SAN DIEGO-A real estate partnership headed by office furniture maker Steelcase Inc. will build its first California project--a 28,000-sf office building--in San Diego's Mission Valley.

HOUSTON-The insurance firm heads into 3,301 sf at 2900 Wilcrest Dr. Its primary office is in Two Allen Center in the CBD. Cushman & Wakefield and Grubb & Ellis brokers work out the details.

ATLANTA-New York-based Sentinel Real Estate Corp. sells the 91%-leased apartment complex at 500 Northside Circle NW near the city's new Atlantic Station development to Houston-based CNC Investments for $53,561 a unit. Cushman and Wakefield's locally based-office of the Apartment Group represented Sentinel.

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ-Retail is the surprise performer, offices have been hit hardest and the market in general is seeing some key paradoxes, according to panelists at NAIOP chapter meeting.