CHICAGO-JLL’s Latin America conference speakers said population growth, improved government standards and a larger middle class should attract global investment down south.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI-The two-building property at 2520 S. Telegraph Rd. sought a price of almost $6 million, at a time when barely any large office activity exists in the Detroit area.

WEST CHICAGO, IL-The logistics firm is leasing the 150,000-square-foot building, which was completed in 2007 and never occupied.

PRAGUE-The 172,000-square-foot City Green Court will be built as speculative in the city’s central business district.

CHENGDU, CHINA-The first phase of the Pearl River New Town project will include a 1.2-million-square-foot shopping mall, which will connect to a 35-story office tower.

MANCHESTER, MO-The Phoenix-based Cole Real Estate Investments purchased a major portion of the 339,000-square-foot center here from Pace Properties. Plus more Midwest news.

AURORA, IL-HSA represented the tenant in taking the rest of an industrial building here in Duke Realty Corp.’s Butterfield East park.

LONDON-Cross-border capital spending is at $56.8 billion in the first half of the year, exactly double what the flow was at in the first half of 2009.