TINLEY PARK, IL-Lender Lincoln Financial included the 100,000-square-foot Southpoint 1 facility in a five-building foreclosed property portfolio.

BLOOMINGTON, MN-The information technology firm Valuation Information Technology LLC had 60,000 square feet at Riverview Office Tower and has leased two more floors in the building.

SOUTH BEND, IN-The Denver-based firm had purchased the University Commons retail center along with another local property out of foreclosure in January. Plus more Midwest news.

BUSSIGNY-PRES-LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND-The Procimmo Swiss Commercial Fund purchased the logistics building for long-term investment.

CHICAGO-With an expected demand from Baby Boomers, the participants at the NIC conference look more toward projected 2012 economic growth than at the Great Recession. Also, Newt Gingrich talks health care.

LONDON-While New York City’s Fifth Avenue leads the world in high retail rent, Hong Kong is close behind and Paris’ Avenue des Champs-Elysees is upset.

BLOOMINGTON, MN-A partnership of locally based Carlson and Mortenson Development will build the new 501-room hotel attached to the Mall of America.

ROCKFORD, IL-City, county and state leaders are behind a push to convince the Daytona Beach, FL-based flight school to build an 85,000-square-foot third school at the local airport.