TROY, MI-Lord & Taylor is awaiting final city approvals to build a new 140,000-sf store at Oakland Mall. The recent work by the company in Metropolitan Detroit is part of a larger effort to upgrade and modernize the chain's 86 stores and to move into new target areas.

DALLAS-The food distribution giant puts 631,802 sf in 13 leaseholds of retail and warehouse space and 14 fee-owned locations on the auction block. Another 2.1 billion sf is up for sale as Fleming looks for added financial footing to work through a Chapter 11.

HOUSTON-The family investment group assumes a loan for the first part of a two-stage purchase for the 13-acre development in the far northwest submarket. Still to come is a closing on 20,000 sf and an under-development pad site.

FALL RIVER, MA-AVANT Immunotherapeutics will build an 11,000 sf manufacturing facility at 151 Martine St. The financing was developed with the help of MassDevelopment and is part of Governor Mitt Romney's administration's effort to keep biotech companies in the state.