Leasing

NEW YORK CITY-After five years of overseeing business development at the WTCA, Robert DiChiara has been promoted to executive vice president of the not-for-profit organization. He joined the organization in 1997.

CEDAR KNOLLS, NJ-Greenwich Home Mortgage has grown its presence to more than 18,600 sf at Geometry Realty's Cedar Knolls Corporate Center after a lease transaction arranged by GVA Williams.

PORTLAND-Under an agreement approved this morning by Port of Portland Commissioners, Washington D.C.-based Anton Airfood Inc. will lease 6,635 sf for 15-years, spend upward of $2 million on tenant improvements and pay rent equal to 8% of the restaurant's annual gross sales.

FORT WORTH-The Hispanic retail community delivers two tenants for the Fort Worth Town Center, bought a year ago for a repositioning play. A closed club will reopen as an OK Corral while a shuttered theater's lights are flicked by what could be a new chain.

STAMFORD, CT-Ending an office search that lasted more than two years, international global information solutions firm Thomson Corp. will significantly expand its corporate presence here with its signed leases at Metro Center and First Stamford Place totaling more than 130,000 sf of office space.

SAN DIEGO-According to research by Burnham Real Estate Services, San Diego County's office market posted a steady fourth quarter for 2002, with 627,000 sf of net absorption. The 2002 net office absorption at 1.6 million sf outpaced the previous year's figure of one million sf.