CHICAGO-Steven Douglas, president of Brookfield Properties, has joined General Growth as EVP and CFO. He has worked with Brookfield Management, which is now bailing out GGP.

CHICAGO-‘Many tenants are already investing heavy dollars into sustainability, and to offer it as a landlord already packaged is a great benefit to them.’

AMSTERDAM-The company, which is building almost 400,000 square feet in Germany and Vienna, hopes to achieve up to $800 million of global development starts in 2010.

ANN ARBOR, MI-The company has purchased the off-campus student housing property for $13.2 million.

PARIS-The company’s Pan European Core Fund purchased the light industrial asset near the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport from Sophia GE. The property is fully leased.

MINNEAPOLIS-Buyers are starting to act on landlord desperation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro areas, according to a mid-year NorthMarq report.

OAK BROOK, IL-Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc., based here, has purchased five retail centers in the Southeast and Southwest from various owners.

TORONTO-The locally-based firm is pushing further south, and plans to open or acquire offices in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and possibly Dallas by the end of the year.