BOSTON-L.J. Melody & Company, a national real estate investment banking firm and a division of CB Richard Ellis, is making changes in its New England operation in an effort to grow its area business.

SHREWSBURY, MA-R&M Stampings Inc. sells 900 Boston Turnpike to Marcus Family Limited Partnership I for $1.4 million. The 15,759-sf free-standing facility will become the new Shrewsbury location for Boston Tile Company.

CANTON, MA-Blue View Corporate Center, a 188,000-sf building located near the Route 95/128 interchange is under agreement to be sold to DST Systems by Newton, MA-based National Development.

WESTBOROUGH, MA-Despite having laid off more than 2,000 employees over the past two years, EMC, the data-storage company, is moving ahead with plans for a 2.2 million sf campus on the Westborough/Southborough line.

BOSTON-The developers of the Columbus Center submitted the $400 million project's final environmental impact report to both the state's executive office of environmental affairs and the city's Boston Redevelopment Agency.

TEWKSBURY, MA-Mills Corp. wants to build a 700,000-sf mall on a parcel adjacent to Route 93. If approved, the project would be the area's largest, but the need for an interchange could make the development a complicated one.

BOSTON-The Marriott Residence Inn Boston Harbor on Tudor Wharf, a 168-suite hotel, opens its doors. The eight-story brick and glass hotel features an 8,000-sf pier.

HOLBROOK, MA-Braintree, MA-based Joseph R. Mullins Co.'s effort to develop one of the town's largest ever retail/residential complexes was voted down at Town Meeting when a crucial zoning change failed to pass.