NEW YORK CITY-A 115,000-sf lease renewal by original tenant Thomas Publishing capped off a banner time for leasing at 5 Penn Plaza. The site also had another renewal and two new tenants take space.

STUDIO CITY, CA-The Englewood, CO-based Archstone-Smith REIT acquires the one-year-old Legacy at Studio City, a 276-unit complex that is 93% leased, for $84.5 million.

ATLANTA-John M. Leonard, regional manager of the Encino, CA-based firm's local office, ranks the city 15th on a 38-city growth analysis scale for 2004. Business expansion and declining construction will buoy the market next year here, despite existing 20% vacancy rates in some submarkets, he says.

CRANBURY, NJ-Genera Corp., an automotive after-market parts distributor, has signed on for the long term at Matrix Development Group's CenterPoint project, taking most of a 230,000-sf under-construction building.