HARTFORD, CT—The accounting and consulting firm is receiving a $1.2-million loan from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, and stands to gain a loan forgiveness credit if it retains and add jobs in the state.

PORTLAND, OR—Puppet Labs' 75,000-square-foot lease at Kaufman Jacobs' Block 300 is a success story in the property's repositioning from its former identity as a federal office building.

NEW YORK CITY-An uptick in physician group deals, such as the Crystal Run Healthcare portfolio acquired by Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II, marked the second half of 2013, says advisory group Hammond Hanlon Camp.

PITTSBURGH—Longtime CEO John H. Pelusi Jr., who's stepping down next month, says the Fed's ongoing quantitative easing has led to “continued improvement in the public and private sectors of the US commercial real estate capital markets.”

JUAREZ, MEXICO—A cross-border CBRE team is marketing the LaSalle One portfolio of 34 industrial assets and one office property here and in other markets across central and northern Mexico.

FORT WORTH—The closings, more than twice as many as the company had considered a month earlier, followed a 20% year-over-year decline in revenues during the fourth quarter.

CALABASAS, CA-However, Marcus & Millichap's National Retail Group says that rising interest rates could take the edge off buyers' appetite at the lower end of the market.

ALBANY—The Empire State's Brownfields Cleanup Program, which incentivizes developers to complete their projects, should be used as a model nationally, says Redevelopment Economics' Evans Paull.