CARROLLTON, TX-Industrial properties in the Dallas-Ft. Worth region remain a hot ticket, with First Industrial Realty Trust finding a taker for a Valwood property within 35 days of it coming to market. A local family trust bought the 90,274-sf building.

NEW YORK CITY-Along with an improving economy should come greater demand for fortress malls, which have a fashion department store, four anchor stores and sales of $450 per sf, predicts C&W's senior director of retail valuation.

LAKE FOREST, IL-Wholesale liquor distributor Lionstone International signs a seven-year deal on mostly industrial space at 13825 W. Laurel with Duke Realty Corp. for more than $2 million, or about $7 per sf.

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL-Design Pac leases 252,000 sf of warehouse space at 1001 Busse Rd. here while Nippon Express USA Inc. takes 125,000 sf of office and warehouse space at O'Hare Cargo Center in nearby Bensenville.