WELLESLEY, MA-HQ Global Workplaces takes 17,000 sf at 70 Walnut St. in the Newton Wellesley Executive Office Park, a 130,000-sf park located at the intersection of Routes 16 and 95/128. The company is renewing its lease for five years.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Berwind Property Group manages to lease up 46,539 sf of space at 100 CambridgePark Dr. The deals--one a renewal and the other a direct lease--mean that the 135,572-sf building is 88% leased.

MALDEN, MA-Ashworth Mortgage Corp. arranges a $4.2 million mortgage on Townline Plaza, a 144,827-sf retail strip located at 1-13 Highland Ave. in Malden and 283-285 Middlesex Ave. in Medford.

WESTBOROUGH, MA-The Summers Group purchases 130 acres off Brigham Street from Tyrolit North America. The property includes a 118,000 sf warehouse and a 10,000 sf building.

WAKEFIELD, MA-Shaw's supermarkets gets the special permit it needs to build a 56,000-sf store in the historic Robie Industrial Park. A citizen's group opposed to the project has threatened to appeal the decision to the state.

BOSTON-Harvard University expands its real estate holdings again, this time by acquiring two parcels in the North Brighton neighborhood. The university says it has no plans for the properties in the near future.

MEDFORD, MA-Telecom City, a 200-acre technology development project in the cities of Medford, Malden and Everett, gets a $5.5 million loan from Citizens Bank of Massachusetts to finance the final land acquisitions for the first phase of the project.

LAWRENCE, MA-Cambridge College opens a new campus at 60 Island St. The move is a public/private partnership between the city and the college, which signed a five-year lease with two five-year options for the 10,500 sf of space.