PORTLAND-The Vancouver, WA-based homebuilder signs a purchase option with the Teufel family for its nursery operation headquarters property located six miles west of Downtown.

DALLAS-Provident Realty Advisors and Sphinx Development will bring out 280 units on 21 of 52.6 acres bought in early November. Rose Court at Thorntree gets its go-ahead after 264 nearby acres grab headlines as the next campus for the University of North Texas.

ORLANDO-The Orange County agency pays Orlando Central Park Inc. $157,251 per acre for a 26.5-acre tract at the 911-acre Woodland Lakes mixed-use community being developed in the city by Lockheed Martin Corp.

BROOKLYN, NY-Next up for the redevelopment of the Downtown portion of this New York City borough is the beginning of in-depth traffic and marketing surveys and a public review process.