ROCKVILLE, MD-Z-Tech Corp. eyes a spot next door at 1803 Research Blvd. and commits to 18,000 sf in the 123,000-sf structure that sits side by side to its current digs at 1801 Research Blvd.

DENVER-Bernard Hockenberry has been appointed director of construction and capital projects at the firm, an equity real estate investment trust.

WAYNE, PA-The locally based firm ends a three-year affiliation with Chicago-based Oncor International to link up with Oncor's Evanston, IL-based rival. Smith Mack adds GVA to the front of its name--ownership remains the same.

WASHINGTON, DC-Ownership of a boutique hotel property changes hands as LaSalle Hotel Properties takes the trendy 139-room locale off the hands off the Amerimar Enterprises for $24.1 million.