.3 million-sf hotel, office, lab and residential project.

WEYMOUTH, MA-Avalon Ledges, a 304-unit mixed-income apartment community built last year by AvalonBay Communities Inc gets a $27.2 million loan commitment from the state's affordable housing bank.

BOSTON-In a move that the developers call an investment in a neighborhood they believe is being transformed, the Carlyle Group and the J.S. Karlton Company have completed the 108-unit residential portion of the renovation of the Causeway Building at 234 Causeway St. on the waterfront.

BOSTON-Three architects were chosen for the North Point project, a proposed mixed-use project on a 45-acre parcel which spans three cities and proposes to create a mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhood in a currently industrial area straddling Boston, Cambridge and Somerville.

ALLSTON, MA-JB Trust sells its 28,000-sf brick and beam building at 244 Brighton Ave. to Nine Mile LLC. The firm intends to do an adaptive re-use of the four story facility from office to residential with a retail component.

NEWTON, MA-Nearly six months after Wyndham defaulted its rent on 15 extended stay hotels, Hospitality Properties Trust enters an agreement with InterContinental Hotels for management and rebranding of those facilities.

DORCHESTER, MA-National Wholesale Liquidators, a Long Island, NY-based national retail chain, moves into the Greater Boston area with a 10-year lease for 84,000 sf on Morrissey Boulevard.

BOSTON-The Boston Architectural Center leases 13,800 sf at 100 Massachusetts Ave. The building will serve as classroom space to accommodate its studio and thesis programs and it is close to the center's headquarters.