URBANA, IL-The six-story Electrical and Computer Engineering Building will be on Wright Street, on the edge of the University of Illinois campus, with the largest US net-zero energy goal.

VANCOUVER, CANADA-Law firm McCarthy Tetrault has signed up for less than 50% of the 400,000-square-foot 745 Thurlow building, which will also include 35,000 square feet of retail.

CHICAGO-The General Growth Properties spinoff firm acknowledged in a filing Monday that it needs to spend some cash through 2015 to improve the occupancy of the B-rate malls.

MACEDONIA, OH-The Dallas-based seniors housing firm has purchased four projects in Indiana and Ohio, with financing from Key Bank and Oak Grove.

CHENGDU, CHINA-Goettsch Partners has designed the 1.2-million-square-foot Chicony Plaza, part-owned by Taiwan-based Clevo, and a 25-story Grand Hyatt hotel.

CINCINNATI-HFF worked with owner Hertz Investment to refinance the 68%-occupied, 625,765-square-foot building, bought in 2006 for $36 million. Plus more Midwest news.

DEERFIELD, IL-The new store, a cross between a Chuck E. Cheese, Buy Buy Baby and Gander Mountain, will have children’s toys and clothing in a 135,000-square-foot superstore.

China's growth will continue, pushing more goods through the new Panama Canal expansion in 2014 and into new East Coast and middle America warehouses and distribution centers.