DETROIT-The new $1.9-million facility is part of effort to create an eventual Michigan Life Sciences Corridor that would extend from here all the way to Kalamazoo.

SAN DIEGO-A fund overseen by Layton-Belling & Associates acquires the 101,590-sf office building from Bank of America in a sale-leaseback transaction. Bank of America currently occupies 50% of the facility.

PHOENIX-Construction kicks off this week on overhaul and expansion of the Phoenix Civic Plaza to more than triple the space in the CBD complex. The city hopes the project, set to be completed in 2009, will lure conventions and trade shows to the downtown.

CHICAGO-RSM McGladrey Inc. leads a wave of new deals with a 43,300-sf lease with Houston-based Hines Interests LP and California Public Employees Retirement Systems. H&R Block Inc.'s business consulting unit is moving into the property early next year.