SAN DIEGO, CA-San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy chooses Cameron Duncan and Dale Naegle as new appointees to the Board of Building Appeals and Advisors. They will join reappointed members Michael Furby, Tony Kan and John Littrell on the board.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA-A Newport Beach company will develop four buildings totaling 54,000 sf of speculative office space for sale to owner-users. The listing broker says activity is already brisk.

ONTARIO, CA-An owner-user from China who built the distribution space sells it to an investment group that will lease out the 41,276-sf building.

CHICAGO-The northwest corner of 35th and Halsted streets, a focal point of the Southwest Side community, will get 17,655 sf of retail space and 66 one- and two-bedroom condominiums partly as a result of $2.6 million in tax increment financing.