DALLAS-Chicago-based MB Financial gets the check for the two-location Abrams Centre National Bank from Houston's Prosperity Bancshares, which is marking its second Dallas bank acquisition in two years.

BOSTON-The University of Massachusetts has abandoned its $218 million plan to build dorms on its Boston campus in the face of opposition from both the governor's office and local residents.

FREDERICK, MD-The responsibility for leasing activity at the nearly 200,000-sf Westview Promenade shopping center lands in the lap of real estate services company Madison Retail Group.

MIAMI-This year's rate of 15.2% is expected to stay the same next year but then drop the next two years, according to a recently released Miami office market report by Jones Lang LaSalle. The report also forecasts that average gross rental rates in the Miami area office market will drop to $22.76 per sf.